The more I think about this the more I am convinced we have to trade Petey, Hughes, and Demko.
This team ain't getting fixed in a year or three even with jettison the usual suspects. Petey, Hughes, and Demko ain't gonna stick around for that and will either sign elsewhere or request a trade.
It is way more beneficial to trade those three for a hull of blue chip young players or prospects that doesn't know any better and picks to reset our timeline to 5 to 7 years from now.
This is the hole we are in. I just don't see a path to a NYR style retool. We ain't getting Panarin like player just falling into our lap and even if we did we don't have the cap space.