The Chicago Blackhawks won the National Hockey League draft lottery on Monday night, earning the right to pick a potentially franchise-altering, generational talent in Connor Bedard.
The immediate impact: In the first 90 minutes after the lottery results were announced on ESPN, the Blackhawks said they sold $2.5 million worth of ticket plans for next season.
Shohei Ohtani joined an exclusive club last week (what else is new?), becoming the fifth player in the modern era (since 1900) of Major League Baseball to record 500 hits as a batter and 500 strikeouts as a pitcher.
Nathan MacKinnon and Evander Kane led the 2022 Stanley Cup Playoffs with 13 goals. Leon Draisaitl has already matched that number this postseason — in just eight games.
By the numbers: The Edmonton Oilers superstar scored seven goals in a six-game series win over the Los Angeles Kings, and he has six goals in the first two games against the Vegas Golden Knights.
With the pitch clock cutting nearly 30 minutes off the average Major League Baseball game this season, the National Football League is now the only Big Four sports league whose average regular-season game lasts more than three hours.
