The 2020 NHL Draft Lottery, which was held on Friday night, has been criticized since the idea was presented to the public. Mostly because half of the teams which will eventually participate in the lottery still need to lose in the qualifying round and were simply replaced with so-called placeholders teams. And of course, because this is the NHL, one of these teams has taken the first spot.
The team, which was originally determined as the Team E, had just a 2.5% chance of winning the lottery and made the biggest jump in history of draft lotteries to secure a first overall pick.