So my thinking here is that this is a 3 team trade between Toronto Ottawa and San Jose. Toronto trades Marleau and brown to Ottawa, Ottawa parlays Marleau and half of the cap hit to San Jose for a mid round pick. In short...Toronto gets massive cap relief, Ottawa gets Connor Brown for only taking on 3 million of dead cap (which they’ll need to get to the cap floor if Duchene and Stone both depart which I assume they will) and SAN Jose gets Marleau for the last year of his career at a 3 million cap hit (which most of his actual salary has already been paid by Toronto, so dollar amount is basically nothing)