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Originally Posted by smalltownref
Personally, while I would love to find a way to remove tanking from the game itself to get a higher draft pick, I don't think we simply can. Here's the problem... everyone wants league parity. And in order to do that, the worse teams need the higher draft picks in order to improve. What you are suggesting here is that for those teams eliminated from the playoffs, you get draft pick points by winning games later on and accumulating draft pick points. That is essentially removing the idea of league parity and it's rewarding the stronger non-playoff teams and it's hurting the weaker non-playoff teams. While it would be excellent for the Flames for example this year, who aren't near as bad as say the Panthers are, it would be detrimental to the Panthers... a team who couldn't win a game even if their lives depended on it.
It sucks that there is tanking in the league, but if the league wants to continue on having 'parity', we can't engage into something new that might allow stronger teams to be picking ahead of weaker teams in the draft (assuming compete level is the same).
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It wouldn't really reward the stronger non-playoff teams though. Say the Blue Jackets lose tonight and get eliminated from the playoffs. They have no games remaining and will have accumulated 0 draft pick points, which would end up giving them the 14th pick.
The Flames on the other hand got eliminated on the 17th after the Detroit win. We've won 2 games since then, giving us 4 draft pick points.
Colorado got eliminated on the 14th. Since then they've accumulated 3 draft pick points. So with this system both the Flames and the Avs would actually have a meaningful last game of the season, since they are only 1 point apart with a game to go.
Florida, currently 30th in the league, was eliminated on the 16th. They've currently only gotten 2 draft pick points since then. Here's where playing better after being eliminated for those bottom feeding teams is advantageous, because with this new system Florida wouldn't be in the position of 1st overall right now.