Don't forget the Oilers tanking for McDavid by trading David Perron for a plug and a 1st (which they wasted on Reinhart).
Mac-T obviously punted on the season and further the identity that losing was acceptable.
The simplest way to prevent both tanking and repetitive tanking is to have a top 3 lottery with way better odds to the bottom 3 teams and when a team picks 1st or 2nd or 3rd, they're eliminated from the lottery for a set period of time, 1-3 years.
A basic starting point is to eliminate teams finishing 17-21 from even being in the lottery.
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