{"id":567738,"date":"2026-05-05T20:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/567738\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:54:25","slug":"nhl-posts-draft-lottery-odds-maple-leafs-combinations-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/567738\/","title":{"rendered":"NHL Posts Draft Lottery Odds, Maple Leafs Combinations Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/toronto\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Toronto Maple Leafs;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Toronto Maple Leafs&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> will soon find out if they will have a first-round pick next month at the 2026 NHL Draft.<\/p>\n<p>The NHL is set to hold the lottery at its headquarters in Secaucus, New Jersey. Ahead of the draw, which will go live at 7. p.m. ET, the NHL revealed <a href=\"https:\/\/media.nhl.com\/site\/asset\/public\/ext\/2025-26\/2026DraftLotteryGuide.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:all of the possible combinations;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;all of the possible combinations&quot;}\" class=\"link \">all of the possible combinations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Leafs have 85 combinations out of a possible 1,000. They have the fifth-best odds at winning the lottery to select first overall. Toronto also has just a 41.9 percent chance of keeping their pick next month. The pick is top-5 protected, as part of the conditions in a trade with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/boston\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Bruins;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Boston Bruins&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Bruins<\/a> that saw the Leafs acquire veteran defenseman <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/players\/6779\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Brandon Carlo;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Brandon Carlo&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Carlo<\/a> in March of 2027.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toronto Maple Leafs will soon find out if they will have a first-round pick next month at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5106],"tags":[95,1529,6865,2626,5,20,5172,576,4,4962,66,31,5171,2855],"class_list":["post-567738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-boston-bruins","tag-brandon-carlo","tag-chris-johnston","tag-draft-lottery","tag-hockey","tag-maple-leafs","tag-mapleleafs","tag-new-jersey","tag-nhl","tag-secaucus","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-torontomapleleafs","tag-winning-the-lottery"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116523962465600047","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}