You know what everything you just said actually makes sense and would have been better received if you had wrote that in the first place instead of using a strawman argument and purposefully misconstruing what I said.
I said that PK had a chance of coming back to Montreal if they were competitive, not very likely otherwise. Chances are he will stay in Nashville though and Poile is a great GM unless Poile flips him for something better. In hindsight I wonder why he didn't trade Weber for Johansen and keep Seth Jones instead. Is it because Weber couldn't fetch a good center or because he felt that Subban was that much better than Jones? Jones would have been under better cap management control for longer. Interesting.
As for Toronto? Sure why not. But I still don't think it would be a primary destination. For starters, I think most teams can absorb the salary of 2-3 star players. Toronto is already going to be dealing with Cap Crunch soon enough... Matthews, Nylander, Marner, Kadri, Tavares... and they still haven't even shored up their defense yet. I don't think they could fit PK under the Cap.
You kind of went intense on the Subban has a connection and he's loyal. Posted a picture of him crying and all. I actually never originally quoted you, you quoted me. Your quotes to me were very loyalty focused. Reading back, I pretty much implied he will likely stay in Nashville which you agreed to but continued with the long lost love story. Stuff about thanking his coach from when he was 11 and stuff.
End of the day we agree Subban is very unlikely to come here but I don't think loyalty means much here. You put an emphasis on it but this isn't some grinder, this is a star player who is very competitive. He may go off the board entirely for all we know but I think what will matter the most is how the team is doing more so than loyalty. You can have good memories with something but not want to bring up back up from the grave.
The reason he traded Jones over Johansen is because of age. Why would CLB trade Johansen for a guy much older? Jones for Johansen was fair. They're only 3 years apart. Weber is 7 years older than Johansen though and was already getting paid full salary, Jones is cost effective and younger.
I think Toronto will end up trading Kadri at some point. I don't see how Tavares, Matthews, Nylander and Marner alone is not top heavy enough. 4 guys making what, 30+ million total? They'll need young guys to fill in or complimentary types.
I think they'd struggle to fit PK too. Then again they have some young talented D-men coming up, maybe they'll have some young guys on cost effective deals.