OldTimeHockey said:
I mean, that's the ultimate question right? Do they need major changes? Are we that upset about the 1st round loss to the Canadiens? Do we rush and blow it up? Do we change one of the major 4 forwards? Do we trade one of the major 4 D? Or do we realize that sh*t happens and sometimes a team blows it and sometimes they need to learn.
Well, where I tend to come down on that is that I have yet to hear an argument for making major changes that boils down to anything beyond "well, we didn't win and I'm frustrated by that so I'm going to say that not winning is argument enough that something is fundamentally wrong with the club".
I haven't heard "well, if we make this major change we will improve the team in this specific way" beyond people saying that if you traded Marner you'd have money to improve the team's depth via the least efficient use of cap dollars(the UFA market) while not acknowledging that without Marner this team isn't actually all that impressive in terms of star power. Nylander, Matthews and Tavares are all very good but lots of teams have three guys roughly that good. Especially if Tavares starts to decline a bit. Then it's probably a below average top 3.