Arizona Coyotes Nightmare NHL Draft Lottery Scenarios

The Arizona Coyotes have fallen out of the playoff race and find themselves with the seven lowest point total in the NHL with 13 games remaining. They now turn their attention towards the NHL Draft.

With the Arizona Coyotes out of the playoff picture, talk has begun to simmer regarding the team and the possibility of drafting Scottsdale native Auston Matthews.

The talk of Matthews is familiar for Coyotes fans.

Heading into the season, the Yotes were expected to battle it out for the tag of “worst in the league” and be a shoo-in for the top spot in the NHL Draft lottery.

Six months later and things didn’t play out quite how fans or pundits predicted.

The Arizona Coyotes hung in the playoff picture into February before a dry scoring spell and their goaltending injuries caught up with them.

The surprise play of the team through the first two-thirds of the season leaves them with the 7th fewest points in the NHL instead of worst in the league, as was predicted.

With thirteen games remaining, it seems unlikely that the Coyotes will end up any lower than 25th in the final standings. If that is the case, who might lay claim to Auston Matthews and put an NHL sweater on the Coyotes’ hometown kid?

More importantly, whose sweater would Coyotes fans least want to see Matthews wearing next season?

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