Luck, Leverage, and What Comes Next
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How did the Toronto Maple Leafs win the NHL Draft Lottery?
Who gets the first pick of the draft? 12, the number 12. The number 12, the Toronto Maple Leafs have won the NHL Draft Lottery and Matt Sundin is smiling ear to ear. One day after the official announcement, it appears, but now to make it official, Pam Kelleher and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daley. I can confirm it is official. Toronto has won the first draw in the 2026 draft lottery, and as a result of winning the draw, they have the number one overall selection in the 2026 draft.
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With you on this Wednesday. From the way Dom was talking, it was three-punch shaman. Honestly, four-punch shaman.
Four-punch shaman.
What impact does the second overall pick have for the San Jose Sharks?
I'm trying to protect you here, Dom.
So just before we get all to the news and Butcher Gross texted me saying, get to it already.
How did Vancouver's draft position change and what does it mean for their future?
Kyle is referring to me as Butterfingers because we went for wings tonight in Buffalo, as you do. And I dropped one all over my freshly cleaned jeans. And Kyle took a picture of it.
Yes, I will keep it in-house, but yeah, it was a lot of honey garlic everywhere. You've been in the city for three hours, and you're already a disaster.
I will say this. I showed it to Kyle and Eric Engels and cameraman Dan Slater, who we were with for dinner tonight, and the sauce was literally a soup in the basket.
Yeah, it was Lake Ontario sauce.
What were the highlights from the Chayka/Sundin press conference?
In the basket.
Yes. So.
The wings were slipping through your fingers, just like the first overall pick slipped through the fingers of the Vancouver Canucks as they fell two spots. And yet again, Vancouver goes through a draft lottery process where they move down and do not move up. And Andre Vasilevsky may have no time for hockey gods, Elliot, but suddenly fans in Toronto do again. It was like a Chinook. blew through the city of Toronto. If you don't like the weather, just wait 10 minutes. On Monday, it was the awkward, kind of clunky introduction to the John Chayka, Matt Sandin era, the press conference, and all the fallout of that. Just over 24 hours later, the Maple Leafs, in their grasp, have the first overall pick in the 2026 NHL Draft.
What are the implications of Seattle's and Florida's draft picks being in play?
Ten years after they selected Austin Matthews first overall in 2016, they have the opportunity to pick first again. A fortuitous bounce falls on the lap of Chayka's office. Day two of the job, Elliot.
So the number one text I was getting after Toronto won the lottery was, I'll give you one guess what most people were saying.
Are you bleeping kidding? Rigged. Oh, yes.
But you're not far off. You're not far off. So like everybody else, I was watching the lottery and you could tell Butcher Gross, who was hosting it, he paused for a second. It was almost like Toronto won.
What were the results of the Flyers vs. Hurricanes game?
Without even seeing him on camera, I could tell by his reaction. It was the same reaction everybody else had. You know what the number two text was I got? What? I told you Chayka was a great choice.
What happened in the Ducks vs. Golden Knights game?
Yes. All is good again. We knew all along this was the right call. Goodness. So obviously this is a huge deal. And there are so many implications out of this. Kyle Davidson and the Blackhawks will pick fourth.
What should we expect from the upcoming Habs-Sabres series?
He was asked about trading the fourth overall pick, and he made a comment along the lines of, we'd be interested in it, but these picks don't get dealt very often. And he's right about that. And you go back to the famous one from 2003 where Carolina, not Carolina, it was Florida, moved down two spots, let Pittsburgh moved up to get Marc-Andre Fleury and went Eric Stahl two and Nathan Horton three and Florida got the guy they wanted. But other than that, treating out of that spot, it really doesn't happen. And, you know, the thing about, one of the things I've heard about McKenna, if you believe McKenna goes number one, and it should be mentioned that Jason Bukala went on Hockey Night in Canada after the lottery and said if he was the Leafs, he would take Stenberg.
But if McKenna's your guy, I think there were some teams I heard that were nervous about taking him first if they didn't have a center.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did the Toronto Maple Leafs win the NHL Draft Lottery?
0:00–1:07
2
What impact does the second overall pick have for the San Jose Sharks?
1:07–1:17
3
How did Vancouver's draft position change and what does it mean for their future?
1:17–1:56
4
What were the highlights from the Chayka/Sundin press conference?
1:56–2:57
5
What are the implications of Seattle's and Florida's draft picks being in play?
2:57–3:51
6
What were the results of the Flyers vs. Hurricanes game?
3:51–4:14
7
What happened in the Ducks vs. Golden Knights game?
4:14–4:38
8
What should we expect from the upcoming Habs-Sabres series?
4:38–1:05:04