White cloud is a top 4 RHD making sub $3 million on a Stanley cup competitor for several more seasons, he has to have the most valuable contract on that roster outside of Logan Thompson, when Vegas needs to cut a guy, they find someone with a higher cap hit that's much more replaceable.

That amount of money committed to older defense, at the same time as trading away the young, affordable guys, beckons a UFA induced cap hell of the sort Treliving is a fan of, I'll give you that.

Montour had 1 amazing season which was almost double his 2nd best in points. How is he worth 7M? Leafs need to wait till JT is off the books, the pending UFA d-men that could be available that year is stacked.