Graves for anyone

Hawks obviously decline Hall and Murphy are both valuable to this team and play positions we lack (RD and Top 6 F). We also want absolutely nothing to do with that Graves contract unless the penguins Top 10 pick this year is attached to it.

None of these teams say yes, the MTL trade is probably the closest to saying yes but no one else is anywhere close to it.

Edit: I did not notice there was a 50% retention on the MTL trade so I retract my statement. None of these teams are even close to accepting.

Doubt any of these are considerations.

Graves would be LA's 3LD behind Gavrikov and Anderson, he'd also cost $5.5M against the cap with the PLD inclusion. I can't see any world where Blake keeps his job if he did this trade.

They're actually the furthest, as they go from carrying Price's entire contract on LTIR to having to having half of it as salary retention. Its effectively them swapping a player that they have a spot for for a player they don't, and both increasing the term and cap space devoted to bad contracts.