Did you buy out Colin White?

Also, really doubt Zub would cost over 5 M$, doesn't have the offensive numbers

And you could probably get Stutzle under 10.0, unless he puts over 100 pts this season?

Shane Pinto is a player that could be bridged. Brannstrom too

We won't be able to go long term on everyone and it's also not needed. Use some bridges for guys that can go PPG like Batherson, Norris, Stutzle and Tkachuk.

Don't even joke about Ottawa holding on to Nikita Zaitsev until TDL 2024.

His M-NTC makes it pretty hard to trade him to any non-contender and a contender is probably only going to want to hold him only for one year.

Yeah, I would buy him out this offseason. That's what I mean't to do but his cap hit is higher this season than if you buy him out before so I put him on LTIR.

Only 10 teams, and who knows which teams they would be. Supposedly he hated the media spotlight in Toronto so he could favor a low pressure team like Arizona or some other rebuilding team.

Fair enough, I would think that if you could half retain Zaitsev and get Chuck Fletcher to take him for nothing we'd be golden.

Playing Zaitsev and Ristolainen 45 min a night is a 5head tank for Bedard strat

He's also probably desperate enough to do the trade as well.