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I'm not sure if replacing Montembault with Korpisalo would have the impact you're hoping.
Last season:
Montembault - .891 SV%, 3.77 GAA
Korpisalo - .877 SV%, 4.15 GAA
Oh, and since Korpisalo will be on IR for a little longer while he recovers from hip surgery, your backup would most likely be:
Cayden Primeau - .868 SV%, 4.62 GAA
Not saying Montembault's a star or anything, just that I don't think it's worth it for a rebuilding team to be giving up a middling pick for a backup goalie, of all positions. There were plenty of them available on waivers over the past few weeks that would've cost nothing if the Habs really thought that Montembault wasn't up to the task - Keith Kinkaid, Joey Daccord, Connor Ingram, Oscar Dansk, Malcolm Subban, Magnus Hellberg, Dustin Tokarski, Zane McIntyre, Oscar Dansk, Zachary Fucale, Jonas Johansson, and Louis Domingue are all goalies who passed through waivers if Montreal wanted to get a guy who could throw up an .885 SV% instead of Montembeault, or even worse, trading a 3rd for Korpisalo.