A) you’re living in hypotheticals. Not in reality. You definitely can build a team with lower picks. But where are these players? Are you seeing them, cause I don’t. You use Vancouver, Tampa, Dallas, Boston as examples. Where is our Robertson, Hintz, Heidkanen, Kucherov, Hedman, Petterson, Miller, Hughes, Pastrnak, McCavoy, etc.? NYR got Panarin and Fox in ways that we never will
This team is devoid of elite talent. It’s painfully obvious. They are in the part of the cycle where they can play some young players and get a few top picks to speed up the rebuild. Why slap some lipstick on a pig in the form of Chandler Stevenson? Instead be intellectually honest and realize this team needs to stockpile talent for a few years.