Obviously Holtby isn't to Det, he's claimed by Seattle. That option is not available.

I wish I could justify it but I know it's against JB's plan. I wanted to put a package of Rafferty, Gadjovich and a 2nd to Seattle so they'd take Myers.

youre paying a high price for them to take Holtby. plenty of good goalie options available.

5 years for Pettersson is stupid

Seattle does not want Holtby

I think the Oilers would take that, not sure if the Canucks would.

We need depth centers so it's actually possible.

Seattle doesn't want anybody we'll be offering. Holtby was the default and we may have to send them a pick to do it but we can do that.

As for the Pettersson comment. I'm gonna ignore stupid ones this time.

Youre gonna have to send them a good pick. Panik just cost a 2nd to dump 2 years of only 2.75. Again, Seattle has plenty of better goalie options like Allen/Hill/Vanecek/Khudobin/Berdin, and they can really only take 4. Not to mention Vancouver cant afford to give away more futures

So lets say you're right and they wont.

+1.8 mil cap becomes -2.5 mil

We don't sign Forsberg, -1.5 mil

They take a contract like Motte (worst case for us) -0.3 mil

We don't sign Hawyrluk +0.5

Not ideal, but I honestly don't know who they would take. I'm pretty sure we can protect Motte but it would be something in that range.

so sign pettersson to 5 years and walk him to free agency so he can walk.....cool , comment isnt dumb, the contract is.

then dont convince seattle to take Holtby, let seattle take who they want....Lind or MacEwen, save the pick

Yeah, that's what I said. If we don't do the Holtby thing, they pick whoever and that's how we deal with it. Obviously theres no pick going if they take Motte or whoever.

You saying Pettersson has to be signed to a bridge deal only? Because that's not how contract negotiations work. People sign for 5 out of ELC all the time. It's 4 years that does no good.