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An NHL Draft proposal so crazy it might work

Over the weekend, Mark Spector of the Hockey News wrote a piece calling on the NHL to intervene in the draft order to prevent the Edmonton Oilers from securing another No. 1 overall draft pick. This led to discussion over Twitter as to the validity of the idea, and how the draft lottery could be better reformed.

Much of this talk was prevalent last season, as a handful of teams tanked for the right to draft Connor McDavid. I wrote a piece on The Faceoff Circle last March about how the draft lottery could be reformed.