Tuesday, April 8, 2008

NHL Draft Lottery: Aftermath

So, Tampa wins the lottery and has first dibs at a conspicuously not-that-fired-up-about-south-Florida Stamkos.

The Bolts' tank over the last stretch of the season and the Kings' meaningless points accumulated largely thanks to the suddenly prolific Brian Willsie flipped the expected draft order.

This is not a very elegant system, and probably why GMs send someone their fan bases like to the lottery show instead of showing up themselves. It'd just be a little too weird to watch a GM coming off being the architect of the worst team in the league celebrate winning the consolation prize. The GMs whose squads have been out of contention for three months shouldn't even get a year's supply of Cup o' Noodles, let alone a slot in the Showcase Showdown.

No comments:

Post a Comment