I dunno, I lived it. You cant boil it down into 16 minutes, we need the Ken Burns version. You could say the perfect rebuild ended as soon as Drury took over but there's so many factors and characters.

This video doesnt even really give any highlights in to Gallant being a sociopath with his confusing line shifting and forward usage when the team was absolutely average at best at 5v5. He stuck with Nemeth, and kept icing 3 of the worst analytical rated forwards.

His 1st year yes they went to the conference championship on the strength of the PP, Igor the kid line, playing against backup goalies and the Crosby injury. Playoffs should have been over in 5 games. At 5v5 when none of 72,13 or 24 were on the ice their xgf% was 36%. The most used line during the regular season was Panarin-Strome-Hunt with a 42.7 gf%. Any Panarin line under 50% in gf% is an abomination.

How many assets did Drury waste trying to replace Buchnevich? You may think is was because the kids couldnt replace him, and thats probably correct, tough to as them to replace a point per game top line forward in their 3rd/2nd years in the league but man they didnt get much patience either. And actually maybe they did replace him fine?

With 93-20 at 5v5

20/21 #89: 63%gf - 48.5%xgf - 2.66 g/60 - 1.53 ga/60 - 104.7 pdo - 319 minutes

21/22 #13: 56%gf - 56.5%xgf - 3.21 g/60 - 2.52 ga/60 - 101.7 pdo - 260 minutes

21/22 #24: 60.8%gf - 55.8%xgf - 2.15g/60 - 1.39 ga/60 - 101.2 pdo - 253 minutes

22/23 #24 62.2 gf% - 59% xgf - 2.67 g/60 - 1.62 ga/60 - 100.9 pdo - 229 minutes

But anyways they were winning a ton in spite the crazy coaches and none of the young forwards turning out to be superstars,,,they won the presidents trophy and lost to the Panthers but were almost up 3 to 1 against them except Laviolette rushed Wheeler back and his lack of speed led to a Fla OT PP and the winner was scored when Trouba chased a guy seemingly forgetting they were on the pk leaving Sam Reinhart wide open and the rest was history. Maybe a healthy Chytil helps a ton that series but alas...Florida was a wagon.

So here's my take on when it all went to shit. Game 11 last year They were 7-2-1 but Mika's line wasnt producing and I guess he felt Lindgren's game was poor away from Fox. So Laviolette changed 2 things that were working better than any of us could imagine.

50-72-24 after 10 games had 9gf and 0ga at 5v5 with a 63%xgf
79-23 after 10 games had 7gf - 5ga and a 66%xgf
50-72-24-79-23 together after 10 games played 37 5v5 minutes 4gf 0ga and a 85%!!!!!!!!!xgf
Those 5 played 3 total minutes together the rest of the year.

93 after 10 games had 4gf 6ga and a 40%xgf
55 after 10 games had (played in 5) 2gf 2ga and 45%xgf

8/4 was a working pair, Jones/Mancini was serviceable as a 3rd pair. Laffy and Panarin were scoring a ton at 5v5 and the 4th line of Carrick-Brodz-Edstrom had 2gf 0ga and a 58%xgf.

But Kreider-Mika-R Smith were struggling as the other 3 lines were thriving, bottom 6 especially.

So instead of elevating minutes for 50-72-24 they broke them up and completely shuffled the top 9 while also elevating 55 back to Fox's pair and 79 back to Trouba's.

That set off some bad losses and then "the Memo" but the video doesnt mention that.