I have another idea which may sound farfetched but I think would make for VERY exciting hockey. What if the draft order was penciled in at the trade deadline. Whoever is in last by the deadline gets the most ping pong balls to draft 1st overall.
But wait! Non-playoff teams get more ping pong balls to increase there chances depending on how many more wins than losses came after the deadline. e.g with a record of 10-5-2 the team will get an extra 6 balls. So essentially you would have all the bottom teams doing their best to win in order to gain more ping pong balls.
This is something that would be more difficult to follow, but can easily be tracked and I think would reduce tanking greatly (apart from trying to tank pre-deadline, but this doesn't happen often unless you're the oilers).
What do you guys think? I'm smrt right?
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