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Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard
Does this incentivize Calgary to make trades earlier in order to drop down the standings if they are going to sell - the worst case scenario would be for the Flames to have a pick in the 11-15 range and have the Canadiens get that pick rather than the Panthers pick which could conceivably be around 26-31. Imagine at the end of the year the Flames selected 31st and 32nd overall while rebuilding. Yikes.
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For this year, the Flames are incentivized to drop. The concern comes next year.
The likely scenarios:
1) FLA sends this year's pick to PHI (virtually certain) therefore CGY gets FLA's 25 pick
2) That being the case, MTL gets the better of the CGY pick or the FLA pick (probably CGY)
So if the Flames do worse than FLA in 25, MTL gets CGY's pick, so teh Flames have no incentive to tank. And if the Flames really tank, all the way down to 2nd overall, MTL still gets their pick.
So, they need to suck this year, and then not suck next year.