Ok so it seems like a 3rd a little bit of a prospect upgrade isn't enough for Evans which is fair, so here Pool Party goes out for cap and his value is basically just nullified with Norlinder; both guys are kind of obsolete for their teams now anyways. The 2nd goes for Evans, he's a really solid bottom 6 center with decent cap hit and term and with Montreal in no rush to ship him out it makes sense why they wouldn't take less, while it gives Edmonton some depth which seems to be their main problem over the past few years.

This is pretty bad for the habs

Mtl have no reason to trade Evans. He's doing good job on bottom six forward.