I believe he has picked a lane: try to make the playoffs.
You look at the run this team went on to end the season. Got to within a tiebreaker of making the playoffs despite Sharangovich playing hurt, Andersson playing hurt, and no Parekh. Now you get everyone back healthy and add Parekh to improve what was the team's most glaring weakness last season: the powerplay. And suddenly you're looking at what could be a playoff team.
If half way through the season you look at the standings and things aren't working out, you deal Andersson and possibly others and see if you can re-tool with younger players.
Other than that, I don't know what you can realistically expect Conny to do. He's doing the best he can, in my opinion, with the cards he's been dealt.
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