What the NHL needs is a "relegation" concept, where the last place team doesn't have an incentive (a la the Oilers) to repeatedly throw their season in order to obatin the top draft pick. Instead, the last place franchise should be demoted to the AHL - while the top AHL team gets promoted to the NHL for the next season.
That way, these teams would actually have something to play for and the repeated failures of the Flames' management wouldn't be rewarded.
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