Wow conspiracy theories gone wild.
I tend to think it's more of a "jinx" thing most of the time. But if the 8 teams in the Lafreniere lottery are:
NYR
CHI/EDM
WPG/CAL
ARI/us
MTL/PIT
FLO/NYI
CLB/TOR
MIN/VAN
... there should be some reasonable places for Lafreniere to land that don't have to be NYR/CHI/EDM/PIT/TOR... those seem to be the teams nobody wants to see get the pick. Loser of the bolded series' above would be pretty reasonable, but nobody bothers to put jinxes there...
I still hope Chicago, Winnipeg, Pittsburgh, and Toronto lose, even if it does put them in the lottery. I'm not THAT scared of it getting rigged for one of them... although just the real 50% odds of one of them getting it would be painfully high.