majormajor
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Vegas is an exception because of how McPhee worked the expansion draft but ironically time is running out and his poor drafting since appears to be catching up with them. Florida hasn't won anything. Colorado's core was largely drafted including arguably the two best players at their position in the NHL, which is precisely what I mean about engineering a team with proficiency.
If the goal is to find the best players at their position in the NHL (it should be), then you can discard the whole rest of the business about team need. Does Ottawa have the best players at their position at LD or RD? At C or W? No and no.
I didn't say teams don't trade or work FA. I said this is a secondary play when drafting is less than 100% proficient. A team built with 100% efficiency would be entirely assembled through the draft and this should be the goal of every team at every draft. It's in fact the whole point when running a franchise. The job gets harder and harder the less efficiently you draft.
That would be an entirely theoretical exercise, and I think it would distract a team from just getting the best players. As we see in Florida, Colorado, and Vegas, you don't need to fill every lineup hole through the draft, or even 90% of them.