You fail to acknowledge the completely different circumstances. Bjorkstrand was forced out given the recent UFA signings, Columbus panicked and dumped him for nothing. The Canucks have no reason to trade Garland. We are not over the cap with him on the team. Another thing you failed to acknowledge is the fact that Vancouver has ZERO need for an LHD like Sandin. We have Hughes, OEL, Rathbone, and Dermott on our NHL roster. Sandin would be redundant. We are not trading our best young player Podkolzin for 2 years of Nylander, while also adding Garland on top of it.

Canucks put Ferland's 3.5 mil on LTIR and we are set.

As Juiceman intimates in the comment immediately below yours, I believe that CapFriendly has made a mistake in calculating the actual cap hits to reach this figure. If you add up all the amounts that aggregate the sum "$81,601,667" next to the designation "Roster and Buried Cap Hit," I think that you'll see that this INCLUDES Ferland's $3.5 million despite the fact that he's shown on the LTIR list.

Even easier, then. Although I'm sure the Nucks wouldn't hate finding a way to get rid of Jason Dickinson or Tucker Poolman

As Juiceman intimates in the comment immediately below yours, I believe that CapFriendly has made a mistake in calculating the actual cap hits to reach this figure. If you add up all the amounts that aggregate the sum "$81,601,667" next to the designation "Roster and Buried Cap Hit," I think that you'll see that this INCLUDES Ferland's $3.5 million despite the fact that he's shown on the LTIR list.