I think you re-tool on the fly, and flush out the coaching, if they don't catch fire here in the final stretch.
Maybe a couple lateral trades (Bennett for a similar young player trying to put it together for example). Maybe you're able to get a vet coach with a track record. Maybe you unload a bit of salary and make a pitch for Tavares. Perhaps we swap Brodie out for a more defensively responsible player, or just promote from within. Those are the sort of steps to be taken IMO. The current iteration, and combination of player just isn't clicking as a whole, and is entirely too dependent on whether or not 2 or 3 guys are going, when in theory/on paper there are 7 or 8 impact guys in their own right that should be able to supplement each other but just don't, for whatever reason.
There are good players here, but as a group they're not complementing each other well. Sometimes you just need to swap some parts to find a combination of players that amount to the sum of its parts on the ice.
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