Maybe because a playmaker wants a cycle once and then every 5th game to be able to do anything in the offensive zone? Sure, if you want a turd system that is the worst defensive team in the league, a horrible possession team and a.. inconsistent team offensively that can only score on the rush, which is worth jack **** in the playoffs, sure, trade Zuccarello.
Trade everyone but Grabner and Lundqvist. I have yet to see which other players that benefit (well, I wouldn't say Lundqvist likes this, he's just holding the fort) under Vigneault's idiotic system. Everyone only get better once they leave! Every player is better before they come here and once they leave, excluding Grabner. This is not based on data, but an opinion.
If that is not a ****ing tell that the coach is an emperor without clothes, I don't know what is. And of course the team is hurting, having a bunch of key players on the IR. But it's not about now, it's about this team looking like absolute horse **** for the absolute majority of this season - and the previous one, while the coach is showing more and more preeminence in his own incompetence. Talk about another case of the Dunning-Kruger syndrome.