The NHL Draft Lottery will be held on Saturday, April 28 in Toronto (6:30 p.m. CT, NBCSN) and will consist of three drawings - one for the No. 1 overall pick, the second for the No. 2 overall pick and the third for the No. 3 overall pick.
The 15 teams that did not qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs each have a chance to win a Top 3 pick, although the Buffalo Sabres - who finished 31st in the League in the regular season - have the best chance to win the No. 1 overall pick at 18.5 percent.
The Blues traded their first-round pick in 2018 to the Philadelphia Flyers in the deal that brought Brayden Schenn to the Blues, but General Manager Doug Armstrong attached a condition to that trade: if the pick ends up being in the Top 10, the Blues could decide to keep it and instead give the Flyers a first-round pick in 2019.
Swedish defenseman Rasmus Dahlin is projected by NHL Central Scouting as the top-ranked player available in the 2018 NHL Draft, following by right winger Andrei Svechnikov and left winger Brady Tkachuk, son of former Blue Keith Tkachuk.