How does that make any sense for AZ? You trade your 2 best players for another teams junk (who all have terrible contracts) and all you get is a ninth? Judging by the Ladd trade a fair deal would have looked more like:

AZ gets : the three overpaid senior citizens and the 9th overall pick.
VAN gets: a 7th rounder.

You can't tell me all you could get for OEL and Garland was a 9th overall pick and 3 overpaid old bums. Come on.

I think Garland will make less than Boeser -- closer to $5m.

I like that forward group quite a bit -- the defense could definitely use some work, but maybe Schmidt gets dealt and they sign/acquire another top 4 defender.

it was nice of the NHL to let the Capfriendly folks do the trades this year. Not wise though.

Wonder if Myers for Silfverberg would get done.

Not even the good capfriendly users

holtby and or Schmidt will be traded, Garland proly going to 5m

OEL only gave yotes 2 teams he would be willing to wave to go to, so yotes where screwed on that part

Not as bad as OEL's contract lol

Since when is OEL a bad dman? Overpaid? Maybe slightly but with AZ retaining 12% he's hardly overpaid on the Canucks books.

As of right now, AZ would be $44,338,334 under the cap next year. Got a lot of large contracts coming off the cap next year.
Their best players are all younger.
They are looking at rebuilding. What they had was never going to work.

I think he has too high of a cap hit for VAN -- they should try to unload one of Myers or Schmidt (probably not that easy) to free up the cap space for Pettersson + Hughes (and Boeser next year)

Its cancer.

The 10.5M in real salary price tag for the next 3 years is huge salary savings move

What if you look at it like this, though: Vancouver is giving up LOTS of cap space, and that is the price they're paying to get OEL. 7M+ is still 7M+, even if it's a great player by NHL standards.

Also, OEL probably will be considered even more overpaid in a few years.

Edit: When did I say he's a bad d-man?