No team is taking that Bob contract. 4 more years at 10 mil AAV. He'll be 34 when next season starts.

At the very least not without Lundell being the starting piece for the dump compensation.

Panthers will hope Bob gets injured so they can stick him on LTIR.

The ELC and depth scoring is too valuable, at least until Samaskovich is here. We are retaining 10% and taking back Murray's contract. Forsling is a top 4 offensive defenseman who could return a 1st at a deadline

Bob isn’t waiving his NMC for Ottawa.

It a hypothetical assumption

I get the Panthers not wanting to use Lundell as a piece to incentivize teams to take on Bob, but Florida only has 4 options for dealing with Bob.

1) Keep Bob, but in turn they lose Huberdeau and other pieces.
2) Buyout Bob, but that hurts their cap situation quite substantially, and the Cats will have to cut other vital members of their rosters, potentially including Huberdeau.
3) Dump Bob, and pay the price that the acquiring team asks, and keep Huberdeau.
4) Dump Bob, but retain close to half of his salary, reduce the amount of pieces needed to dump and maybe get something in return, but sacrifice roster capabilities for the next 4 years.

Because Florida lacks quality draft picks for the next 3 years, they would more than likely have to pay the compensation in prospects and roster players. Not to mention, there are very few teams that can even take Bob’s contract regardless of retention status. Of those teams, do you really think Bob waives his NMC? None of the options I listed are ideal for Florida, but they made the mistake of signing Bob to that massive contract, now they have to deal with the consequences. I wonder which of these paths Florida will take.

nothing, and i mean not a single player on the Panthers roster, if added to the trade, would entice OTT to take Bobrovsky contract, OTT is not rebuilding, they need the 10 min in cap space more than anything Panthers could give them.

the only way to move him is to take back a bad contract in return. Benn, Burns, Vlasic, Karlsson, Armia +

I did one with Benn

https://www.capfriendly.com/armchair-gm/team/3289897

Yes out here in SJ we have been toying with Burns/Karlsson deals for either Benn or Seguin

Sorry to break the bad news to you bud.
Bobrovsky will be hitting the clubs in the 305 till 3 a.m until the end of that contract.

The real problem is getting them to waive. Don't see Dallas betting on Karlsson, especially with Heiskanen, but Burns could replace Klingberg.

80% nothing happens but these big contracts only move for ither big contracts. No team is going to use their cap space to absorb massive deals