Toronto Maple Leafs win 2026 NHL Draft lottery, get No. 1 pick
The Toronto Maple Leafs won the 2026 NHL Draft lottery and will hold the No. 1 overall pick after jumping from the fifth spot. Toronto entered the lottery with just an 8.5 percent chance after finishing with the fifth-worst record this season, a four-place leap to the top. The No. 1 pick lets Toronto either select a consensus franchise prospect or trade the selection for multiple picks and players to accelerate a rebuild, a move that could reshape the roster around or away from stars such as Auston Matthews.
The No. 1 pick in the 2026 NHL Draft goes to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
The Athletic15Toronto entered the lottery with just an 8.5% chance of winning the No. 1 pick. The Leafs had the fifth-best odds after finishing with the fifth-worst overall record this season.
Ghost of Tuvix (Revived)3#SJSharks got the #2 pick. They’re building a friggin NHL super dream team!!!
dan-maynard89.bsky.social3Boy, that one seems a little too on the nose Bettman...
It's 1 in 59 that the Leafs won the Matthews lottery and this one. If you want to believe that means it's a conspiracy, go ahead. They also lost the McDavid lottery the year before which feels like the one to rig if you're interested in rigging lotteries. Anyways, this isn't a serious conversation
Acting the Fulemin21mrw an event with randomized outcomes produces a randomized outcome
I Hate My Favourite Teams9Imagine the NHL rigging lotteries and not giving the Leafs McDavid and Matthews to Arizona.
Chemmy2I don't care what the odds were this year for the record, but if event A is 1:59 and event B is 1:59, it's not a 1:3481 chance after the first one already hit. The Leafs already won that lottery, it was 1:59 they'd win two lotteries in two tries.
