MTL helping VAN and STL with cap issue

Your trade for Vancouver is reasonable from a value perspective. Don't think it makes sense for Vancouver though.

I think they should do it

Uhh that's a firm no from the Blues. We're the ones who get the 3rd rounder, not you, and you keep Lindgren. Allen for a 3rd, that's the deal. We're not paying you to take your trash goalie and replace him with one worlds better.

Why? What would Benning do with the additional cap space? Sign Taffoli? Sign Tanev?

It's a playoff bubble team that needs young dmen. This move makes them older and shortens the window

IMO the Canucks deal works for both sides that being said we would need to trade Mete afterwards as Romanov needs ice time. Getting Allen help the backup position but that's a high price when Crawford and others likely cost half as much. The real issue is the Erikson contract next off season when we need to resign a lot of our top players