Our two best players are Stone and Duchene.
Both are having career seasons.
We are in last place.
Exactly how are we going to compete next year?
Best coaching staff available (as long as they don't fix this, you could have the best roster possible and they would still fail)
Better goaltending from day 1. Having Nilsson all season could have changed a lot of things. Too much reliance on 37 y/o Andy. No reliable back-up is an automatic recipe for failure in the NHL.
More experience and deeper defense. More experience for Chabot, Jaros, Lajoie, Wolanin, DeMelo. Trade Ceci (and Dzingel?) and use assets to get a real 1st pairing D-man (but you could maybe still let pairings like that, Hamilton would get a lot of PP and PK).
Chabot-DeMelo
Wolanin-Hamilton
Lajoie-Jaros
Boro
Batherson, Brown, Chlapik, Balcers could be great additions of speed and skill, could have a really good/deep forward group.
No idea what will be done, but yes they could turn things around rather quickly. But need to invest serious money to do it.