If the NHL simply announced that a team can't draft more than 'x' amount of times in 'y' amount of years, would that stop tanking?
Well, it would stop the Edmonton Oil Tankers from continually tanking every year... but there will still be tankers.
There will still be teams that tank when the season is 'out the window'. The NHL was right to make the top 3 picks a lottery (and I hate it as a Flames' fan), but they just forgot to include the caveat that teams can't pick so many times in the top of the draft.
You are still rewarding poor teams essentially, but making it less attractive to go on a full-on tank because the odds make it less likely it pays off.
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