GDT: 2024 NHL Sharks Lottery Draft (update: We won! Sharks will pick 1st for the first time ever!)

[Mr Fahrenheit]

I can't believe people want to find out later via notifications

Watching this lottery result get revealed live is the highlight of my sad pathetic little life

Yeah, its like following playoff overtime thru an Apps play by play instead of watching it

 

[Saskatoon]

It's not that removing the lottery would remove the incentive to tank, but that convoluted ways to try to prevent tanking don't actually solve anything because a cap league requires tanking for a team to become successful.

Or even more basic

If you aren't close to playoffs best thing is still to tank. Like there was no incentive for the Sharks or Hawks to win a few more games so they still tanked

 

[fasterthanlight]

Teams would still tank, it would just widen the field of teams that would try.

Also the more you flatten the lottery odds the more you defeat the purpose of intending worse teams to get higher picks. Instead of rebuilds lasting 3 or 4 years as teams sit at the bottom enough to accumulate a good core of high picks, teams would be stuck on a treadmill for longer hoping and wishing that maybe eventually they fluke into winning the lottery and getting the kind of player that can change their franchise or hoping that maybe the draft gods smile on them and one of the kids they pick at 7th-10th every year ends up happening to be one of the steals of the draft.

Agree I think each choice has trade-offs. I just get confused by the argument folks sometimes make which is that: "removing the lottery would remove the incentive to tank"

 

[Pavelski2112]

Hold me, I'm scared

 

[Cas]

Kind of in the same boat, getting Celebrini is obviously nice and needed. But having the chance at McKenna and Hagens would be nice also.

We can easily have both.

 

[slocal]

Hold me, I'm scared

 

[sharski]

Hold me, I'm scared

 

[Nighthock]

 

[StanleyCup2035]

Don't worry, Zeev is ours

 

[LilLeeroy]

Don't worry, Zeev is ours

Zeev=Cale Makar, Celebrini=Nolan Patrick

 

[Timo Time]

I'm gonna puke

 

[PattyLafontaine]

And here we go...

 

[LadyStanley]

 

[ThePlanet]

Onward to destiny!

 

[slocal]

I'm gonna puke

 

[Mr Fahrenheit]

Sheng free yet?

 

[mogambomoroo]

 

[Timo Time]

Sheng free yet?

Not until after the live broadcast IIRC

 

[Dicdonya]

I just hope we do not drop to 3, I would be stoked with either Celebrini or Demidov

 

[Grinner]

If we don't end up with Celebrini, I expect Lindstrom will be the pick

 

[ThorNton Apologist]

I just hope we do not drop to 3, I would be stoked with either Celebrini or Demidov

I don’t think Grier takes Demidov at 2.

 

[LadyStanley]

Anyone have 911 on speed dial?

 

[sharski]

literally everyone's mgr right now: "Hey, got a few minutes? Would like to discuss some way we can save the company money. Please have your best 5 ideas ready."

 

[LadyStanley]

Anxious much?

 

[SJSharksfan39]

Where was that San Jose watch party? Did they just point a camera at a local bar?