Winnipeg gets a decent defender on the right which they need. Yes Laines contract has 1 year left as well as Pionk but they also have Perrault Lowry and Copp's contract expiring and Im pretty sure that's good enough

Sabers stay within the cap and acquire either a trading asset or just draft with

Habs get the 8th overall pick freeing up 5 mill for three years which will come in handy for resigning Suzuki and Kotkaniemi as they did real good in the playoffs and Nick Suzuki was great during the regular season. Retaining 500k isn't the biggest deal because of how much money they have but they've got some big time contracts coming up so yeah. The mock draft I saw last week on Sportsnet said the 8th overall pick could be Alex Holtz.

8th overall pick
If the sabers could get Alex Holtz why go after Drouin?
Cuz eichel is tired of sucking lol and Holtz will take some time to get super duper duper good and who even know if Holtz is going 8th could be anyone. But sabers have had a long time of sucking at 8th overall picks so I think this works out pretty okay. I wanna say it's even but I'll have sabers fans telling me maybe it's too much or Habs fans saying it's not enough idontknowmanlol

Send him anywhere lol