A Lucky Fan Won $1,000,000 at the Blackhawks Game Yesterday

I guess this promotion has been going on all year, but I first heard about it when I was watching the Hawks game at a friends house Saturday. If the Hawks score a goal at exactly the 10 minute mark of the 2nd period, one lucky fan wins $1 millions dollars.....Wow.....sounded too good to be true...how does this work? Well.... the promotion is sponsored by the Illinois Lottery and, they select a random fan that is in attendance before each home game. On Saturday, I told my friend that there was a snowballs chance in hell that anyone would win this gimmick. So.... Monday night rolls around (THEIR NEXT HOME GAME FOR GOD'S SAKE!), I'm watching the Hawks get killed 3-1 in the 3rd period when I get a call from my friend.

"Did you see the Hawks goal?"
"Yea... did you see the Wild's 3 goals... we're getting smoked"
"Yea but the Hawks scored at the 10 minute mark in the 2nd period"
Well..... fuck my ass and call me a bitch. What are the odds.....

So I took it upon myself to figure out the odds that the Illinois Lottery would actually have to fork up the $$$...... 3600 seconds in a hockey game (60 seconds * 60 minutes). This year the Hawks have averaged 3.41 goals/game...so 3600/3.41=1055. Every game there is a 1/1055 (or .094%) chance the Lotto will have to fork up the cash. There are 42 home games in the year so the odds that this would happen during the ENTIRE SEASON was about 3.9%.

Lets take this a step further.... This year the Hawks have been drawing about 22,000 per game. What are the odds that you could buy a Hawks ticket and win $1,000,000?....not very good...I'll spare you guys the math and just tell you that it's 1/23,210,000....if you had season tickets??....1/522,620...... Season Tickets or not, this guy was one lucky son of a bitch.