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I think this article sums up my view of the draft bs.. https://www.mlive.com/redwings/2020/06/nhl-should-alter-draft-lottery-odds-more-in-favor-of-worst-teams.html and the last sentence shows that change is needed in the process.... "The worst team has landed the No. 1 pick only twice in the past nine years."

I have a brilliant idea. Since the winner of the #1 pick hasn't been announced, nobody will be offended by this. The league needs to admit its disastrous mistake, and move each team up one slot from where they landed. So Detroit would pick #3. LA gets the #1 pick. The mystery lottery winner can enjoy the benefit of drafting ahead of the other playoff teams (so say 16th). It's not too late Bettman.

I mean, the same can be said for top picks. Look at the past several stanley cup winners, none of them won with just good drafting outside of the first round. You say Kuch and Point, I say Stamkos and Hedman.

I am done caring about this latest screw job. He is gonna go to a "playoff" team with very little cap room, spend 3 years on an ELC then get a $17M per year contract that I really don't feel like handing out. Depending on where he goes, he'll probably also get a "C" to wear. Larkin is our Captain, I like having Cap space, I like building a team with players who aren't the superstar. I don't care about next years #1 or the next or the next, because through development and UFA signings and trades, Yzerman WILL build a playoff team and then we'll get back to being contenders every year. Montreal can have Laffy, when he doesn't take them to the Cup in the first year, they'll turn on him. Toronto already cannot afford to ice a team, so they would be waiving or trading good players in a few years just to fit him under the cap. Give me Stutzle, Perfetti, Rossi, Sanderson or Drysdale at #4, Yzerman will knock the 2nd round out of the park with our three picks, #32, #54 and #58. We'll get a top 10 pick (most likely next season as well.) I am ready to watch Yzerman, the fans and the City of Detroit to rub their noses in the stink pile of "fix" they have created! Suck it uncle gary! Time to move to the 2020 off season thread because with Z's LTIR, we have $42M to spend, then add the compliance buyout (or two) we'll be nearing $48M or more in cap! Bring in a 27 year old big name difference maker, it won't be long!

Yea this is pretty much how I feel. Even when the Wings do come back though, I'm not sure how much more I feel like watching the rebuild be artificially dragged out by a s***ty system. I have other hobbies I actually enjoy, turns out I can live without hockey.

This is basically where I am at. I'm fully on board seeing these playoffs not only not happen, but I am all for another lockout or strike. f*** these owners.

I'm not calling it good drafting, I'm calling it a necessary part of the "path to glory."

Absolutely. You want to hit on some later round picks, but you also have to hit on the early picks. It kind of defeats the purpose if we get a Nikita Kucherov with our late second round pick, but a Slater Koekkoek with our first pick... I don't care what picks we hit on, but the best shot at getting our Kucherov, is with the 4th overall pick. We also need 2-3 more of our 10 picks to turn out. I don't care if they come in the 2nd or 7th rounds... This.

I'm hoping for Kucherovs and Points, and even Palats. I've said it before but this is the path to glory. Good drafting outside of the first round. Specifically mid-second onward.

It was a joke... We were all hoping for the number one pick, to take Lafreniere. If not one, two or three to take Byfield or Stutzle. We dropped all the way to four, but I think there's a pretty good chance that we could still get our guy (Stutzle), if one of LA or Ottawa take Drysdale in the top three. I'm hoping for Stutzle at 4, and Gunler at 32...

With our luck, we'll finally get a 1st overall pick in a year where the projected pick is someone like Nugent-Hopkins or Hishier.

Believe me, if I thought my attitude, or posts on LGW would have any impact on the way the draft lottery is run, you'd hear a much different tune... But yeah, I completely agree with Burke on this one as well. I too wish Yzerman would voice his opinion on the matter. Sure, he's disappointed, but he should be pissed about the way the whole thing went down. It is absolutely asinine that the "play-in" teams together had better odds of winning the lottery, than the worst team in the league...

I know I'm done... I will not watch or consume anything NHL "league" related atleast until the Wings play again and maybe not for some time... if Lafreniere ends up on a team in our division, a team that is, by default already far better that we are... well never say never but it'll be EFFING close if I engage with the league outside of this board again.

24 out of 31 owners love this outcome. Majority rule,

Grant mckagg is saying his scouts contacts are telling him they all love jake sanderson and are really high on him and not to be surprised to see him in the top 5 and predicts the redwings to draft him .... f*** this draft lol Redwings pretty much sure to get one of 3 stud forwards to talks of sanderson and perfetti now , can 2020 just end