St. Louis is not trading Parayko

Nice idea. Never going to happen.

For Savard retention, can't see CLB retaining that much, no matter what the assets are in return. They have cap, but not sure the team wants to spend the cash.
1) Savard is owed $4m on a $4.25m cap hit, so retaining $0.25m is a base as they have some sapce, and it wouldn;t cost them money.
2) For any more retention a team would have to take back Dubinsky's contract b/c 20% is uninsured (about $1.17m which is hard cash spent by CLB franchise. Could likely find a $500k retention there saving them half of that.
3) And then assuming TOR has already paid Johnsson's $1m bonus (July 1st), the Jackets would only owe him $2.6m in cash, so maybe Leafs could collect retention on that for $500k.

Anyways, critically thinking $1.25m would likely be the best the Leafs could do on retention on Savard out of CLB, maybe $500k more if the asset coming back was enticing enough.

Edmonton accepts