2012-2013 Montreal Canadiens Roster

Unless Marc Bergevin signs other free agents on the market, this is probably what Montreal's roster will look like next season:

FORWARDS
Max Pacioretty ($1.625m) / David Desharnais ($0.850m) / Erik Cole ($4.500m)
Rene Bourque ($3.333m) / Tomas Plekanec ($5.000m) / Brian Gionta ($5.000m)
Colby Armstrong ($1.000m) / Lars Eller ($2.000m) / Travis Moen ($1.850m)
Brandon Prust ($2.500m) / Petteri Nokelainen ($0.575m) / Ryan White ($0.688m)

DEFENSEMEN
Josh Gorges ($3.900m) / P.K. Subban ($3.365m)
Andrei Markov ($5.750m) / Alexei Emelin ($2.000m)
Tomas Kaberle ($4.250m) / Francis Bouillon ($1.500m)
Yannick Weber ($0.850m) / Raphael Diaz ($0.900m)

GOALTENDERS
Carey Price ($6.000m)
Peter Budaj ($1.150m)
------
SALARY CAP: $70,200,000; CAP PAYROLL: $58,585,833
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $11,614,167
http://www.capgeek.com/cap-calculator/roster.php?id=10157

Which is barely better than last year's roster in the second half of the season (except that Gionta should play). Montreal who thus have 7 out of 8 big sized wingers. The only problem is that 4 of them should play on the 4th line.

Unless, this is still all part of the ploy...
You see, Colombus and Nashville have difficulty bringing UFA to sign with them in the off-season. They could have Marc Bergevin to sign some free agents for them as part of their deal. So the trades would become something like this:

Sergei Kostitsyn
VS
Rene Bourque
Colby Armstrong
Francis Bouillon

and

Rick Nash
VS
Cole
Desharnais
Brandon Prust
2013 MTL 1st round pick
RW prospect (Sebastian Collberg)

The last trade almost match for the cap hit (7.8M vs 4.5M + 0.850M + 2.5M = 7.85M)

My plan could still potentially be implemented, because Parise, Suter and Andrei Kostitsyn still haven't signed elsewhere yet. Another advantage of this ploy for Montreal, would be to lock up Subban and Price to mid to long term deals (instead of one year deal) because with the current line-up the hope is slime for better performance / statistics next season.