New York, NY (Sports Network) The Colorado Avalanche will have the top overall selection in the 2013 NHL Draft after winning the league's lottery held on Monday.The Avalanche came into the event with the secondbest odds of coming out on top at 18.8 percent, with Florida owning a 25 percent chance after finishing with the NHL's worst record in the justcompleted 2013 season. It marks the first time Colorado has earned the No. 1 pick since the franchise's days in Quebec, when the Nordiques chose Eric Lindros in 1991 before trading the future Hart Trophy winner to the Philadelphia Flyers after he refused to play for the team.Lindros was the third straight No.The middle of the first round was perhaps the most unpredictable in years. Spiller's meteoric rise up draft boards saw him rise all the way to the Buffalo Bills at No. 9.

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