In terms of value, I see komisarek playing like perhaps a $2 million UFA so he has substantial negative value to any team that is not in financial difficulty. So I see a couple of ways of trading him:
1. Trade Komi + a good prospect to a rebuilding team that can afford to overpay for a guy like him temporarily. This is like the leafs taking on lombardi's or lupul's contact to get gardiner or franson respectively. There are not too many teams that have the combination of cap space, wealth, and are rebuilding. Montreal is perhaps the only team I can think of. However, I don't think the leafs are quite good enough or loaded up enough with prospects to go this route yet.
2. Trade Komi to a team in financial difficulty. The other team uses the fact that Komi is paid $1 million less than his cap hit next year in order to pay less than the cap floor and thereby save the owner money. It would also help if the team Komi was traded to was weak and shallow on D so Komi was less of a detriment to his new team than to the leafs. Knowing that Komi has negative value to the leafs, the leafs would have to take back some salary though but perhaps that salary could be buried in the minors. Perhaps a team like the islanders could benefit from this sort of exchange with the leafs. They are weak on D and a low spender. I don't know who would come back to the leafs -- surely someone we don't want.
3. trade Komi to a team who is weak on D but has an overpaid forward that they want to dump. For example, I could imagine a trade with the blue jackets involving some kind of exchange involving Komi and brassard (17 points, -19 this year, paid 3.7 million next year).
