The Bruins guarantee the worst result in 2025 LOTTERIE DE LH NHL

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Bruins will have the opportunity to write a potential franchise center like Jake O’Brien or Caleb Desnoyers at the end of June.

For the first time since 2011, Bruins should choose in the top 10 of an NHL project.

But Fortune did not favor Boston on Monday evening.

Boston discovered where he would choose in the recovery order on Monday, the recovery of the NHL determining that the Bruins would choose n ° 7 in total in the next draft – which will be held in Los Angeles from June 27 to 28.

Bruins – which have been hampered by the absence of a franchise match in the middle since the retirement of Patrice Bergeron and David Krejci – will now have a chance to add a promising talent before what should be an occupied off -season.

However, sitting in seventh place is a bit of setbacks for Bruins.

Boston entered the NHL recovery lottery with the fifth chances of winning the first choices (8.5%) and second in total (8.5%) – with these chances determined by the Bruins with the Fifth NHL record.

The New York Icelanders – which entered with only 3.5% chance of winning the first choice – won the draft lottery and will choose first. San Jose Sharks will choose second place and Chicago Blackhawks will choose third place.

Depending on the project ratings, the most likely result for Bruins was to fall in n ° 6 in total (44.0%) – with this selection n ° 7, because the most distant Boston could fall to this lottery.

Boston had only 14.2% chance of going to No. 7, the Bruins pretending to be the order of the draft due to the Icelanders and the Utah Hockey Club (n ° 4 in total) exceed them in the lottery.

“We always choose in the higher level of the draft, which we did not do for an important period,” said Bruins Director Don Sweeney. “So we feel very comfortable in terms of where the first seven choices are.

“We will get a good player and an impact player, whatever the disappointment of backing up a few places. It’s just the nature of the lottery.”

After crossing a season where the Bruins fell at the bottom of the Eastern Conference classification with a file of 33-39-10, securing a choice of seven top-seven is a silver lining-although falling at n ° 7 limits part of their talent basin.

Several factors have worsened in the miserable campaign of Boston 2024-25, but a swimming pool of sterile prospects is looming in a franchise which included little depth beyond its franchise pillars like David Pastrnak.

With Sweeney and the Bruins making a concerted effort to put a heart rooted by Bergeron over the top, Boston had given up several draft choices over the years that have embarrassed this internal pipeline.

By entering this offseason, the Bruins had not chosen in the first round in three of the last seven projects – 2025 also marking the first time since 2017 that Boston has chosen in the first two laps of the same draft.

“We exchanged these choices, we exchanged some of the prospects to try to improve our club to win Stanley Cups,” said the president of the Bruins team, Cam Neely, last month. “So I think that the story that we do not hit on all of our recovery choices, nobody is.

“You choose in the top 10, you better hit. We haven’t done it for some time. So we were perfect? No, can we be better? Yes.”

While Bruins’ brass starts the arduous task of rolling up their list and opening a new conflict window, Boston should be able to choose a promising pivot when they land on the clock.

With choice n ° 7, Bruins should be within reach to select another young player coveted as Caleb Desnoyers from Moncton Wildcats or Jake O’Brien by Brantford Bulldogs.

Boston could be about to add an enticing talent to their organization, but Sweeney did not want to tip his hand over the type of player he has the target – or how pro -pre -prepared prospects could be.

“I mean, you never know,” said Sweeney. “Surprises are what they are every year. I think you find a player who comes out of the door and who seems to be able to play right away, whether it is acclimatization.

“I mean, some of these guys are injured for a while.
Are they mature enough and physically ready to play? It is to be determined. The league becomes more difficult as you go and you see many of these players injure themselves when they start early. But they are all good players in the upper level of the draft. »»

Here is the complete command of project lottery:

1. Icelanders
2. Sharks
3. Blackhawks
4. Utah HC
5. Predators
6. Leaflet
7. Bruins
8. Kraken
9. Sabers
10. Ducks
11. Penguins
12. Rangers
13. Red
14. Blue jackets
15. Cannucks
16. Flames

Conor Ryan is a screenwriter covering Bruins, Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox for Boston.com, a role he has occupied since 2023.