Tonight, the NHL will announce the results of it’s annual Draft Lottery, and the order that teams will be drafting in at the Entry Draft in Vancouver June 21 & 22. After a 4th straight season of missing the playoffs, there is tremendous pressure on Jim Benning and his crew to find pieces that are going to compliment the core that is in place: Elias Pettersson, Brock Boeser, Bo Horvat, and Quinn Hughes.
There’s a couple lights out future superstars up for grabs in Jack Hughes and Kaapo Kakko, and from there some good potential, but there’s a drop off from the first two.