Did you enjoy this year’s draft lottery? I did. I thought the new format for the broadcast, which featured the full draw happening live, was a major improvement. As much as I like to complain about the lottery, and occasionally suggest alternatives that would be way better, we appear to be stuck with what we’ve got. And if so, at least the league kind of nailed the presentation this year.
But while the NHL changed the broadcast, they didn’t change the underlying mechanism. That means they still assigned each team a group of combinations, based on their record.