Instant Reaction: Senators Will Pick 10th Overall in 2021 NHL Entry Draft

Photo by Jeff Vinnick/NHLI via Getty ImagesThis year’s NHL Draft Lottery didn’t come with the freight train of hype that last year’s did for Ottawa Senators fans, but they were no less engaged in the draw as it took place. Ottawa’s odds had them most likely to wind up with the 10th overall selection — having picked third and fifth last year — and in the end, that’s where they stayed.

The Buffalo Sabres earned this year’s top choice, the expansion Seattle Kraken will pick second, and the Anaheim Ducks fell into the third spot.

This will be the third time in the last four years that the Senators will pick in the top 10. They would have owned the fourth overall selection in 2019, but the pick…