Habs4ever
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I think it is good you are thinking of moving him. He needs to go and I wrote a detailed article on why about 3 days ago on two zoom calls. To answer your question, I believe 4 to 7 teams would be interested in him, if the price is right. Meaning retaining $700K to drop his salary to $4.8M or add a prospect.
The biggest thing to retain is next season I believe two Forwards will be probably promoted to MTL. Caufield and Poehling. That means 2 guys from the top 9 will need to come out. On the right side in no particular order will be: 1. Gally, 2. Caufield, 3. Anderson. On the left side, I believe MTL will want to sign Tuna and Danault, with Gally, those 3 are one of the best lines 5on5 in the entire league.
so on the left it will look like: 1. Tuna, 2. Toffoli, 3. Poehling.
So that means Drouin is on the outside looking in. I would not even trade him for a player, I would get a pick for 2023. The $ you save from moving Dru, you can apply to Tuna and Danault.