WPG can't afford Cole next year, so your attempt at a salary dump fails. Not to mention nobody would really want Cole anyway. Only way to get rid of him is a buy out.

I hope you're making a year 3 because I'd love to see this train wreck continued.

Considering how well Nichuskin is playing right now there's 0 chance he takes 800,000. plus we now have a very small D line trading away cole and zads. Byram will need a couple seasons to hit his potential.
I do think we will be moving on from cole to fit byram into the squad next year but zads i think will be staying. Cole will most likely be held into incase of injury or swapped for another teams forward expiring contract

Kulikov comes off the books and Winnipeg has like 2 NHL Dmen so this isn't like a ridiculous concept, I made a year 3 so you can tell me all about what I did wrong and how much smarter you are.