GDT: NHL Draft Lottery 2019 - 8PM - NBCSN,SN,TVAS (upd: NJ 1st, NYR 2nd, CHI 3rd)

[Reaper45]

Impossible. Which is why the lottery should probably exist.

I agree. I just dont think it should be so big or have the odds it currently has.

 

[53or8]

Need to have a system where the team,s picking top 3 cant pick again in those slots ,the following year....

Shouldn't be able to pick in the top ten the following year

 

[KingsHockey24]

no pity here for Kings fans...kings mailed it in towards the end of the season on purpose...Rangers for some strange were playing hard down the stretch...karma karma karma

We went 6-3-1 to end the season, what're you talking about?

 

[MacBradley]

Impossible. Which is why the lottery should probably exist.

So rules should be made of assumptions, conjecture, and opinions? Nah, the efficient and fair thing to do is prove problems exist before you try to correct them.

 

[New Jersey]

So rules should be made of assumptions, conjecture, and opinions? Nah, the efficient and fair thing to do is prove problems exist before you try to correct them.

So you're telling me that the entire concept of major professional sports teams tanking is ludicrous and does not exist whatsoever. It is a completely false concept.

Thanks, that bit of conjecture really cleared things up for me. Guess I was self-deluded to think that pro sports teams would ever throw games to manipulate the draft order.

 

[New Jersey]

The Kings fans might have some beef, but then again I don't care. I mean, it's not like you guys lost your 2nd overall to teams you didn't beat in the Final.

As for the Avs fans, lol you traded for that pick to begin with, get on up outta here with my eyeholes.

 

[Rangerfans]

I think the first time in a long time, Devil and Ranger fans are collectively enjoying this moment.

I don’t say this in a disrespectful way, but if it was “rigged” that the NJD’s won the lottery for Hughes, why wouldn’t they give it to Chicago or NY in terms of marketing?

Second, everyone saying the Rangers getting 2nd is a crock, they have NEVER had a top 3 pick since the expansion.

 

[Rangerfans]

6 of the last 10 first overall picks have gone to just 2 teams, Edmonton and New Jersey. Yay.

Flyer fans did not complain about the draft when they dropped 11 positions in 2017.

 

[playasRus]

Imagine trying to scam the 10 other teams out of their super stars. Owners would but up in arms.

 

[Osprey]

The strangest thing about all of this is how it's brought Devils and Rangers fans together. Instead of being envious or upset over the other's fortune, they're teaming up to give a joint middle finger to LA (whom they're still bitter toward over denying them Cups), Colorado (for thinking that they had a top-2 pick in the bag) and just, generally, anyone in the hockey world who's upset that either of them moved up to the top 2. What's next, cats and dogs living together?

 

[KyleJRM]

So rules should be made of assumptions, conjecture, and opinions? Nah, the efficient and fair thing to do is prove problems exist before you try to correct them.

Yes. Decisions should be made on best available information. Preponderance of evidence, not beyond a reasonable doubt.

 

[Hire Sather]

Devils and Rangers fans tag teaming together is like when Rock and HHH would team up from time to time against mutual foes.

 

[New Jersey]

I don’t say this in a disrespectful way, but if it was “rigged” that the NJD’s won the lottery for Hughes, why wouldn’t they give it to Chicago or NY in terms of marketing?

It's rigged because both of the best two skaters are going to the Tri-State media market.

 

[New Jersey]

Devils and Rangers fans tag teaming together is like when Rock and HHH would team up from time to time against mutual foes.

ok this thread's been clinched, shut it down.

 

[BurntToast]

I think we are overlooking the real winner “The Ottawa Senators Fanbase”. Honestly for the majority of teams who could use the first two picks, could you imagine the Avs with one of them. That would be nasty. They are still going to get a great prospect. Byram?

 

[AvsWraith]

Sakic should've gotten paid off for that trade. That is some Danny Ainge type of **** he pulled off with the Sens, and should've got rewarded for it just like Ainge did with the Boston Celtics.

You won't see another trade like that again for at least a decade or more. The Sens should've become a cautionary tale to scare GMs of the future.

 

[Alan Wake]

Devils and Rangers fans tag teaming together is like when Rock and HHH would team up from time to time against mutual foes.

We live in a different time. Now that Sather/Lamoriello are no longer part of the Rangers/Devils organizations, these two teams can finally become frenemies.

Sakic should've gotten paid off for that trade. That is some Danny Ainge type of **** he pulled off with the Sens, and should've got rewarded for it just like he did with the Boston Celtics.

You won't see another trade like that again for at least a decade or more. The Sens should've become a cautionary tale to scare GMs of the future.

You are giving GMs a lot of credit. Some idiot will drop the ball in less than a year. Guaranteed.

 

[Rangerfans]

We live in a different time. Now that Sather/Lamoriello are no longer part of the Rangers/Devils organizations, these two teams can finally become frenemies.

I’m down with this, frenemy.

 

[Breakers]

Thank god Hughes is generational

it's only been less than a year since we used that term in last years draft.

 

[AIexisLafreniereNYR]

The strangest thing about all of this is how it's brought Devils and Rangers fans together. Instead of being envious or upset over the other's fortune, they're teaming up to give a joint middle finger to LA (whom they're still bitter toward over denying them Cups), Colorado (for thinking that they had a top-2 pick in the bag) and just, generally, anyone in the hockey world who's upset that either of them moved up to the top 2. What's next, cats and dogs living together?

We CAN get along, just not when we’re both good. Once Kakko and Hughes are dominating we’ll be fighting to the death over who is better.

 

[NoQuitInNewMexico]

ok this thread's been clinched, shut it down.

just realized people are going to call Hughes, Hall and Hischier HHH and I am, already, preemptively Over It

 

[Alan Wake]

Thank god Hughes is generational

it's only been less than a year since we used that term in last years draft.

Just thinking about the Devils being loaded with Hischier and Hughes... man that team is on the up and up. I dunno if Hughes is truly generational, but he'll transform that Devils team so he may as well be.

I'll probably end up becoming a bandwagon Devils fan at this point. Y'know, as a side team fascination.

 

[LuGBuG]

Holy shit long island is buzzzzzzzzzzzing

Edit:Wrong thread and forum....

 

[Ted Hoffman]

What i would do is readjust the odds back. Bottom 5 around 70% odds but no more than 75%. 6-10 give them 17% - 20% odds. Top 5 and soon to be 6 I would give them the remaining 8-10%. Something along those lines.

Playing around with the percentages and seeing what works, if I give the the worst overall team a 30% chance for #1, the second worst 21%, and going down from there 15%, 10%, 6%, 5%, 4%, 3%, 2%, 1.5%, 1%, 0.7%, 0.5%, 0.2% and 0.1%, in the current setup it gives the worst team a 27.7% chance to pick 4th. [30% 1st, 24.1% 2nd, 18.2% 3rd.] The 2nd worst team has just under a 60% chance to pick top-3, the 3rd worst has a 47.1% chance to pick top-3.

Anyone who's really interested, I can try to drop the table in.

 

[GordonGecko]

Thank god Hughes is generational

it's only been less than a year since we used that term in last years draft.

haha yeah that's such a joke word - who was ACTUALLY "generational"?

GOAT Gretzky same generation as Super Mario.
Ovi playing amongst Crosby & Malkin

Time for a new word