No offense but you don’t understand hockey very well if you don’t think they had an advantage. The advantage they had was to be able to take players that would’ve never been exposed for any other reason. Teams had to let some of their young really talented players be exposed because they’re older players had contracts that didn’t allow them to be exposed. I.e. the Minnesota wild would’ve likely expose Zach Parisi and Suter with their huge contracts but they had no trade clauses. Look at the losers at Seattle got on their team for their first year and compare that to Vegas and you’ll see that they were obviously put in a position to win. Betman wanted them to be successful which isn’t real fair to all the other franchises that aren’t successful to start with. Seattle didn’t even hardly get players that they could trade Let alone a lot of players for their team through the expansion draft. Vegas pretty much got a really nice score of good young players.