After last year’s ‘fiasco’ where the Rangers got lucky in a flawed draft system, the NHL is looking to change things up with the draft lottery. I jest a bit, since there have been teams calling for changes to the draft lottery for a while. However the timing seems suspect, since it comes barely six months after the Rangers won two lotteries in a row. The proposed changes are clearly designed to avoid that:
The NHL is proposing changes to the draft lottery that would see:
* teams limited to no more than two lottery wins in a five-year period
* teams only allowed to jump 10 spots with a lottery win
* a reduction in the number of picks decided by lottery from three to two— Chris Johnston (@reporterchris) March 8, 2021
I do jest about this being about the Rangers.