The Marquis
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Random question but if we did miss the play offs, are we automatically a lottery team? Has any team with a relatively decent record e.g bottom of the lottery odds ever won it?
Yes, that would make the Kraken a lottery team, BUT... you can only move up 10 spots these days. A couple of 8 seeds have won the lottery (Chicago and New Jersey, coincidentally when you could only move up 4 spots) and then you have New York Rangers (seeded 14th in the lottery), who won the most bullshit "two phase" lottery ever back in 2020 when not only did they manage to be able to get the number 1 pick but it was absolutely covered in dogshit with the live "draw" of the balls of which one was exceedingly lightweight compared to the others and was dropped by the dude when he put it in, etc. Definitely worth a watch if you haven't seen it. Also probably while I'll never believe the draft lottery is legit and why we'll never see the draw televised ever again unless they figure out a new way to rig it live.
If Chicago wins this year, all of my suspicions are true.