I'm not opposed to the idea and it may actually end up working but it just feels like NHL leadership is just flying by the seat of their pants and taking a very lazy approach to most of their decision making.
Being a televised event, the league's primary goal here should be to increase viewership of the draft. None of "it inconveniences my staff", "people were overhearing our draft secrets", "we'll save on travel costs" and "the NFL does it this way" are things that address this goal. Elliot's whole paragraph on "I hope they find a way" just further reinforces this notion.
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