The thing is...Anderson, Gallagher, and TT are secondary pieces. Great guys to have but not franchise players. And while none of them are old, Gallagher and Toffoli are not young, and Anderson and Gallagher have a ton of wear and tear for their age. Honestly, I wouldn't be opposed to trading Gallagher the way we did Pacioretty.
This team is built around the corpses of Price and Weber, and we have their contracts to show for it. We don't have anyone to replace them, nobody with franchise talent at least. Suzuki might....but like everyone who develops on this team he has hit the wall this year and needs help. Caulfield might be the guy, but he's an unknown. KK....I still think he has it but right now the "it" might be the second coming of Lars Eller.
Our defense needs to be effectively built over.
I don't think tanking is the only way out of this mess...but there's no quick fix, and definitely no easy one. The quick fix was the lie Bergevin sold us, and right now it looks like at most easy moves could do are prolong the inevitable.
