Prospect Rankings

2026 NHL Draft Lottery Simulator

SIM LOTTERY

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

1	Vancouver VAN	57	18-33-6	42	.368	12	14	L2	2-7-1	18.6%	25.1%

2	St. Louis STL	57	20-28-9	49	.430	19	19	L3	2-7-1	13.6%	13.6%

3	NY Rangers NYR	57	22-29-6	50	.439	14	20	L4	2-8-0	11.6%	11.6%

4	Calgary CGY	56	23-27-6	52	.464	19	21	W1	4-4-2	9.5%	9.5%

5	Winnipeg WPG	56	22-26-8	52	.464	20	21	L1	3-4-3	8.5%	8.5%

6	Chicago CHI	57	22-26-9	53	.465	17	19	L1	3-5-2	7.5%	7.5%

7	New Jersey NJ	57	28-27-2	58	.509	18	25	L3	4-6-0	6.5%	6.5%

8	Nashville NSH	57	26-24-7	59	.518	19	23	L1	3-4-3	6.0%	6.0%

9	San Jose SJ	55	27-24-4	58	.527	16	25	L3	4-5-1	5.0%	5.0%

10	Florida FLA	57	29-25-3	61	.535	23	25	L1	4-6-0	3.5%	3.5%

11	Los Angeles LA	56	23-19-14	60	.536	14	19	L2	4-3-3	3.0%	3.0%

12	Philadelphia PHI	56	25-20-11	61	.545	18	20	O1	3-4-3	2.5%	0%

13	Washington WSH	59	29-23-7	65	.551	24	28	W1	5-4-1	2.0%	0%

14	Toronto TOR BOS	57	27-21-9	63	.553	19	26	W3	4-5-1	1.5%	0%

15	Ottawa OTT	57	28-22-7	63	.553	22	25	W1	6-3-1	0%	0%

16	Columbus CBJ	56	29-20-7	65	.580	20	24	W7	9-1-0	0.5%	0%

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17	Edmonton EDM SJ	58	28-22-8	64	.552	21	28	L3	5-5-0

18	Utah UTA	57	30-23-4	64	.561	23	30	W2	7-3-0

19	Anaheim ANA	56	30-23-3	63	.562	18	24	W2	8-2-0

20	Seattle SEA	56	27-20-9	63	.562	21	26	W1	6-4-0

21	NY Islanders NYI	58	32-21-5	69	.595	22	28	W2	6-4-0

22	Boston BOS	57	32-20-5	69	.605	24	30	O2	6-1-3

23	Buffalo BUF	57	32-19-6	70	.614	26	29	L1	6-3-1

24	Detroit DET	58	33-19-6	72	.621	23	31	L1	5-3-2

25	Pittsburgh PIT	56	29-15-12	70	.625	25	28	W1	7-1-2

26	Montreal MON	57	32-17-8	72	.632	21	30	W1	6-3-1

27	Minnesota MIN VAN	58	34-14-10	78	.672	21	30	W5	8-1-1

28	Dallas DAL NYR	57	34-14-9	77	.675	28	30	W6	7-3-0

CONFERENCE FINAL LOSERS
29	Vegas VGK CGY	57	27-16-14	68	.596	20	26	W2	3-5-2

30	Carolina CAR	57	36-15-6	78	.684	26	32	W3	8-0-2

STANLEY CUP FINAL TEAMS
31	Tampa Bay TB SEA	55	37-14-4	78	.709	28	33	W5	8-1-1

32	Colorado COL NYI	55	37-9-9	83	.755	34	36	W1	4-5-1

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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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