[Poe969]

I have to agree with nik- here, a team like the Flames who hasn't been historically bad and needs a top prospect could miss out because a team like New Jersey could get the top pick. It kind of sucks because that would have been like last year the kings(or whatever other good team just missed the playoffs) getting McDavid. It really isn't fair to the teams that actually need a player like that as opposed to the teams that could use a player like that. By capping the number of higher (maybe top 5) picks a team can get, it'll prevent teams from tanking and still reward the teams that are bad and need help while preventing an already solid team from taking a player that weaker teams need.

They could do a bit of both here though. There's no reason they can't just award the top 5 draft positions points and after you get so many points, you're out of the top 5 or something. And limit the lottery to the bottom 10 teams or so while still weighing it a lot more in favor of the bottom teams.