Speed and PP QB are both huge needs. If Lou is staying, he must address both. Re-signing Engvall and working Holmstrom in would help the speed part, but it needs to be more than that. And getting players with faster feet is just part of it. The other part is working on moving the puck faster - that's on Lambert. I'm not sure if the speed thing is the reason, but vs CAR the Isles did not get the puck in deep enough - they continually lost possession in the neutral zone or as they were entering the offensive zone and made life easy on CAR's defense. Watching CAR's defense have to skate back to retrieve pucks behind their goal line vs FLA is what we should have done much more of - but we were incapable of doing so.
Also, anyone notice that the final 4 teams (not so much CAR, but more so with them when healthy) seem to be built with more of a top 9 than a top 6? They all kill with depth of attack.