The smartest way to think about it is building a team like the NHL Draft. Las Vegas is going to want fairly young guys, but with tons of upside and skill. If the team they are plucking a person off of doesn't have those two criteria they will go with a veteran leader that is most likely in the back half of his twenties/early thirties.
Perron - E.Staal - Gionta
Raffl - Filppula - Brouwer
Calvert - Plekanec - Chiasson
King - C. Wilson - Grabner
Myers - A.Greene
Edler - Brodin
Dillon - J. Schultz
Halak
Howard
I found it really tough to protect a lot of players that I didn't know enough about. For example, I didn't protect Brodin because Minnesota would protect Suter, Dumba and Spurgeon. Brodin would be a 4th, which would make sense but then you don't get to protect their forwards.