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Originally Posted by Hackey
They traded UFAs at the deadline when they were long out of it. What would you have preferred? It's not like they traded them at the start of the year.
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Pretty much every team trades their UFAs when they're that bad, and it's fair, but the team still made themselves significantly worse short term so that they could improve long term, and that included getting a top 2 draft pick. Tanking probably isn't the right word, but they're definitely not planning on making the playoffs.
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Originally Posted by icarus
Or imagine if we picked at around 1 these last two drafts. Either scenario could occur if the entire round was selected by weighted lottery.
Of course the weighting would mean that statistically it would be most likely for the draft order to reflect the reverse order of the standings, as we have now.
But there would be that chance, however slight, that any team might select anywhere in the standings.
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There is no way playoff teams should be able to win the lottery. Can you imagine if the Kings or Blackhawks won the lottery this year and ended up with McDavid? I don't even think the teams that barely missed the playoffs should be in the lottery, never mind all of the elite teams.