The NHL announced on Tuesday that the 2025 Draft Lottery will be held on Monday, May 5. A time for the event has yet to be announced, but it will be aired on both ESPN in the United States and Sportsnet and TVA Sports in Canada.
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The Anaheim Ducks finished the 2024-25 season with a 35-27-10 record (80 points), which was good enough for 25th in the NHL standings and now have the eighth-best odds to win Monday’s draft lottery.
Lottery odds are determined by the reverse order of the standings. There will be two lottery draws on Monday, one for the first overall pick and one for the second. A single team can only move up a maximum of ten spots with a lottery win.
Odds of Winning the First Overall Pick:
- San Jose Sharks (25.5%)
- Chicago Blackhawks (13.5%)
- Nashville Predators (11.5%)
- Philadelphia Flyers (9.5%)
- Boston Bruins (8.5%)
- Seattle Kraken (7.5%)
- Buffalo Sabres (6.5%)
- Anaheim Ducks (6%)
- Pittsburgh Penguins (5%)
- New York Islanders (3.5%)
- New York Rangers (3%)
Anaheim Ducks Pick Odds:
- 6%
- 6.2%
- 0.2%
- 0%
- 0%
- 0%
- 0%
- 54.4%
- 30%
- 3.2%
This will mark the seventh consecutive season the Ducks have finished in the bottom ten of the NHL standings and the seventh consecutive season they have earned a top-ten pick.
This will be the 17th year in the 31-year history of the franchise in which they’ve selected in the top ten of the draft. They have never selected first overall or eighth overall.
As of today, the consensus top two prospects set as the prizes of the 2025 NHL Draft are defenseman Matthew Schaefer from the Erie Otters of the OHL and forward Michael Misa from the Saginaw Spirit of the OHL. Forwards James Hagens from Boston College of the NCAA and Porter Martone from the Brampton Steelheads of the OHL are the consensus challengers to Schaefer and Misa.
The Ducks have one of the deepest prospect pools with one of the highest ceilings in the NHL. Most of their highest-profile prospects have already made the jump to the NHL and are making an impact.
The Ducks’ prospect/U23 pool doesn’t have a glaring weakness in terms of either stylistic or positional need. They are deep and potent at every position, so they have the luxury of truly approaching this draft to select the “best player available,” a concept NHL general managers and scouts preach, but history indicates is rarely practiced.
The 2025 NHL Draft will be the first non-covid decentralized draft. Teams will be making selections from their individual “war rooms” in their own desired locations, but the event will still be televised as normal, and invited players will still get the opportunity to walk across the stage and wear the jersey of their new team.
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