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NHL Draft lottery set for Apr. 29, all non-playoff teams eligible for No. 1 pick

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On Monday, the NHL announced that its annual draft lottery would be held on Monday, Apr. 29 -- and that, for the first time in history, all 14 non-playoff teams would have a shot at winning the first overall selection.

Here are the details:

The NHL Draft Lottery is a weighted system to determine the order of selection for the first 14 picks of the 2013 NHL Draft. Teams finishing with the fewest points during the regular season possess the greatest chance of winning the right to the first pick.

Fourteen balls, numbered 1 to 14, are placed in a lottery machine. The machine expels four balls, forming a series of numbers. The four-digit series resulting from the expulsion of the balls is matched against a probability chart that divides the possible combinations among the 14 participating clubs.

While the top pick can now go to any of the 14 non-playoff clubs, or the team owning the rights to the first pick of a non-playoff club, the odds of winning the lottery are unchanged from previous years.

The teams in the drawing are ranked in inverse order of their regular season point totals, with team one being the club with the fewest points, and team 14 being the club with the most points among those outside of the playoffs.

And here are the likelihoods (in percentages) of each team getting the first pick:

Team 1 -- 25.0%
Team 2 -- 18.8%
Team 3 -- 14.2%
Team 4 -- 10.7%
Team 5 -- 8.1%
Team 6 -- 6.2%
Team 7 -- 4.7%
Team 8 -- 3.6%
Team 9 -- 2.7%
Team 10 -- 2.1%
Team 11 -- 1.5%
Team 12 -- 1.1%
Team 13 -- 0.8%
Team 14 -- 0.5%

Notes

-- The 2013 NHL Entry Draft will be held on Sunday, July 30 at the Prudential Center in New Jersey starting at 3 p.m. ET.

-- No club will move down more than one position as a result of the lottery.

-- The remaining first-round positions are determined by Stanley Cup Playoffs results.