RandV
It's a wolf v2.0
It should be fairly simple enough to dump Sutter and Roussel at least. We will have to retain and expect nothing in return but at least it frees up 3 million or so. Baerstchi should be bought out. If Benning goes all in on OEL it means Toffoli, Tanev and Stecher are out and Markstrom probably re-signs as he's OEL's buddy. I have a feeling Benning will hang on to Demko and let him be taken by Seattle because Benning is like that and doesn't have an ounce of fore site, common sense or creativity.
No it's not going to be "simple enough". It was never going to be simple and even more so now in a Covid-19 league. You may be able to find a GM who'd value the player and swap a contract with you, like Gudbranson for Pearson, but for our current team needs 'dumping' a player means you move him without taking a similar contract back. Just using Roussel as a good case, the reason he's on our team is because Benning was willing to give him more $$$ and more term than anyone else in free agency. Why would a team want this player now? And Sutter is even worse here.
Don't mean to pile on you but so many fans the last couple years, especially of the 'cap doesn't matter' persuasion, have just assumed we could ditch contracts when it was necessary. That was never going to be the case, it was always going to be a difficult task that relies more on luck than anything else. Like when Ottawa decides 'what we need for our playoff team is an Alex Burrows and lets give him a two year extension at the same time so here Vancouver have one of our top prospects' type of luck.