I hate the draft period. Rewarding loser teams is bad enough, but the fact that every team ends up with guys with no connection to their city is even worse.
I think the old territorial model where each team had their territory including their own city and had to develop their own players through an academy system was way better, your team ends up made up of locals and excellence is rewarded.
North American sports and the obsession with propping up losing teams is a joke. People don't support your business and you can't balance the books, you should go under, not get bail outs. Of course will never happen because the NHL would end up a 16-20 team league.
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