That could happen but you also would most likely have a bunch of teams calling Minny because they don’t know where they will pick and they may be really in love with a certain prospect in the draft and they don’t know where they will be picked. In most drafts teams have a good idea of what teams would pick what players based on where they are picking. It may not be current players being traded but picks and prospects.

Yeah something like that but you could have it all electrical so it rolls threw all the teams then stays on the one that got the pick. This way the computer could remove the team after being selected so you don’t pick the same team multiple times

So TOR for example gives up a 2nd and Liljegren to get the 14th OV pick, then they win the 15th OV pick, and the trade they made was 100% unnecessary.

You can't have franchise altering decisions being made in 5 min windows cause it would make for good TV.

They would still have the 14th and 15th pick in that scenario. You also don’t know if the other team would have picked the player you want. Also why can’t you growth of the game is always more important that a single teams needs

OK, you win, it is your dream scenario.

I'm sure teams will make dozen of trades effecting their teams for the next 10+ years, not having a single clue of what's coming, as we all know trades are as easy in real life as they are in chel.

As a Pens fan, I would be thrilled to have a draft like that since our pick is lottery protected and it would be awesome to get a chance to draft Lafreniere or Byfield. Two franchise changing cornerstones.

Nah. The best team in the NHL doesn't deserve a top 25 pick, let alone a top 5 pick

I was thinking, if the Pens win the cup with Murray starting in goal, they can trade him for the 1st overall pick anyway.

For you people old enough to remember the TV show Dallas. They had a filmed a season without one of the main characters, (I believe he hadn't signed a contract)., so they him die. The season wasn't that satisfactory without him. So they signed him, and brought him back...but how do you bring back a dead character?
Well you make the previous season just a dream that his wife had.
I'm hoping to wait wake from Covid 19 and the bad worldly events.
I'm hoping the NHL doesn't play this season and has the draft/lottery based on the suspended end of season standings.

Like Roseanne

just do it by win/points percentage. also HOW did you get two josh baileys (dont delete it)

I feel like this is overcomplicating things too much. I think the easiest way to go about it is to have a normal lottery with the teams that don't get to the 24-team playoffs, as well as the teams that lose in the 1st round of this year's playoffs (the play-in round).

I also don't think the idea of doing the draft lottery at the same time makes sense since there's a lot of logistics that go into picks (for example teams only interview guys they think they'll be able to draft at the combine) and as lots of people on here are saying, trades are part of what makes the draft fun. Also from the NHL and TV provider's POV, the lottery is an opportunity for higher ratings. I doubt they'd want to merge that with the draft, another popular event.



This screws the Sens haaaaaaard. Jeez



Didn't the NHL have some system like that in place? Bc in 2011 the Devils "won" the lottery but ended up picking 4th.

Also, the draft isn't happening in June. The NHL wants to finish this season and right now (based on what we know), we only have 7 teams that we can pencil in as lottery teams. The season isn't going to start until late June at the earliest IMO so there's no way the teams agree to a June draft.

But this doesn't really grow the game as much as it is a TV gimmick. This would affect all the teams in the league.

Lol no way. TBL gets #6 but SJS has #31? That's just unfair