NHL Draft Lottery Watch Party | Ep. 88

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0:14 Speaker 4: A press about to.

0:14 Speaker 5: Say hello, what's today?

0:20 Speaker 6: Here's a chance?

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0:24 Speaker 7: Two on one plaster not marshak of toucht.

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0:34 Speaker 2: Not get there?

0:40 Speaker 8: What's that for?

0:41 Speaker 9: My Welcome in everyone to our first ever United experience of the NHL Draft Lottery. I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, but I'm your host this evening, Caroline and I am joined by a plethora of special guests tonight to talk about.

1:11 Speaker 3: The draft lottery.

1:13 Speaker 9: Of course, first and foremost, my fabulous co host, Hello, Maria, how are you today?

1:18 Speaker 2: Hello?

1:19 Speaker 10: Hello, I'm a little I'm a little ill at ease here today where we're walking into some uncharted waters. As as a bruinsed fan, it's been a very very long time since we have been in this position.

1:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it is, it is.

1:36 Speaker 9: And of course, our next special guest, she's been on the pod, but it's been a minute. Anna from well what we're from a multitude now of platforms as well, you have also been growing with Prism, Hockey and a whole host of other fantastic spot not Spotify, Substack.

1:56 Speaker 3: Publications, and even some others.

1:59 Speaker 9: But we want to welcome you in because I guess I don't This is not meant to sound mean whatsoever, but you're a little bit more experienced in this realm, So we wanted to welcome you in as a Columbus Blue Jackets and Detroit Red Wings fan, two teams that the Bruins were really going neck and neck with, So welcome in.

2:21 Speaker 3: How are things?

2:25 Speaker 4: You know, the world is as it is and hockey is as miserable as usual, So yeah, well you.

2:35 Speaker 3: Know you're waiting for the lottery.

2:39 Speaker 4: It's all normal for me, of course.

2:43 Speaker 9: And then, of course our two other favorite regulars we've got Momo and Adrian has come up from the depths of his trade deadline depression to make an appearance and see what's going to happen.

2:59 Speaker 11: So I, guys, I might go back in Bellow Groundhog's Day, Like if I might just go turn right around and go back in.

3:07 Speaker 2: Can we Yeah?

3:08 Speaker 10: Can we can we crawl back into the whole? If we don't, we don't like the number we don't like the number.

3:14 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, well it better be worth it because at eight o'clock.

3:20 Speaker 3: Tonight, I am going to be cheering for the Panthers.

3:25 Speaker 10: So I knew you'd come around to my line of thinking at a girl at just this round, though, Maria, just this round.

3:33 Speaker 9: Because also I have to share, because I promised I would do I would bring this up.

3:40 Speaker 3: Uh, and then and then we want to we'll talk.

3:42 Speaker 9: But I wanted to do a special shout out because there's a creator out there who creates some pretty fantastic and hilarious hockey related merch for all teams double hockey sticks.

3:57 Speaker 12: So I had to get this. Everyone is welcome here except oh my god, I had to get that. They had to get that, you know, so everyone should check out their uh their march.

4:14 Speaker 13: It's pretty hilarious regardless if it makes it feel better.

4:20 Speaker 10: I heard the Spit and Chicklets podcast today and the only one.

4:23 Speaker 3: Who believes that the Leafs have a chance is Leaf himself.

4:31 Speaker 11: Was it was Bill Arnette, the guest on that.

4:34 Speaker 3: Yeah, he's a big leaf fan.

4:36 Speaker 11: He's a huge Leafs fan, and I appreciate the fact that he's like he doesn't have faith in it. Because that's the only true true state of a Leaf fan, is that you don't actually believe you're gonna win.

4:46 Speaker 3: Everyone else as well. Brad Marshan owns that franchise.

4:51 Speaker 9: But anyways, so let's catch up a little bit with uh divisional rivals, the Detroit Red Wings and then also you know, the Columbus Blue Jackets, and how did you feel about the.

5:05 Speaker 3: End of your season? Uh, for either of them?

5:10 Speaker 9: Because I think red Wings seemed like they were a little bit close and then kind of fell by the wayside, and then Columbus, I think it came down to literally what the last game, last two games?

5:21 Speaker 3: How are you feeling as it.

5:23 Speaker 4: Came it came down to the second to last today for the Blue Jacket my answer is simple, for it is the same for both. Why does it like my teams loved tortured me? But I mean I actually torture myself by having chosen the Bluejackets. Reddings I was born into, but Blue Jackets I chose for because I hate myself apparently.

5:49 Speaker 8: But.

