“Suck for Seth?” “Stop Winnin' for MacKinnon?”

For those teams that tanked and those teams that are just plain awful, tonight’s the night: The 2013 NHL Draft Lottery will be held on Monday night, with the winning lottery ball likely giving some team the honor of drafting defenseman Seth Jones first overall in New Jersey this June.

Remember: This is the first time all 14 clubs not qualifying for the playoffs will have a chance at winning the right to the first overall selection. Which is great news if your parent company also owns the NHL’s broadcast partner in the U.S.

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Getty ImagesWhen it comes to player jersey sales in the NHL, it’s usually all about those spiffy Winter Classic sweaters.

Last season saw Claude Giroux of the Flyers and Ryan Callahan of the Rangers finish first and second in sales, with five other players from the 2012 Winter Classic in Philly cracking the top 20. In 2010-11, six Penguins and Capitals landed in the top 20 thanks to their Winter Classic in Pittsburgh.

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In 2013 … well, the closest we got to a Winter Classic was the announcement that next year’s will still be held in Michigan despite the lockout cancellation. No outdoor games, no spiffy alternate sweaters for which fans could plunk their dollars down.

So which players ended up leading the sales standings on Shop NHL in this truncated, no-Winter-Classic-havin' season? Glad you asked. Via the NHL:

1. Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews
2. Detroit Red Wings center Pavel Datsyuk
3. Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby
4. New York Rangers left wing Rick Nash
5. Chicago Blackhawks right wing Patrick Kane
6. Chicago Blackhawks right wing Marian Hossa
7. Philadelphia Flyers right wing Claude Giroux
8. New York Rangers right wing Ryan Callahan
9. Pittsburgh Penguins left wing James Neal
10. Minnesota Wild left wing Zach Parise
11. Detroit Red Wings left wing Henrik Zetterberg
12. Toronto Maple Leafs left wing Joffrey Lupul
13. New Jersey Devils right wing Ilya Kovalchuk
14. Boston Bruins left wing Brad Marchand
15. Boston Bruins center Tyler Seguin
16. Chicago Blackhawks left wing Patrick Sharp
17. New York Islanders center John Tavares
18. Boston Bruins center Patrice Bergeron
19. Washington Capitals left wing Alex Ovechkin
20. Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara

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Interesting to see James Neal make the list by Evgeni Malkin, who was 17th last season, not make the cut.

Conspicuous by its absence: The Jaromir Jagr Dallas Stars jersey. There obviously aren’t enough Jagr completists or Stars fans willing to honor a rental to get that sweater in the countdown.

Finally: Not a single Los Angeles Kings player in the Top 20 after winning their first Stanley Cup last June? Hopefully that's just a symptom of goalie bias, as Jonathan Quick should have moved some sweaters, right?

Getty ImagesIt’s not exactly a state secret as to why the Nashville Predators finished outside the top 8 in the Western Conference. They regressed from the eighth best offensive team in the NHL (2.83 G/G) last season to 29th this season at 2.27 goals per game, tied with the Florida Panthers for the most putrid scoring attack in the NHL.

Two reasons for the decline in scoring: Sergei Kostitsyn and Craig Smith. The former’s points-per-game dropped from 0.57 last season to just 0.33 this season; the latter went from his impressive rookie total of 0.50 points per game down to 0.27.

In his end of season press conference in Sunday, and in a rare moment of candor about two players still under contract for next season, Coach Barry Trotz called them both out. From the Examiner:

“We expected production from Sergei and Craig Smith and we got none,” Trotz said. “Both those guys, we were looking at them to be top-six, top-seven forwards and we got no production. Craig Smith and Sergei were on power plays all year. I did it to try to get them going. I tried different things to get those guys going. I knew that we needed them because we score by committee and we had some committee members that didn’t get ‘er done.”

Nice Larry The Cable Guy reference, sir.

Here are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

Getty Images• Oh that’s priceless: “Habs fans get doused with popcorn as the Toronto Maple Leafs drop the last game of the season 4-1 to the Montreal Canadiens at Air Canada Centre.”

• Dave Nonis vows that Phil Kessel will speak to reporters during the Leafs/Bruins series after he avoided them today. [Globe & Mail]

• Lou Lamoriello confirms that the New Jersey Devils will keep their first-round pick for the draft in New Jersey this summer. Which means they’ll automatically give it up next summer. But hey, they have Stefan Matteau, so there’s that. [Fire & Ice]

• Uh-oh: “Chicago Blackhawks forward Dave Bolland and goaltender Ray Emery will not play against the Minnesota Wild in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday because of lower-body injuries.” [ESPN Chicago]

• New Dallas Stars GM Jim Nill on whether he plans on firing Glen Gulutzan: “It’s going to be about a two-week process, and we’ll make decisions from there. But right now, we’re going to be very patient with decisions, we’re not going to rush through anything. I’ve been sitting on the outside, I need to get on the inside, and we’ll go from there.” [Dallas Sports Day]

• Ken Holland couldn’t be happier for Nill. [Wings]

• Marc Staal on coming back for the Capitals series for the Rangers: “I don’t know want to go down that road yet. As of right now, I haven’t made a decision one way or the other. I think it’s gonna go day-by-day. If I feel good enough and make the decision to go, then I’ll go … I haven’t written myself off.” [NYDN]

• Washington Capitals right wing Alex Ovechkin, St. Louis Blues goaltender Brian Elliott and New York Rangers center Derek Stepan have been named the NHL's "Three Stars" for the month of April. [NHL]

• Why the Sharks Will Win the Stanley Cup. Wait, the Stanley Cup?! [Sharks]

• NBC makes some changes to its Stanley Cup schedule format: “The network will air Games 1 and 4-7 of this year's Stanley Cup Final, meaning every potentially clinching game of the series will air on broadcast television. Games 2 and 3 will air on the NBC Sports Network. This changes a format that has been in place since 2009. From 2000-2008, Games 1 and 2 aired on cable, while 3-7 aired on network television. The networks will air all of the Stanley Cup Final in primetime.” [Lepore]

Getty ImagesWhen coach Lindy Ruff was fired this season, Buffalo Sabres fans anticipated a clean sweep of the managerial team that’s led the franchise to the precipice of a rebuild.

In other words, many expected general manager Darcy Regier to follow Ruff out to the Buffalo pasture.

Not so fast: Sabres team president Ted Black announced on Monday that Regier would return as the team’s general manager, leading Buffalo down a rocky path towards the Stanley Cup contender owner Terry Pegula promised would be the franchise’s only objective.

Regier has been the GM in Buffalo since Summer 1997, surviving different ownership regimes and disappointing seasons like the one just completed, which saw Buffalo finish 12th in the East with 48 points in 48 games.

“It’s not about the playoffs. It’s about the Stanley Cup,” said Regier at his postseason press conference on Monday.

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Getty ImagesIn honor of the valorous and heartbreaking way, the Columbus Blue Jackets closed the season, we only want good things for the franchise.

Winning the Draft Lottery after losing it last year would be a nice start. Maybe an All-Star Game at some point. A little postseason awards love for Sergei Bobrovsky would be welcomed, too.

But there’s another accolade that could come Bob’s way, and we all can control whether or not it happens: Bobrovsky is one of 32 NHL players in contention for the cover of EA Sports’ NHL 14, the latest title in the World’s Greatest Hockey Video Game series.

Bobrovsky is one of three goalies still in the tournament, trying to become the first netminder since John Vanbiesbrouck in 1997 to make the cover.

Coming up, the field of 32 for the NHL 14 cover voting.