SAN JOSE — If the San Jose Sharks win the NHL Draft Lottery on Monday, they will find out as soon as everybody else does.
The NHL on Friday announced that this year’s draft lottery broadcast will feature the drawing live in-studio for the first time in its 30-year history. This will allow viewers to learn the results simultaneously as the participating teams.
In years past, Bill Daly, the NHL’s deputy commissioner, turned over cards, one by one, featuring the logos of the teams in the draft lottery before the winning team was revealed at the end. Last year, the No. 1 card with the Sharks’ logo on the opposite side was revealed next-to-last by Daly with Sharks general manager Mike Grier, Chicago Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson, and presumptive No. 1 overall pick Macklin Celebrini looking on.
The Sharks won the lottery and selected Celebrini, who led San Jose with 63 points in 70 games this past season.
The draft lottery will be held at the NHL Network’s studio in Secaucus, N.J. on Monday at 4 p.m. PT and be broadcast live on ESPN in the United States.
The lottery will determine the selection order for the first 16 picks in the opening round of the NHL Draft in June in Los Angeles. Participants are all teams that did not qualify for the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs (or the teams that have acquired the first-round drafting positions of those non-playoff teams).
The lottery will be conducted in two phases, with the first determining the No. 1 overall pick in the NHL Draft and the second determining the second overall pick.
In each phase ,14 balls, numbered 1 to 14, will be placed into a lottery machine with four drawn. The resulting four-digit series is matched against a look-up table that lists the 1,000 possible combinations to determine which team was assigned the winning combination.
The look-up table of the 1,000 four-digit combinations assigned to each team participating in the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery is also available on NHL.com. The table also lists combinations by team.
As each ball is drawn, odds change and teams are eliminated. The viewing audience will learn who is still in the running in real time.
There is a limit on the number of selections (10) a team participating in the draft lottery can “move up” if it wins one of the lottery draws. Thus, only the top 11 seeds will be eligible to receive the first overall selection in the 2025 NHL Draft.
The 14 teams not selected in the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery will be assigned the remaining 2025 NHL Draft selections (among 1 through 16 in the first round), in inverse order of regular-season points.
The allocation of odds for the 1st Lottery Draw of the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery is as follows:
Draft Lottery Participants (fewest points to most)
Odds Combinations (out of 1,000) San Jose Sharks 18.5% 185 Chicago Blackhawks 13.5% 135 Nashville Predators 11.5% 115 Philadelphia Flyers 9.5% 95 Boston Bruins 8.5% 85 Seattle Kraken 7.5% 75 Buffalo Sabres 6.5% 65 Anaheim Ducks 6.0% 60 Pittsburgh Penguins 5.0% 50 New York Islanders 3.5% 35 New York Rangers * 3.0% 30 Detroit Red Wings 2.5% 25 Columbus Blue Jackets 2.0% 20 Utah Hockey Club 1.5% 15 Vancouver Canucks 0.5% 5 Calgary Flames ** 0.5% 5
If Detroit, Columbus, Utah, Vancouver, or Calgary win the first lottery draw, the No. 1 overall pick will automatically go to the Sharks. So, the Sharks, in effect, have a 25.5% chance of drafting first overall this year.
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