2013 Midseason Mock NHL Draft

March 11th, 2013 by Franklin Steele Leave a reply »
The 2013 NHL draft is slated to take place on April 29th in New Jersey. That's a Sunday, and every single round will take place on the same day for the first time since 2006.

The way the draft lottery occurs has changed since the lockout (2013 edition), and Allan Muir over at Sports Illustrated did a fantastic job of explaining the math...and stuff. Numbers just aren't my thing, so here's the breakdown per Muir.

The 2013 NHL Draft Lottery... will be the first in which all 14 clubs that do not qualify for the playoffs (or a team that’s acquired their pick) will have a chance at winning the right to make the first overall choice.

Previously, a team could move up no more than four spots, so only the five teams with the fewest point totals could claim the first selection. ...

Fourteen balls will be placed in a lottery machine. Four are expelled, forming a four-digit number that will be matched against a probability chart that divides the possible combinations among the 14 participating clubs. 

The odds of each team winning increases based on how badly each team performed (obviously).

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