Retained salary is for the entire contract. Same % of cap and cash...

If PIT is giving up Legare and Addison with a pick, I'd rather Weber. Would need to add a bit but seeing a top 5 D where Marino/Pettersson are the weak link sounds pretty damn good to me.

Leafs have a big No to Weber and his crazt contract which is one of the worst in the entire NHL.

Weber's got 12m over 5 years left after this and given 10 NHL expansion teams are currently accepting fincial aid from the NHL to help with Cost of Operations its safe to say Weber's Contract appeals to many teams especially ones loaded with young talent who wont need huge paydays for 3-4 years when Weber's Buyout if need be would be 666 k over 2 years

Weber's deal is almost all payed for and Cap is only an issue for some teams , spending all your cap doesnt make you a great team automatically every year just ask TML , ARZ,BUF,DAL ,VAN and CHI.(some of NHL most cap heavy teams). Meanwhile COL investing heavily in Youth with success has the most cap in the league

Weber on a team like COL in the right situation would be ideal and a hell of an upgrade on Erik Johnson
who's term has 3 years left to Webers 5 years
EJ has 6m cap left to Webers 7.8m cap with 18m left remaining in that time for both parties .

COL pays a modest Price to get a player who does everything EJ does while also producing offense regularly
while posessing a shot that create's lost of rebounds for forwards to jump on .

Neither team loses size or the ability to play minutes

Weber for Johnson ,Kamenev or Ranta and a 2nd .
What Weber can add at both ends of the ice to Mckinnons squad is well worth that.

For MTL Johnson helps Petry with minutes until Fleury or Brook step up as it seems Juulsens done for this year to (and maybe for good )
Worst case scenario all our youth crap out and Johnson and Petry hold down right side eating up minutes
Best case in 2-3 years we retain on Johnson in the summer and trade him after he's pushed out by our youth .

The prospect and pick will help us today and tomorrow
while it doesnt hurt COL depth pool as neither are top 3 in the position on COL chart which is why i picked them to save debate(Kamanev is out of Waiver Exempt days in a similar position as Andrighetto in he's not good enough to play as a regular but will get claimed if you waive him as the potential is there )