Panthers decline. No reason to do taht trade

The presumed reason would be to delay the raise that Lundell is gonna get 1 year. I’d also toss in a 2nd or ultimately could live with just sticking Holtz at RW on that line

Habs counter with Guhle and Evans for Casey, a first, a second and Curtis Lazar

They dont need more wingers. They need top 2 dman

Top 2 dman aren't generally available at all. When they are they cost massively in either money, assets, or both.

Take Lazar out and I would be very very tempted ngl. What's the motive for acquiring lazar for MTL?

if it's just to fill a C body role this year I'd say Lazar isn't the guy but we'll send nosek
I assume it's not for long term need/competing bc there are no cap constraints on MTL
Would it be to flip?

I agree. But there isn’t a reason to move him for a
Spot they have an abundance of

Lazar is mostly there to replace Evans with a quality player. This deal won’t ever happen but it would be fun

I think NJD would be trying to play Evans with Lazar, not to replace him.

A 4th line of Trenin-Evans-Lazar would do magic imo. Rock solid.

And then even with the top 9 we have of
Mercer-Hughes-Meier
Palat-Nico-Bratt
LW-Haula-Holtz (I still think we shouldmove out Toffoli, additionally losing Mcleod for this line is such a big hit)

If we could have sent out Toffoli+Bahl+Bastian and Brought in Evans, Trenin, Pettersson assuming McLeod didn't do the big no no

Mercer-Hughes-Meier
Palat-Nico-Bratt
Haula-Mcleod-Holtz
Trenin-Evans-Lazar
Siegs-Hamilton
Pettersson-Marino
Hughes-Nemec

would have been a damn near perfect lineup. Unfortunately just never able to keep everyone healthy/out of prison