How did Kevin Weekes know Columbus had dropped to #3 BEFORE the card was flipped??????
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Viqsi
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It certainly seems more plausible than some of the other theories being pushed here...Have any of us considered that Kevin Weekes is psychic?
They need to go back to the way they did it the first couple years of the lottery, have the bingo roller with the balls in it and have it be removed on tv by bettman.
Any time its done in secret like they did this year, leaves to many questions when the league favorites win.
Any time its done in secret like they did this year, leaves to many questions when the league favorites win.
SomeDude
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Orange county isn't LA. That's why the Anaheim Angeles changed their name to Los Angeles Angeles Of Anaheim. You can market Los Angeles but not Anaheim !
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Osprey
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I agree. I think that what may've happened is that the NHL or network initially decided that they'd go to commercial break after the #3 spot and had Weekes record his outro, then later decided to go to commercial break before the #3 spot without realizing that the outro would be a spoiler.
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When you don’t understand how television works.
When you refuse to accept how the world works.
DudeWhereIsMakar
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If he was psychic he'd be the best goalie of all-time and probably would've been the highest paid goalie in NHL history.Have any of us considered that Kevin Weekes is psychic?
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Fish on The Sand
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Except the team representatives, media, and officials present during the lottery.
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I love all the people that hate the lottery and say that “the last place team should just get the pick” and don’t believe that this would just pour a tremendous amount of gasoline onto the concept of tanking.
Finish last and you’re guaranteed the best player? You’ll never see a talent sell off faster in the history of the NHL.
The way the system is now, is fine. Maybe tweak odds distribution but if anything, this year’s result shows that you shouldn’t tank the hardest.
While the Hawks hit a reset, Columbus and Anaheim finished worse, and weren’t rewarded. Isn’t this what you want? Shame tankers who try to finish low? I get that what Chicago did was egregious, but they weren’t even the bottom.
Finish last and you’re guaranteed the best player? You’ll never see a talent sell off faster in the history of the NHL.
The way the system is now, is fine. Maybe tweak odds distribution but if anything, this year’s result shows that you shouldn’t tank the hardest.
While the Hawks hit a reset, Columbus and Anaheim finished worse, and weren’t rewarded. Isn’t this what you want? Shame tankers who try to finish low? I get that what Chicago did was egregious, but they weren’t even the bottom.
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NHL Executives and Players Beginning to Turn on Gary Bettman After Bedard Lottery
It's expected after every draft lottery that fans will call it rigged, or claim the NHL fixed the lottery in favor of a specific team.
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Friedman says that a surprising number of people who work for NHL teams came forward to both media and the league to express their concerns that the lottery was rigged. Friedman said that he knows people who he "considers to be very intelligent that were convinced the lottery was rigged."
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AzHawk
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leaving out the part where Friedman doesn't think for a second it was rigged
Straight Fire
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Chicago has the most recent "stench" of actual success associated with them, so it's harder to hit absolute rock bottom so quickly, especially when their weary captain still tried to prove something in the end.
But make no mistake, they sold off and tanked as hard as anyone else, and will continue to do so.
So while the lottery does add some intrigue, there will always be a race to the bottom amongst the basement dwellers no matter the odds, selling anything and everything not bolted down.
Columbus and Anaheim will still get great potential players by being trash.
AzHawk
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He said it in the tone of "people I considered to be very smart [...apparently aren't]" and not in a way that supports the sensationalized images you attached. They compare the people reacting that way to "toddlers who had a toy taken away."
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Except the same complaints were there when they locked GMs in room with the ping pong ball machine while spouting legalese at the camera.
The people who claim it’s fixed will still claim it’s fixed when they don’t like the results.
The main evidence people who says this is fixed use is which teams win. Every f***ing time. Then they add in complaints about the other stuff.
They conspiracy theorists didn’t have any more faith back when they showed Gary with the ping pong balls more.
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