I’m not disagreeing with you on all this time off, and that’s is hard to come back after period of time.
I also agree with you that it’s a team effort. What I don’t agree with, is that Strome is the right type of player for playoffs.
He is not resilient, he is not hard to play against. He does have some skill. I would probably take him for another year just because we weren’t able to trade him, but I wouldn’t want him for the future.
I would cut the loss now, and get someone that is in long term plan, this way the team can use the next year to gel together.