Draft Lottery: Scratched. What’s next for the Nashville Predators? | On the Forecheck
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Winners and losers from First Phase of the 2020 NHL Draft Lottery | Sportsnet.ca
This seems like as good a time as any to bring up the question of gold drafting again. It feels like it must be a better way to disincentivize tanking than just leaving fans of teams that, not to put too fine a point upon it, sucked this year to curse the lottery balls--again, and again, and again. This year it's the Red Wings and their fans who are suffering, but there've been at least three cases over the last six years--the Avalanche with their own pick, the Avalanche with the Senators' pick, and the Red Wings--where a team with a truly awful record lost the lottery three straight times.