I like this more than your previous one. It's a faster rebuild.

A few things: You're about $6M below the salary floor, so you could probably keep some degree of respectability with a couple of veteran signings. I know you want to go to the cellar in this plan, but if you don't give your team a chance to win at least some games, you create a Quebec Nordiques culture where they don't even try and forget how to compete.

I want this team to finish bottom 5 again next year and bottom 10 the 2 following years, while accumulating more draft picks.

Bergevin is definitely not the guy for a rebuild, give one more year to Julien and let him go. Bring a coach that wants to play his nest players at the right position and proper ice time.
Unfortunately, they will need to sign a veteran center like Bozak or Stastny for 2 years max though. This team cant go and throw crazy money and terms to 3rd liners or bottom pairing dmen.

YES

PERFECT

Don’t think you eat salary on price or Weber. Just says that cause it’s 8 years of paying guys not on your team, take less if you have to but don’t take money. But I like the direction, I’d try to target teams that think their piece away from winning but really aren’t (Phoenix, Dallas, etc) so you get better picks in the later years.