I don't think that makes sense for Ottawa or Montreal. It'd move Ryan which is nice but then we're still stuck with a bad contract but for longer AND we lose a promising Centre prospect and a third. meanwhile, Montreal is currently in a position where they can afford to retain a significant portion of that salary and still be fine. what they should do is retain like 1.5-2 million, find a team like Arizona who will also retain 1.5-2 million in exchange for assets, and get some real value for Weber.

I dont know if i would want to retain 2mil for 8 more years of Shea Weber. 80 millions of Weber 110 millions contract is already paid. I think Weber could replace Karlsson in some ways for another 3 to 4 years and mentor the young dmen and then get traded back to Nashville who will get penalized for the cap recapture for assests.
Montreal is taking a winger that is a injury prone 30-35 points player making 7.25mil.

If Florida wouldn’t deal you Borgström one for one at the deadline for 2 years of Patches what makes you think that they’ll give borgstrom+ a first+ Mamin for one playoff push with him?