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  • Wilderness Walk: Draft Lottery Will Decide Some Fates

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    Your daily dose of Wild news, along with other interesting stories from around the NHL.

    The draft lottery is happening on Monday night and it will simply decide the path for so many different teams with a couple ping-pong balls. Whichever team gets the first-overall selection suddenly can make a plan with the eventual superstar Connor Bedard in mind. Even the team that gets second overall is walking away happy with Adam Fantilli as a future top center.

    For those teams that drop down (if that will happen), it means trying again next year or deciding that quantity is sometimes better than one single quality and that they will be just alright.

    At least we do get to cheer for something on Monday night and that's the Chicago Blackhawks not getting even close to one of the top two selections.

    That's Wild

    • We're seeing what it takes to get deep into the playoffs from multiple teams this year. So, how far are the Minnesota Wild from doing that? [Hockey Wilderness]
    • Most people want to say that the entire season was a failure since the Wild once again came crashing out of the first round. But, we would say to not throw out the regular season success along with the playoff disappointment. [Hockey Wilderness]
    • There is going to potentially be a lot of movement with this Wild roster this summer. Potentially five free agents the Wild might have to let walk away. [Pioneer Press]

    Off the trail...

    • The Toronto Maple Leafs were projected to walk into the second round against the Florida Panthers (not the Boston Bruins) and be the overwhelming favorites. Well, they are now down 3-0 and just lost Game 3 in heartbreaking (if you care about Toronto) fashion. [Yahoo Sports]
    • After a disappointing first-round exit, the New York Rangers have fired head coach Gerard Gallant. [NBC Sports]
    • Looks like the second round isn't so easy after all! After the Dallas Stars are just two games away from elimination after the Seattle Kraken stormed back and took Game 3 with a whopping 7-2 score. [Sportsnet]
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    Protec

    Wild didn't have too much trouble with Seattle this season. Interesting to see how matchups work out. I really thought if the Wild could get past Dallas, Ek would return and the Wild would get a boost against COL or SEA.

    Will be tough to watch Seattle go to the WCF knowing the Wild has what appeared to be a doable path. More so than when they faced CHI or STL when those teams always had the Wild's number head to head.

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    Jon
    5 hours ago, Protec said:

    Wild didn't have too much trouble with Seattle this season. Interesting to see how matchups work out. I really thought if the Wild could get past Dallas, Ek would return and the Wild would get a boost against COL or SEA.

    Will be tough to watch Seattle go to the WCF knowing the Wild has what appeared to be a doable path. More so than when they faced CHI or STL when those teams always had the Wild's number head to head.

    Well said. Same goes for Bruins/Panthers, Panthers/Leafs, and Avs/Kraken. Matchup matters. I firmly believe Panthers are white hot after upsetting the Bruins. The confidence they have is unmatched; the only team to beat them is themselves. It doesn’t matter if it’s Toronto, Tampa, or New Jersey on them, I would say. 

    Kraken will score on all lines, meaning teams that rely on specific players or lineups will be exposed, especially if said lines or players are not performing well. 

    If the Avs, Bruins, or Leafs had different matchups this year, the story would be wholly different. 

    The Wild clearly are the inferior team against many of the playoff teams this year, but it would have been interesting if they had drawn the Kraken or Oilers this year. Still probably would’ve lost

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    IllicitFive

    Chicago with the lottery win? Really.... Ugh. Is the league even trying to hide favoritism at this point? Guess we get to look forward to years of Connor Bedard just like we did with Kane and Towes. 

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    44 minutes ago, IllicitFive said:

    Chicago with the lottery win? Really.... Ugh. Is the league even trying to hide favoritism at this point? Guess we get to look forward to years of Connor Bedard just like we did with Kane and Towes. 

    Pretty sure I called this like halfway through the season and everyone was like, 'Nooooooooo... the NHL wouldn't reward an organization that's been a piece of shit recently so soon!'

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    Really should have been CBJ getting the pick. They've been more royally screwed then we have in the last 20 years. I think they've only made the playoffs once in actual division (non-wildcard) out of like five or six total appearances since their inception.

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    Protec

    Not even a tiny bit surprised the NHL rigs the draft for NY, LA, and CHI. What else is new? Can't give the lottery pick to TOR or EDM anymore so it was pretty obvious it's going to CHI. I mean what was everyone saying for months? Ope, looks like CHI will get another one.

    MN and CBJ just plugging away with stoic Midwestern work ethic while refs, league, and deck stacked against.

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