“Everyone wants to win the lottery, then everything is your control, and obviously everybody’s talked about a special player at the top of the rankings. “We’re going to get a great player at 3, there’s no question about it in my mind,” Kekalainen said on a video call with reporters. GM Jarmo Kekalainen said an on-air slip up revealing his team was picking third “spoiled the moment.” I’m excited.”Ĭolumbus is set to pick third, continuing the Blue Jackets’ run of lottery losing.
“So they turned the card, and we ended up picking 2. “Let’s kill the suspense here and get after it,” Verbeek said on a Zoom call. There’s a lot of weight to that and lot of significance to that.”ĭucks GM Pat Verbeek was waiting for Daly to “turn the card.” It can change a franchise, it can change a city and it can change an era in a team’s history. “I think I just said, ‘Wow’ because you understand the impact that a first overall pick can have - and having a first overall pick in the right year,” Blackhawks general manager Kyle Davidson said at a news conference in Chicago. Chicago had the third-highest odds of winning the lottery at 11.5%, behind Anaheim’s 25.5% and Columbus’ 13.5%.
1 pick and setting off a wild celebration among fans at a watch party. Bedard can now step into the void filled by the departures of Kane and longtime captain Jonathan Toews and become the new face of the Original Six organization currently in the midst of a full-scale rebuild.ĭeputy Commissioner Bill Daly unveiled a placard featuring the Blackhawks logo at 8:22 p.m. It’s the second time the Blackhawks have won the lottery in the past two decades, and the previous victory in 2007 netted them Patrick Kane, who helped them win the Stanley Cup three times between 20. (AP) - The Chicago Blackhawks won the NHL draft lottery Monday night and with it the right to select Connor Bedard with the first pick, parlaying one of their worst seasons in decades into a potentially franchise-altering player.
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