Blackhawks win lottery for top NHL draft pick

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04/10/2007 - New York, NY (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - The Chicago Blackhawks won the NHL draft lottery on Tuesday and will have the first selection when the draft begins on Friday, June 22 in Columbus, Ohio.

Chicago, which finished the season with the fifth worst record in 2006-07 at 31-42-9, had an 8.1 percent to obtain the first pick.

Under the lottery system, only the five teams with the fewest points had the chance to win the first overall selection, and no team could have moved up more than four spots and no team could have slid backward more than one.

This will be the first time in the Blackhawks history that the team has the top selection in the draft. The highest the club has ever picked in the NHL Draft's modern day format (since 1969) was third overall, four times (1980, Denis Savard; 1984, Eddie Olczyk; 2004, Cam Barker; and 2006, Jonathan Toews).

Philadelphia, which had the worst record in the NHL in the 2006-07 season and a 25 percent chance to win the first pick, will hold the second pick. Phoenix will select third, followed by Los Angeles, Washington, Edmonton, Columbus, Boston, St. Louis, Florida, Carolina, Montreal, Toronto and Colorado

The remaining positions in the draft will be determined by the results from the playoffs.

St. Louis had the No. 1 pick in last year's draft and selected defenseman Erik Johnson.

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NCAA Football betting lines (home team in CAPS)
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Date Favorite Opponent Point Spread
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Sept 21 GEORGIA TECH Virginia 17
Sept 22 NEVADA Northwestern 6.5
Sept 23 MICHIGAN Wisconsin 14
Sept 23 Minnesota PURDUE 3
Sept 23 SYRACUSE Miami (Ohio) 6.5
Sept 23 MISSOURI Ohio 21.5
Sept 23 Louisville KANSAS STATE 14
Sept 23 TENNESSEE Marshall 22
Sept 23 CLEMSON North Carolina 16.5
Sept 23 FLORIDA Kentucky 24
Sept 23 Iowa ILLINOIS 20.5
Sept 23 FLORIDA STATE Rice 30.5
Sept 23 AUBURN Buffalo 41.5
Sept 23 BOWLING GREEN Kent 7
Sept 23 NAVY Tulsa 4.5
Sept 23 VIRGINIA TECH Cincinnati 27
Sept 23 BYU Utah State 29
Sept 23 OHIO STATE Penn State 16.5
Sept 23 TEXAS Iowa State 25
Sept 23 Washington State STANFORD 10
Sept 23 CALIFORNIA Arizona State 7.5
Sept 23 UCLA WASHINGTON 3
Sept 23 INDIANA Connecticut 1.5
Sept 23 Central Michigan EASTERN MICHIGAN 4
Sept 23 WYOMING Air Force 1
Sept 23 UTEP NEW MEXICO 9.5
Sept 23 West Virginia EAST CAROLINA 21
Sept 23 Boston College NORTH CAROLINA STATE 7
Sept 23 GEORGIA Colorado 27
Sept 23 ARKANSAS Alabama 1.5
Sept 23 BAYLOR Army 11
Sept 23 WESTERN MICHIGAN Temple 28
Sept 23 MISSISSIPPI Wake Forest 2.5
Sept 23 KANSAS South Florida 5.5
Sept 23 TEXAS A&amp;M Louisiana Tech 23.5
Sept 23 UAB Mississippi State 9.5
Sept 23 LSU Tulane 36
Sept 23 Utah SAN DIEGO STATE 6.5
Sept 23 BOISE STATE Hawaii 15
Sept 23 Notre Dame MICHIGAN STATE 3
Sept 23 USC ARIZONA U 22
Sept 23 Oklahoma State HOUSTON 1
Sept 23 OREGON STATE Idaho 23
Sept 23 OKLAHOMA Middle Tennessee State 29
Sept 23 MARYLAND Florida International 18.5
Sept 23 AKRON North Texas 17.5
Sept 23 SOUTH CAROLINA Florida Atlantic 29.5
Sept 23 NEBRASKA Troy 23
Sept 23 SMU Arkansas State 6

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