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The best/easiest way to eliminate tanking is to make all non-playoff teams lottery teams competing for draft picks with exactly the same odds going to all non-playoff teams. Perhaps teams will still compete to be out of the playoffs but there would be no incentive to be the worst as your odds of getting a McEichel would be no better than if you barely missed the playoffs.
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By definition this is correct. However, it does nothing to address the problem that bad teams only have 1 way to get better - Draft and develop players.
Bad luck could keep a team at the bottom of the standing indefinently.
What if the Flames had been unlucky and got the 16th pick the last 2 years instead of Monahan and Bennet? Does this seen fair?
Someone always needs to be the worst.