I get that, the problem is you arent going to get good young talent without giving up good young talent or a shitload of draft picks.
In order to get Landeskog its going to require you giving us some serious young talent, probably Carlo.
Getting rid of those older contracts is nearly impossible if you are trying to use them to get young guys. Unless you try to pull a rental player thing around the deadline no one is going to bite.
Both are teams are in this shitty place where we have some good young talent and a lot of old bad contracts. We want to get rid of the old guys and keep the young guys but no one in the NHL is going to buy a deal like that.