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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
The Oilers and Blue Jackets and Jets of the world, they need the draft as a means of getting high end talent. Once you have established a winning culture, then you have a chance at getting free agents. And if the only way you can get high end talent is the draft, and if you change the draft so that it prevents them from doing that, you're pretty much dooming these franchises to permanent irrelevancy. Very, very difficult to grow a sport (which is what leagues truly want) when a large portion of teams are consistently in a hopeless state.
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Maybe, though it doesn't prevent teams from getting high end talent in the draft, it just means they can't amass them year after year.
But I get your point (as well as the point about draft eligibility, agree there).