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Like I've said, if Boston wants to unload Savard and are looking for Kabs in return, I'm asking for more coming our way.. preferrably a quality draftpick and/or an excellent young asset.
 
With all of the talk of good players being put on waivers, the Leafs are in an excellent position to benefit.
 
But the Bruins could widen the scope by taking a drastic route: threatening to place Savard on waivers, thereby giving 29 teams, starting with Edmonton, a crack at claiming the center and rendering his no-trade irrelevant. It would be a last-resort move that would see a point-per-game center walk for nothing, with cap relief being the only benefit.

The more logical transaction would be swapping Savard to Toronto for Tomas Kaberle. The Maple Leafs continue to hold out for a better return, but the trade makes too much sense not to happen. Kessel gets his old center back. Savard moves closer to his children. The Leafs, who signed Brett Lebda to a two-year deal last Wednesday, give the Bruins Kaberle, the puck-moving defenseman they need.

- boston.com
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Hilarious. Yeah, let's trade a #1 defenseman in his prime in exchange for an injured salary cap problem that the Bruins are seriously considering putting on waivers and losing for nothing. That just makes waaaaay too much sense. My position re: Kaberle and the Bruins remains the same. If they want to give us Seguin back, they're welcome to have Kaberle. Otherwise, they can **** right off.
 
The more logical transaction would be swapping Savard to Toronto for Tomas Kaberle. The Maple Leafs continue to hold out for a better return, but the trade makes too much sense not to happen.
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Oh, it's the more logical transaction and it makes sense all right....for the Bruins.

Savard isn't worth Kaberle right now, and Burke isn't making that trade.
He just has to sit and wait until Chiarelli takes whatever Burke will give him to take the contract off his hands. Which won't be much.

Either that, or in the near future the B's convince Savard to waive his no-trade someplace else. I doubt that happens, as he signed the deal in good faith, but it's possible.
 
Thing is, it's not even very logical for the Bruins to swap him for Kaberle, given that their number 1 priority right now is clearing cap space, both for this season, and for next year when they need/want to resign Bergeron and Chara.


If they've decided Savard is the guy they want to move out to clear space.....dealing him for picks/prospects, is what makes sense.......not dealing him for someone with a higher cap hit.
 
Here's another one for you mbow...

Real_ESPNLeBrun Leafs front-office source when asked for Kaberle update: ``Still listening."
 
Well, the Kessel trade didn't happen until September, so it's still pretty early in the summer.

As long as Kovalchuk is still out there, a few teams who might be interested in Kaberle won't be right now until Kovalchuk is signed.

Some big RFA's also still need to be signed as well, which means teams may still need to clear out some salary or trade these RFA's they can't come to agreements with.

I still think you will see a big move or two from Burke before the summer is over.
 
He said had something on the table he would accept for Kaberle on the 1st. He decided to sit and wait, to me signifying it probably isn't an awesome offer.
 
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