Imagine this lineup in circa 2004-06
XXXX-Briere-XXXX
XXXX-Drury-Vanek
XXXX-Roy-XXXX
XXXX-XXXX-XXXX
Mckee-Tallinder
XXXX-XXXX
Campbell-XXXX
Briere, Drury, Vanek, Roy = Eichel, ROR, Reinhart, Mittelstadt
Campbell, Tallinder, Mckee = Guhle, Risto, Scandella
Don't waste your time pointing on the differences... it's a broad stroke comparison... and it's close enough.
Would you tear down that core, to rebuild?
Do you think the problem is in the core?
Now Imagine how that lineup in the co caps era would've performed with THIS surrounding cast:
Pyatt-
Briere-
Kotalik
Mair-Drury-
Vanek
M.Ryan-
Roy-
Mancari
E.Boulton-Novotny-Bartovic
x Peters
McKee-Tallinder
Paetsch-Kalinin
Guhle-Delmore
x Brad Brown
^ This is what the co-caps era would look like without the depth it had to support the core. This is what the co-caps era looks like under the 2017-18 Botterill Sabres.