{"id":650161,"date":"2026-05-05T01:27:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650161\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T01:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T01:27:10","slug":"draft-lottery-rules-you-should-know-before-the-canucks-test-their-luck-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/650161\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft lottery rules you should know before the Canucks test their luck | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Vancouver Canucks hold the best odds of winning the first overall pick in Tuesday\u2019s NHL Draft Lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Two draws will take place. The first will determine who receives the first-overall pick, while the second will determine who picks in spot number two.<\/p>\n<p>After finishing dead last in the NHL standings this season with only 25 wins, the Canucks have a 25.5 per cent chance at landing the first-overall pick and an 18.8 per cent shot at second.<\/p>\n<p>At worst, they will pick third overall (55.7 per cent). It all comes down to how the ping pong balls shake out on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"draft lottery odds nhl\" title=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1744\" height=\"1144\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2268073\" style=\"color:transparent\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/draft-lottery-odds-nhl.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2268073\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tankathon.com<\/p>\n<p>In total, there are 1,000 possible outcomes from the four ping pong balls that will be drawn. The Canucks, due to finishing last place, have the most combinations assigned with 185.<\/p>\n<p>You can only move up a maximum of 10 spots, so if one of the teams slotted in the 12-16 range were to win the lottery, the Canucks would still receive the first-overall pick.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL changed the way its draft lottery program looked on television last year, doing away with the dramatic card-turning reveal from deputy commissioner Bill Daly. That will once again be the case, as the league holds the live drawing of numbers.<\/p>\n<p>That means if any of the following combinations of numbers pop up, the Canucks will have won:<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The numbers we&#8217;ll be watching. \ud83d\udc40<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s a list of all of our possible winning combinations for the upcoming NHL Draft Lottery!<\/p>\n<p>Our Draft Lottery Livestream kicks off at 3:30 PM PT on Canucks social and <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jLhehnXNDh\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/jLhehnXNDh<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NHL?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NHL<\/a> Draft Lottery full broadcast goes\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8xpd3z6YMe\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/8xpd3z6YMe<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vancouver Canucks (@Canucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canucks\/status\/2051361310433051134?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 4, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The lottery takes place this Tuesday, beginning at 4 p.m. PDT. It will be <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/when-how-watch-nhl-draft-lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">available to watch on television and stream online<\/a>, via Sportsnet.<\/p>\n<p>You might also like:<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhive.com\/vancouver\/canucks-sedins-draft-lottery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Canucks turn to Sedins to end disastrous draft lottery luck<\/a><br \/>\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Vancouver Canucks hold the best odds of winning the first overall pick in Tuesday\u2019s NHL Draft Lottery.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[556],"tags":[64,63,575,85],"class_list":["post-650161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}