The team that tanked the most aggressively got Bedard.

[Brookbank]

So what is the league going to do next year when 10 teams are competing to see how badly they can trash their rosters for 3/4 of the season ? There will still be a couple delusional management teams next year who wont tank. But still. Clearly tanking works. The harder the tank the better.

This idea that the lottery is preventing tanking is ridiculous.

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[Honey Bear]

Bedard > McDavid

 

[BrindamoursNose]

I'm not even mad about the tanking.

I'm mad that the team who did what they did to Kyle Beach is gifted a generational talent.

 

[Viqsi]

I'm not even mad about the tanking.

I'm mad that the team who did what they did to Kyle Beach is gifted a generational talent.

This. 100% exclusively this.

 

[Raistlin]

And they will continue to tank for the next 3 years with a generational player in tow. Get ready for a horribly hated franchise.

 

[Kanedogg]

Bedard > McDavid

Lol not even close. He's more Tavares tier.

 

[notsocommonsense]

And they will continue to tank for the next 3 years with a generational player in tow. Get ready for a horribly hated franchise.

I think we’re already there, and it’s well deserved

 

[Kurtosis]

Super excited to see the Hawks get the #1 pick.

 

[SniperHF]

I've been waiting for a couple decades for proof all these efforts to stop tanking actually work. Mostly they've either had no effect or had no effect on tanking and just ended up hurting actual really bad teams.

 

[Koivu11]

Tanked on purpose, Kyle Beach scandal/coverup, 3 recent Stanley Cups, coming off having a superstar first overall forward in Patrick Kane.

So many reasons they didn’t deserve to win the lottery. It was the worst possible outcome.

 

[Svencouver]

I'm not even mad about the tanking.

I'm mad that the team who did what they did to Kyle Beach is gifted a generational talent.

They shouldn't even have had their first pick this year

 

[Castle8130]

The hawks fired all the staff and traded all the players involved with the Beach stuff already. The Hawks players definitely gave more effort than the Ducks or Blue Jackets. When you have talent like that, it's suspicious how they played so poorly

 

[jaysoneil]

I'm not even mad about the tanking.

I'm mad that the team who did what they did to Kyle Beach is gifted a generational talent.

It's not even remotely close to the same team.

 

[HTFN]

The hawks fired all the staff and traded all the players involved with the Beach stuff already. The Hawks players definitely gave more effort than the Ducks or Blue Jackets. When you have talent like that, it's suspicious how they played so poorly

Bullshit. Ownership passed the buck, remember Rocky Wirtz's tantrum earlier this year about how they just won't talk about it, and it's in the past? That shit isn't gone at all.

 

[CanadienShark]

Blatant tanking + Kyle Beach situation = f*** the Hawks. They were the least deserving franchise.

 

[HabsCode]

I don't see why they changed the lottery rule from 3 position up possible to only 2. But besides that there is not much the league can do to prevent tanking.

 

[El Travo]

Tanked on purpose, Kyle Beach scandal/coverup, 3 recent Stanley Cups, coming off having a superstar first overall forward in Patrick Kane.

So many reasons they didn’t deserve to win the lottery. It was the worst possible outcome.

Nobody deserves to win a lottery. Being deserving means you earned it. No team who sucked at what they do earned shit.

 

[HTFN]

Nobody deserves to win a lottery. Being deserving means you earned it. No team who sucked at what they do earned shit.

You know, you're right, nobody deserves to win it because there were a few different teams I could see "deserving" it.

Only one team didn't deserve it categorically, and that was the Blackhawks.

 

[Tanknation]

Easy guys. At least Bettman is happy.

 

[McFlash97]

Bedard > McDavid

Good one. Let him reach Patrick Kane level before trying to compare him to a freak that comes around every 100 years

 

[MOGlLNY]

Easy guys. At least Bettman is happy.

Your team won the lottery LITERALLY last year.

 

[Cowumbus]

The hawks fired all the staff and traded all the players involved with the Beach stuff already. The Hawks players definitely gave more effort than the Ducks or Blue Jackets. When you have talent like that, it's suspicious how they played so poorly

You don’t watch around the league do you? Go look at the injuries impacting the CBJ.

 

[Chainshot]

I've been waiting for proof all these efforts to stop tanking actually work for a couple decades now. Mostly they've either had no effect or had no effect on tanking and just ended up hurting actual really bad teams.

The only thing we see is now teams on the fringe of the playoffs but not abysmal try to jockey to be just a bit worse to improve their lottery chances. They say they want to stop tanking, lottery fixation has made it worse.

Go back to worst gets first.

 

[Kranix]

It's not even remotely close to the same team.

Same owners.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Quite a few teams tanked aggressively