You should be able to wrestle a little more for Maroon

Carolina might do that but you tying up alot of money on defense.

Now this is interesting...but I'm not trading my 2 guys for Nuge...i know he's way better than anything we have to play center and he's turning into a quality 200' player with a good cap hit and only 24...personally I'd keep Nuge and trade Drai if i was you. You have McD already and your return for Drai would be huge as compared to what Nuge os getting you, and you could package 1 of your bad contract defenseman to free up some cash.

all good. But there is no way Montreal will do that Trade. But than again they do have Bergevin in charge