5:51 Speaker 4: But no, I mean I experienced this last year where the Red Wings were literally the last day and like if you remember last season, the Blue they literally got eliminated because the Capital scored an empty net goal on the Flyers while they were playing while the Red Wings were playing in completely unrelated games. And then it can even worse. When the Flyers were still leading the Lucas Raymonds, it was David Prawn scored with three seconds left in regulation to tide a game and give the Red Ruings home.

6:26 Speaker 4: It's like, I've serisay native of the Blue Jackets. You know it's wrong, but Reddings I had already signed off a long time ago. I stopped believing in the Red Wings back in like I don't know that late February,

6:42 Speaker 4: the funeral had already gone I did. That's the second funeral of the season. The first funeral was in December. Because they looked like James Hagen. At this time, we thought it was James Saintanks would probably universal role. But you know no, we were like like in December, running stands were all already making up for for mock at jerseys for all the top five pick and debating over who we wanted the draft at first or second overall, Like people forget we are literally into bottom four in December, Like we were literally one of the worst teams.

7:17 Speaker 3: I thought that they were doing better. Maybe No, I don't know.

7:21 Speaker 2: It wasn't.

7:22 Speaker 4: It wasn't until it wasn't until we finally fire Lane, who I wanted to be fired well over a month ago. They actually started playing und Yeah, and then we got some hope and then they collapsed again. It looked like they did under the line again.

7:38 Speaker 3: Do you think that they took a step backwards this season?

7:43 Speaker 4: Oh yeah, this was this was like this was a just this wasn't just a step back. This was several steps back. They were worse in literally every single way. I mean, there is not a single thing that they're even close to touching from last year. The defense was somehow okay, it's not for the defense. I will say the defense was a bit better, and that's only because the defense could not be worse than last year when but it was still a marine cider and and maybe half a defenseman like Resider was the only consistently good one shot is good if he's on the bottom two pairings, but if he's on the top pairing, it's a disaster.

8:24 Speaker 4: And they kept putting him up up on the top pairing because he's the only defenseman with a pulse who was consistently, at least with a pulse that's familiar.

8:37 Speaker 3: Spoiler for next week's.

8:39 Speaker 9: Podcast episode where we talk about defensive pairings and inappropriately.

8:46 Speaker 3: Staff position.

8:50 Speaker 2: Like a forward playing defense.

8:56 Speaker 3: You have to have to set him up.

8:58 Speaker 9: You have.

9:01 Speaker 3: If you would spend an hour talking about that, Are you kidding me?

9:05 Speaker 2: Frederick?

9:07 Speaker 10: There's a method too, is madness, and I'm not going to disagree.

9:10 Speaker 3: No, I don't disagree.

9:13 Speaker 10: That's going to be our next uh, our next episode. So I'm here for it. I'm here for the rationale.

9:21 Speaker 3: So does anybody?

9:22 Speaker 14: Uh?

9:23 Speaker 9: Has anybody heard any names popping up for this particular draft class, because you know, the last couple of seasons, by this point we already had, you know, a name for the draft lottery, right like it was the Badard lottery two years ago.

9:43 Speaker 3: Uh, and the Celebrini lottery last season. So has anyone heard anything of anyone? Yeah?

9:51 Speaker 10: Today NHL dot com has a couple of you got a cobjected to go number one, and then I know we've mentioned the kid's name, Mesa. It was also projected to go on the higher on the higher side.

10:07 Speaker 2: Yeah, there's looking at tanking.

10:09 Speaker 8: They've they've kind of tiered everybody out, So they got two tier one prospects in Matthew Schaeffer, who's the left defenseman, and then Misa, who's either a center or a left wing. And I don't know what you guys think, but hopefully you know, if the Bruins get a high pick, they don't go defense. So maybe they get the top pick and they trade it. Who knows, I don't know.

10:30 Speaker 4: Shafing is the best player in the draft pretty easily, but Misa potentially could go number one solely because he's a forward and a potential center. Oh. I think people are starting to come around to him being a winger in the NHL, but still forwards usually get taken higher than defenseman at the top of the draft. But Schaefer is the best player in the draft, Like, that's not really disputable.

10:55 Speaker 2: At this point.

10:57 Speaker 3: Where is he coming out of college?

11:00 Speaker 2: Job?

11:02 Speaker 4: Uh jor junior?

11:05 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, that's what I would say.

11:07 Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, Well, I don't know who any of these folks are, so I will be paying attention and learning and this summer we'll get to know more of them when they show up in the development camps. But go ahead, Adrian, Yeah, I mean I'm looking at it. It seems like outside of Schaefer, nearly everybody in like the top seven or eight are forwards. So it bodes well for us.

