$500M to enter the League will give you a competitive team; expansion or not. They're not the traditional expansion team.
they are breh,
just that now with a salary cap and the rules, teams were offering up players that would never be offered before
marc andre fleury was a top 5 goalie in the nhl, but he was making like 6 mill, pens went with youngr cheaper matt murray
a guy like james neal a former 40 goal sniper, preds couldn't afford him
and they got young dudes who were buried on their former teams