Arizona stays far away from that one.

saves them money and cap space in the long run, care to elaborate?

Myers contract is way worst than OEL’s, sure OEL is longer and a little heftier but he’s a little bit younger and way better, OEL contract finishes when he’s 36 and Myers when he’s 35. Kessel, Roussel and Loui have the same amount of term. Ari gets 3 million more for basically AHL’ers, while Kessel is Ari leading point scorer.

Ekman-Larson is scoring at a 50 point pace this year and Kessel leads the team in goals on a 30 goal pace. Vancouver needs to add by a lot. Plus OEL said he is not going to waive his NMC

Fair enough, but the premise of this trade is that OEL's contract and Myers' contract are similarly bad (OEL because he's way overpaid, Myers because he's bad and overpaid), but the value to Arizona is in the $21 million in savings.

FWIW Myers turns 34 in the last year of his deal, not 35.

He is also the 12th worst defenceman in the league by 5v5 xGF% for players with more than 120 mins played.

xGF%:
OEL: 41%, 12th worst
Myers: 43.5%, 27th worst
...out of 235 qualifying defencemen.

Anyway neither of these players are good. The value to vancouver in the trade is dumping roussel and eriksson. The value for the coyotes is getting out of the massive financial commitment of OEL's contract, especially the next few years where he's making 10.5 million real cash per season

There is zero hockey value in this trade for the Coyotes. They are in the playoff race as we speak. No chance they squander that for money saving purposes. Plus as I said OEL won’t waive so it’s not happening