11:34 Speaker 11: Yeah, it does where we need to be forward heavy draft behooves us.

11:41 Speaker 9: Really, is there anybody who seems like they could start in the NHL? Or is that not going to be the case this this draft years?

11:56 Speaker 3: Bananas face, I'm thinking no way.

12:00 Speaker 4: I mean maybe if Safer goes to the Sharks, yes, maybe the preditive we're desperate enough, depending what they do this off season. Outside of that, I mean, maybe there's a small chance of Mesa if he gets drafted by the by the Blackhawks. But other than that, like that's really it. There's yeah, I mean, yeah, it's not too likely for not any help.

12:28 Speaker 3: There there from.

12:29 Speaker 10: And again I haven't been paying as much attention as all the rest of you have, but from what I've seen and read and heard, there doesn't seem to be a generational talent coming out of this draft. And I guess when we use that phrase, you know, we're looking at you know, you know, players like you know, Sydney Crosby, Connibradards, you know, I don't even know, to be honest with you that I would call Jack Hu and Connor Badadde generational talents, you know, not Connor Bdard.

13:07 Speaker 3: I mean, I don't watch the Blackhawks.

13:08 Speaker 2: And no one does.

13:13 Speaker 4: Territory.

13:13 Speaker 13: But yeah, yeah, I mean I understand, I mean I hear in terms of like, you know, you look at you look at a guy like McDavid, Right, That's there's no.

13:25 Speaker 10: Disputing that that is a franchise altering player that changes, you know, the trajectory of your franchise. Have you seen that happen in these other instances yet?

13:39 Speaker 11: No, I don't think. I don't think Chicago is the depth to put around Bedard at all. So I think is as good as he is developmentally, he's been hindered a bit by the complete lack of of the support system that around him. And then whether when out I don't remember how Ichael or or David Fairred in their first or second seasons. I mean, I know what they are now, I know, I go floundered a little bit obviously.

14:08 Speaker 2: Now look where he was.

14:09 Speaker 11: I do wonder whether or not there is a correlation to be drawn between someone like Badard and Ikel based on the team they landed with.

14:20 Speaker 9: Right, So you know, yeah, that could be a fair a fair thing that ends up happening. But we've talked about it even just as outsiders. I can't wait for Don to go off the board and draft a projected third rounder in the top two probably probably well.

14:38 Speaker 10: And there's the other other, you know, sort of damnicles that's hanging over our head. Do we trust this management group?

14:51 Speaker 4: No?

14:53 Speaker 11: I mean no, I actually I actually have been thinking about that, and I kind of I kind of do. I mean, I think like it's because I think if you're drafting in the first round, you're it's it's easier, you know, so loose. There's like there's a lot more like like here's the list of the scouting reports that are the best people. You're picking among them, right, It's not like you're you're starting in the second or third round and being like, I don't know, what do you think this guy? So now, I I kind of am like if if you tack what the twenty fifteen draft or the one that everyone no one seems to want to like go of off the table, like I don't know, I'm not I'm not really I'm not really beating up about it.

15:40 Speaker 11: You know, we haven't drafted well over the last years because we haven't had the picks. We've been too good to get good picks, and we've traded those picks to stay competitive. So you can't stay competitive by trading picks and then turn around and be like, well we've got no one in the pool. Like that wasn't the plan. So, you know, now it's kind of a reset. We'll see how it goes. But I kind of I'm not you know, this management team for weird decisions they make. They're not necessarily in neckt at their jobs.

16:10 Speaker 11: They're actually pretty shrewd. We just have a tendency to get pissed.

16:16 Speaker 4: True.

16:17 Speaker 10: Yeah, I don't trust them, you know, And I mean I respect and understand what you're saying. I just have seen too long and too big of a sample size at this juncture.

16:31 Speaker 1: You know.

16:31 Speaker 10: I think they are good at certain things. Don Sweeney is good at making hockey trades. I will grant him that he's good at making hockey trades. They are cutthroats and ruthless when it comes to negotiating contracts with their players, and I don't believe that they are above board and honest during the course of those negotiations. And I don't think that they have of the expertise that they need to identify what players they want, what players will fit, and what players they are actually going to spend time to develop.

17:14 Speaker 10: We've seen this countless times now, but you know there's always there's always next year, as the saying goes, right.

17:24 Speaker 9: Look, so I was gonna share my screen, but because it kept crashing, we're gonna try something.

17:31 Speaker 3: I will let you guys all know you can't see you very well. I'm there, you go, there it is. We've got it.

