If the picks could be used to get a more qualified center, the Hurricanes would currently have said center.
Not necessarly. What the Canes needs isn't necessarly what the Habs needs. Look at their center lines. Aho - Staal - Trocheck. Necas can play center too. They don't need KK that much which is why that move was a bonehead one only to avenge the Aho offersheet two years ago. The pettiness of it displayed on twitter and social media just confirmed it. It's a move made by a gm and a team just to get back at the Habs but you do this with a Suzuki or Caufield. You don't do this with KK who's kinda of a question mark player. The draft being in MTL, MTL needed that 1st round pick to have something to show for the fans next year. Now they have two. Use the extra one and make something out of it. Meanwhile let KK go to Carolina at 6.1M and let them handle that situation next year and this year since they will be 2M over the cap because of it. I just feel like people here look at our roster without KK and think: shit now we suck down the middle and there's nothing we can do to correct it. It's false. Now you have more assets to maybe get a player that will be more reliable than KK and more of a sure thing than him. If you get a 6M player, you might be able to get a player that is worth that 6M, not someone relying on potential of what he should become.
You need that cap space for Caufield and Suzuki a lot more than for KK, if you spend, make it for something worth your money