What is the direction of this team?

I want to be clear that this isn’t a doom post and is not a knee jerk reaction to the two losses against the blues. I’m just wondering what exactly this teams long term plan is? We were all set on believing in the Conroy plan but what even is it? This year we’re on track to most likely miss the playoffs AND lose our 1st round pick to the habs. And Conroy wants to resign Andersson? Why? So he can keep us in 17th place? It is EVIDENT this team can’t score and needs top end talent, we’re a small market that isn’t attractive for free agents so how do we acquire top end talent? The draft, and not picking 16th in it. I don’t believe in being in the basement forever as this leads to Buffalo and Edmonton situations, with that being said, bottoming out and building around a superstar is proven to work (avalanche). If players like Andersson, Kadri, Coleman, even Backlund are still on this team at the start of next season I don’t think it’s far off to say we’re probably doomed with mediocrity for another decade. I’m just sick of being spoon fed the whole “we don’t believe in tanking” and “we need to remain competitive” bullshit. As a fan it is not fair for ownership to twist Conroy’s hand into keeping a few vets stitched into an underwhelming roster to keep them afloat and keep us buying tickets to watch a meh product. Also I’m aware that we should be a lot worse and Wolf is playing out of his mind, however it’s more the principle that Conroy begged Tanev, hanifin, Lindholm, zadorov etc to stay and was literally FORCED to pull the trigger and sell off assets. Can you imagine if we were paying Elias Lindholm 9 million fucking dollars a year? Please tell me your thoughts on how Conroy can drag us out of this eternal loop of hell (mediocrity).