Its not bull****, it essentially works out the exact same way as the regular lottery. What you are saying is essentially this: last year Chicago won the lottery to move from 12th to 3rd. So since they won they should redo their lotto win so teams that didnt win get a 2nd chance.

But teams 1-7 are not involved in the second lottery draft which is why I am calling it bull****.

But thats the point, they didnt win the initial lottery, the pick was won by Team "x" from the play in round. Why do the 1-7 teams that didnt win get a 2nd chance?

I still sense an Alex-Tuch-for-RD trade . . .

Be prepared for the Wayne train. I guarantee Botts will bring him back.

He’s so bad..

hes just stupid its ok

Bottom 7 teams have nothing to complain about. Their lottery chances are the exact same as they would be in a regular season

if you get a chance at the cup you shouldnt have any chance at the lotto

You douchebag, it should be done after the qualifying rounds are over. If you have a chance at the cup you shouldn’t have a chance to win the lottery.

EXACTLY, THANK YOU

The chance at the cup also allows you to go from a top 10 pick to bottom 15 so its a double edged sword. with the bottom 7 and top 8 teams you have the only guarantee in the league, a smart man always takes the guarantee over the 50/50 bet

That's not BS at all...think about it, your giving the sabres, of they don't get that first pick 2 chances at a top 3 pick...so the sabres will have 2 chances to get a pic...meaning that out of the bottom 7 all the teams that don't get the lottery are like hey let's get a second chance which is unfair to the other 8...

Every team that starts the season gets a chance at the cup, what they are doing it playing out the "rest of the season" in a couple games, meaning that if MTL beat PIT...then essentially it's like saying Pit lost and dropped out of the wildcard and MTL moved up into a Wild Card, if that makes sense to you. So the 8 teams that miss the Wild card in the first round, Example Pittsburgh... They would then be given a chance at the lottery, meaning that they would probably be the 15th pick by point percentage, so they would have very low chance of getting a pick in the top3 let alone #1.



Exactly...


It is "after the qualifying rounds are over" technically. Did you watch the video? So im MTL right and I lose to PIT, v realistic. And out of the top 3 #3 is won by a placemarker...so MTL enters a lottery where they have pretty much the highest odds to get that #3 placemarker pick...that make sens

Same with the 8 that miss in Wildcard...I think how they figured this out is actually very fair considering.

And a legit playoff team having a bad series off a three month standstill, gets eliminated from the contention round and get a top 3 pick. Sounds about right. (Pittsburgh, Carolina, Toronto, Islanders, Oilers, Canucks, Predators)

Yeah they probably do deserve it, Everyone of those teams played like dog **** at one point or another this year. And again thats why they have lower odds then the teams that didn't make it.

They were not given a win 4 rounds and youre in the finals chance at the cup. You could argue i have a chance at the cup at the start of every season as well, by that logic

Just to clarify your statement, you are saying Tuch is ‘so bad’?

So...your a NHL team? The season didn't continue... So teams just out of the playoffs would have technically had a chance to make the playoffs right? Last year STL would have probably been put of a playoff spot at this time in the season. To be fair to the teams with a chance 4 right below the wildcard in terms of point percentage where given a chance at a series vs a team, the farther away (MTL) face the best team (PIT) that simulates, in a bit very realistic but best way possible for now, the difficulty of moving up into the playoffs. Yes IK it was decreased from 20 games to 5 or whatever it is, but I hope that makes sense. After you finish those games you will have a normal playoffs 16team bracket that is just as normal as it is every year. I hope your logic can take in this.

Instead of having a three week training camp they should really just finish the ****ing regular season instead of this ****in nonsense!

They really needed to finish the regular season somehow so the draft stayed normal, this is so ****ed up.

Me too, imo the biggest flaw is the decreasing playoff odds for teams like PIT who were more likely to make the playoffs in the regular season than in a best of 5 series vs MTL, but this isn't a perfect system. The league did a pretty good job overall considering the circumstances. Especially the lottery which was very well done in terms of fairness

There is a very low chance of that happening. Also, that was a possibility even before this new format was announced. None of those teams were guaranteed a playoff spot so it's quite possible they could've missed the playoffs and won the lottery even if the season was never cancelled

Its 2020, i identify as an NHL team. Are you saying my identity is not valid to you? Ugh, typical racists

😂

It was already stupid that a team could narrowly miss the playoffs & still pick in the top 3

Now a team that actually makes the playoffs has a shot?
That’s bullsh!t, period

Going forward:
I’d like to see it stay at 24 teams in the playoffs
Only teams that miss get a shot at the playoffs, and can only move up a max of 3 spots