I like the idea of draft order being fixed on trade deadline day. Step one of tanking is always trading away your vets for picks and prospects. So if you fix the draft order at that point in time it better reflects the actual quality of the teams.
I also like the idea of creating a rule that the sum total of your draft picks in consecutive years has to be more than 6 and in 3 consecutive years more than 12. So the best you can draft is 1,5,6 or 2,4,6 in consecutive 3 year periods. And the best you can draft in two consecutive years is 3,3 or 1,5. This is important because of the talent lag in the NHL. It takes 2 - 4 years before top line talent impacts the playoff races so a team spends too long on the bottom before swinging to the top. We need to moderate those swings so you don't go as high or as low.
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