Dee Lux DX7's World of Hockey

God, I am sick of people whining about the draft lottery and tanking. No system is perfect, nothing in the world is...sorry to break that news to you so late in life but this is THE BEST WAY TO ENSURE A CYCLING OF THE TOP TEAMS,  that is to say, that a team that sucked last season will be on the road to improving next season, What's your alternative? The worst teams have no realistic way of improving? Can you not see the inevitable outcome of that? Franchise retraction, closing of businesses, loss of jobs, shrinking of the hockey market Now guess what? Fewer of those kids you were so concerned about will ever be employed in professional hockey, there is no way a franchise who is stuck at the bottom with no viable means of improving attracts the entertainment dollar of the market in which it is located.....teams FOLD You see, this is not Charlie and the Chocolate factory, a mystical playground for hockey kids to float from cloud to cloud singi...

"To the loser goes the spoils" Thusly have top draft picks been awarded to pro sports teams in the modern era, little or no vitriol has been aimed at the system due to the fact that well,......it works. Historically there have been a few embarrassing hiccups along the way, such as the New Jersey Devils and Pittsburg Penguins playing the last game of the season for Mario Lemuiex, but for ther most part in an imperfect world. The system worked and life went on...... Enter the Edmonton Oilers, in a streak of failure unprecedented in major pro-sports the bumbling boobs given rein ton operate this once proud sports franchise had them winning first round 1st overalls almost every year for the past several. They were unable to get their short bus out from being stuck in the mud.no matter how many future superstars they acquired to help them push. It began to feel as if Edmonton were a black hole at the top of the losers food chain into whom ...