FLYLine4LIFE said:
What the hell does a rule change have to do with ANYTHING??????? We are talking about the DRAFT LOTTERY.
Yeah, and your illuminating reason why they should not televise this lottery is that they have never done it before, for completely different situations.
The draft has never been televised in the past, SO WHAT??
It’s not a REASON to not televise it in Canada this year:
- in the other years there wasn’t Crosby, who rightly or not is considered the best prospect to come around in the last 20 years. So winning the lottery was never considered as important as this time.
- in the other years the league was not coming back from a 300 days lockout.
- in the other years there were no rumors and speculations about the lottery going to be fixed.
- more importantly, the other lotteries consisted of a single draw, only the first positions were affected by it. This year all the draft order is to be determined by the lottery, which makes the lottery much more interesting.
- this year every single a team has a shot at the 1st overall, which means fans of every team will be interested.
So the fact the draft lottery has never been televised in the past means absolutely nothing as for this year lottery.