I see what you tried to do, but when you think about it if Ottawa retains that much on Bobby Ryan, they could easily trade him for asset, not as a cap dump... So for that the deals doesn't really make sense.. Habs get Howden, Ryan at a good contract, for basically nothing, while Ottawa gets pratically nothing from Karlsson and give Ryan with retained salary for free...

I had similar thoughts on the Ryan Contract, but really this was more about the premise and not so much about getting each detail perfect. Nonetheless, i think the 5M mark for this, and the next four years is still a terrible contract. If this year and last are any indication of what we can expect from him moving forward, your looking at a winger scoring less than 30pts, and injured for a quarter of the season for approx 5M (which is right on par with Gaborik)