[Blaster86]

Copying and pasting from the other thread.

This is super questionable, since if they waited one more year the buy out was a lot more palatable long term.

But they tried to move Boeser, Garland and Myers and the only offers they got back were "Sure, what will you give us for it?" which just doesn't work either.

His first season in Vancouver was good. His second season was an unmitigated disaster as he apparently never got into an NHL game shape after the foot injury at the Worlds. The original plan was to see if he could bounce back in the third season, but I guess there was no other way to get cap space without giving up assets.

Wanting assets for Boeser or Myers tracks but I think teams passing on Garland will regret that. Guy is still a 5on5 machine and could have been had for the cheap. Asking for assets on top was just silly.

One addendum to the above: The apparent justification for the buy out is that the expected cap in the coming years would offset the two big buy out years. While this may be true, the reality is that they tried everything else to stay afloat and only got offered anchors.