Quoting: Burnout
Montreal literally can't take on serious cap and HuGo have been INCREDIBLY clear they intend to clear cap, but they're supposed to either take on White's bloated contract for nothing or an expiring Byron? Lol.
ok but there has been plenty of rumors of White to Montreal. I have no idea why or how but it was not fake rumors
Ottawa is not going to trade White to Montreal if it's not a hockey trade.
Byron could be possible as he only has 1 year left but if they have to take a bigger cap dump than that, they'd simply BUY OUT Colin White as it's very CHEAP
https://www.capfriendly.com/buyout-calculator/colin-white
So it depends what Ottawa intends to do with White. It's true that the positions are getting stacked so getting hard for him to have a spot
C : Stutzle - Norris - Pinto - Kastelic
RW : Batherson - Brown - Joseph - Watson
The thing is they might acquire another Top-6 RW. One of Brown or Joseph would then be on LW
Colin White buy out makes so much sense (even if they have the cap space to keep him) as they'd save significant money
That is UNLESS Dorion can trade him in what we call a HOCKEY TRADE.