In at present’s Information & Notes, the NHL Draft Lottery happened Tuesday, Slava Voynov has been suspended for the whole thing of the 2019-20 season and Antti Niemi gained’t be returning to the Montreal Canadiens in keeping with Marc Bergevin.
NHL Draft Lottery Outcomes
The New Jersey Devils have gained the NHL’s Draft Lottery for the second time in three seasons. The Devils would win the Lottery in 2017 once they would transfer all the best way as much as No. 1 general from fifth-overall to pick out Nico Hischier. In two seasons since, the Devils have made the playoffs in surprising style and missed the postseason in a dreadful season.
Nico Hischier #13, New Jersey Devils, October 20, 2018 (Amy Irvin / The Hockey Writers)
Nonetheless, which will all show to be price it now.
The Devils had been initially scheduled to choose third general and got here into the Lottery with an 11.5% likelihood of profitable the No. 1 general choice. Combining these odds with Taylor Corridor’s Draft Lottery luck and it’s no shock that the Devils have as soon as once more come away as massive winners.
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Not a foul week for Ray Shero who additionally simply signed a long-term contract extension a day earlier.
The Devils weren’t the one staff to maneuver up, nonetheless, because the New York Rangers would additionally transfer as much as No. 2 with the sixth-best odds (23.three% likelihood of transferring into the top-three) and the Chicago Blackhawks would transfer as much as third general from the 12th-best odds (eight.2% likelihood of entering into the top-three).
Slava Voynov Suspended
The NHL dropped the ball in a significant method Tuesday once they introduced that Voynov could be suspended for the 2019-20 season.
Initially, Voynov was suspended indefinitely in 2014 for home violence directed at his spouse after he was arrested from what was described as a bloody scene. The league has now modified that indefinite suspension to successfully finish after the 2019-20 season in what proves that the NHL doesn’t have a agency grasp on “zero tolerance” the best way they might declare to.
The Slava Voynov scenario has weighed on the feminine fan base (Scott Rovak-US PRESSWIRE)
“I’ve decided that Participant Slava Voynov engaged in acts of home violence directed at his spouse,” stated NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. “As we speak’s ruling, whereas tailor-made to the precise details of this case and the people concerned, is critical and in keeping with the NHL’s strongly-held coverage that it can’t and won’t tolerate this and comparable kinds of conduct, notably as directed at a partner, home associate or member of the family.
Whereas Voynov hasn’t performed within the NHL since 2014, he hasn’t missed out on a lot as he’s performed within the KHL since 2015-16 with St. Petersburg SKA and has even participated within the Olympics with Russia, profitable the gold medal.
Niemi Accomplished With Canadiens
The Niemi-era in Montreal is formally over as Bergevin introduced that the veteran netminder wouldn’t be returning to the staff subsequent season to backup Carey Value. In two years with the Canadiens, Niemi would play in 36 video games, beginning 34 o them and compiling a 15-11-6 report with a three.10 goals-against common and .909 save proportion.
Florida Panthers Evgenii Dadonov is stopped on a wraparound by Montreal Canadiens Antti Niemi as Victor Mete seems to be on. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz)
This isn’t very shocking contemplating the Canadiens have Charlie Lindgren, Michael McNiven and Cayden Primeau each signed and vying for enjoying time subsequent season.
Whereas Primeau and McNiven ought to get the vast majority of the time in Laval with the Rocket within the AHL, Lindgren is the highest choice to open the season as Value’s new backup. He’s taken on the position up to now and has had various ranges of success. As of July 1 he’ll have two years remaining on a three-year contract he signed one yr in the past and may determine into the short-term plans for the staff on the very least.
