why would the Jackets even consider giving up assets for taking on Foegele? You pay for teams to take on your cap dumps

No

You might as well add Campbell to the Karlsson trade and lower the retention. Sharks would still want a much better package involving broberg or Bouchard

Seriously! You want all of that for a cap dump. We can exchange cap dumps. Dadanov for Tyson

MTL declines, like c'mon. We're not paying you for Barrie.

Bro thinks habs will PAY for barrie

Hoffman for barrie

Barrie could be a useful 3rd pair/PP guy on another team, but because the Habs are not in a position to take advantage of him during his current contract, it doesn't make sense for them to trade for him.
There might be an argument for a positional swap of an equivalent contract (Hoffman for Barrie, 1 for 1). I'm personally against that because we need a better defensive RHD to support the young LHD, and Barron can better use those sheltered offensive minutes for his development.

There's no reason for Montreal to take on the extra salary or give up Evans, let alone a pick. You may be able to sell Barrie and get something, but what you're sending would have to outweigh what you are getting in return. Barrie and a 3rd for Drouin as an example. Even swap for this year and a 3rd for taking Barrie's extra year. (Again, I'm personally against it, just talking what is a reasonable expectation.)

Surely montreal fans have these same thoughts about anderson's bad contract

There's no similarities here?
Anderson will still be here when we are looking to contend (since he's a cap dump and untradeable ). If he wants to win us a couple games in the playoffs again I'll take it.
Seems like an attempt to shoehorn a pointless debate into a situation that simply isn't comparable.