Here's my counter...

TO SEA: Kasperi Kapanen, Jason Zucker, Casey DeSmith + POJ
TO PIT: Jordan Eberle + Chris Dreiger ($1M retained)

If soucy is a second pair guy the kraken wouldn’t be trading him.

First of all, there are not many teams that have trouble hitting the cap floor (why do people always use this narrative?). It's pretty much just Arizona next year that needs to add enough salary to hit the floor next season. Secondly, teams doing that aren't looking to take players that make more than their actual cap hit. They want the opposite. Guys who make less than the cap hit or can go on LTIR with insurance covering most of it.

People use this narrative because it's absolutely true, teams need to get to the cap floor and if they get an asset out of doing so (no matter how small), they will do it. Buffalo is a prime example of this. And as someone else mentioned, his contract is very buyout friendly. No need to overthink this, Ritchie will be moved easily.

That's just flat-out wrong. The lowest cap hit this year is the Sabres and they are $9 million higher than the cap floor. No team operates anywhere near the floor. It's a false narrative that teams have trouble hitting it. The "give this team a player so they hit the floor" narrative has been wrong for years.

No one is going to take the contract without significant compensation. He makes $3.3 million in actual salary next season with a $2.5 million cap hit. Just a really dumb contract.

Told you I'd be back when Ritchie would be moved for much less than the significant compensation you were talking about, here I am.