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How Maple Leafs finale loss impacts Bruins’ potential draft pick
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For the Bruins to get a top-10 pick in the 2026 NHL draft, they’re going to need some help from the ping pong balls.
The Bruins get the Leafs No. 1 pick if it falls outside the top 5, but Toronto tanked its way into the fifth-worst record in the NHL.
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The Maple Leafs’ loss to Senators on Wednesday meant the fifth spot was secure.
So what the Bruins need now is for somebody outside the top five to win one of the three lottery draws. That move up would bounce Toronto out of the top five, sending the pick to Boston.
The good news for the Bruins is that there’s a 58.2 percent chance of that happening.
The lottery is May 5.
If the Bruins don’t get the pick this year, things get a little complicated. The wording from the trade is this (from Puckpedia):
“ Top 5 protected, slides to 2027. The 2027 pick goes to Philadelphia (as part of Scott Laughton trade) if it is outside the top 10, which converts this pick to Boston to a 2028 unprotected 1st Round Pick. If this Pick slides to 2027 and is in the top 10, TOR can either transfer it to BOS to satisfy this trade and then give PHI the 2028 unprotected, or transfer it to PHI and give BOS the 2028 unprotected 1st Round Pick. ”
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