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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The NBA has the worst tanking issue in professional sports so I can see why they are looking at this. The NHL doesn't have the same degree of obvious tanking but it's getting worse as we saw the Predators, Flames, Avalanche, Hurricanes all purposely tank to a degree last season. I would like to see that if a team picks top 5 for two years straight that they be relegated to picking in the teens if they finish bottom 10 in year 3. I think everyone is getting tired of seeing the same group of teams pick top five almost every season as it's just not good for the sport or fans of those teams.
I think the allure of a top five pick takes pressure off coaching staff and management to go all out and try and win games down the stretch as getting a high pick probably outweighs needless points at the end of the season but that's bad for the fans and the league to watch non-competitive teams like we saw in the last month of the season as some teams in particular were disgusting with their lack of compete.
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How did any of these teams try to tank? Nashville traded Erat (who asked for a trade), the Hurricanes and Avalanche made only minor trades. The only trade that qualifies as a potential tanking trade is the Flames with Bouwmeester. The Iginla trade was moving a free agent who may have left for nothing.
Just sucking doesn't mean you are tanking. The Flames suck this year... but they clearly aren't tanking or else they'd just trade anyone decent for picks and go with a full out rookie line-up.