I agree with your sentiment but the flip side of that is you will get some teams that honestly just plain suck and get buried forever due to bad draft luck. Imagine a horrible team (us lol) drafting 12, 23,10, and 15, the last four years.
That's true but it definitely helps if they are also good at hockey. Gaunce knows the game but he's a major pedestrian out there that contributes nothing other than keeping the other team off the score-sheet. A good trait no doubt but not good enough with nothing else to offer.