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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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Expansion draft rules are a tradeoff between what's good for existing franchises and what's good for the new franchise. In past expansions, that tradeoff has been heavily weighted towards what's good for the existing franchises. Bettman has come out and said this expansion draft will be different - he, and presumably the board of governors, want to see the new team stocked with better talent than previous expansion rosters. So of course this is going to tick off most teams.
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Maybe so, I was more responding to AB's comment that it was 'only 11' teams and why would the league care.