Yeah...the suggestion that teams deliberately lose is absurd IMO. If anyone has ever known pro hockey players and what it takes them to reach the NHL level, it would never enter your mind to make such a suggestion. These guys work their collectives asses off and sacrifice a lot on the journey to the NHL...they arent then just going to lie down and play dead just so the team can draft some hotshot kid that may or may not contribute to each of their teams success. Coaches get FIRED for losing so they will never ever have any part in it. "Tanking on prurpose" is nothing more than a fan driven fallacy.
The current system is just fine....just because the Oilers havent figured it out doesnt mean a thing other than Kevin Lowe is a complete dummy.
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