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.
Holding a centralized draft used to mean 5 guys from each team flying to the host city and staying at the same hotel as every other team. Now it’s 30 people per team staying in a bunch of hotels and trying to coordinate their operations in a league where the draft, free agency, cap management, PR have all become much more important and complicated.
The league has changed, time to move on.
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Originally Posted by fotze
If this day gets you riled up, you obviously aren't numb to the disappointment yet to be a real fan.
