Honestly don't think you can shed that much salary that easily right now.

Best team to move russell to is a team that’s expecting to be missing a significant member of the blueline. For example the team your trading him away from. What’s better for Barrie play him on his off side with a second year d or play him on his strong side with a defensive d like Russell? Any thoughts of moving a d to save cap space was shot out the window with the klef news can’t afford to be loosing more not yet.

I know you don't mean the Trade to MTL is actually to Montreal but I can't help but laugh as the habs are probably one of the worst teams to use as an example for teams that need Penalty Killers as I believe only 3 Forwards on the team don't kill penalties or haven't at any experience as a penalty killer before

Why were they 20th in the league for GA/60 at 4v5 then? Are you saying "below average" is perfectly acceptable in Montreal?

http://naturalstattrick.com/teamtable.php?fromseason=20192020&thruseason=20192020&stype=2&sit=4v5&score=all&rate=y&team=all&loc=B&gpf=410&fd=&td=

JK gets more than a 7th
Id say a 5th or a low 4th

Flip neal and ennis around and then the forward lines are perfect

decent hoffman deal

flip larrson and bear around and it should be near perfect for now

No, but Montreal was also without Byron and Armia who are 2 of our best Penalty killers were injured for decent durations of the season, and we added more size this offseason and a few more players who can kill penalties. if you go to the playoffs and look at the GA/60 Montreal was 9th overall but other teams played substantially more and some played less so if you look only at the 1st round they were 7th and better once they figured out the 2nd units Center

1. I'm not going to look at the playoffs due to sample size issues.
2. Byron and Armia were 4th and 5th most used forwards (TOI/GP) at 4v5 last year, suggesting that they weren't critical to the PK effort even when healthy.
3. The top-3 most used MTL forwards played nearly the full compliment of games: 71, 70 and 63, respectively, indicating that the PK was largely intact throughout the season.
4. Khaira's 2.43 GA/60 is significantly better than any of MTL's 5 PK regulars, who range from 6.89 to 8.88 GA/60.
5. Among forwards who played 90+ minutes at 4v5, Khaira's GA/60 ranked 1st in the entire league.
6. That wasn't fluke either, as evidenced by his ranking in other metrics like CA/60 (19th), FA/60 (12th), SA/60 (6th), xGA/60 (12th) and HDCA/60 (7th) among 104 forwards.

MTL's PK was below average and Khaira would be an immediate upgrade. You might dislike the trade for any number of reasons, but your PK excuse is completely illegitimate.

First off they were technically 3rd and 4th as Thompson was traded at the deadline, and a lot of penalty killing woes happened early in the season and they tightened up after that they had 21 PP goals against by the end of November and were 8th in the league the rest of the season.