The reason why the current team looks so better on paper is because you aren't taking time or age into account. 23-25 year olds Little, Ladd, Wheeler, Enstrom, Buff were all excellent players coming into their primes. 19 year old Kane scored 30. 20 year old Bogosian was our future top pairing D. Is Morrissey really better than a veteran Hainsey? Nobody on earth would say Chiarot is better than Oduya. Antropov was miles better than Lowry imo. Is Mathias better than Wellwood? GST is not much worse than Tanev, Thorburn, Copp, Burmistrov.
Goaltending has improved in name only, much like the rest of the roster. Using shot metrics, the 2012/12/13 Jets were far better than the current group.
This team is way underperforming and goaltending has been atrocious. But maybe there's a reason why nobody else in the league runs with 2 young inexperienced goalies. In Hutch's case, his experience could be described as being terrible for the past 1.5 years going into this season.
I have no confidence that the management group who signed Jokinen, traded for Setogouchi, resigned Stu, Thorburn, kept Pavs for 5 years, and went out and signed Strait this past July 1 is now competent enough to make the moves necessary to fix our problems - namely goaltending, bottom 6 and bottom pairing D, problems which have plagued this team since day 1.