Quoting: reelkena
You think Vancouver would want 5 years at 8 million on their books right now on a player who scored 4 goals in 33 games this year?
Are you having issues understanding the salary cap?
And you think Nashville is going to give up a young top four defenseman, a 1st in a deep draft, and pay Roussel $3M to sit in Milwaukee's press box next year, because Duchene has underperformed just like every other Preds forward?
Duchene's lack of production has been troubling obviously, but the whole forward core there has had the same issue since before Duchene signed there. It's not solely a Duchene problem, and they're not going to give the Canucks anything close to that to get rid of him.
Maybe they give SEA a 2nd or something to select Duchene, otherwise they keep him and keep working with him until Buffalo, Ottawa or some other floundering team that can't attract free agents comes calling. Nashville's cap situation is pretty manageable, with or without Duchene on the books.