The Sabers have a slight chance in Tuesday’s NHL Draft.

Buffalo, New York (WGR 550) – The NHL draft lottery will take place on Tuesday from New Jersey. The Buffalo Sabers have a very slim chance of moving into first place, at 3%. Buffalo is currently 11th and no team can move up more than 10 spots.

That being said, the Sabers will draft either first or second, 11^th12^th or 13^th. The most likely scenario is 11^th.

The odds for each NHL team are:

Lottery draw Participants

(from least points to most)

Odds

San Jose Sharks 18.5%

Chicago Blackhawks 13.5%

Anaheim Ducks 11.5%

Columbus Blue Jackets 9.5%

Montreal Canadiens 8.5%

Utah 7.5%

Ottawa Senators 6.5%

Seattle Kraken 6.0%

Calgary Flames 5.0%

New Jersey Devils 3.5%

Buffalo swords 3.0%

Philadelphia Flyers 2.5%

Minnesota Wild 2.0%

Pittsburgh Penguins (Maybe San Jose) 1.5%

Detroit Red Wings 0.5%

St. Louis Blues 0.5%

Buffalo had the 11^th overall choice five times by taking:

2002Keith Ballard

1992 David Cooper

1983Adam Creighton

1979 Mike Ramsey

1974 Lee Fogolin

The Sabers had the 12^th global choice three times by taking:

2012 Mikhail Grigorenko

2008Tyler Myers

1973 Morris Titanic

Buffalo had the 13^th choose seven times by taking:

2023 Zach Benson

2009 Zack Kassian

2005 Marek Zagrapan

2004Drew Stafford

1991 Philippe Boucher

1988 Joel Savage

1978 Larry Playfair

Two players expected to go high in this year’s draft are Macklin Celebrini of Boston University and Anton Silayev of Nizhny Novgorod of the KHL.

The NHL Draft will take place June 28-29 in Las Vegas.