we were eliminated in the 2nd round by a team that was embarrassed and outplayed by vegas. this whole "don't touch the team" by management and the players is borderline idiotic. the pieces are there, yes. but every summer you have a chance to make your team better, you do it. small or large.
The Preds have: a team that looks like it has all the pieces (on paper). $10M in cap space. 5 months to ponder on what went wrong (on ice) and figure out how to do better next year.
So I think unless there is really something that coaching and management know that we don't - like something specific to do with team chemistry or attitudes or behaviours etc that we have no insight into - which is not impossible, even though I don't think we've seen any inkling of that - then it is early days to shake things up. If you really believe in the players and that you have assembled all the pieces, you let them use that time off and see what they make of it when they come back next year.
But of course you spend that $10M in free cap space too. It's not worth anything unspent. Should be able to get some good adds with that money. It's an opportunity for a huge free upgrade on Hartnell and Emelin, say... and that's basically "worst case". If adding a good #5 d-man and a top-6 scoring winger is your "worst case" as a President's Trophy winning team, things are pretty rosy. (Of course best case is something really crazy like a Tavares snag).
I think next year's off-season would be the more appropriate time to consider a bigger change in terms of sending personnel out, if things don't turn out better. This year - President's Trophy, lesson hopefully learned that they can't just rest on their laurels. Next year - Cup or bust (or at least a very convincing Cup run). If it turns out they didn't learn their lessons from this year, then that's the more appropriate time to take more serious action with personnel changes.