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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
The flip side is that every team has a responsibility to the other teams to provide a competitive product. Each team has STHs that shell out a crapload of money to watch the best hockey in the world.
I get that Buffalo wants to rebuild for the future, but the NHL also wants competitive hockey on the ice. And de-incentizing the draft as a reward for failure is one way to help accomplish that.
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So you're saying that Buffalo has the responsibility to other NHL teams' season tickets owners to not maximize the value of their assets and to not prioritize long-term goals?
Just so much wrong with that "argument."
Buffalo is a business that is about maximizing the value of its own franchise, not the utility of people who pay Buffalo ZERO dollars. Further, Buffalo already has to cross subsidize the utility of these consumers because of the salary cap floor. You can only go so low.
The point of rewarding the worst teams is actually a much better economically rational argument to the interests of the health of all franchises. It provides hope to the worst, hope can be capitalized in ways that your misplaced sense of fairness or pride cannot.