The Sabres have a slight chance in Tuesday's NHL Draft Lottery.

Buffalo, NY (WGR 550) – The NHL Draft Lottery is Tuesday from New Jersey. The Buffalo Sabres have a very slight chance of jumping into the top spot at 3%. Buffalo is currently 11th and no team can jump up more than 10 places.

With all that being said, the Sabres will draft either first, second, 11 ^th , 12 ^th or 13 ^th . The most likely scenario is 11 ^th .

The odds for each team from the NHL are:

Draft Lottery Participants

(Fewest 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 Sabres                                            3.0%

Philadelphia Flyers                                     2.5%

Minnesota Wild                                          2.0%

Pittsburgh Penguins (Could be San Jose)   1.5%

Detroit Red Wings                                     0.5%

St. Louis Blues                                           0.5%

Buffalo has had the 11 ^th overall pick five times taking:

2002 Keith Ballard

1992 David Cooper

1983 Adam Creighton

1979 Mike Ramsey

1974 Lee Fogolin

The Sabres have had the 12 ^th overall pick three times taking:

2012 Mikhail Grigorenko

2008 Tyler Myers

1973 Morris Titanic

Buffalo has had the 13 ^th pick seven times taking:

2023 Zach Benson

2009 Zack Kassian

2005 Marek Zagrapan

2004 Drew Stafford

1991 Phillippe Boucher

1988 Joel Savage

1978 Larry Playfair

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

The NHL Draft is June 28 and 29 in Las Vegas.