If we're "picking" teams where Crosby should go, because "a large market has to have the stars" (which is so much bull its not even funny), I would say the following teams should be at the top of the list.
1. St Louis Blues
2. Dallas Stars
3. Colorado Avalance
These are big market teams with big budgets that will have to be trimmed. They are all short on quality prospects and could use an addition of a young star to take place of their top dog as he ages and retires (the likes of Weight, Modano and Sakic).
If we're "picking" teams that should get a serious crack at Crosby, have a historical basis for the selection, and could use the player to establish a strong market (isn't that what the league and the fans want, strong markets everywhere and teams that everyone wants to see?) then the list looks like this.
1. Chicago Blackhawks
2. Phoenix Coyotes
3. Buffalo Sabres
All are markets that have struggled in finding the playoffs. All are markets that could do really well from the perspective of spreading the popularity of the game. All are teams that don't have that star that could draw in the big crowds. While I would like to see Crosby go to Phoenix and spread the popularity of the game in the southwest I think he would be best used by the league in Chicago and turned into a star player by Sutter (Crosby is the type of player Sutter could do things with IMO). This would be good for TV, good for a major market, good for the player, and good for the game itself IMO.
Of course I think the draft should happen as it normally does and that the teams that have been the worst over the past thre or four years get the best opportunity at Crosby. I have no vested interest in using this scheme, as my favorite teams are all in the middle of the pack, so I think this is the fairest approach to dispersal of talent. Any system that tilts the selection to someone's "favorite team" without a historical or common sense approach doesn't hold water and just talking out of one's buttocks. There are reasons why things have been done the way they have (in all professional leagues BTW) and there is no reason to change this because a "season" was lost in a labor dispute.