In a poll done by the Athletic with the 2025 Draft players, Winnipeg was selected as the team that players would least likely to get drafted to. Additionally of the 19 players that answered the question, 14 of them gave a Canadian team as a response.

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1. Ahhh the laziest thing thr Athletic will do all year.

   Yawn.

2. This came as a complete surprise. Never in a million years would I have expected so many players would feel this way.

   /s

3. Next

4. Only 19 players even responded to this question out of 50. We could have done so much better!!!

5. Well we don’t even have great internet…/s

6. The fact that anyone would answer the Stars is the real shock.

7. I kinda want to be petty and draft all 7 of those fuckers.

8. All playoff teams. All this does is confirm kids are stupid

9. Otherwise reported as 86% of players not selecting Winnipeg as their least desired destination.

10. I wonder if Edmonton would be the same as us in players eyes if they didn’t have mcd and drai

11. Lazy reporting to put down Winnipeg … this narrative is so old for a team that is a presidents trophy winner …bad winters, bad WiFi …blah blah blah !!!

12. THEY HATE US CUZ THEY ANUS

13. Yeah we know