I'm starting to think they should televise a ping-pong ball draft for all non-playoff teams each year, making it a pretty good TV spectacle much like the first round of the draft itself.
The 14th-last team gets 14 balls in the pot; the 13th last gets 13 balls; and so on down to the last place team which gets only 1 ball in the pot.
The first team to have a ball sucked up by that vaccuumy thingy drafts 14th, the second drafts 13th, and so on. The last team to have a ball sucked up drafts 1st overall.
What would otherwise be a quick 5 minute event lasts an hour because of all the extra balls remaining from teams that have already been chosen getting in the way ("Argh, Winnipeg again!).
It could make great afternoon TV drinking stupidity with all sorts of shifting stats for talking heads to prattle on about.
Also lots of chances to use in conjunction the words "balls", "sucked", and "vaccuumy-thingy."
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