magoomba Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 They can look at retooling the odds so that previous years drafts come into play. For example if you had the number 1 pick last year your odds this year diminish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D-Money Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester@wraiths.ca Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 Changing the system as the OP suggested would lead to a huge HUGE gap between teams. If you take away the chance for the really bad teams to draft players that can help them climb up out of the gutter, while making the teams above them better by giving them the better draft picks, you'll have an absolute joke of a league. You would really see the difference after 5+ years, when the bottom dwellers and their crap picks continue to get worse while the cusp teams get stronger. You'd effectively be making a league with two tiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langdon Algur Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 Changing the system as the OP suggested would lead to a huge HUGE gap between teams. If you take away the chance for the really bad teams to draft players that can help them climb up out of the gutter, while making the teams above them better by giving them the better draft picks, you'll have an absolute joke of a league. You would really see the difference after 5+ years, when the bottom dwellers and their crap picks continue to get worse while the cusp teams get stronger. You'd effectively be making a league with two tiers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jester@wraiths.ca Posted June 12, 2012 Share Posted June 12, 2012 actually a two tier league isn't too bad an idea :)Kind of like they do in European football, with the worst teams being regulated to a lower league but getting the chance to play their way back into the ellite league. With 30 NHL teams already and possible expansion in the future this could be the way to go. Ok maybe not, but I don't think what I'm suggesting would be that radical the bottom teams would still pick in the first part of the draft, it's just the teams that make a push but end up 9th or 10th get rewarded while the bottom teams still get an early pick just not a first rounder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langdon Algur Posted June 12, 2012 Author Share Posted June 12, 2012 Not a first rounder? You realize there are 30 1st round picks right? So the bottom teams wouldn't be allowed a pick in the top 30? O.o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uber_pwnzor Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 No. That way bad teams would always be bad. Wouldn't be fun, not fun at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gran Turismo Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Just make the lottery like the NBA's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrippledCanuck Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 Just make the lottery exactly that a lottery, each team gets one ball with their logo on it, whomevers ball gets picked 1st gets first, etc etc until all the teams have been picked, that way it is really a lottery. No favoritism for failing and no punishment for achieving or trying but failing to make the playoffs ie calgary as it was mentioned earlier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalie13 Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 If that's the case I would rather see my team fight to make the playoffs and get rewarded for it then get rewarded with a draft pick for playing like crap. What your forgetting is for many years the Canucks were a bubble team that often just missed the playoffs often coming close after a late season surge. Instead of getting rewarded for that hard work the Canucks like the last place team missed the playoffs but got a much later draft pick, to me that just isn't fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Langdon Algur Posted November 26, 2012 Author Share Posted November 26, 2012 Bumped due to BureV's request and discussion about the fact that due to the strike we may actually get a draft were the 1st overall pick is given to the NHL's worse team as a reward for sucking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PlayStation Posted November 26, 2012 Share Posted November 26, 2012 Nope, it saves those teams of the brink of extinction and turns them into hockey crazed hot spots. Well in some cases. Pens, Caps, Hawks, never been better since their first, second, third overall picks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lancaster Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I think that each playoff team should get an extra draft pick depending on where they finish. Stanley Cup winner gets an extra pick at the end of the 1st round. Finalist get pick at end of 2nd round. Conference finalists get additional pick at the end of the 3rd rounds, etc. It should provide an incentive for teams to reach the playoffs and to do damage there, plus it's nothing to extreme since the winner doesn't get a top-5/10 pick or anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baercheese Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Bettman was saying that the teams with the lowest revenues will get the earlier picks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argon Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Bettman was saying that the teams with the lowest revenues will get the earlier picks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Bettman was saying that the teams with the lowest revenues will get the earlier picks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00bxQb Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 There's more to the draft than just position. People are forgetting the idea of the draft in the first place. It's to help teams that don't have good players get better. If you have a draft lottery the weak teams don't improve. If anything the whole lottery concept is a failure from guys in the NBA and Bettman who are failures. The NFL has a simple set up. Worst team drafts first. There's no dynasties. Good teams and good managers keep them competitive through great scouting. Just getting 1st overall when you have a bunch of monkeys running your franchise could still be a disaster. The NFL is arguably the best league in the world of sports in terms of profit. Random draws could mean a Stanley Cup winner gets a franchise once in a decade player, how fair is that for a team trying to improve itself just to get INTO the playoffs? In fact with the draft lottery, notice there's teams in the NBA that NEVER get good? Dump the lottery in my opinion. In fact dump the lottery and dump Phoenix and the Islanders, hold a dispersal draft and have a 28 team league. Then everyone wins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bookie Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 noob, you might want to look at the timestamp on the quote you're addressing. Well before the Islanders new arena deal was announced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n00bxQb Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 noob, you might want to look at the timestamp on the quote you're addressing. Well before the Islanders new arena deal was announced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingArcher Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Great idea, but maybe after next year. Odds of oilers finishing 9th are pretty good. The crappy teams will still get a decent pick. Also games will still be important and competitive for teams that don't make the playoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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