But what's the point of keeping the best goal scorer of his generation, and one of the best of all time?

Scoring goals.

What would I do if this was my team?

Fire Oates and kick him in the balls on the way out.
Fire GMGM and thank him for his service.
Hire a new GM.
Hire a good veteran coach like Laviolette.
Resign Grabovski.
Try to trade Mike Green's $6M salary.
Get a decent defensive 4D to pair with Orlov or Green if 52 is still around.

I mean, this is a good team:

Penner/Erat/whoever-Backstrom-Ovie
Kuz-Grabo-MarJo
Chimera-Fehr-Ward <- best line ever
4thline-Beagle-whoeverthefuckwecanget

(Also, Tom Wilson has to fit somewhere in there. He showed great flashes and without a terrible coach, he'd grow. Maybe on the 2nd line? But that line is crowded. Maybe bump MarJo to third line center?)

Carlson-Alzner
Orlov/Green-defensive 4D
whoever/whoever

Holtby
Whoever.

Laich/Brouwer: see ya.

But if someone wants to talk about Ovie's plus/minus without save% and teammate shooting%, and nebulous things like leadership, I don't have much to add. That's not my thing.

Edited to include Grabo, Wilson, Beagle.