The NHL held its draft lottery on Friday, June 26, 2020. In case you missed it, the results were kind of hilarious, if only because the league is exceptionally stupid and bad at everything. Need proof of that statement? I laid out a litany of simple changes the league can make to fix the game in a 1700 word article on the same day as the lottery!
The Detroit Red Wings, the worst team in the salary cap era, will pick fourth in the 2020 NHL Entry Draft after the Ottawa Senators (via the San Jose Sharks) won the third overall pick, the Los Angeles Kings won the second overall pick and
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PLACEHOLDER won the first overall pick!