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I don't think this is enough. You're asking them to eat 3 years of $2.58M, which there's really no precedent for. Almost every time you see a team retaining more than $2.5M on a deal it's usually been, at most, the summer before the last year of the contract. The closest comp to this I can find actually also involves the Rangers, when they traded for Keith Yandle in 2015 and had the Coyotes retain $2.625M for the remainder of the 2014-15 season and for all of the 2015-16 year. That deal worked out like this:
NYR receives: Keith Yandle (50% retained @2.625M), Chris Summers, 4th round pick
ARZ receives: Anthony Duclair, John Moore, 1st round pick, 2nd round pick
I'd cancel Moore and Summers out as they were both basically depth D at that point of their careers, which means the Rangers gave up a 1st, a 2nd, and a young prospect (Duclair was 19 and had just made his NHL debut before returning to the QHL) to get a player with half the amount of term on the retention that you're looking for here. I see the 1st and the 2nd, but I'd hesitate to call Chytil a "young prospect" considering he just finished his 4th full season in the league and he's already making $2.3M. If I'm Ron Francis, I take those picks, then I say you're swapping Chytil out for a forward prospect (someone in the Berard/Cuylle/Henriksson tier) to meet what I'd want out of the Yandle type deal, and you're adding in one of your many Dmen on ELCS (not Schneider or Miller, but someone out of Lundvkist/Jones/Robertson) or possibly Kravstov if he's open to playing in Seattle to make up for the extra year and a half of big money retention.