Turgeon suspended 20 games now (and isn't a very good player), Haapala only played 20 games and now is back in Finland, Buckles retired, Beauchemin (invited to dev camp and signed to an AHL deal) has been back and forth between the ECHL and AHL, Kurker, Brown, and Greg Chase are ECHLers. Mamin is up with the NHL club.
The only good players on the team right now are Valk, Hawryluk, Grenier, Hunt, Greco. Lammikko is good too but not in the same sense as those guys. Byron is a good bottom-6 guy but he's injured.
On defense, Erixon, Fayne are vets but I don't think they've been great. Fortunus, another vet, but he's a pushover. Brown is still learning, Schemitsch is still raw in my opinion. Downing learning too and is now in the ECHL. Wittchow is also still young. Bystrom is above average and Hamilton is actually a decent player but this is only his 1st pro season.
Overall, it's a lot of youth, inexperience, injuries combined into one team. The vets are OK, but they're not great.
The team is a lot like FLA...a handful of guys at the top doing their jobs, but not enough of a supporting cast to help them out. Just like FLA, when things click, they're a good team, but it doesn't happen every night. Take away the bad start to the season and their record isn't half bad.
Farnham has been getting a lot of quality minutes and Wittchow was being used as a forward for a while, but they didn't have much of a choice. I don't think Kinnear is the problem.