17:37 Speaker 11: But nothing happening right now.

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19:59 Speaker 9: It is nothing happen in right now. All the gms are sitting in their little boxes.

20:03 Speaker 10: And I think Johnny Boy is at Warrior Ice Arena and TD Garden because the Celtics are getting ready to tip off Game one of the.

20:11 Speaker 3: Second round of the NBA Finals.

20:13 Speaker 9: Ye well there, their offices are in Warrior anyways. Yeah, yeah, so that would make sense. But nothing's happening yet. They're just explaining how it'll work with If you haven't listened to Front of the Pod Maribeth's explainer, I definitely recommend even if you're not a Ruins fan, go back and listen to it because it can help really clarify and make it all make sense, because again this is new to all of us. But basically they're gonna just like the old lotto ball out of the machine.

20:48 Speaker 10: So don there's the illustrious commissioner.

20:54 Speaker 8: Yeah, Caroline, there was what like a lookup table of like a thousand numbers and there's like four rand numbers and each team is assigned ex percentage.

21:03 Speaker 3: Right, yeah, it is kind of cool, right yep, so at least know what's.

21:09 Speaker 2: Going to complain that you know a team was rigged.

21:12 Speaker 9: I mean I like that they're doing it this live for real because I never then understood prior to this, why would somebody watch this?

21:23 Speaker 3: Like this makes sense? This is more fun. I mean, I, like I said in that episode with Mary Beth, like I grew up in New York State.

21:31 Speaker 9: At eleven o'clock every night, Lande Vega comes on the TV and she pulls the five balls for the New York State Lottery.

21:39 Speaker 3: So like, this is what it makes me think of, and I think it's hilarious. Come on, guys, let's get started here.

21:51 Speaker 2: No, they gotta build it up, build it up.

21:54 Speaker 3: Well, that's the thing, Like how long does this actually take?

21:58 Speaker 2: I don't know, half an hour.

22:01 Speaker 9: I'm thinking, don't let it be an hour, because otherwise that would be painful to draw.

22:07 Speaker 10: I'm gonna grab my guide and see because i mean the game thirty minutes.

22:14 Speaker 3: Yeah, I think we're.

22:16 Speaker 10: Going toourny minutes, So have some pre game because ESPN has being one of the Leafs Panthers.

22:24 Speaker 11: Yes, that's a series. Hagen's is a BC guy, so you know that that's probably sparking interest.

22:31 Speaker 3: Don loves his. He likes more than we are. There any BU guys in there.

22:36 Speaker 11: Adrian, I'm checking them scrolling through. I'm not seeing any right off the off the top off the ones featured, But.

22:45 Speaker 8: Wasn't Hagan's like touted pretty highly early in the year as like the next kind.

22:50 Speaker 2: Of number one Yeah mm hmm, which the Bruins can get him left wing play on the up line.

23:02 Speaker 9: I mean anything with I know the famous iSER plan and that he is famously tight lipped, Like did he mention at all anything that's on their shopping list either in the draft or and free agency this year?

23:18 Speaker 3: Or is it still him saying I'm not going to tell you anything, just come to the games.

23:25 Speaker 4: The only thing we got was that Patrick Kane wants to come back, and they want Patrick Kane back, So it looks like we're getting number ear of Kine. That's really the only scene. How we know, so.

23:37 Speaker 2: Kind of old.

23:39 Speaker 4: He's like thirty seven or something, but he's really good still. But he's performed well.

23:44 Speaker 2: No, no, he performed well.

23:46 Speaker 10: And you know, we talked about having you know, the need to have like kind of that you know, veteran leadership presence. And you know, he's won how many times is two three Cups he's won with the black Hawks, So you know there's something to be said for that when you're trying to build a team with you know, younger players to understand, you know.

24:06 Speaker 4: So yeah, for me though, if I mean, I obviously I'm not Iserman. Over Wise, this team would be built a whole lot differently than it is. Believe me on that there would not be just in Tol on this team. But I think, honestly, like the thing is, I don't think unless a defenseman who is just that highly tounded is available where the Red Wings are like, yeah, I don't think there really is any like I don't see as distracting the defenseman. I honestly think even Bove saving the best player available at all times.

24:48 Speaker 4: You're so loaded on defense defensive prospects at this point. That's like unless they are convinced one of them is a future star, like legit star, you know, household name. I think we're going forward, no matter was it's just you know, are you going winger or center? I want them to go center, but I think they're just going to take best forward available, no matter the position. But I just don't see them going defense this year. I think that I think those things are over at least it's a top tick.

25:17 Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting do you find in Detroit?

