Teams in the OHL, WHL and QMJHL are almost always either loading up for a championship or tearing it down to the studs, with little in between. It's time to address the parity problem and make the playoffs more interesting.
The OHL will hold an in-person draft for the first time in the 21st century Friday night in Kingston, and you won't be able to keep up without a program.
That even goes for the teams involved.
With a flurry of deals, the number of draft picks being exchanged is mind-boggling and bad for parity.
For example, not a single team owns its own third-round pick. And with no caps on the number of trades teams can make, GMs are almost always in one of two modes – either loading up for a championship or tearing it down to the studs and rebuilding, with almost nothing in between.
It creates a situation of haves and have-nots that makes the playoffs almost completely upset-proof and about as unpredictable as an episode of Three's Company.
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