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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
It worked with Vegas because they had talent and those guys got taken in a expansion draft so they had a chip on their shoulder.
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That is highly misleading. Vegas is a unicorn of expansion teams. No expansion team before or since has had the luck that Vegas had with the players that were available or the bonehead moves that GMs made to try to protect certain players.
The fact that Columbus gift wrapped a 1st and a 2nd to Vegas so that they would take Karlsson and Florida gave R.Smith and a 4th to take Marchessault is bonkers.
Lessons were learnt because of how hard Vegas took advantage of the other GMs and by the time we got to the Seattle expansion, the results were nowhere near the same.
The expectation is that future expansions would look more like the Kraken and never again like Golden Knights.