25:25 Speaker 9: Well, first of all, I guess, uh, how do people fans feel about Iserbin? And then secondly, is he has he what's the word I'm trying to think of, wedged himself in there so that way no one can ever.

25:45 Speaker 4: Get rid of him. It's basically the kind of the ledged himself anything. The thing is, we have a we have a negligent owner. Chris Ilitch does not care at all. He's basically like he's basically star struck. My man, you're not gonna touch.

26:04 Speaker 3: Hold that they're putting something in there.

26:08 Speaker 2: They were going in.

26:09 Speaker 3: They were in a briefcase. Was it Price Waterhouse Cooper?

26:13 Speaker 2: I don't know if it was.

26:16 Speaker 4: All right, quickly, who do you all think is gonna get first? Overall? Oh?

26:22 Speaker 3: I am the worst person to ask.

26:25 Speaker 11: Nobody's super guy.

26:26 Speaker 2: I don't know.

26:30 Speaker 4: About ten shows? Are the lowest? King Crab.

26:36 Speaker 3: And you think you think, yeah, thinks it's Boston.

26:44 Speaker 2: We're gonna get last? Who do we not want to get the top pick? Buffalo?

26:54 Speaker 4: I don't like the Rangers? Notes to the Rangers or Blackhaw?

26:58 Speaker 10: I was gonna say the black I think I'm off set league. The league has done enough to help the Chicago Blackhawks.

27:05 Speaker 2: Yep.

27:07 Speaker 9: No, we're going to get in last. Whatever the lowest we could possibly get is what we will because it's just our.

27:13 Speaker 3: Luck this year.

27:14 Speaker 11: We can only go seventh. That's as we can.

27:17 Speaker 3: That's the lowest. All right, I guess.

27:21 Speaker 4: You will draft seventh and you will like it?

27:24 Speaker 6: Yeah?

27:24 Speaker 2: Right?

27:28 Speaker 4: In Redding Sands and dropping to six is so iconic that there's literally a Red Wings fan blow called drafting sixth.

27:34 Speaker 9: Oh my god, I can't I remember the last time the Bruins drafted in the first round.

27:43 Speaker 2: Yeah, well their last first overall pick was Thornton.

27:45 Speaker 11: I was going to say, I think it was Thornton, right, yep, because that was right.

27:51 Speaker 10: There was the year, the Taylor Hall Tyler Sagan year. But you could have called them a one A and A one B.

27:58 Speaker 3: But all right, who's got the spreadsheet? Who's that number?

28:13 Speaker 2: Boston dropped a couple percentage points?

28:17 Speaker 9: Oh, just yeah, because of the way that the numbers started. They don't own a number with that or a series of numbers.

28:24 Speaker 2: That's start with seven, or they do, and it's just less.

28:29 Speaker 3: It's very exciting.

28:30 Speaker 11: The one thing I'm not clear on is like who these numbers actually correlate to.

28:34 Speaker 2: Right, I know that seems yeah, each team has their own most.

28:37 Speaker 9: Been assigned a percentage of all the possible number combinations you can get.

28:45 Speaker 4: Apparently the Flames got eliminated, not to Bluejackets. Put us to Blue Jacket's number. I'm confused.

28:52 Speaker 3: Well, it's just the first number of the of the sea of like the row of numbers.

28:57 Speaker 11: This really is like mega millions, it really and.

29:02 Speaker 3: Powerball? Why can they Oh, because they don't have any of those numbers.

29:09 Speaker 8: They got eliminated, right, that's how that so okay, mmm,

29:17 Speaker 8: holy how another thirty seconds?

29:19 Speaker 3: Jesus is that really necessary?

29:23 Speaker 2: Yes?

29:24 Speaker 3: All right, you got to make sure they're mixed real well, all twenty of them.

29:31 Speaker 11: Sweeney looks like he's having a stroke.

29:35 Speaker 3: You might as well have those glasses with the eyeball printed on them, Like yeah, just.

29:45 Speaker 10: I'm seeing like social media and everyone's like, what the theft does any of this mean?

29:50 Speaker 3: Right?

29:50 Speaker 2: This is awesome.

29:52 Speaker 11: I love this.

29:55 Speaker 3: He's got the matching Powerball numbers. It's exactly what it is.

30:00 Speaker 2: Eleven. Well, Chicago is still in this.

30:02 Speaker 3: Oh we're done. We're not getting the is this is just for first for first overall?

30:06 Speaker 8: Pick right, yeah, and Buffalo to Pittsburgh Islanders.

30:12 Speaker 11: Chicago is eighteen point at this point.

