This year the team is still unbalanced from MB. Too many guys who need other guys driving play. Most of those guys will be gone after this year.
Next year the team will be weak because the habs don’t really have many guys to fill those spots. Lots of good smallish guys on the way, I expect that explains the moves to get Slaf and Dach. Probably need to keep Anderson and Armia for balance.
No need to tank, the team is sufficiently badly built they should end up with a good pick this year and next. It’s good that they have clear keepers now, way better than the late ‘90s early ‘00s when they were purely mediocre.