Munchausen said:
I could see an argument for giving a shot to all 30 teams, although it isn't my prefered scenario, but I have a hard time understanding why the Leafs' and the Penguins' of this league should have an equal chance at the #1 pick. If we go for the legit shot for all 30 teams option, it should be heavily weighted in favor of bottom teams.
Define a Bottom team then ..
We are going to have a Hard Cap and possibly profit Sharing and hundreds of UFA as some of those top teams from years ago will hardly have any players under contract ..
Boston won their Division and let half their team walk via UFA .. The Leafs will have 8 players under contract when the next season begins ..
A weak team from a couple years ago lets say like Washington could get Crosby, and then along with Ovechkin, and a very low current Salary base and tons of Hard Cap room currently could go on an UFA spending spree bringing in Pronger, Kariya, Palffy etc and the win the cup in the same year that they just where ruled a bottom team ..
How fair would that be ??
These owners have billions remember .. They could easily change their teams in a split second and invest a cool $ 20 mil in it .. .Playoff gate receipts and even filling the building to the rafters each night with a top team and young superstars could return their investment in NO time ..
All teams have a to play by the same Cap figure and what used to be the Strong teams Colorado, Detroit, Philly and Toronto are already dangerously close to the Hard Cap figure and will have to fill out their rosters with AHL and prospect players even with only a few players under contract .. They can not go on these free spending spree's and so now the Small market low Salary teams that have the inexpensive talent and drafted early for years to get it suddenly hast he biggest advantage at the entry draft and UFA ... Doesn't seem fair either does it ??