Emily Kaplan, national NHL reporter: The NHL lottery system isn't broken -- but it's also not ideal. The good news: there's a completely different format that would serve the league better. It's not my idea. Rather, it was first suggested in 2012 at the Sloan Analytics Conference by Adam Gold, then a PhD Candidate in Statistics at the University of Missouri. Even better: it was endorsed by then-Arizona Coyotes captain Shane Doan around 2016, which gave it some momentum, at least in media circles.
Here's what it entails: scrap the idea of total season records.