After the 2015 National Hockey League trade deadline passed last Monday, the league's teams have divided into three categories: the playoff contenders, the bubble teams and the draft lottery hopefuls.
This year's lottery is especially intriguing because the spoils include two prospects who are believed to be "generational talents," according to draft experts like TSN's Craig Button. Canada's Connor McDavid is the main attraction, with American Jack Eichel as a high-profile runner-up.
Though no one wants to suggest that a team would deliberately try to lose games to gain a better draft pick, it's for precisely this reason that the NHL draft lottery was introduced back in 1995—to try to level the playing field a bit among non-playoff teams.
The lottery only impacts the first overall selection. No team will ever move down more than one spot, but the system has been tweaked a few times over the years and will feature new odds in 2015. The 30th-place team's chances of winning the lottery will drop from 25 percent in past years to 20 percent this year, with increased odds of success for teams finishing fifth-last or higher in the league sta ...
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