Panarin Trade

We are also against the cap and have to sign players, also getting a 10+M player at aged 31 isn't the right move for a team leaving a rebuild.

This impossibly unrealistic deal adds more than $6 million in cap to our roster, which currently has $7.5 million in cap space for 6 players, including the as-yet-unsigned RFAs Gabe Vilardi and Rasmus Kupari and the much-needed improvement at LhD like Vlad Gavrikov or Ryan Graves.

I know that you want cheap, quality, high-potential youngsters in exchange for Panarin, but you have to pay at least a tiny bit of attention to the other team's cap situation when constructing trades. Panarin only works for LA if you start with Iafallo, Sean Walker and Cal Petersen, and add additional assets from there. To put it another way, the Kings are under as much cap pressure as the Rangers, so you have to take that into account in making trades between the teams.

Would need a third team for this to have a fighting chance, paid to retain or park some players and a premium paid, so a lesser and lesser return for anyone with term over 10 million.

we would need to give up for a team to even consider taking that awful contract and also we would have to retain

You're retaining less than you should, while resigning/signing players that fill the same role, leaving behind youth.

If you added Sean Walker to the deal and placed him on your third D pair; Iafallo, who is the equivalent to Motte, while Goodrow cancels out your want of Bertuzzi, retain $1 million dollars more.. you're much closer to a deal.