Lauzon can move the puck, he just needs more of a green light to get more engaged in the offense. Ideally, we shouldn't be looking to our defensemen to provide offense, the forwards have just been that bad.

We saw how Lauzon could move the puck last game... no he can't. He's a below-average puck-mover.
"Ideally, we shouldn't be looking to our defensemen to provide offense" Welcome to the 2021 NHL, where defensemen need to help the forwards to score so if your defensemen can provide offense, you're in good position.
"the forwards have just been that bad" That's just wrong. Some of them have underperformed but most of them are good players.

Don't know what games you've been watching, but everyone except Marchand, Bergeron, Pastrnak, Ritchie, and Frederic have underperfomred drastically. Yes they are good, but they haven't done a thing this year.

You just said Frederic has been better than Krejci, Smith, Bjork hahahahahaha