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The 2025 NHL Draft Lottery will be held on Monday, May 5, live from the NHL Network’s studio in Secaucus, New Jersey. For the first time in the 30-year history of the event, the NHL is showing us the actual lottery balls being drawn, taking fans behind the curtain.
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How to Watch the 2025 NHL Draft Lottery:
- Date: Monday, May 5, 2025
- Time: 7:00 PM ET
- Channel: ESPN
- Stream: Fubo (TRY FOR FREE)
This isn’t your weekly Powerball drawing; this is the NHL Draft Lottery, which is held to determine the top 16 picks in the 2025 NHL Draft at the end of June. The NHL has invited fans into the process of how they pick the top 16 NHL teams, just so there’s no funny business behind the scenes.
For decades, the lottery took place off-camera in a side room with NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman, accountants from Ernst & Young, and a small pool of journalists. Then, NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly would take the stage and dramatically flip logo cards one by one, counting down from 16 to 1. They will ditch the cards and take you right into the room.
The NHL Draft Lottery has always been about keeping things fair, discouraging tanking, and ensuring that no team can coast into Connor Bedard-level greatness without earning it fair and square.
Here’s a breakdown of the teams in the lottery and their odds of winning the first overall pick:
NHL Team Odds
- San Jose Sharks: 25.5%
- Chicago Blackhawks: 13.5%
- Nashville Predators: 11.5%
- Philadelphia Flyers: 9.5%
- Boston Bruins: 8.5%
- Seattle Kraken: 7.5%
- Buffalo Sabres: 6.5%
- Anaheim Ducks: 6.0%
- Pittsburgh Penguins: 5.0%
- New York Islanders: 3.5%
- New York Rangers: 3.0%
- Detroit Red Wings: 2.5%
- Columbus Blue Jackets: 2.0%
- Utah Hockey Club: 1.5%
- Vancouver Canucks: 0.5%
- Calgary Flames: 0.5%
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