It finally happened. After years of being the punching bag of the hockey world, the Toronto Maple Leafs got the bounce they've been begging the lottery balls for. The franchise BizNasty has spent the better part of a decade riffing on now sits at the top of the draft board, with the presumed #1 prize waiting for them in June.
The official call: Toronto wins the 2026 lottery.
If you're a Leafs fan, this is the kind of night you don't sleep through. If you're a Blackhawks fan, well, Chief is already in mourning — Chicago slipped to 4th, which he flagged as the worst-case scenario for a team that desperately needed a top-3 slot to grab a franchise centerpiece.
Chief's reaction to the Hawks falling to the 4-spot.
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But the real moment of the night happened on the Chiclets stream, where Biz was holding court in real time as the lottery played out. Once Toronto's logo popped up, the PMT boys hopped in to congratulate him — a perfect collision of the two biggest podcasts on the network roasting and toasting each other in equal measure. It's the kind of unscripted crossover you only get when something this on-brand actually breaks.
The PMT crew jumps on the Chiclets stream to give Biz his flowers.
Meanwhile Murls was doing Murls things — locked in, snacks deployed, ready for the long haul of a stream that ended up running well past anyone's bedtime. That's the energy of a Chiclets lottery night. It's part hockey broadcast, part hangout, part inside joke that's been building for 10 years.
Murls fully stocked for first intermission.
Now the actual hard part begins for Toronto: not screwing this up. Chief's mock has Gavin McKenna going first overall to the Leafs, which has been the consensus for a while now. For a fanbase that has watched every conceivable form of playoff heartbreak, getting handed a generational talent on a silver platter feels almost suspicious. Almost. Tonight, they get to enjoy it — and Biz gets to enjoy it loudest.