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Originally Posted by Joborule
Teams are bad for a reason. If they wern't bad, they would do better than worst in the league. Teams that can push to make the playoffs have much more talent than those that are at the basement. They don't need a franchise player as much as they bad team does.
Who cares if they mail it in? That's their own problem. The intention is to not be stuck in the bottom for the long haul, like your proposal would do. The team that pushes to make the playoffs do get rewarded. They have games that count still and thus give incentive to their fanbase to attend the games. So they get rewarded by revenue, where it really counts. The bottom tier leagues would love to have that. And that's what they want in the future. They won't be getting that if they don't get the chance at the best prospects available.
Just because the Flames chances of getting first overall aren't great at the moment, doesn't mean the system is flawed.
There's a reason why the first picks are given to the worst teams, and the latest picks are given to the team with the most successful seasons.
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It's flawed because the option to set your team up for failure is often seen as the best way to rebuild, if you can't see this then we are obviously at an impasse.
I am not saying it isn't possible to rebuild in other ways, but the fact that you have teams which are compromising the integrity of the game is disappointing to me, and the NHL has a system which encourages this.