Draft Day

Each year the NHL and other sport organization like the NBA and NFL host a draft lottery. Some of you may be asking what that is. Well, the teams that don't make the playoffs are cut up into fractions, meaning; say Edmonton does the worst out of all the teams, they get a 10% chance of winning. Now that all the teams have a percentage of wining the lottery, team names are put into a bowl. Its most likely that the worst team gets the number one draft pick who this year is an unbelievable player.

Canadian eighteen year old Connor McDavid is set to go first overall in the draft. Throughout his OHL seasons with the Erie Otters, McDavid started his amazing career back in two thousand twelve when he obtained sixty six points in sixty three games. He has progressed a lot as a player because this season in only fourty seven games, he had one hundred and twenty points. To me, if you can get that many goals and assists, its time to get out of the minors and play with some real competition, its time for McDavid to play in the NHL. Connor is in my opinion, an amazing player and could compete with some top players. It's a shame that he'll most likely be going to a team in its rebuilding stages.

Connor McDavid

Edmonton, most likely McDavids future team, hasn't made the playoffs since I can remember. They come close to last place every year. Even with the last four first draft picks, Eberly, Hall, Nugenthopkins and Yakupov, they can't seem to find a way to win. In my opinion, the lottery isn't always fair because star players like Conner are stuck playing on a team that won't make him any better. 

To end, I think that the NHL should enforce a rule stating that you can't win the lottery more than two times in a row because if your team isn't winning with star players, maybe its not the players but the coachig staff.