First of all you dont know what your talking about
First by keeping Tanev and Toffoli you would have made the playoffs and no ,Tanev contract he is not overpaid the reason why Calgary didn't make the playoffs is because they could not score.
Markstrom could have been signed and aggressive GM would have and traded Demco for a good player ether top 6 or top 3 D . You would not have had Holtby Schmidt or Virtanen and By the way they played I say not missing much . Hughes would have had a better year we would have been in the playoffs and could have moved assets as necessary next year. Markstrom' s contract maybe one year too long but there are lots of goalies playing into their mid 30s
The goal is to what are we teaching our young stars by getting hammered every game.
JB should have been fired but the owner had his finger prints all over this the wanted to bring in OEL with a cap hit of 8.25 Mil thats like Tanev and Toffoli put together . Dim Jim a shinny new toy. Keeping what they had and adding Harmonic would have been the right thing to do.