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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The wheel system is absolutely horrible. Its purpose is the complete opposite of what a draft is meant to do. The wheel system ensures that rich/good teams always get top prospects, which takes away from rebuilding/poor teams. How would you feel right now if the wheel system had Calgary drafting 30th this year and Chicago 1st?
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I can see where you are coming from, but I disagree. The purpose is to ensure an equitable distribution of draft picks. It removes the possibility of a team tanking to get a better pick (Colorado last year, supposedly) or the reward for glaring institutional ineptitude (Edmonton). There's nothing saying that a team like Calgary couldn't trade picks in the future to acquire better selections right now.
In addition, you obviously could not institute such a system right now and have it in place for next year. I agree entirely that such action would be both unfair and unreasonable. You would have to, at minimum, implement it for a season when no picks have yet been traded (whenever that is - I am obviously not an expert) and I would argue you would have to implement it far enough in the future that you can't make any reasonable prediction regarding the talent level of the teams in the league.
You are looking at a 5+ year window for implementation, so it is not an immediate fix, but if you are looking for equitable talent distribution, it is my opinion that the wheel is the way to go.