You saw the part where I said "a few guys hit career years that season", right? Virtually none of those guys managed seasons like that before or since. They caught lightning in a bottle coming out of the lockout. That's not "lack of forward talent", that's "lack of serendipitous blessing by the Hockey Gods."
That would suggest that Lavi doesn't know how to use the blueline to start offense. That is a very bad thing and if true would mandate his prompt replacement.
Again, that was a fluke year for most of those forwards.
EDIT: Let's look at the top six scoring forwards on that team, shall we?
Eric Staal: 100 points in 82 games at age 20; this was his second season in the NHL. He never reached 100 points again in his career (the closest he got was two PPG seasons a little while later).
Justin Williams: 76 points in 82 games as a 23-year-old. His prior high was 40. The year after that he had 67 points in as many games, and he never got anywhere close to that ever again.
Cory Stillman: 76 points in 72 games at age 31. The year prior he'd managed 80 points in 81 games with Tampa Bay. Those were far and away the best years of his career; he never got anywhere close to PPG any other time.
Rod Brind'Amour: 70 points in 78 games at age 35. Arguably an exception to the "virtually everybody had a career year" phenomenon as he'd had comparable years earlier in his career, but he'd looked like he was on the way down. This was a bounce-back year, and the year after even moreso.
Eric Cole: 59 points in 60 games at age 26. Had never been near-PPG before and never was again, although he did end up putting up two 61-point seasons in later years (with many more games played).
Ray Whitney: 55 points in 63 games at age 33. Definite exception to the "virtually everybody had a career year" argument, as this was arguably a down year for him due to missed games. Also, I'm still pissed that Doug MacLean let him walk from the Jackets, but that's not relevant here.
So, four guys with career years, one guy with a bounceback season, and Ray Whitney. And that's before we get into the Cam Ward story.
EDIT 2: Oh, and their top scoring D was Frantisek Kaberle - 44 points in 77 games, age 31. That's about double his usual production.