Kane was never going to come to Las Vegas.
I'm guessing they're not as worried about ego/personality as they were with the expansion draft, but I don't see them making that 180 degree turn for an Evander Kane, not at this point in the first season.
GMGM isn't a genius at all, but he, McCrimmon, and all the scouts have performed (and perhaps outperformed) as well as anyone else could have expected. I've got the benefit of never really caring all that much about any of this executive stuff prior to a few years ago, so I can evaluate GMGM on what he's done, and he's done fine by me so far. I'm not even really all that worried about Tatar overpayment.
I'll admit I'm glad the EK thing didn't happen though, that seemed like a way to decimate a franchise if he's not actually EK anymore.