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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
Exhibit #1 for why the draft lottery system should have more even odds across all teams.
The mandate for all teams "should" be to make the playoffs every year at a bare minimum. It's a flaw in the drafting rules that makes it so this isn't always the low-bar for every team.
I get why it was like that before the salary cap and when teams held a player's rights into their 30s, but those days are over. Parity was achieved and a heavily weighted draft lottery is now counter to parity. The difference between a a playoff team and non-playoff team is not what it used to be and rewarding non-playoff teams is overkill.
The league has made changes in the right direction regarding this, but it still needs tweaking.
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This 1000% percent...a fan should never have to want their team to lose/get worse