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Originally Posted by GioforPM
OK but if Fla misses (mainly because of injury) and wins the lottery that will throw things a bit.
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Sure, but the Gold Plan does nothing for this, nor do most other systems.
I also don't think punishing teams in the draft for winning championships makes sense.
The draft should be primarily about equalizing the distribution of talent, which is the original intent. I don't think teams should be punished for being good at drafting and developing and putting good teams together. I especially don't enjoy watching Edmonton and Buffalo waste talented player after talented player because and then be gifted more talent for it. I don't enjoy seeing young stars typically coming up in sucky teams.
If you primarily just equalize the incoming young talent teams would be forced to do what they can with what they get.
Now burning teams down and throwing seasons away is the path of least resistance and the smart choice, so that's what most teams do, and you can have relative success with it eventually even when you're pathologically bad at developing, like Edmonton.