Stickytape
New member
Carolina picked up a pity point tonight, putting them 5 points up with a game in hand. (They win ties, so it's really more like a 4 point cushion.)
Tank Nation UNITE!!!
- Thread starter sickbeast
- Start date
- Status
LuncheonMeat
New member
RedLeaf said:
A good old fashioned beat down by the Lightning tomorrow night should fix that.
Kin
New member
RedLeaf said:
Maybe it doesn't. But we don't know for sure Strome is going at #4 either. Or, again, if he is there at 4 if the Leafs would take him. Maybe they like Marner. Maybe they don't like Strome.
Seems odd to get worked up about how their finish impacts their odds to take a particular player when there's no guarantee they take him anywhere.
I am content with the Leafs finishing at least 4th last, which means the worse they could pick is 5th, which means the likely get one of McDavid, Eichel, Hanifin, Strome or Marner. I just didn't want them to finish 5th and possibly fall to 6th pick. Because after the top 5 mentioned above, I wasn't really sold on who to pick 6th.
GhostofPotvin29
New member
There's still a couple minutes left so knock on wood, but Oilers look like they're going to win again.
Potvin29 said:
Congrats for not jinxing it. 3 points back, technically 4. 6 games left. Anything could happen.
GhostofPotvin29
New member
Can't believe the Leafs still have a winning record at home.
Kin
New member
http://grantland.com/the-triangle/how-to-fix-the-nhls-disastrous-tanking-situation/
Good article by DGB about ideas to fix the current run of Tanking. Some neat ideas in there, specifically the Gold idea and Zach Lowe's Wheel.
Good article by DGB about ideas to fix the current run of Tanking. Some neat ideas in there, specifically the Gold idea and Zach Lowe's Wheel.
Al14
New member
Nik the Trik said:
I'd personally like to see a move towards more of a free market system for player distribution. I think the players should have a say in where they end up being employed coming into the league. Come on, every college graduate has the right to choose employers, why not hockey players?
How to implement this? Not sure. Maybe some sort of a ranking/matching/bidding system?
Kin
New member
Al14 said:
I agree that a move like that would be the way to go. I've kicked around an idea for something like that in my head that would essentially be based on the idea of Baseball's system where teams have a total bonus pool determined by where they finish they can give to draft picks but unlike Baseball you wouldn't actually draft players, you'd just make them offers.
So say Buffalo finishes dead last and has a 6 million dollar bonus pool for first rounders. Then say, a team like Chicago has 750,000 dolllars. Both teams could make the offer to McDavid, or all 30 could, and he could decide whether he wanted to get paid or be on a great team. If Buffalo loses out? They have 6 million they could offer, in whole or part, to other top prospects.
Alternately what you could do is something somewhat similar to what Baseball did back when they had a "Free Agency Draft" where McDavid could be drafted by a certain number of teams and then he could choose between them.
Or even, what if you did away with the draft entirely? The cap will enforce parity, after that what difference does it make?
WhatIfGodWasALeaf
Active member
Soccer basically has had this since the Bosman ruling, it gave players at all ages the option to choose their future
Go one way or another. Either abolish the draft entirely or keep some small lottery for the worst teams. If a team wants to blow a season away in hopes it'll improve their future I say let them.
Redleaf
Active member
Well, I really hope the Leafs got the winning out of their system the past two games, because we really don't want them slipping to the 5th pick position, or even the 6th if they slide down after the lottery. That would really suck not getting someone in that top 4-5 range, especially with all the sucking we've already had to endure this season.
- Status