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2026 NHL Draft Lottery Simulator

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Pick	Team	GP	RecordRec	Pts	PT%	RW	ROW	Strk	L10	Odds	#1 OVR

1	Vancouver VAN	71	21-42-8	50	.352	14	16	L4	3-6-1	18.5%	25.5%

2	NY Rangers NYR	72	28-35-9	65	.451	19	25	L2	4-5-1	13.5%	13.5%

3	Chicago CHI	72	27-32-13	67	.465	20	24	L1	4-3-3	11.5%	11.5%

4	Calgary CGY	72	30-34-8	68	.472	23	26	O1	5-4-1	9.5%	9.5%

5 1	Winnipeg WPG	72	30-30-12	72	.500	24	28	L1	4-4-2	8.5%	8.5%

6 1	St. Louis STL	71	30-30-11	71	.500	26	29	W3	7-1-2	7.5%	7.5%

7	San Jose SJ	70	32-31-7	71	.507	20	30	O1	2-6-2	6.5%	6.5%

8	Toronto TOR BOS	73	31-29-13	75	.514	23	30	W2	4-4-2	6.0%	6.0%

9 2	Florida FLA	71	35-33-3	73	.514	27	30	L1	5-5-0	5.0%	5.0%

10 1	Seattle SEA	71	32-29-10	74	.521	25	31	W1	3-6-1	3.5%	3.5%

11 1	Los Angeles LA	72	29-25-18	76	.528	19	25	W1	4-2-4	3.0%	3.0%

12	New Jersey NJ	71	37-32-2	76	.535	25	33	W2	7-3-0	2.5%	0%

13	Washington WSH	73	36-28-9	81	.555	31	35	W1	5-3-2	2.0%	0%

14	Philadelphia PHI	71	35-24-12	82	.577	22	26	W1	7-2-1	1.5%	0%

15 1	Detroit DET STL	71	38-25-8	84	.592	27	36	L2	3-5-2	0.5%	0%

16 1	NY Islanders NYI	73	41-27-5	87	.596	27	37	W1	6-4-0	0.5%	0%

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17 1	Nashville NSH	72	34-29-9	77	.535	25	30	L1	6-3-1

18 1	Vegas VGK CGY	73	32-26-15	79	.541	24	31	O1	3-6-1

19 1	Utah UTA	73	37-30-6	80	.548	28	37	L2	3-5-2

20 1	Edmonton EDM SJ	73	36-28-9	81	.555	27	36	W2	6-3-1

21 2	Columbus CBJ	72	38-23-11	87	.604	27	32	L1	6-2-2

22 1	Pittsburgh PIT	72	36-20-16	88	.611	29	33	W1	5-3-2

23 1	Boston BOS	72	40-24-8	88	.611	29	37	W1	5-2-3

24	Montreal MON	71	40-21-10	90	.634	28	38	W3	7-3-0

25	Minnesota MIN VAN	73	41-20-12	94	.644	26	37	W1	4-4-2

26	Tampa Bay TB SEA	71	44-21-6	94	.662	35	40	O1	5-3-2

27	Dallas DAL NYR	72	43-18-11	97	.674	33	38	L3	5-4-1

CONFERENCE FINAL LOSERS
28	Anaheim ANA WSH	72	41-27-4	86	.597	24	33	W4	6-3-1

29	Buffalo BUF	72	44-20-8	96	.667	37	40	O2	7-1-2

STANLEY CUP FINAL TEAMS
30	Carolina CAR	71	45-20-6	96	.676	32	40	L1	6-4-0

31	Colorado COL STL	71	48-13-10	106	.746	42	45	W4	6-3-1

PUNISHED TEAMS
32	Ottawa OTT	72	38-24-10	86	.597	32	35	O1	7-2-1

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Determining the NHL Draft Order

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All teams missing the playoffs are in the Lottery

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Teams with the least points get more chances at winning the Lottery

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The 1st overall pick is awarded by a drawing of ping pong balls. A team can only jump ten spots, so only the top 11 teams are eligible for the 1st pick. If a team in the 12-16 range wins the first drawing, the first pick will be awarded to the worst team. The 12-16 seed team that won the first drawing is also locked into their new position.

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A second drawing is held to determine the other lottery winner. Like the first drawing, the second winner can only jump ten spots, but this time it is using the re-seeded order following the first drawing. This second drawing will not affect the team(s) with locked-in positions from the first drawing. If a ten spot jump is to a pick that is already locked-in, this team will receive the next available pick.

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Teams are only allowed to improve their positioning via the Lottery twice in a five year period (beginning with the 2022 Lottery).

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Ties are broken by teams' total number of regulation wins (RW), regulation and non-shootout overtime wins (ROW), and then head-to-head if still tied

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Playoff teams that did not win their divisions and did not make the conference finals, sorted by points, are assigned the next picks

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Playoff teams that won their divisions and did not make the conference finals, sorted by points, are assigned the next picks

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Conference finals losers sorted by points are assigned picks 29 and 30

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Stanley Cup runner-up is assigned pick 31

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Stanley Cup champion is assigned pick 32

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Note: This site uses points percentage instead of points to account for different number of games played between teams

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