Definitely not
Name all these 30 teams that had 1 top 6 player, and 0 top pairing Dman
Jones is a top pairing Dman
Mrazek is a real goalie.
There's terrible, but there's plenty of company with teams that had neither.
It's not straight talent either. Ownership has decimated more teams than gms ever could.
This year's sharks are just as bad but have managed to stay out of the terribly terrible all time stat categories since their start. 21' Ducks. 07 BJs, a bunch of Ott, Buf, AZ, and FLA teams. 07 Flyers, 20' Detroit, 17 Van, 15 Devils trainwreck from ownership down, etc. Is Radulov talent, Semin in Carolina, those were subtraction by addition on rosters in many cases.
This ownership still takes care of the players with all the bells and whistles too. It's not like TB in Torts last year when they're gutting the depth and taking the floor out as they get ready to sell in an already toxic situation.
Hawks are terrible, but there's been alot of terrible the last 19 seasons.