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The 2025 NHL draft lottery went as expected for the Detroit Red Wings: They were pushed back.
Held May 5 in Secaucus, New Jersey, the Wings emerged with the 13th pick, one back from where they lined up with finishing 21st (39-35-8) out of 32 teams when the regular season ended on April 17. The New York Islanders won the draw to pick first.
The Wings had an 85.7% chance of picking 12th, but were bumped when Utah Hockey Club got lucky.
The Wings had a 5.1% chance to go as high as No. 2, but they couldn't have picked first no matter what. That's because after the Wings finished with the worst record in the NHL in 2019-20 only to be pushed back to fourth, the league tweaked the rules so that a team can move up a maximum of 10 spots. (The Wings had an 8.9% chance of dropping to 13th, a .1% chance to end up at No. 3 or No. 4, and .2% chance to end up at No. 14).
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The Islanders moved up nine spots when they won the first draw. Utah, which finished just behind the Wings in the standings, won the second draw, moving up from 13th to pick No. 4. The San Jose Sharks hold the second overall pick, and the Chicago Blackhawks, the third.
Matthew Schaefer, a defenseman with Erie of the Ontario Hockey League, is the favorite to be the No. 1 pick at the draft, which will be held June 27-28 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Centers Michael Misa (Saginaw, OHL) and James Hagens (Boston College, NCAA) are widely projected to be in the top three players selected.
Once out of the top five, it's much harder to predict who goes when.
Since entering the draft lottery in 2017, the first of now nine straight years the Wings have missed the playoffs, they've either stood pat or been pushed back. They dropped from seventh to ninth in 2017 (selecting forward Michael Rasmussen) and from fifth to sixth in 2018 (forward Filip Zadina), from fourth to sixth in 2019 (defenseman Moritz Seider). Yzerman made the most of the injustice of the 2020 lottery, selecting forward Lucas Raymond.
They've stayed in place the last four drafts, finishing sixth in 2021 (defenseman Simon Edvinsson), eighth in 2022 (forward Marco Kasper), ninth in 2023 (forward Nate Danielson) and 15th in 2024 (forward Michael Brandsegg-Nygård).
Contact Helene St. James at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames.
Read more on the Detroit Red Wings and sign up for our Red Wings newsletter. Her latest book, “The Franchise: Detroit Red Wings, A Curated History of the Red Wings,” was released October 2024. Her books, “On the Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Detroit Red Wings at the NHL Draft,” and “The Big 50: The Men and Moments that made the Detroit Red Wings” are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Triumph Books. Personalized copies available via her e-mail.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Red Wings draft lottery: Steve Yzerman to pick at No. 13
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Held May 5 in Secaucus, New Jersey, the Wings emerged with the 13th pick, one back from where they lined up with finishing 21st (39-35-8) out of 32 teams when the regular season ended on April 17. The New York Islanders won the draw to pick first.
The Wings had an 85.7% chance of picking 12th, but were bumped when Utah Hockey Club got lucky.
The Wings had a 5.1% chance to go as high as No. 2, but they couldn't have picked first no matter what. That's because after the Wings finished with the worst record in the NHL in 2019-20 only to be pushed back to fourth, the league tweaked the rules so that a team can move up a maximum of 10 spots. (The Wings had an 8.9% chance of dropping to 13th, a .1% chance to end up at No. 3 or No. 4, and .2% chance to end up at No. 14).
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The Islanders moved up nine spots when they won the first draw. Utah, which finished just behind the Wings in the standings, won the second draw, moving up from 13th to pick No. 4. The San Jose Sharks hold the second overall pick, and the Chicago Blackhawks, the third.
Matthew Schaefer, a defenseman with Erie of the Ontario Hockey League, is the favorite to be the No. 1 pick at the draft, which will be held June 27-28 at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles. Centers Michael Misa (Saginaw, OHL) and James Hagens (Boston College, NCAA) are widely projected to be in the top three players selected.
Once out of the top five, it's much harder to predict who goes when.
Since entering the draft lottery in 2017, the first of now nine straight years the Wings have missed the playoffs, they've either stood pat or been pushed back. They dropped from seventh to ninth in 2017 (selecting forward Michael Rasmussen) and from fifth to sixth in 2018 (forward Filip Zadina), from fourth to sixth in 2019 (defenseman Moritz Seider). Yzerman made the most of the injustice of the 2020 lottery, selecting forward Lucas Raymond.
They've stayed in place the last four drafts, finishing sixth in 2021 (defenseman Simon Edvinsson), eighth in 2022 (forward Marco Kasper), ninth in 2023 (forward Nate Danielson) and 15th in 2024 (forward Michael Brandsegg-Nygård).
Contact Helene St. James at [email protected]. Follow her on Twitter @helenestjames.
Read more on the Detroit Red Wings and sign up for our Red Wings newsletter. Her latest book, “The Franchise: Detroit Red Wings, A Curated History of the Red Wings,” was released October 2024. Her books, “On the Clock: Behind the Scenes with the Detroit Red Wings at the NHL Draft,” and “The Big 50: The Men and Moments that made the Detroit Red Wings” are available from Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Triumph Books. Personalized copies available via her e-mail.
This article originally appeared on Detroit Free Press: Detroit Red Wings draft lottery: Steve Yzerman to pick at No. 13
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