Draft lottery. Only the top 5 worst teams can get the nr.1 pick, with the worst team having the best chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
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Draft lottery. Only the top 5 worst teams can get the nr.1 pick, with the worst team having the best chance.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
Aah... ok. Cheers for the info Garry.Quote:
Originally Posted by Garry Walker
No GM with half a brain would ask his players to tank games to win more chances in the draft lottery. The lottery came about because it was rumoured that that Quebec Nordiques (now Av's) did this one year (not likely, they just sucked!) and Ottawa Senators (ditto but their kooky owner at the time I know came out and said something about hoping they would lose) all but did.Quote:
Originally Posted by A.F.F.
In retrospect, both teams were just full of young guys or no talent journeymen trying to hang onto a career but the NHL decided to remove the temptation.
The lottery is no sure thing. If you are in LAST in the league, you have about a 50% chance of getting the first pick. If you are second last, it works out to about 20%. Third last? About 10% The last 5 teams are the only ones eligible to get that first pick, and the draft lottery guarntee's that last team at least a top 3 pick no matter how the balls fall out of the lottery tumbler. So the worst the Islanders (if they stay in last) will do is a 3rd pick overall.
So there is no point really into tanking for that 1st pick because the odds are still only even on getting that pick.
No GM would ever really be sane if he asked his players to lose. The players are not wired mentally to tank games, and if they were, you would be a fool to sign them.
Now, icing a bad team full of earnest young guys who don't have the talent to stick around, but will try anyhow? THAT is legal, see the Nordiques and first year Senators or Lightning. Or the 74/75 Capitals, a truly DREADFUL team.
Personally, it galls me that the Islanders will yet again likely have a shot at the number one pick. That owner has allowed his franchise to be a laughing stock for years by their stunning ability to trade away good players for bad, and trade away draft choices. The ones they have kept have been dismal failures. The fact my favourite Junior player, John Tavares is likely to end up there just grinds away at justice. Charles Wang, the owner of the Isles should sell the team to someone with a clue......because Wang hasn't had one in YEARS....
World Championship starts tomorrow!!! Divison 2 anyway.
BTCC...you English have a team in the Division 2 tourney?
The world's is an also ran event really in many ways. I felt that way years ago and I think even more so now. The best players are NOT always there, and the national teams often have little time to become teams. Ideally the NHL would kill off the league for a month once every 4 years and have a proper World Cup. THAT would be the best way to determine all of this, but the IIHF like their money so the "World's" wont go away.
The World Junior Tourney works like this and while some might dispute because Canada wins all the time, that is why I like it but Canada has struggled at times in this tourney. What it has proven tho is when a team is picked, given 2 or 3 weeks to prepare, and then put in a decent format, this format produces excellent hockey.
Oh I agree 100% with what you are saying but for a country like us it is a big event because it gives us the chance if we can gain promotion to compete with the likes of USA, Finalnd, Canada and Sweden. I'm sure we are still a country mile off the standard of the nations I have just named but since the formation of the Elite League in 2003 British Ice Hockey has risen spectacularly in standard.
We are in Division 1 so we are within touching distance of the big time, we just need one more big push. Yesterday we lost 4-2 to Ukraine which was probably to be expected but next up is Italy and I've got a felling we could suprise afew people.
Ukraine can be a bitch to play against. So having lost 4-2 is a pretty good achievement from England :up: Best of luck against Italy.
First round pairs are ready to rumble. If my wish was to be fullfilled, Habs, Rangers, Carolina and Philly from east and Ducks, Detroit, Canucks and Calgary from west would continue to the second round :D
Italy 5-2 Great Britain
We have Romania tomorrow, it's a must win to keep up any hopes of promotion.
1. Italy 6
2. Poland 6
3. Ukraine 6
4. Great Britain 0
5. Netherlands 0
6. Romania 0
Well If I was going to handicap those 6 nations, that would be the order I think they would be in. Italy can give good teams fits as can the Polish and the Ukraine. I hope in a few years Great Britain can be in the conversation of teams making it to the top division....Quote:
Originally Posted by BTCC2
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Originally Posted by A.F.F.
I want to see the Bruins, Caps, Pens, and Hurricanes in the East, in the west ? Go Flames, Go Canucks, after that....It really doesn't matter.