30:16 Speaker 3: Jesus, No, Noburg does not need.

30:22 Speaker 11: A number one of all these. I would go Seattle would be interesting to see.

30:27 Speaker 4: I would.

30:28 Speaker 3: I wouldn't be mad.

30:28 Speaker 10: They are my West Coast teams for Seattle. I'm betting putting my money on Pittsburgh.

30:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, what the hell are you going to go over everybody?

30:44 Speaker 3: They're taking a break. They're taking a break, aren't they You're taking a break.

30:50 Speaker 11: Unbelievable.

30:52 Speaker 3: Yeah, so so does everybody then understand how this is working?

31:01 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, we didn't win. We got chobbed. Yeah.

31:05 Speaker 3: Basically, do you expect anything less?

31:07 Speaker 2: Smw mo, No, it never goes our way.

31:12 Speaker 9: So Adrian, does it say on your little print out?

31:19 Speaker 9: I guess the percentages there. It's not just the odds of them getting the first one. It's actually they own what eight percent of all of the possible number.

31:32 Speaker 11: Of comminations, right, yeah, I mean it doesn't I think it's just going to land in each position. And so we are we are like eight and a half pretty much for the first and second we had eight point five percent. For number the number three pick we had point two percent. So you know, it's it's we're not the odds are highly stocked against us moving up into one or two. But you know, somebody's got to win. But you know, my whole thing is is like, it would be great if we just didn't fall too far.

32:07 Speaker 4: Yeight wow.

32:09 Speaker 3: So and it has to be uh, it has to be in that order, right or does it? Is it actually like the lottery?

32:19 Speaker 11: That's a that's a very fair question.

32:21 Speaker 2: I know it has to be in order, it has to be in the order.

32:24 Speaker 3: It has to because I'm like, that doesn't make sense.

32:27 Speaker 4: It has to be that order.

32:28 Speaker 11: The percentage changed based on what happened in the first round. None of these percentages would.

32:32 Speaker 15: Matter, would matter, right, It would be almost like receding everything, you know exactly, So our it seems as though our odds are pretty identical for first and second is percent so you know, it's not great, but it's also not awful.

32:47 Speaker 11: Yeah, so you know, we'll see how it goes, but.

32:56 Speaker 2: Go ahead.

32:57 Speaker 11: But uh yeah, I mean it's like we've got a we've got a thirty four point six percent chance of getting the number fIF five spot, and forty four point seven getting number six and thirteen point five getting number seven.

33:10 Speaker 3: Yeah.

33:12 Speaker 9: Right, because once whoever gets picked first gets their number, they're out of it, and so all of their numbers.

33:22 Speaker 3: Well that's an interesting thing, right, what happens to all of their unused numbers?

33:27 Speaker 11: I mean basically what I mean, I don't know. But what's interesting is that, based on what Mary Beth said that I think that if somebody jumps and everyone else just gets pushed down, right, so like say the Blackhawks or the or the Sharks get the first pick, like we don't move right, because they were already any of us. But if someone jumps all five of us, then we slide down to six.

33:47 Speaker 4: Right.

33:48 Speaker 2: Yeah, So I don't know.

33:51 Speaker 4: We'll see how it goes.

33:51 Speaker 3: We're gonna find out, because no one's ever seen this done before. They usually just walk out and hold up a card and say this is who won. Yeah, and they had on TV. They had the commercial and the the lotto balls. Still going to prove.

34:12 Speaker 11: That is all about where are the balls now, Caroline. All I'm seeing is.

34:15 Speaker 3: I know, I don't see it. All I see are feeling.

34:17 Speaker 11: Off the balls and then bringing in new balls that just give it to Chicago.

34:22 Speaker 2: We don't know.

34:24 Speaker 8: Yeah, First, it looks like basically the first top two picks are done by the lottery, which is the four digit the four number combination of the four numbers, and then whoever, and then the last teams. Basically their draft order is inversed based on their regular season point standing.

34:44 Speaker 3: So this only matters for first and second.

34:48 Speaker 8: Yeah, so everything else, And that's why it depends who gets I think second.

34:56 Speaker 3: Yes, nine seconds, everybody here you go.

35:01 Speaker 2: Oh jeez, almost fell got it? Thirteen thirteen, Okay, So it's not who wins.

35:19 Speaker 3: It's who is it?

35:21 Speaker 11: It's not Buffalo. I don't think it's Chicago either, because it was two or three.

35:28 Speaker 3: I think actually, like manually the Island, we had all these a second ago. Who is it?

35:35 Speaker 4: Okay, so I know who? Ellen Freeman just said, who want a lottery?

