{"id":568791,"date":"2026-05-07T03:42:35","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/568791\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T03:42:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T03:42:35","slug":"draft-lottery-sees-jets-slide-to-eighth-overall-selection-at-upcoming-2026-nhl-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/568791\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Lottery Sees Jets Slide to Eighth Overall Selection at Upcoming 2026 NHL Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Winnipeg Jets<\/a> have fallen to the eighth overall selection at the upcoming 2026 NHL Draft thanks to the results of Tuesday night’s NHL Draft Lottery.<\/p>\n

The stars didn’t quite align for the Jets on Tuesday – or more accurately, the ping pong balls didn’t exactly bounce the right way.<\/p>\n

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Photo by James Carey Lauder<\/p>\n

In a process dictated by lawyers, mathematicians, NHL executives, general managers, and both the NHL commissioner and deputy commissioner, Tuesday’s pre-draft festivities provided an outcome only a true storyteller could write.<\/p>\n

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With the Jets finishing the 2025-26 season with the seventh-best odds to land the No. 1 overall selection in this June’s draft, it was the rival Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> who moved up from the fifth-best odds to land the rights to select the presumed No. 1 pick Gavin McKenna first overall in less than two months’ time.<\/p>\n

Following the Leafs’ jump up the order from fifth, the San Jose Sharks<\/a> ended up earning the right to select second overall – coming all the way from outside the Top-5, meaning those below pick No. 2 all moved down in the order – including Winnipeg.<\/p>\n

The Jets will now have the luxury of selecting eighth overall – the highest ranked selection since the team took Patrik Laine<\/a> at the No. 2 spot back in 2016. Both Nikolaj Ehlers<\/a> and Jacob Trouba<\/a> were selected at No. 9 overall, while current Jets forward Cole Perfetti<\/a> was selected 10th overall.<\/p>\n

The 2026 NHL Draft will go from Buffalo on June 26th and 27th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Winnipeg Jets have fallen to the eighth overall selection at the upcoming 2026 NHL Draft thanks to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5121],"tags":[7704,2000,12661,5,3124,20433,78,4,591,794,640,4856,168,2222,31,77,18,5288],"class_list":["post-568791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg-jets","tag-2026-nhl-draft","tag-cole-perfetti","tag-deputy-commissioner","tag-hockey","tag-jacob-trouba","tag-james-carey","tag-jets","tag-nhl","tag-nhl-draft-lottery","tag-nikolaj-ehlers","tag-patrik-laine","tag-ping-pong-balls","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-the-jets","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-winnipeg","tag-winnipeg-jets","tag-winnipegjets"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116531229524972096","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568791","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=568791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}