You have to eat them right? At least most of them. If the point of a rebuild is to acquire assets like picks and prospects, trying to ship out bad contracts with picks and prospects seems super counterintuitive. That's what makes it so hard for SJ. They would be fine if the term on the bad contracts were 1-3 years, but sadly most of our contracts that are like 4-7 years.

I think Kane is 100% moveable (personality aside) and so is Couture to a lesser extent. But the others are just anchors. Wilson is an absolute fool for getting us into this mess.

https://www.tsn.ca/talent/karlsson-reveals-more-about-ankle-injury-1.868641

At least the Sens recognized their mistake and traded Duchene in his UFA season. . Got a 19th pick( Lassi Thomson) from Columbus as well as Abramov and Davidsson, both prospects.
It was Nashville who made the big mistake signing the 29 years old Duchene to a 8m X 7 UFA deal.