You need to have the major pieces in place and then fill it in. You will never have everything at the get go ( except Vegas, the team built over a weekend it appears ). But that's where the good drafting and developing comes in.
So if we had Tavares and let's say Hanifin paired with Weber, and a good pool of prospects, including at C and PMDs, then there would be hope of a contender.
I am not an MB supporter in the least, but the reality is when he came aboard , we had a pool of prospects that produced nothing. Not drafting centres , which is how teams get 90% of their top 6Cs has been an enormous disaster, as has not going for the high talent at every pick. Tbis failure has continued under MB for the most part.
We have a magnificent opportunity here with our bag load of high draft picks and hopefully at least another on the way. Unless it is to move up, we need to use all of these picks on talented guys so we can finally have a prospect pool that does not rank at the league bottom. Also hopefully a couple of guys are able to show top half ability, be it a Scherbak, Hudon , Lehkonen, Mete, Juulsen etc. We have some prospects who give us some hope as well, particularly from last year's draft.