"We have our identity and I'm not going to sway from that because a bigger, heavy team won," he said. "I talk about building around the edges. Ondrej Palat is a heavy player. You watch the growth of (forward prospect) Nolan Foote ... whenever he's ready, he's a bigger, stronger player (6-foot-3, 196 pounds). I do believe in the big, mobile defensemen who can move pucks, take your time and space away. Vegas had a fourth line that was extremely important to their success this year. I know our top players understand that every player on our team is important to success and those guys want to make as much money as they can, but if everybody up top takes all the money, then I'm not sure what our bottom looks like.