[Sylvanfan]

I don't think Montreal is under that much pressure to dump Anderson's contract yet. Next year with an anticipated improved team and a couple guys on more expensive deals to me is more likely.

You don't get players with more than an expiring contact at 75% retained. That's typically too much in draft capital for the second retention to make it worthwhile. So if you trade for Anderson, you'll be holding that contract until the last year. That is 15 million spent until you can move him again. So that should be worth a fair bit for a team to dump that. Next year it's down to more like 9.5...which with increased cap maybe becomes first round pick and another inflated but lower cost deal with similar term going back.