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Draft lottery changes approved. How does this affect us?

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Amazing Kreiderman said:
No. Raw points after elimination makes more sense. Worse teams get eliminated first, but after elimination still have to win to get that high pick.

It motivates to play well, while still giving the lower ranked teams the best odds, but not because of some ping-pong balls in a machine.
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What about the team who gets eliminated in the shootout in Philadelphia on the last day of the season? They get a zero but they've played the best out of all of those teams.
 
TheBloodyNine said:
It would have to be points percentage since teams get eliminated at different times.
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No, this is kind of the point. The earlier a team gets eliminated, the worse they are, thus the greater chance they have to accrue points.

I think this is a bad system though, as the worst teams will still fail to win games, especially after trading players away around the deadline (near where teams start getting mathematically eliminated)
 
Amazing Kreiderman said:
Ah, okay. Either way, that rule was implemented because of Edmonton. I see a lot of Ranger fans complain that the NHL never took action following the Oilers getting 3 first overall picks in a row which is just not true.
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Yeah, but specifically stopping a team from being able to win a lottery so many times in a row was kinda the point. They just tried to do it with some stupid indirect changes instead of just literally saying "you can only win the lottery so many times, screw the odds"
 
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Crease said:
My take is that the NHL is taking something simple and making it complicated. The lottery hasn't stopped clubs from racing to the bottom, and now we have this convoluted system. I would get rid of the lottery and go back to a pure standings-based draft order.
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This x 1,000,000.
 
SA16 said:
Makes no difference. This is just like the yearly faceoff tweaks. Gives them something to feel good about themselves while just making change for the sake of change. Preventing 3+ lottery wins is stupid. This is just like last year when they were worried a team could win the lottery and the cup. Why are we always so worried about .001% outcomes?
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Exactly... not unlike a lot of senior managerial positions where change is often made just to justify existence
 
Edge said:
I don't particularly have a problem with it, so much as I chuckle at the timing. Because this is literally what we joked was going to happen after the Rangers won two years in a row.

Do I think this move is to "punish" the Rangers? Absolutely not.

Do I think the timing owes a lot to people bitching about the Rangers? No doubt in my mind.

Am I going to lose sleep over this? Nope.
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The Rangers get 2 high picks in back-to-back years and suddenly it's a problem. It does bother me that because it was the Rangers this change was brought to bear. I don't want to win lottery. I want to win Championships. That being said, being realistic, at some point this Organization will be in a position again where they will need a couple-maybe three years of top 5 and top ten pics.

On the plus side, this should hopefully prevent the tank now that the race to the bottom is no longer almost guarantee.
 
We didn't win not drafting in the 1st rd at all...
We didn't win drafting in the middle or near the end of the 1st...
Still aren't winning after drafting #2 and #1 consecutively...

So why do we care???
 
rangersfansince08 said:
No Shane Wright or Brad Lambert
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We can win the next 3 lotteries under the new rules.

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Such a dumb rule. And really can screw a team if they “win” a draft lottery while not getting a top 2 pick if that team then goes into rebuild mode.

plus all drafts arent equal. So winning a lottery in a crappy year is bad.

I hate limits. The way the current lottery is was fine.

and if u really wanted to do something creative than change the odds slightly to more favor bad teams, but make the 3rd worst team have the best odds.

this will prevent outright tanking as being the worst team wont get u the best odds. And forces bad teams to actually ice decent team as it would be hard to try to become 3rd worst.

So 3rd worst team gets best odds, 2nd worst gets second best odds, and worst team gets third best odds with a message of try harder next year.

Than do a single lottery for all three picks instead of the individual lotteries.
 
Hell another alternative which would be fun is a single game elimination tournament.

but with a twist.

team 16 plays team 15. Winner then plays team 14, winner than plays team 3 etc.

so the 16th worst team would have to win 15 straight games to get first overall. While the worst team has to win only 1.

added twist would be teams can move up the draft order with wins. So a team could only drop 1 sot, but moves up as many slots as they win
 
Machinehead said:
I don't give a rats ass.

We got our picks.
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Haha. That's what I was thinking. A day late and a dollar short. So I guess a consensus thinking was the Rangers weren't deserving of 1OA? And Detroit was? Not saying Detroit wasn't needing nor deserving, but sounds like sour grapes that "the rich got richer", when we had already nailed 2OA and the likes of Hayes and Fox blessing the franchise from afar? Too friggin bad!
The hockey Gods, hooked us up for a change. As far as I am concerned any team that loses a potential star player due to their untimely demise, deserves a little luck that leads them to a Cup. (Hopefully)
 
CasusBelli said:
How good is this guy supposed to be? Last times I heard sweepstakes attached to a player were with McD, Crosby and Ovi. We talking that level of skill?
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The hype is pretty big I think. Gooling his name to Connor McDavid and doing the same for Laf produces different results.

https://thehockeywriters.com/shane-wright-frontenacs-ohl-rookie-season/
The next one? Shane Wright has the intangibles - and shot - of a generational star
Why Burlington hockey phenom Shane Wright is already being compared to Sidney Crosby and Connor McDavid
Is Shane Wright Better Than Connor McDavid?
Why Shane Wright is hockey's next super prospect
 
 
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