35:40 Speaker 11: Oh?

35:41 Speaker 3: Did he really?

35:42 Speaker 1: Yeah?

35:43 Speaker 4: It's all Twinter right now. Friedman just said.

35:45 Speaker 11: Really, yeah, my god, this dude's in his living room.

35:54 Speaker 2: I love this. Oh my god, that's fun.

35:58 Speaker 4: And he just to New York boy, when is it not a New York or New Jersey?

36:07 Speaker 3: So that wasn't that they.

36:11 Speaker 4: No, yeah, they fired Lou.

36:14 Speaker 3: They fired Lou. Yeah yeah, oh that was still only for the first Yeah.

36:19 Speaker 2: Now they do the whole thing all over again. I love it.

36:22 Speaker 4: I love it, manures come on, oh if.

36:27 Speaker 2: We went second, that would be amazing.

36:31 Speaker 14: You know.

36:32 Speaker 9: I feel like I'm supposed to be more mad that the Islanders got it, but I'm just glad it wasn't Chicago or San Jose.

36:40 Speaker 4: Absolutely Islanders is a nothing team pretty much like yeah, yeah, I'm heardly in New York and I can't see in New York teams, but it's like it does like two years here, good.

36:52 Speaker 11: I'd rather be the Islanders two years ago?

36:57 Speaker 3: Who would you rather be?

36:59 Speaker 11: Islanders and Rangers? Mm hmm, this is going to go to a New York team, not the Ringers.

37:06 Speaker 3: Come on, booh Kenmorrow. Oh he's not even he's just the director of pro scouting. That's not the GM.

37:17 Speaker 10: They don't have one right now, I don't I'm.

37:19 Speaker 9: Sorry, not GM president. I was thinking president. Why wouldn't I don't know, all right, they didn't have an assistant GM. I guess not every place has one, and I'm.

37:31 Speaker 4: Looking up Island our staff right now.

37:33 Speaker 9: Yeah, like I would have then expected the president or an assistant GM. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean it makes sense. Director of schedule.

37:44 Speaker 4: Fired for let me see if he fired for assistant GM. If it's is he is he king Lamorello orbed the assistant GM.

37:59 Speaker 3: Build a new ring.

38:01 Speaker 4: M Lambrella with her president and GM?

38:08 Speaker 3: He that makes sense. Then I didn't know he was both.

38:15 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's just become quick coming now these days.

38:19 Speaker 2: So is that what is man?

38:22 Speaker 4: And then don Waddle in the blue jacket? O?

38:25 Speaker 3: God, can you imagine if Cam decided he was going to be both?

38:33 Speaker 9: Oh my god, No, he would never do that because then he can't blame someone else for when yes, wait comes the first first number.

38:41 Speaker 2: They just did it. Oh they've done three numbers.

38:45 Speaker 10: They are.

38:47 Speaker 11: Seriously just flowing through.

38:53 Speaker 10: We had someone in the in our chat just say, Hooper drives the boat. I know, billed build a new rink, you win draft.

39:01 Speaker 11: To ask boilers clever, clever, not wrong?

39:08 Speaker 3: Well look at the didn't the devils have a top pick? Not too long ago?

39:12 Speaker 1: And look at that we got We got a chance to get to whoa? Oh oh all right, we're still in it. Oh this, yeah, we are pretty good.

39:25 Speaker 2: All right, Calgary, Holy crap in Utah. We need a seven or fourteen. That's just out right, write that down.

39:40 Speaker 7: We need a seven or fourteen, a seven or fourteen,

39:45 Speaker 7: come on seven, let's go lucky seven, Come on, balls seven or fourteen. Brant, you're talking about future legend, Bruins legend.

40:00 Speaker 2: She first fit for thirty seconds. Jesus Christ, what come on?

40:08 Speaker 11: They went through three numbers and then just yeah, yeah, all right, said we want a seven or fourteen, but we don't want a ten.

40:19 Speaker 8: Because that's why who's ten? Chicago is ten, seven, fourteen, seven, fourteen.

40:27 Speaker 11: Seven or fourteen? It is wait a minute, Wait.

40:31 Speaker 2: A minute, I think it's a three. Ah, it's a three.

40:34 Speaker 3: Damn it's a three. Who gets that?

40:40 Speaker 11: Someone? Clearly someone's none of us screamed about the list.

40:46 Speaker 4: I mean, nobody's posted it yet. When I follow, I keep refreshing, literally like every other second. Wait, okay, wait, what why is that anything?

40:56 Speaker 14: Call twenty five draft lottery and now the fourth overall selection in the twenty twenty five NHL.

