My suspicion is that the actual outcome will be that he and Brisson try to push this again like they did last year, get nowhere again, and then quietly accept the QO for one more year again and move on.
They moved Trouba in a similar scenario, they'll likely move PLD the same way.
He wants to live in a "metropolitan" city, eat fancy food, strut around like Matthews does in his goofy clothes, go to fancy museums etc.
Live like a rich celebrity basically.
That's Montreal, for sure, but also many other places around the NHL.