The real winner of the NHL Draft Lottery? Taylor Hall.
In 2017, they turned the fifth-best odds into the No. 1 overall pick, and Tuesday night they jumped up two spots to claim the top spot.Both of the Devils’ top picks have been won while Hall was on the roster.
Of course, his good lottery luck didn’t start in New Jersey — it followed him there all the way from Edmonton. The former Oiler, who himself was a No. 1 overall pick by Edmonton in 2010, watched his club land the top picks in the two seasons that followed his own draft year — Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in 2011 and Nail Yakupov in 2012 — and then again three years later in 2015 in the Connor McDavid sweepstakes.Taylor Hall has been in the league for 9 years now and he's either won the draft lottery or league MVP in 6 of them.
This has been some kind of heater folks. This is like when you’ve hit the blackjack tables and made 10x the money you came with. For one final bet, you toss on half your winnings and hope for the best. Either way, you’ve gotten lucky and came out ahead. Here goes
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