41:08 Speaker 2: You tay, you know what.

41:10 Speaker 3: I don't hate that, all right? Okay?

41:13 Speaker 2: Oh wait, San Jose got the second Ah?

41:16 Speaker 3: Wait, how did that happen?

41:19 Speaker 2: Wait? Sef, I know, I don't you know.

41:23 Speaker 11: We take time to try to learn these things and then stuff like this happens.

41:27 Speaker 2: Okay, I don't understand you.

41:29 Speaker 3: I got it.

41:30 Speaker 4: I got it. Okay, I remember how to roos now for something, now that this happened, I remember how to rule work. You can only move up ten so you can still win the lottery. So like if you were if you draft fifte teams and you win the lottery, you draft fifth.

41:44 Speaker 3: Oh but we had would How did the Sharks get it?

41:50 Speaker 9: Then? Oh?

41:51 Speaker 4: Because the Fox because he moved up. Because continue we're the next team in line.

41:55 Speaker 3: I think because now they finished, Oh you should have dropped.

41:59 Speaker 11: That's what it is, right, So what happened to us?

42:02 Speaker 9: We?

42:02 Speaker 4: Where are we? Now? That's my question.

42:05 Speaker 2: We we'll find out in the next I think we dropped. Would we dropped?

42:09 Speaker 3: We dropped two spaces? I think so to our worst? What did I say to the worst?

42:13 Speaker 2: We could possibly finish seventh?

42:17 Speaker 11: Yeah, well, two people jumped this, that's what happens. So if anybody ended up getting it that wasn't in the top four, then we would adopt two spaces.

42:26 Speaker 2: Yeah you know, yeah?

42:29 Speaker 3: Who oh, well, we knew that was I knew that was going to happen. So when then, where does that put? Do they have them? The final list? Let's do a real quick rundown of uh where everyone finished?

42:46 Speaker 11: Islanders? Hold on, it's gonna go Islanders, Sharks, Blackhawks, Utah, Predators, Flyers, Ruins seventh. So we wound up, we wound up going to seven, seven, then cracking Wall.

43:06 Speaker 3: Yeah, then cracking Sabers and then wait, so where does Detroit end up?

43:13 Speaker 1: Uh?

43:15 Speaker 11: Fourteenth?

43:18 Speaker 4: I I called it to some friends. I called it earlier to some friends. I'm not just they always moved down to like they always moved out every damn your half, how.

43:33 Speaker 3: Even worse to maybe get a chance.

43:36 Speaker 4: We literally had one of the worst seasons at NHL history, and they ended up picking fourth.

43:44 Speaker 11: But yeah, well, I mean this is why I finished as in the regular season standings.

43:49 Speaker 4: No back back in twenty nineteen. In twenty nineteen, they had literally one of the worst seasons ever and drafted fourth. Never, no matter how bad we are, we will always in the draft.

44:01 Speaker 9: This.

44:02 Speaker 10: This is why when I hear talk about the you know, teams should tank, teams should tank?

44:06 Speaker 3: No, I mean, what's the point, right you can guarantee that you'll get anything? Is no guarantee, right right?

44:13 Speaker 4: And then outgation. We weren't even find so we were just out that. Holland.

44:19 Speaker 3: No, I didn't. I didn't think the Boones were either.

44:21 Speaker 2: The season.

44:22 Speaker 3: It just kind of manifested itself that way.

44:25 Speaker 4: Look, you have you have your own can Holland.

44:27 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, dear, well this was a lot of fun.

44:32 Speaker 8: We've all want to hear some fun news. Yes, news, So the Bruins have the sixty ninth pick of the draft.

44:39 Speaker 4: Now, Jesus.

44:41 Speaker 2: Nice, I'm done, all right.

44:45 Speaker 3: All right, Well, this was very exciting. Uh, to never do this again with you people. Sorry, thank you.

45:00 Speaker 4: Shot the blue jacket.

45:01 Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, well.

45:11 Speaker 10: Yeah, that's what this means that Dawn and Cam have to sign some big name free agents, right veteran.

45:22 Speaker 3: Yeah, we need to need some veteran leaders because they gave all of ours away.

45:26 Speaker 9: But uh, anyways, so I want to thank everybody for hopping on. You know, it's Monday night, it's rainy here in the Northeast, so it's kind of gloomy and chili yep, but I appreciate all of you guys for coming out and make sure you like and subscribe to get all of our other episodes. We are still producing content all summer long, so make sure you tune in and as always go.

45:57 Speaker 5: Bees still

46:12 Speaker 1: Still b