It’s not a bailout or being handed a pick. No Red Wings fan asked to be handed first overall because that isn’t the system that is in place. The system that was in place didn’t allow for the “top” eight best/worst teams in the league to bundle their chances together to draft first overall and then have another lottery after the fact.
Ottawa and Detroit owned three of the top five spots going into the lottery and walked away with #3,#4, and #5. That isn’t a well thought out outcome. And I won’t even begin to address your tired points that Detroit’s previous success precludes them from being entitled to normal lottery rules.
They played by the rules every step of the way, were punished for spending money pre cap, punished for signing players to legal deals and now punished for being bad enough to need a top pick but not good enough to be part of an eight team block with insane combined odds to draft 1st overall.
