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Originally Posted by moon
Sure but if you are the Panthers or Lightning and your team just sucked for the past two years it is a lot easier to sell your fans on good times coming based on Stamkos or Hubredeau coming in rather than hey we got the 15th best guy in the draft that may or may not play for our team in 3 years.
Sure the GM has to do more than hope for the 1st pick but if you give the better teams the best players and the bad teams are already behind the 8 ball with a lack of talent as it is what are the chances that they are going to get better and pass those better teams?
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I get that there is a risk of this happening, a team could be trying to get out of the basement but bad drafting in combination with poor free agent signings or a lack of UFA interest could put them in a lock. It could happen, just like it can happen to a team perpetually in 9th/10th place (ring any bells?).
Maybe a random equally weighted draft for all non-playoff teams is best, but there is certainly a higher degree of luck than most would probably like.