harmfuljays wrote:
Obviously I didn't understand that at all. Why were teams in the playoffs the only balls drafting first? That's just weird.
Anyway looks like Broadway bound. Rags with the first pick.
I don't think they wanted it this way, but that's what happens when you widen the possibilities of who gets that first overall pick to discourage tanking. I get that they wanted these qualifiers to be a sort of condensed version of the regular season all vying for a playoff spot. But it set up for a very strange and awkward scenario where we had to wait to figure out who gets first overall.
Where the league screwed up is in 2016 after Buffalo and Edmonton embarrassed the league with their blantant tank show for McDavid. Really, they could've just kept the rules the same because both teams proved you simply can't do that and expect to jump right back in a hurry. But they overreacted and now you're getting wildly erratic results.
Whatever. Rangers sure as hell don't deserve Lafrieniere, but it's not really about which team "deserves" him. If they can't make a winner out of him, Kakko, Panarin, Zibanejad, Fox, Trouba, and Shestyorkin, they should fire EVERYONE. And something tells me they'll find a way to fuck this up.
Personally I would've liked the Pens to end up with him. Seeing him line up alongside one of those centers would've been really fun to see. But I suppose watching Panarin do his thing might be similar.