preds dont have any reason to do this

Montreal is stuck with Gallagher. His contract is unmovable.

dont see the preds wanting to take on a long less productive contract. especially a center and losing a good young player in the deal.

So Nashville trades away quality youth in carrier and Parssinen to downgrade at center (Johansen is closer to a 1C than Dvorak) and get a poorly aging winger contract they don’t have much use for considering their youth and pipeline at wing (L’Heureux, Kemell, Evangalista, Tomasino, Trenin, Jeannot, Tolvanen, etc). Nashville also ends up in a worse cap position. I think Nashville would have to pass

Fleecing my Preds to benefit my Habs... love this for MTL but not for NSH.

Absolutely no reason in the world for Nashville to consider this ridiculously one-sided deal. Johansen is more valuable than Dvorak despite the cap difference and Carrier, an upcoming young defenseman who shows every sign of being top-4 caliber, is more valuable than the $34 million veteran and declining Gallagher. You could take out Parssinen and add a second from Montreal and this would still be a bad trade for Nashville.