I don’t think there’s a great solution. The gold plan would just encourage even more tanking to happen earlier in the season so that teams could accumulate those draft points.
You could spread out the lottery even more I suppose. But that hurts teams that need it the most. Like the oilers screwed actual struggling teams in the nhl by forcing a rule change due to their ineptitude.
It’s hard to make it work based on the honour system because teams are incentivized to tank.
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