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why do they insist on convoluting the draft lottery even more instead of redrawing it ground-up? after a thousand rule changes it might as well be voted on by a council...
 
tny760 said:
why do they insist on convoluting the draft lottery even more instead of redrawing it ground-up? after a thousand rule changes it might as well be voted on by a council...
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At first glance, I don't mind it. If anything, everybody overreacts to the most recent set of drawings. Edmonton picked #1 from 2010 to 2012, so they removed the rule about a team being restricted from moving up a maximum of four spots in 2013. Buffalo more or less tanked in 2015 to ensure themselves either McDavid/Eichel, so the league changed it so the top 3 spots were drawn for in 2016. Recently we've had a string of long shot teams make it into the top 3 while the worst team has gotten pushed to #4 so it seems like the proposed changes are to address that.

At any rate, I'm sure fans will talk themselves into a conspiracy theory if their team doesn't benefit.
 
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Brodeur said:
At first glance, I don't mind it. If anything, everybody overreacts to the most recent set of drawings. Edmonton picked #1 from 2010 to 2012, so they removed the rule about a team being restricted from moving up a maximum of four spots in 2013. Buffalo more or less tanked in 2015 to ensure themselves either McDavid/Eichel, so the league changed it so the top 3 spots were drawn for in 2016. Recently we've had a string of long shot teams make it into the top 3 while the worst team has gotten pushed to #4 so it seems like the proposed changes are to address that.

At any rate, I'm sure fans will talk themselves into a conspiracy theory if their team doesn't benefit.
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The worst team should not fall from #1 to #4. Plus having the leagues biggest market win the lottery back to back years, one of those years being a playoff team probably ruffled a lot of feathers around the league.
 
The lottery is fine as it is now. The only mistake was last year when they decided playoff teams are also going to be a part of the lottery.
 
best change is only being able to drop 10 spots. I don't like that a team can only win twice in five years as not all draft classes are equal. Changing three winners to two is kinda dumb.
 
KingsHockey24 said:
Miss Cliffy and what he brought to us. We don't have a regular that's willing to scrap with the Gabriel's/Wilson's of the world. MacDermid is looking more and more of a liability when he's out there.

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mac challenged reaves who declined and just had a plain jane night at work where he only made one glaring mistake, but contributed to a goal for... are we gonna blame him every time we stub our toe? besides we just got done pregame complaining about how the ducks steamrolled us when he fought deslauriers off the draw a couple weeks ago, but now we idolize the other team's guy doing the same..

i swear this guy's the most picked apart 7D in the history of this team, all the wet sponges that populated this corps for years never got a fraction of the criticism he does, and we do it on a night where maatta and walker absolutely shit the bed
 
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King'sPawn said:
Why?
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Because the draft was designed to help the worst teams improve the quickest and historically there is a big drop off outside of the Top 2-3 picks. That is the way it is in sports on this continent. I understand the tanking concerns and I don't oppose some rules on not letting teams win it multiple years in a row, but I don't think teams like Ottawa or Detroit the last couple of years were tanking, they were just awful teams who the system is supposed to help with the best picks.
 
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Because the draft was designed to help the worst teams improve the quickest and historically there is a big drop off outside of the Top 2-3 picks. That is the way it is in sports on this continent. I understand the tanking concerns and I don't oppose some rules on not letting teams win it multiple years in a row, but I don't think teams like Ottawa or Detroit the last couple of years were tanking, they were just awful teams who the system is supposed to help with the best picks.
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I just don't think awfully managed teams should EXPECT a top pick to come and save them. Of course, they should have a better chance so they don't drown, but if you continually mismanage the team and build a shit infrastructure, you'll continue to mismanage the team and run top players through a shit infrastructure.

It's why I didn't break a sweat when the Kings fell from 2nd to 5th in 2019. Neither Kakko nor Turcotte will save the organization. Eichel isn't saving Buffalo.

Fix your infrastructure. You'll draft and develop better. I'm not saying the worst teams should fall out of the top 5 or anything, but the worst teams shouldn't be guaranteed a prospect they think will come in and save them right away.
 
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I just don't think awfully managed teams should EXPECT a top pick to come and save them. Of course, they should have a better chance so they don't drown, but if you continually mismanage the team and build a shit infrastructure, you'll continue to mismanage the team and run top players through a shit infrastructure.

It's why I didn't break a sweat when the Kings fell from 2nd to 5th in 2019. Neither Kakko nor Turcotte will save the organization. Eichel isn't saving Buffalo.

Fix your infrastructure. You'll draft and develop better. I'm not saying the worst teams should fall out of the top 5 or anything, but the worst teams shouldn't be guaranteed a prospect they think will come in and save them right away.
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I respectfully disagree. I have a way bigger issue with the NYR being gifted two elite prospects when they finished as the 6th and 16th ranked team in the standings the last two years.

I don't like what the Oilers did and would restrict that, but I think even that's less of a bad look than what happened the last 2 years.
 
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I respectfully disagree. I have a way bigger issue with the NYR being gifted two elite prospects when they finished as the 6th and 16th ranked team in the standings the last two years.

I don't like what the Oilers did and would restrict that, but I think even that's less of a bad look than what happened the last 2 years.
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I mean if they're calling those games playoff games, the Rangers should have been ineligible. I don't disagree. I just don't see why that equals Detroit should be guaranteed a top-3 pick.
 
fans gonna get banged for twice the streaming services now though? f*** ESPN and NBC both honestly though
 
Ahhhh I F****n hate ESPN. They were terrible when they had the NHL. Bring back OLN. LOL.
 
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