Well, the NHL Draft Lottery Results are in... 

The sharks earned that pick

The last team Tij Iginla should play for is Calgary. He needs to go to a non-traditional market, where he can play and be his own man. He doesn’t need to be constantly compared to his dad

Celebrini said he wanted to play for San Jose (his hometown) so that's pretty cool that he gets to.

Nugent-Hopkins is a solid player and had 104 points last season, you can make the argument he isn’t first overall material but he will always be my favourite player on the Oil.

I mean maybe Nuge was slightly disappointing but he still is a great defender and had over 100 points last year

Pavs and the Stars knock out the glitter knights AND SJ gets the first overall? Turning into a wonderful week.

As a Red Wings fan I've given up completely on the draft. Thanks for the recap.

As someone who goes to BU and saw Celebrini play this past year, his Hockey IQ and game knowledge is what impressed me the most. He was able to consistently find the right place to be at the right time, and is gonna translate volumes into the NHL

Dubois getting a spot is hilarious 😂😂😂😂

Congratulations to SJ, their team truly bottomed out and with less than 20 wins the fanbase deserves this lol

Might be a little bias as a sharks fan but out of all the situations a 1st overall pick can find themselves in... San Jose is pretty damn good. Warm weather aside props to them as an organization for realizing they weren't competing with their core after 2020 and were actually willing to tank and lose revenue to make a Push again in the future. So many teams have owners who don't want to lose out on ticket sales and are happy to stay in no man's land rather than tear it down.

Congrats to San Jose, you have a chance at a Generational Talent in your hands

Die hard islanders fan for 16 years now. Never could find myself rooting for any other team, but I’m starting to like the sharks ever since this year. Think I’ll become a good fan of them now, need a west coast team to cheer for. #LGS

As someone who has been watching the draft closely since 1990, I can tell you that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins actually had very little buzz compared to the average presumptive Number 1. His numbers were pretty standard (His draft -1 season was just over a point-per-game and his draft year itself saw him score a decent, but not crazy, 106 points in 69 games.) He didn't make the WJC team as an underager and the THN Draft Preview had 4 players on the cover that season, instead of the usual one (Larsson/RNH/Couturier/Landeskog).

Demidov in the 4 feathers, ok!

I'm just happy its not Chicago.

RNH had a 52 pt rookie season, Bedard 61. An extra 9 points really means that much to you? IMO either you have RNH way too low in esteem, or you think too much of Bedard.

the sharks deserve this

Same Nuge is my fav Oiler along with McDavid

Man, Utah is already up and going. This one seems to have been cookin in the books for a while now.

sharks fan here to report our first win of the season LETS GO

Celebrini has connections with the Warriors franchise. This guy is perfect for the bay area

love you man continue the good work

Nuge also had major shoulder injuries early in his career that had a huge impact on his development

I made the same mistake with naming players on sanjose aswell. Just becuse there the scraps that are left dosent mean there worth mentioning. Fabian will have an uphill battle and will most likely need some new wingers to help out.

Imagine if Chicago got the top pick again, the fans would have rioted

Celebrini ceiling is TJ Oshie, floor is Brendan Saad

Do you make mock first draft videos? I’m not sure if the whole first round is plausible. But a dive into why you think each team should make that specific pick. If it’s too much for the whole first round, then maybe just the first 10 or 15

love it, grew up watching sharks be good, lets make it happen again

Really hope the Flames can draft Iginla.. not a fan of that team but I was always a big Jerome Iginla fan and seeing his kid play there would just feel right

So in the same week Vegas gets kicked out in the 1st round and Chicago loses the Draft lottery? Is this Christmas?

I first started watching hockey when joe thorton was a bruin and he was my favorite player. Sad he went to the sharks but i found my 2nd favorite team 😁

Christmas came early this year. It’s been pretty damn dark for us Sharks fans so it’s awesome to finally be excited about something

Quinton Musty shout out Sudbury Wolves!

Sharks had dark period, but that team I loved, now Detroit is back on truck, and I have feel something like 90's slowly comes back, and I'm really happy they now got nr1 pick.

As a Brit i haven't a clue what goes on with the draft, from ppl waiting to see the order of the teams, like how come it's not known b4 hand? Then the Blackhawks get rewarded with Bedard then get 2nd "choosies" this year! 32 team club who pass the best players between them, bomb late in the season & get rewarded? Fans may pretend they understand the draft but there's a lot that seems underhand about the whole process!!

Nugent-Hopkins had his trajectory ruined by the Oilers org. Not making the playoffs in the first 5-7 years of their career is pretty damaging to growth. When the Oilers got Eakins, the development of Yakupov (leading rookie goal scorer), Schultz (by far the most dominant player in the AHL during his half season there, I watched all his games with the Barons that year), Eberle, RNH, and Hall were all stunted. When the Oil got McLellan, they were finally developing these players as any proper team would. Before that, MacT sending Drai down was an incredibly smart move and did a lot for his development. I'm sure people would say the same about Justin Shultz, who dominated the AHL so much that he was still their leading scorer for months after he left when the shortened NHL season was underway. Nevermind the competition, he played with a level of confidence was immediately shattered when he was put on the first defensive pairing in the NHL against the league's best. Contrast the handling of Bouchard to Schultz to see how the team has improved in that area.

Like to see the sharks have a little shake up between the pipes.

Teams in the 5-11 range can get the most electrifying player of this draft. Highest scoring d man parekh. Could be headed to habs, sens, utah, sealttle, flames.

RNH never expected to be a full franchise player. He was expected to top out at around 100 pts, and he got 104 last season. Sure some of the other top-10 picks in that draft might be better like Scheifele, or Zibanejad but most were not, and besides, their careers aren't over yet. Anyways, the best player in that draft was passed up by all the teams at least once and was taken in the SECOND round, being Kucherov.

