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Originally Posted by getbak
Correct. Chicago has won the lottery in each of the last two years, but last year, they won the second lottery and stayed in the second overall draft position.
If Chicago wins the first lottery this year, that would give them two wins that saw them move up in three years, so they wouldn't be eligible to move up in the lottery for the next two drafts (but if they finished bottom two, they could still win the lottery to keep their position).
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It's crazy to think that these draft lottery rules exist, when the Flames have never won ONE and never picked top-3 before. Yet some teams need to start worrying about losing their top-2 pick because they've had too many.
I wish the NHL tightened it up so that you can only pick 1st-3rd once in a 3-year span or something. Would really put the pressure on teams to stop consistently racing to the bottom. I dunno just annoying to know that once these teams hit their max threshold of top picks they're just gonna go ape #### in Free Agency with their team stocked up on lotto players and be off to the races.
Maybe a better system is just opening up the lottery odds for all teams that miss the playoffs. Also possible I'm just sour as a Flames fan, knowing our organization has too much pride and stubbornness to seemingly ever pick top-3.. barring a miracle. Especially now with a stud goalie for the next x amount of years!
Now watch as we win the 6th place lotto with our fat 1% chance
