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Wont be Panthers because they are at the cap this year and have to sign Huberdeau for next year.
Wont be Knights because they are in the same division are at the cap and have already given away Pacioretty to get to where they are.
Stars are going to be tough to do. They have the cap room but need to sign Oettinger.
Maybe the best you could look at would be Radek Faksa to help them with the salary issue. You need to get Wyatt Johnson as the prospect back. And then a 2023 first round pick, which if top 3 protected becomes a 2024 first round pick unprotected and a third round pick.
Predators can make it happen but I think that they would like to remove some cost as well. They most likely would like to dump Johansen but they might also be willing to change that to Granlund. For the Flames it would work with Granlund for three more years even given his age. For Johansen the Predators would need to hold onto $3-4M of his contract or have to really up the ante on the trade proposal. If they won't eat the cap than you can probably get Glass thrown into the deal as well. The prospect for Nashville that I like is Fedor Svechkov but am also a fan of L'Heureux. Along with prerequisite first round pick that probably will have the protection clause that I mentioned above.
Blues have the best chance at Tkachuk because they don't have to pay more to get rid of salary, especially if they are looking to move Tarasenko in a separate deal. Blues are tight on cap but removing Tarasenko and then Kyrou in the deal to the Flames will help them fit in Tkachuk. Which means that the best the Flames could do on top of this is probably a prospect. I would look at Jake Neighbors as the prospect, but would also be okay with Zachary Bolduc.
Flames have almost no leverage in trade talks so I doubt it gets much more beyond this level. I actually doubt that the Flames can come away with a package as good as these.