With 11 games left, Blackhawks seem nearly locked into second-best lottery odds

The Blackhawks’ last two results — losing to the Ducks and beating the Sharks — have gone a long way toward solidifying the bottom of the NHL standings.

With 11 games left for the Hawks and Ducks and 12 left for the Sharks, the Sharks have 40 points, the Hawks 45 and the Ducks 52.

The Sharks seem unlikely to make up a five-point gap during the final weeks of the season, and the Hawks seem equally unlikely to make up a seven-point gap — especially given how infrequently these bottom-dwellers earn points.

Above the Ducks, the 29th-place Blue Jackets sit at 58 points, creating another gap unlikely to be bridged.

That means the top of the draft-lottery order seems nearly locked in, even though the league hasn’t announced a date for the lottery yet.

Barring any huge movements, the Sharks will have a league-best 25.5% chance of ending up with the No. 1 pick and presumptive top selection Macklin Celebrini. The Hawks will have a 13.5% chance and the Ducks an 11.5% chance (the odds the Hawks won with last year).

The Hawks also will be guaranteed a top-four pick — they won’t be able to fall lower than that — but that matters less this year because the hierarchy of prospects beyond Celebrini is murky. Michigan State freshman defenseman Artyom Levshunov might be emerging as a slight favorite to go No. 2 overall, but even that is far from a sure thing.

Hypothetically, had the Hawks not pulled off their enormous comeback Saturday against the Sharks — rallying from 4-0 down to win 5-4 in overtime — they still would be within shouting distance of the best lottery odds. Sweeping the three-game season series against the Sharks, however, accounts for the difference between the teams.

Despite the victory Saturday, however, coach Luke Richardson was angry about the Hawks’ overall effort on their three-game California trip — something he expressed at the end of practice Monday by bag-skating the team up and down the rink.

He called the first half of the game against the Sharks a ‘‘disaster’’ and obviously disliked that the Kings and Ducks outscored the Hawks by a combined 11-2, too.

‘‘That’s just not professional enough for me,’’ Richardson said. ‘‘[Our bag skate reflected] the way the game is played: up and down the ice or over and back. It sets home that it’s really unacceptable for the standard that we want to have for work ethic. So we worked in practice today.’’

The forward lines were shuffled again to create a more balanced set of trios, with the most notable change being red-hot Ryan Donato joining Connor Bedard and Philipp Kurashev on the top line. Reese Johnson (concussion) and Connor Murphy (middle-body injury) skated individually before practice, but Colin Blackwell (upper-body injury) didn’t.

After two more games this week against subpar opponents — Tuesday against the Flames and Thursday against the Senators — the Hawks will close the season with nine consecutive matchups against teams in the playoff race, including six in the field now.

‘‘The season [has been] a difficult one for everybody,’’ defenseman Jarred Tinordi said. ‘‘We expected to take a step and improve a little bit [compared to last season]. I didn’t think we would be in the situation that we’re in now, but it is what it is. Now the goal is to try to finish the year off the way we want to.’’