For the first time in a decade, the Carolina Hurricanes are not a lottery team (They traded the 2012 first round pick to the Penguins, so they didn’t draft in the top 14, but they were a lottery team). As as been well documented, the Hurricanes made the playoffs for the first time since 2009 and went pretty far. You all know this already, obviously, but the run to the Eastern Conference Finals gives the Hurricanes their first bad drafting position in a while.
Last year, the Canes drafted Andrei Svechnikov with the second overall pick.