Worst case scenario that Landy retires that is dreadful. The trade is poor value. J Toews is likely done and not worth the money. Good chance EJ & JJ are done. MacDermid as a regular.... Ranta isn't worth that money. E-Rod likely wants more, same with JTC and IF Landy was done then the first thing you do is try to lock up Byram long term. I've no idea about the situation with Nichushkin or how that will pan out but that buyout will be awful against the long term cap even with it going up.

Value wise it’s almost crazy not to except that trade, except sharks are overloaded with Ld and really need RD options. Think the sharks pass but it’s so hard to pass on this.

If... and it is an IF at this point... Val did do something wrong, I believe they would terminate his contract instead of buying him out.