Frankly this whole season has been a disservice by multiple parties to all involved.
First a disservice to the fans who either spend their hard earned money and/or their time following this team.
Second to the coaches. When you fail to give them all the tools they need to get the job done you are limiting their ability to do the job.
Third by the coaches. When things don't work but you keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again you are failing everyone around you.
Fourth by the players. When things get tough and you fail to stand by each other, help each other improve or simply give up, you shouldn't be here.
Rychel didn't get Lynch and did nothing to fill the hole that created since it was pretty obvious he had planned on him and potentially others to be in the line up. Next when the kids came back from the U17s some were given opportunities while others who were playing well dropped down in the line up so that certain vets could be given opportunities that they had already failed to fulfill. Third, when Rychel starts moving pieces in a rebuild and gets older instead of younger, just not rebuilding. Tanking? Yes but not in a way that is productive for now or the future beyond a slightly higher draft pick in the first round. Fourth, playing with a short roster for months is failing to provide the best product for the fans. You can't complain about lack of fan support at the gate then fail to give them multiple reasons not to show up. You want people to come to games? Provide a product worth spending their money on. No one expects a championship every year but a good product one year then four/five/six years without one? Call it the JR cycle all you want but there was a time the JR cycle did not exist. It's become and easy to use excuse for providing an ongoing poor product and if you look back at the 70s/80s/90s you will see there was no JR cycle.
I'm waiting to hear the complaining about the lack of fan support again. The biggest reason is the lack of product. You won't buy a new cell phone every year if three or four years in a row the product is worse then the year you bought it would you? Why would you spend money on JR hockey if you are only going to see a good team 20% of the time? Most won't which is why fan support continues to drop.
Not playing a few kids, even a couple of games here and there does a disservice to those kids, the kids already playing and future of the organization. Those kids are busting their ***es for a chance, oyu have the space in your roster for them and yet you won't se if they can play? If you have none on a B card then that's poor management. The kids on the roster going out there every night expected to give a full effort but the team won't give a full effort ensuring they have a full roster when they have the ability to provide it? Do you really think play and attitude will improve putting them in a situation where they are not likely to see improvement? How effective is the coaching going to be when you don't give them a full roster to play every night possible? Regardless of the issues with Letowski, and there's plenty at this point if he doesn't have the full support of the organization starting with giving him twenty players a night to dress then some of the issues around him have to fall back on Rychel.
Letting things get this far is a disgrace and a big middle finger to everyone involved. This isn't building for the future, this isn't developing kids. This is saying it doesn't matter, just deal with it, and don't forget to renew your season tickets.