Quoting: Christian17
They literally can’t, they’re over the cap next season. They need to move cap in order to be cap compliant and front a whole roster.
Yep they're currently $700k over the cap, before signing Bear ($2.5mil) and Hoglander ($1.2mil).
However there are approximately 100000000000000000 better ways to solve that than by trading Myers, Garland and an 11OA pick.
For example, Myers at 50% retained after his bonus has been paid on September 1st, will only be owed $1million in actual salary, with only 1 year remaining.
The cost to 'dump' Myers at that point is at worst a late draft pick. Most Vancouver journalists are confident that teams like Arizona and the Ducks certainly find this appealing.
The $3million saved in cap space almost solves the cap 'problem' situation entirely.
Another possible scenario is to trade someone like Beauvillier (also 1 year left), 20 points in 33 games at a cap hit of $4.15mil.
He absolutely brings in an asset at that point. Vancouver retaining 50% would only increase the value of that asset.