We should now flip Tarasenko for firsts. Panarin, Zib, Kreider and Fox are all expensive, trade them for firsts. Igor will be too expensive next contracts, so get as many firsts as we can. Basically if the team isn't TBL or last year Colorado level, then scrap it and do it again until you hit. May take 150 years, whatever.
But more seriously, what the hell is the effective difference between a 2nd and a late 1st? There is a cap, it is what it is, you have to TRY. This era of NYR will never be TBL level, or last year's Col level of team building perfection, so we just turtle until maybe we become that?