23 May 2020 15:35:35
Let's try this one out

To St. Louis 2021 1st + 2021 2nd + Kulak or Mete

To Montreal Dunn + Bozak + Sundqvist

This is for the sole purpose of St. Louis being able to resign Pietrangelo. While still improving the Habs.

This is the way I see it

Bozak + Sundqvist = 2nd + 3rd but to make room for Pietrangelo the blues only take a 2nd

Dunn = 1st + Kulak or Mete Blues Choice

Blues lineup

Schwartz-Schenn-Blais
Sanford-O'Reilly-Tarasenko
Steen-Thomas-Perron
MacEachern-Barbashev-Kyrou

Pietrangelo-Faulk
Kulak/Mete-Parayko
Scandella-Bortuzzo

Binnington
Allen

Canadiens Lineup

Tatar-Danault-Gallagher
Drouin-Suzuki-Domi
Lehkonen-Kotkaniemi-Sundqvist
Byron-Evans-Armia

Dunn-Weber
Romanov-Petry
Kulak/Mete-Fleury

Price
Demchenko

Both teams benefit

1.) 23 May 2020
23 May 2020 18:51:20
As much as I like Dunn, I wouldn't give a 1st for him. and then on your Habs line up, I don't even see Bozak . as well, no way Armia is on 4th line.

2.) 24 May 2020
23 May 2020 21:50:35
Bozak would be an extra or buyout as we would have more than enough tallented forwards besides the lines were just an example of what we could do really

3.) 24 May 2020
23 May 2020 22:04:07
That's a huge downgrade from Dunn to Kulak/ Mete. All they need to do to clear the cap space is trade the forwards for picks to someone. Why would we need to trade Dunn? And why would we take less than market value for a trade? The stated reason that it clears up cap space to sign Petrol makes no sense.

4.) 24 May 2020
24 May 2020 14:12:35
I never said to take less than fair value for Dunn, the Dunn portion of the trade was Dunn for a 1st + Kulak/Mete which is fair value. The reason to move Dunn is not to free up cap space for Pietrangelo but because even by moving the forwards you still cannot sign both Dunn and Pietrangelo. After trading the forwards the blues would have just about 8-10 mil if Pietrangelo gets 8 mil which in my opinion is a discount then Dunn can't be resigned unless you plan on trading another top 6 forward or Parayko. Also Mete and Kulak are not as much of a downgrade as you think they are both 2nd pairing Dmen and if you line up like I said the loss of Dunn wouldn't be as significant.

5.) 25 May 2020
25 May 2020 14:26:34
Habs say no IMO. i don't think that we need to do any favours for other teams in cap issues for buying out players we trade for so they can sign Petro. Habs have cap space to take on a bad contract and it will cost a team nicely to do so. This would be bad asset management from the Habs.

6.) 26 May 2020
26 May 2020 03:36:44
I guess the other option is to force the Blues hand and try trading a 1st + Kulak/Mete for Dunn's rights by threatening to sign him to an offersheet. However if the Blues say no then the Habs have to follow through with an offersheet in the 9+ range so that the Blues cannot match even with the 10% off season overage but that would also require Dunn to agree and it would hurt the Habs cap flexibility in the near future as well