The NHL announced the date for the 2024 Draft Lottery on Friday. The event, held at NHL Network’s New Jersey studio, will take place on Tuesday, May 7 with the exact time still to be announced.
The lottery will determine the exact order of the first 16 picks in the draft and will be aired live on ESPN, Sportsnet, and TVA Sports.
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The San Jose Sharks, who finished with a 19-54-9 record, will have the best odds (18.5 percent) at getting the first overall selection. The consensus top pick is Boston University forward Macklin Celebrini who was the youngest player in NCAA Division I men’s hockey this season and became the youngest to win the Hobey Baker Award.
Celebrini recorded 64 points (32g, 32a) in 38 games as a 17-year-old freshman.
Utah, the newest home to a team in the NHL, will also receive their first-ever draft selection in the lottery. The unnamed former Arizona Coyotes will play their first season in 2024-25.
The NHL also announced that the 2024 NHL Scouting Combine, showcasing the top draft-eligible prospects, will be held from June 2-8 at KeyBank Center and LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo, New York.
Here’s the press release from the league:
2024 NHL Draft Lottery Set for May 7
NEW YORK (April 26, 2024) – The National Hockey League announced today the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery will be held on Tuesday, May 7, at NHL Network’s Secaucus, N.J., studio. The event will be broadcast on ESPN, Sportsnet and TVA Sports (time to be announced next week).
The 2024 NHL Draft Lottery will determine the order of selection for the first 16 picks in the first round of the 2024 NHL Draft. Participants are all teams that did not qualify for the 2024 Stanley Cup Playoffs (or the teams that have acquired the first-round drafting positions of those non-playoff teams).
REMINDER: The NHL announced changes to the Draft Lottery format on March 23, 2021. Among the changes in effect since 2022 is a limit on the total number of selections (10) a team participating in the Draft Lottery can “move up” in the event it wins one of the Lottery Draws. Thus, only the top 11 seeds will be eligible to receive the first overall selection in the 2024 NHL Draft.
The allocation of odds for the 1st Lottery Draw of the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery is as follows:
Draft Lottery Participants
(Fewest Points to Most)
San Jose Sharks – 18.5%
Chicago Blackhawks – 13.5%
Anaheim Ducks – 11.5%
Columbus Blue Jackets – 9.5%
Montreal Canadiens – 8.5%
Utah – 7.5%
Ottawa Senators – 6.5%
Seattle Kraken – 6.0%
Calgary Flames – 5.0%
New Jersey Devils – 3.5%
Buffalo Sabres – 3.0%
Philadelphia Flyers – 2.5%
Minnesota Wild – 2.0%
Pittsburgh Penguins* – 1.5%
Detroit Red Wings – 0.5%
St. Louis Blues – 0.5%
* Under the terms of an August 6, 2023 trade, Pittsburgh will transfer its 1st-round pick in either the 2024 or 2025 NHL Draft to San Jose. If Pittsburgh’s 2024 1st-round pick becomes a top 10 pick as a result of the Draft Lottery, Pittsburgh will have the option to transfer its 2025 1st-round pick to San Jose instead of its 2024 1st-round pick.
The odds for the remaining teams will increase on a proportionate basis for the 2nd Lottery Draw, based on which team wins the 1st Lottery Draw.
The 14 teams not selected in the 2024 NHL Draft Lottery will be assigned the remaining 2024 NHL Draft selections (among 1 through 16 in the first round), in inverse order of regular-season points.
NHL Central Scouting has released its final rankings for the 2024 NHL Draft, where Boston University (Hockey East) forward Macklin Celebrini tops the list of North America-based skaters and Nizhny Novgorod (KHL) defenseman Anton Silayev leads all Europe-based skaters.
The 2024 NHL Scouting Combine, showcasing the top draft-eligible North American and international prospects, will be held from June 2-8 at KeyBank Center and LECOM Harborcenter in Buffalo, N.Y.
