Overpay for cole and bonino

Just trying to fill roster spots for the purpose, if the re-sign I’m sure they probably get a little less

Maybe get Kaprizov to sign a bridge deal?

That's not "literally the only way". We could buy out Parise for relief this year, try to dump Rask, or probably the most likely, offer Fiala in the Eichel trade. We could also no re-sign Cole and Bonino to $7M in cap space like you did. There's plenty of ways we could fit him.

Buying out Parise short term relief for just this year but then for the next three years his buyout dead money against the cap is north of 5 million and that will hurt in putting a team around him and I actually did buy out rask here.

Sure, but after next year Rask is off the books (buying him out is a mistake imo) and we'd still have a ton of relief. All we'd have to do is trade two of Fiala, Dumba, and Greenway. Eichel is very doable, just a matter of putting together an offer that doesn't destroy our prospect pool and beats out other teams.

I think the above offers are doable. If Minnesota does this to begin with; they are “going for it” and are trying to win a cup, so it could be worth. I do think they’ll have to find a away to get Parise off the books.

I don’t think Minnesota will want to part with Boldy since he’s NHL ready and cheap

You'll have to pay more to Seattle to get them to buyout Parise's contract.

What would the package for Eichel look like if the cap going the other way was Parise instead of Dumba? Buffalo has said all along that they want futures, but we need to shed cap, so if Parise gets traded and bought out by Buffalo, what would it cost? I assume the ask would be 2 1sts, Rossi, and Boldy .

Personally I think it would be a really bad idea for us to move both Rossi and Boldy for Eichel, regardless of whether or not we get to dump Parise. I know Eichel is a top 10 player and Rossi and Boldy almost certainly won't be as good as him, but we need those two to fill out our roster depth for the future top 6 with Eichel or without.

Trading Parise to another team for buyout purposes will probably cost us way more than it's worth.

I'd rather not trade Rossi or Boldy in an Eichel deal.... the question was more about what the guess of Market Value would be... because I'd like to use Dumba in a different trade, and not have him be in the Eichel deal either. I'm curious about maybe 2021 1st, 2022 1st, Marat K, and someone else ... plus Parise.... but that doesn't seem like it's enough... just brainstorming...