Summer

Winnipeg gets a good affordable 2C who is great in faceoffs and who is probably good for 45-55 points a year (he played at a 48 point this year on an ABYSMAL Habs team) to replace Dubois’ spot in the lineup. They also get a good B prospect in Kidney (he’s one of the Habs’ best forward prospects and he just had a really good year), an unprotected 2023 first and a 2024 second.

Both players literally have the exact same contract. This is just a pure positional need swap involving two players that are on the block and that wouldn’t fetch an ideal return in this current market.

Detroit has been kicking tires on Petry irl. Habs don’t want to retain or trade assets to get rid of him, since he’s legitimately still good (he was back to form under MSL; Ducharme just made everyone look trash). A second for Petry prob makes sense for both teams all things considered.

Sens will probably want to clear out some cap space considering they’re going to want to start contending soon and they still have some young guys to sign long term soon like Stutzle. Additionally, it has been made clear that their biggest positional need at the moment is a RHD who plays a defensive style that they can pair up with their more offensive LHD. Savard fits this criteria and could use a system change as well, as he hasn’t worked out in Montreal despite previously putting up elite defensive analytics in Columbus. Zaitsev hasn’t been good in Ottawa and has a more expensive cap hit with one less year left. This is simply just a pure player swap concerning two RHD needing a change of scenery that would easily fit their new team better on a stylistic standpoint.