 benv
Messages: 586
Registered: May 2006
Location: Edmonton
No Cups
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Perusing the internet today, I saw an idea for the draft lottery that I thought was brilliant (I can't remember where I saw it, or I would credit the author).
The sixteen non-playoff teams each draft one of the sixteen playoff teams (last place team gets first pick going up from there). Team that drafts the cup winner gets first overall pick.
I love that this gives the fans of all the non-playoff teams a team to route for in the playoffs. You can even make it determine the whole first 16 picks: final loser gets pick 2, semi-finalists get picks 3-4 etc.
Watching the teams pick their playoff teams would be a much more fun spectacle as well. You'd have teams maybe not wanting to pick their natural rivals (how hard would it be for the Flames to pick the Oilers).
Anyway I never heard this before and I have to say I love it! The one potential flaw is when a team in the playoffs owns one of the picks of the non-playoff teams--that might complicate things (although this is rare).
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