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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
No teams should have any incentive to not try to make themselves better. Other teams may not like it, but maybe they just shouldn't suck so bad.
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The only way to truly do that is to give the Stanley Cup winner the 1st overall pick, so teams will truly try.
We know that isn't going to happen.
I don't consider trading current, regressing assets for future, increasing assets to be tanking.
Sure you are making yourself worse now, but it's so you can get better in the future by changing the timeline of your best assets.
Finishing at the bottom of the league is a necessary by-product of that plan, although I don't believe many teams are truly trying to lose. They are simply trying to make themselves better in the future.