#hockle

Couldn’t think of anything more terrifying than the Solkats or more beautiful that Madeleine’s illustrations to go on my pumpkin this year!

Obviously Whisht goes at the front, and then I chose the other ones from the overlap in the Venn diagram of my favourite illustrations and things I thought I could conceivably carve into a pumpkin with my very amateur carving skills 😅 I wanted to add Neb and Belter too but I ran out of space.

so getting the first draft pick basically means u get to pick out of ALL the 18 year old hockey players in the world right now you get first pick which is great because it means you'll most def get a good player.

the way they select WHO gets that first overrall draft pick is done by lottery ball and the worse you were basically the more balls r in the wheel yk.

so the worse u are the higher ur chance is at getting the "1OA" the idea is that you can build around this kid who is always like some god given player. sometimes there's like players who from day one of the new season are known to be the first pick like this year at the start of the season it was about who is going to get Gavin McKenna because he was obviously gonna go 1OA bc he's just that good.

this year it somehow went to the leafs, they were bad this season but not THAT bad, they had like a 8% chance of getting the 1OA pick.

thats basically how the draft works and it being the leafs is insane w the history of the leafs and everything that has happened there in the last season. also the worst team in the league BY FAR is the team from the province that McKEnna is from so its even more insane that they DIDNT get the first pick.

Kyle that was an excellent and very succinct explanation THANK YOU. Ball lottery draft to pick some 18 year old is the funniest thing I've ever heard genuinely like what's wrong with yank sports 😭😭😭😭 I think I understand it now and so people are upset bc the "Maple Leafs" who I believe are the team of that Foreheaded one with the misguided MLK tattoo only had an 8% chance of getting their ball picked but it happened. I UNDERSTAND NOW.