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The Buffalo Sabres entered Wednesday with the best odds of winning the lottery at 16.6 percent with the Anaheim Ducks right behind them at 12.1 percent, per NHL.com's Mike G. Morreale. Both the New Jersey Devils and the expansion Seattle Kraken—who are drafting for the first time—held a 10.3 percent chance of winning.
Seattle could drop no lower than the fifth overall pick regardless of how the lottery played out.
The league altered this year's lottery process to better protect teams with worse records from falling further in the draft order. Here's how the revised process looks, per Morreale: