Tavares doesn't even solve all our issues. But that's the thing. It's not about solving ALL of our issues. It is about solving a SINGLE issue. Then you solve the next. Then the next. Until you are left with less issues and smaller ones than every other team. Then you win the cup. But saying, we shouldn't do this move or that move because it doesn't solve all our issues is defeatist. Waiting for our youth doesn't solve all our issues either. Next year's UFA crop won't solve out issues. Trades won't solve our issues. We need some combination of the above. Tavares could have solved several issues in a big way. It gave us a strong 1-2 C punch. It instantly gives us 2 credible scoring threat lines: Schenn-Schwartz-whoever, whoever-Tavares-Tarasenko. So we talked about it and it didn't happen (most likely). So we can move on and try to tackle the issues some other way. Any forward progress is positive as long as it doesn't cause more issues than it solves.