Creativity is messy. Sigmund Freud navigated the competitive terrain of the famous Vienna General Hospital with the help of a cocaine addiction. Adolf Butenandt, one of the fathers of endocrinoloy, had to first isolate steroids by getting a bunch of urine at a police barracks. And George McPhee, the general manager of the Las Vegas Golden Knights, gets to make a hockey team from scratch by taking a scalpel to each current NHL roster.
The effect of expansion is hard to understate. McPhee used to be the general manager of a Washington Capitals club that has been relatively strong for over a decade.