Why exactly do the Panthers do this?

Cap relief to take a run at Bob and Panarin I’d assume. Not the worst offer if that was the case

Not moving Huberdeau, it’s going to be pending UFA’s and probably Hoffman

The only reason I have them moving Hubs is because there was some talk about it. They aren't shopping him but if they get an offer they like they will consider it.

Orlov gets a 1st easily. And nisk gets 2 2nds easily. If not more for both.

These trades aren’t good imo but you do you.

I am a caps fan so i didnt want to be biased in my trades, id rather the other team seem to get a bit more so i wouldnt have people bashing me for getting to much

Then why would they retain $2M? Two B-prospects and two #30-ish picks are not going to get Huberdeau, and certainly not get him with $2M retained. That's worse than most of Eli's trade suggestions.

(Need to remember that just because a guy is a specific team's top-5 best prospects, doesn't mean that they are actually that great of a prospect overall.)

I didn’t even see the retained salary wtf lmao yeah idk why they’d do that then