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Originally Posted by Hackey
Some of these suggestions are ridiculous. Players don't tank. Neither do coaches. Even if they did do you think a teams draft position is going to be their incentive to try harder? Players don't care about draft position to the point where they are altering their play to alter draft position. Look at the Flames at the end of the year two years ago. We won meaningless games that only hurt our draft position. The players just play the game.
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I wonder what a player would think if he was playing for something at the end of the season, for his team, for what's on front of the jersey and not his name on the back, for a chance for his team to land a player like Connor MacDavid and a chance to play with said player. Even if the player is thinking selfishly, he could think that if he gets a shot to play with a potential superstar it could only benefit his own stock in the long run. Maybe a longshot scenario for a player to think this way, maybe not...