Seems like a silly idea to me.
I get wanting to remove or minimize any incentive to tanking but ideally you want a league where every team can be competative and considering that poor teams are already not choice destinations for free agents, nor likely to find their way onto players with NTC's "will allow a trade to..." list the draft is the only means they have of getting potentially elite talent. I find the thought of the league champions somehow getting the 1st overall pick to be terrible.
If I were the NHL I'd stick with the system they have now except I'd make the top 14 picks (A.K.A. All non-playoff team) all determined by lotto ball (Draw for each pick). That way the worst team in the NHL isn't guarenteed pick one or two, they could pick as low as 14th (they'd still get more balls in the hopper so more likely to pick high but not guarenteed).
|