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Post by Smyth94 on Apr 10, 2012 19:23:33 GMT -5
Oilers will pick 1st overall
1st.Edmonton
2nd.Columbus
3rd.Montreal
4th.New York I
5th.Toronto
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Post by thedarkangel1975 on Apr 10, 2012 19:32:24 GMT -5
By Edmonton Oilers Press Release
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Comment Print The Edmonton Oilers have been awarded the first overall selection in the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, being held at the CONSOL Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 22-23, 2012.
The Oilers received the right to pick first overall when they won the NHL’s Draft Lottery, held Tuesday night in New York.
The 2012 NHL Entry Draft will mark the third consecutive time the Oilers will select first overall, after taking Ryan Nugent-Hopkins first overall last year, and Taylor Hall first overall in 2010. They are just the second team in NHL history to pick three consecutive years. The Quebec Nordiques did it from 1989-1991.
The Draft Lottery is a weighted lottery system to determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the NHL Entry Draft. It gives the teams that finish with the fewest points during the regular season the greatest chance of winning the Draft Lottery.
Only the 14 teams that do not qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs, or clubs that acquired those clubs’ first-round draft picks, participate in the drawing.
Fourteen balls, numbered 1 to 14, are placed in a lottery machine. The machine expels four balls, forming a series of numbers. The four-digit series resulting from the expulsion of the balls is matched against a probability chart that divides the possible combinations among the 14 participating clubs. The Lottery was incorporated in 1995 by the NHL.
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Post by herbs on Apr 10, 2012 20:09:44 GMT -5
Oh wow! Now, who will the Oilers take? Haha at Columbus.  |
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Post by thedarkangel1975 on Apr 10, 2012 23:41:35 GMT -5
Anyone else laughing their asses off that people are saying it is a conspiracy that the Oilers are drafting #1? Yes. Over night Gary Bettman came to his senses after hockey returned to the peg and they rigged the draft. Wow. I heard it all. If there was a co nspiracy, Columbus and the Islanders would be drafting 1-2 and Phoenix would somehow be number 3
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Post by cunt on Apr 11, 2012 3:24:16 GMT -5
One thing I noticed in the past two years (Hall/Nuge) that once they announced we were drafting first overall they cut camera to the draft party at Hudson's Tap House downtown with everyone cheering. They didn't do that this year. People are done cheering losing.
Pretty funny we got it though. Columbus can't even out lose us.
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Post by cunt on Apr 14, 2012 1:40:16 GMT -5
I honestly wasn't worried about drafting 3rd and getting a dman, but now that we got the pick I hope we draft Yakupov and keep him. Make people compete for their jobs that much more, and if guys have off nights we have even more lines to score.
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Post by thedarkangel1975 on Apr 14, 2012 10:16:34 GMT -5
Hopefully we get a coach that actually knows how to develop guys
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