We'd rather run with DP as a back up then Jones and his awful contract though.
Those kinds of trades do happen, we're looking to dump them on a team with a use for them, not consolidate them all into one worse, longer contract with a player with less of a role on this team, possibly costing us one of our star players when we need to resign them.
That is the opposite of a garage sale. Are you thinking of a swap meet?
The only thing being ignored here is the needs of the Canucks. Your deal, and I stress this does nothing to address the needs of the Canucks. This year is gravy, if we can resign our UFAs and RFAs. Next year and the year after are what matters. You are the only person that is willfully ignoring the situation around you here. The Canucks can't afford to take such an awful contract to resign Toffoli, or Tanev, or Markstrom, at the expense of Pettersson, Hughes, Miller, Horvat or Boeser by taking the steaming pile of Jones you're trying mentally will us to take.
Roussel and Beagle versus Jones isn't debatable. A third line left winger and a bottom line center are worth more to us then a third stringer goaltender.
If Jones can/will be taken by Seattle, then go that route and leave Vancouver out of this. Making the deal capdumps+Virtanen for Jones to unload that contract is even less appealing.
Your scenarios are the only thing that are ridiculous about this. We don't want your worse cap dump, get over yourself, go sell your snake oil elsewhere.
Except that deal would not at all cost your team a star player and it is silly to even suggest it. No, you've consistently ignored that I've addressed the year twos and threes of this sort of deal and made suggestions to alter them to account for that but you consistently ignore that. I'm not trying to mentally will you to take it. I'm trying to get you to move off the nonsensical response of it being a non-starter when it can be altered to your advantage when you'd prefer it to be but you can't have it both ways when you're asking other teams to take on your dumps. You're going to take a dump in order to move that salary. You're not going to trade any of the people suggested for a draft pick and free up their cap hit entirely. You're being completely unreasonable in how you're approaching this and you disingenuously make responses littered with fallacies then get decidedly personal in your responses which is actually just projection.