Winnipeg Jets to select 8th after Toronto Maple Leafs win NHL Draft Lottery - BERITAJA

The Winnipeg Jets did not get the luck of the draw.

The Toronto Maple Leafs won the NHL’s Draft Lottery connected Tuesday to get the first wide action successful this year’s NHL Draft, while the Jets fell to the eighth slot.

With the lottery unfolding unrecorded for the 2nd consecutive year, the Maple Leafs’ balls came retired to triumph the first wide pick, contempt having conscionable an 8.5 per cent chance of winning. They’ll prime successful the apical slot for the first clip since drafting Auston Matthews successful 2016.

The Jets selected Patrik Laine 2nd wide that twelvemonth and the Jets were hoping history would repetition itself successful the 2nd information of drafting to find the remainder of the draught order. But pinch conscionable a 6.5 per cent chance of picking second, they weren’t truthful fortunate this time.

The San Jose Sharks, who had the ninth champion odds, won the 2nd wide prime to push the Jets down 1 slot.

Entering the lottery pinch the seventh champion odds, the Jets will prime pinch the eighth wide action successful the 2026 NHL Draft. It’s Winnipeg’s 3rd highest prime since returning to the metropolis successful 2011 aft selecting Laine pinch the 2nd action successful 2016 and Mark Scheifele pinch the seventh prime successful 2011.

The Vancouver Canucks, who had the champion chance to triumph the lottery, will prime third, followed by the Chicago Blackhawks, New York Rangers, and Calgary Flames.

This year’s draught is group for June 26-27.