If you’re gonna buyout Bobby Ryan, why not just buyout Loui Eriksson in the first place?

Yeah. Bobby Ryan has $11m in salary left; Eriksson has $8m. So it would be cheaper to buyout Eriksson. Eriksson's buyout caphit would also be lower than Ryan. It makes no sense to swap them, unless the idea is to not buy them out, in which case it would be $3m cheaper for Ottawa. Maybe Ottawa sends a pick back. But that wouldn't be worth it for Canucks anyhow as it just adds to their cap.

Benn? Habs don't want him back unless Nucks add a 1st rounder

An issue to also keep a close eye on too is a hypothetical, non-CBO buyout of either Loui/Ryan may cause a cash crunch w/ future RFAs Hughes/Pett contracts next season (approx. US$6 to 8M of dead money could be on VANs books as buyout/recapture/buries etc.).

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Montreal accepts that. He's a quality bottom pairing defender. We don't really need Kulak so getting that pick helps even more.

Sutter buyout is unnecessary IMO. They can attach a pick or retain salary in a trade. I also don't know how wise the Toffoli and Markstrom extensions are. Vancouver is screwed next year with all that dead money and Petterson in line for a huge contract

Eriksson contract is signing bonus laden, Ryan contract is not. You'd save 2 million this season buying out Ryan over eriksson

Edmonton loses a Jones-for-Virtanen swap by a mile, and you're insisting on Edmonton adding to the deal?