'Celebrini'. 'Celebrity'. 'Celebration'. His name word plays very well for the Sharks.

As a casual NHL fan can someone explain what a draft lottery is? And how a team gets on it. And how it relates to drafting in general 💀 (im 18 I should know this shit but I don't)

I'm excited to see who the number 2 pick is, because that will be great for the Hawks. It'll be nice for Bedard to hqve someone capable of (hopefully) backing him up next season.

As a ANA Ducks fan this just pisses me off even more, ANA had the best odds for #1 pick last year but of course they don't win it, and it even hurts more that CHI jumped ANA when CHI won their last game of the season last year against the penguins to get out of last place yet are rewarded with #1 pick. This and the fact that ANA has never had a #1 draft overall, then again, I guess SJS Sharks have also not had a #1 pick before but still is unfair lol

If the mock drafts are to be believed, it is very possible that Tij ends up in Calgary. I wonder how that would be like...

Nice to see him go to the Sharks instead of Chicago lmao

I’m really happy the sharks got the pick

As a Kings fan, I'm ok with Celebrini going to San Jose. Not sure if this is the guy who will bring a contending team though...he may need the right kind of grooming like the kind Yzerman got and the kind Sakic directed for MacKinnon.

Nuge had a great, sneaky wrist shot, and elite passing. Both qualities Sakic and Jumbo posessed.

Sharks, Ducks and Hawks could be a force in the 5 years from now.

Must be nice. I remember when the wings were by far the worst in the league and dropped to 4th while a playoff team got #1 overall

MIKEY G IS DOING THINGS GREAT THINGS FOR US

In the last 3 year habs then to draft who improve their draft rank over the year, so I think it will be between lindstrom or iginla

As a Sharks fan, of course I am happy the Sharks got the #1 overall pick. We only need, like, five more #1 overall picks to be competitive.

As a hawks fan I’m glad the sharks got celly he’s definitely gunna be great for the nhl but I do gotta say the hawks now need to find a player who’s gunna play with bedard now because demidov is going to be year or two and nazar neeeds a year in the ahl so honestly I’m kinda worried it’s gunna be worse next year.

Chicago fan, I really didn't want the heat from winning the 1st overall again.

(i thought they always decide this immediatley after the stanley cup is won

Don’t know why they actually had celebrini there for the draft lottery 🤣🤣🤣

Looks like Chicago has to send a haul for the first pick We NEED bedard/celly

Drafts are a crapshoot. Youngsters of seventeen and eighteen are rarely ready for the NHL and May never be. And then there are those late round picks who surprise but they are few enough. Yet they do happen and this just shows how difficult it can be to predict their potential.

Damn, they didn't rig it for Chicago this year but did when the ducks were the worst. Cool cool cool

Has San Jose changed their blue/green color in the last 5-10 years? Their colors look different. I do like the new shark logo.

the sharks are my second team so hopefully i will be able to watch games and not be sad soon lol

Welllppp celebrini have fun

If Mo treal doesn't pick Iginla's son it will be like passing up a Tachuck. If they don't take him trade the pick to Calgary.

As a hawks fan, he always looked like a shark to me. Like he literally looked more right in a sharks jersey than any other one to me. The sharks and their fans deserve him

What's Zillow

Tij iginla plays for my city’s team

I mean i dont think theres an insane difference between Celebrini and Eiserman, so either way Bedsy getting a new partner

If Lidstrom and Dividov are gone for Montreal . Then I am all in with the IGGY factor . T. IGINLA for sure hands down . That type of player you want on a cup run . Heart and soul playoff performer.

Idk why but he reminds me of Mitch Marner

After Celebrini it's wide open

Finally something went Sharks way.

GO SHARKS !!!!! I was skeptical it was rigged and would go to Chicago....first time in franchise history for the Sharks!

There goes my 20 minutes

Go Sharks!!!

Fuckkk yea! Lets go Sharks!!!

YES!!!!!!!! SHARKS PICK!!!!!

Does nobody know that any franchise can't get the 1st pick 2 years in a row

PLD to represent Canada at the worlds? Like who the hell is running Hockey Canada right now? I mean really? Really?

Language police here: You said “weary” when I think you meant “wary”.

Jackets are going to get it wrong I'll bet my mortgage on it.

ALright, San JOse fans. Check your livers into rehab. We're back!

1:06 You're 'wary' or 'leery', but not 'weary'. Weary means tired.

I woulda liked it to go to Anaheim, but I was really just happy it didn’t go to Chicago and as a Hurricanes fan I was mostly just getting pumped for the game to start after 😅

I think it was ment to be , celebrini even sounds like a shark name

That’s not will smith 😂

when ryan went number 1 ,nhl was different unlike todays nhl is a puzzy soft era

Of course, like every other(that I can remember) lottery, the team gets to pick exactly where they were placed before. So incredibly anti-climatic every time.

Get ready to be drafted 1st overall by the san jose sharks in nhl 25…

Nine seconds

Just glad Chicago didn't get #1

that lottery was the most anti-climatic thing like, EVER. Cringe fest, poor kid who had to endure this, hope they payed him well!

teenage mutant ninja hertl

This is a message to team Canada please add celebrini instead of Pierre luc Dubois

I’m happy Chicago didn’t win

It was super awkward having Celebrini there. Like everyone knows he'll go number 1 but what if there's some crazy twist where he doesn't and it all looks real stupid

Won’t someone think of the starving hockey market (and worst scouts in the league)?? Give the jackets’ scouting team something easy to select 😂

Alexandre Daigle

R a p e hawks still picked too high