Oilers odds are 1/49

3 Balls:

-Calgary
-Carolina
-Columbus
-Dallas
-Minnesota
-Toronto
-Winnipeg

2 Balls:

-Anahiem
-Colorado
-Florida
-NYI
-St Louis

1 Ball:

-Boston
-Buffalo
-Chicago
-Detroit
-Edmonton
-Los Angeles
-Montreal
-Nashville
-New Jersey(though they wouldn’t have a 1st round pick due to the Kovalchuk contract)
-NYR
-Ottawa
-Philadelphia
-Phoenix
-Pittsburgh
-San Jose
-Tampa Bay
-Vancouver
-Washington

What could happen and it would be damn funny, is the Devils win the lottery and their first pick is #59 because they have to forfit their 1st this coming season.

Racki:
Yah you’re right.. we’d have one ball in the barrell due to having drafted #1 3 years running (1 ball lost for each #1 overall pick). There would be teams with three balls in there. So yah.. we’d have a shitty shot at it. But I really don’t think we really need another #1, nor could we realistically afford it.

I’m all about Curtis Lazar in 2013 anyways!

Also, Patrick Thoresen only has one ball. Just wanted to clear that up.

I’m all about Curtis Lazar in 2013 anyways!

Metal&Oil:
So if the season is lost then the Oilers would have a very good shot at Nathan Mackinnon if they use the same system that got Crosby into a Pens uniform.

Not true, we’d have some of the worst odds, we’ve picked number 1 3 years running, we’d have the same chance as teams that have made the playoffs the last 3 years, Calgary would be one of the team with the best chance.

I think we start in December at the very earliest. Just the way they both have to slap their dicks on the table in the next few weeks….it’s premature to presume an early season is coming. *drum roll/cymbal*

I thunk both sides have some definite non-starters and it will take some time for each to give a bit. I think UK Allen had it estimated about right on what will eventually happen, but I do not see this deal getting done without a little scrappiness. There are way to many teams that are in trouble because they are above what the ceiling started at and they are floor teams. Remember it was only a few years ago that a 50 mill payroll was what the rich teams were carrying and small market teams were in the 20s.

I know revenue has grown, but most of that is with teams that had no issues before anyway. Try to get Toronto or NYR or even us to fork over more because Garry wants to keep teams in Phoenix and Nashville. My guess is the majority of owners want nothing to do with more revenue sharing. Bettman has a rift in the owners and a players union that sees skyrocketing revenue and previously bankrupt or supposedly bankrupt teams (Minnie and NJ) paying squillions to guys who are not even top ten in their positions (except Kovalchuk pre-Devils).

Gonna be some hardball going on.