The team that tanked the most aggressively got Bedard.

[Icebreakers]

There were a lot of teams going all in on a tank. Hell, Anaheim lost 11 in a row to end the season.

Singling out Chicago for tanking the hardest is an interesting take. I don’t disagree that they tanked hard but can’t say they did a better or worse job than the other teams in the top 5

Traded 25 year old 40 goal scorer for picks

Traded 2nd leading scorer for a 2nd

Traded 22 year old , 3 years removed from 3rd overall pick for ....picks.

Traded Kane at the deadline to the only team he would accept to play for.

Of course the players can't do much. Tanking is on the management .

 

[Chainshot]

I wouldn't mind doing something like 2 teams with the best points percentage with 20 games left get the best odds, then 2 of the worst teams, then the next 2 teams with the best points %, then 3rd and 4th worst teams. etc. Or something in that general realm.

Rewards teams playing well and trying but doesn't put the truly awful teams completely behind the 8 ball.

The worst team should get the best player in the draft. Stop trying to tinker with it and leave teams consistently just on the fringe of landing better players.

 

[Terry Yake]

3 cups in 6 years and go straight from kane to bedard

can't imagine how nice that must be

 

[Brookbank]

3 cups in 6 years and go straight from kane to bedard

can't imagine how nice that must be

Now free agents are going to flock there too

 

[Tanknation]

Your team won the lottery LITERALLY last year.

And Bettman was not happy. It was very sad to see. Nice of him to throw a bone during a weak draft though.

 

[Nut Upstrom]

New York got 1st overall once and I edited my post. Which would be 20% of the last 10 years. Canada has gotten it 3 of 10.

And they got a 2nd overall. So another lottery W for big market America.

 

[Brookbank]

The worst team should get the best player in the draft. Stop trying to tinker with it and leave teams consistently just on the fringe of landing better players.

The worst naturally occurring bad team should get the best player. But we cant have that because teams tank.

 

[Seattle Totems]

Why do I even follow the NHL? If this isn't fixed it may as well be.

Chicago already got to draft 1st overall less than a generation ago and has won three cups since 2010.

It's a f***ing joke.

Their fans aren't suffering. Plenty of other franchises are though.

I am so tired of seeing the same franchises getting the 1st pick over and over, winning cups and then getting 1st overall again so they can win more cups.

 

[Gillings]

Didn't want to see Him go to chicago but i REALLY didn't want to see him go to Columbus.

Dont see why you’d try to beat the Pens if your blatantly tanking

Bergevin called in a favour.. Beat the pens, gets florida in and then florida goes on to screw montreals top-15 pick and turns into a 29-32 pick.

 

[Koivu11]

Hawks clearly weren't tanking when they finished year knocking themselves out of #1 and #2 draft lotto odds

Hawks not tanking put the Panthers in playoffs

Tanking is done by management not the players.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

I HAVE NO MOUTH YET I MUST SCREAM.

 

[Seattle Totems]

The lottery needs to be cyclical and reflect historical losing. A team that has won the lottery in our generation and THREE cups should not be eligible to win first overall in a 32 team league when there are multiple franchise that have never experienced either. I don't think any fans feel Chicago is deserving of a generational 1st overall pick.

If you disagree with then explain to me this. What reason do I have to follow a home town team that has historically lost far more than Chicago, Edmonton or Pittsburgh or Tampa yet has never been awarded 1st overall much less won a Cup.

 

[violaswallet]

The players didn’t tank though : buddy Robinson got the Panthers into the playoffs and Hawks into 3rd via the best game of his career

 

[thebigbea]

Exactly, they pretty much traded all their good players. They would be a decent team if they didn’t gut the team.

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

Easy guys. At least Bettman is happy.

how?

Anaheim woulda been better for him.

silly assertation

There were a lot of teams going all in on a tank. Hell, Anaheim lost 11 in a row to end the season.

Singling out Chicago for tanking the hardest is an interesting take. I don’t disagree that they tanked hard but can’t say they did a better or worse job than the other teams in the top 5

this cannot be stated enuff.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

CBJ got screwed. the one team prob most deserving but no the team that openly tanked wins

 

[Canadienna]

The fact they lucked out in the lotto after blatantly tanking isn't as disappointing as the trainwreck of that roster and the lack of young exciting talent to put with Bedard.

They sold off Dach and Debrincat in order to get Bedard, but now he's pretty alone.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

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

Garbage. The Ducks had Terry, Zegras and a pile of crap. Mctvish is not ready to contribute and their best d went down for the season. They were legitimately terrible. I think the BJ's just had too many injuries.

 

[Nona Di Giuseppe]

The thread title isn't even accurate

Ducks were awful

 

[aylib]

Why don’t we get to see said lottery, just some pre arranged cards? Can’t call it lottery.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

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

Deserving would be a team that had an incredible number of injuries but gave 100% all year (except for a few vet sacks of shit). That would be the Canadiens.

 

[HTFN]

Why don’t we get to see said lottery, just some pre arranged cards? Can’t call it lottery.

Not-tery. Should call it the NHL Predetermined Card Reading Extravaganza.

Deserving would be a team that had an incredible number of injuries but gave 100% all year (except for a few vet sacks of shit). That would be the Canadiens.

Hey, Caps deserve a swing there too.

 

[Viqsi]

Deserving would be a team that had an incredible number of injuries but gave 100% all year (except for a few vet sacks of shit). That would be the Canadiens.

Or the Capitals. Or the Jackets.

 

[Boss Man Hughes]

Not-tery. Should call it the NHL Predetermined Card Reading Extravaganza.


Hey, Caps deserve a swing there too.

Caps didn't have the injuries Habs had and they didn't give any effort the last 1/3 of the season. Ovechkin slept thorugh it.

Or the Capitals. Or the Jackets.

Neither had as many injuries as the Habs. It was mostly an AHL team at the end of the season but the AHL players all did pretty well.

 

[Speatleysson]

Deserving would be a team that had an incredible number of injuries but gave 100% all year (except for a few vet sacks of shit). That would be the Canadiens.

Nah