In my opinion, opening the bank to two players doesn’t make for a winning team.
This is not an unreasonable take.
The issue it presents is that you then have two options:
1) you negotiate drai down to some number via hardball and hope that he takes it, or he walks for nothing.
2) you accept you can't meet his terms and move him for something.
The first option is basically catastrophic to the current team. McDavid will almost certainly walk. The second option you might get some roster players back and hope that satisfies McDavid. However, you're hoping some of the worst collected front office in existence can get some kind of fair value for Drai.
I don't really see how either of those choices and outcomes make a winning team either. So in that case I'd just run back the known quantity of MCdrai at 30M and try to figure out the rest. If you don't have a winning team either way, might as well start with 2 top 5 players and experiment with the rest of the patchwork than start with a patchwork and try to find superstars.