NHL Draft Lottery Rules Possibly Changing

[Brawndo]

 

[Thorner]

Good! 

[Marvin]

Just now, Brawndo said:

They took pity on us?

[jad1]

13 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

 

So if the worst team in the league wins the lottery, is that considered a 'win'?

If that's the case, the Sabres are probably  screwed. 🤔

[miles]

21 minutes ago, Marvin, Sabres Fan said:

They took pity on us?

I think the opposite. if your team is consistently garbage, you cant keep winning the first pick

[Scottysabres]

This looks like the NHL protecting the players potential futures. I wonder if Dahlin, Reinhart and Eichel have secretly hired lobbying firms for this 😄

[Brawndo]

 

[Brawndo]

 

[Thorner]

Honestly bad teams at the “top” of the draft can now fall less spots, and be leapfrogged by less potential teams. As someone who doesn’t want a lottery at all I like the changes. 

[jad1]

1 minute ago, Brawndo said:

 

Finally! Everything is coming up Sabres!

[Thorner]

Also how is it the Kakko/Lafreniere rule? They’d have needed a third win for this to affect them 

[Thwomp!]

38 minutes ago, Thorny said:

Also how is it the Kakko/Lafreniere rule? They’d have needed a third win for this to affect them 

That will be this year.  That's why they're changing it for next. 😉

[Curt]

These rule changes would not have affected Buffalo’s drafts.  In the past 7 years, they have moved up in the draft order zero times and won the lottery once.

These draft lottery changes seem like they add quite a bit of complexity for a pretty minor alteration.  Has any team ever even moved up in the lottery 3 times in 5 years?  How many times has a team moved up more than 10 spots?  All I can think of is philly doing it in 2017.  Seems like the main change is that the worst team can only fall to #3.

Edited March 8, 2021 by Curt

[Thorner]

23 minutes ago, Curt said:

These rule changes would not have affected Buffalo’s drafts.  In the past 7 years, they have moved up in the draft order zero times and won the lottery once.

These draft lottery changes seem like they add quite a bit of complexity for a pretty minor alteration.  Has any team ever even moved up in the lottery 3 times in 5 years?  How many times has a team moved up more than 10 spots?  All I can think of is philly doing it in 2017.  Seems like the main change is that the worst team can only fall to #3.

The Sabres haven’t been leapfrogged by any team below 10? 

I’m pretty sure they have 

Edited March 8, 2021 by Thorny

[Thorner]

Any winner of 1, 2, or 3 that came from a spot below buffalo and below 10 would not have been able to do so 

Pretty sure just last year “team E” wouldn’t have qualified and we’d have picked 7th 

[Curt]

7 minutes ago, Thorny said:

Any winner of 1, 2, or 3 that came from a spot below buffalo and below 10 would not have been able to do so 

Pretty sure just last year “team E” wouldn’t have qualified and we’d have picked 7th 

Well, the tweet says can’t jump more than 10 spots, not that a team below 10th can’t move up.

So a team at 11 could move up to 1-3, 12 could move up to 2-3, 13 could move up to 3.  I guess they are doing away with the lottery for 3rd though.

Oh yeah, totally forgot about the Rangers.  So Rangers and Philly have done it.

But when I said that their drafts wouldn’t have been affected, I really just meant that they wouldn’t have been prevented from drafting high at any point.  Just to illustrate that these changes aren’t “anti Sabres”.  Poor wording on my part though.

[OhMyDahlin]

Just in time for the Shane Wright draft, eh? That should be fun when he ends up in New York.