you forgot the most realistic option: buyout. or maybe the habs will trade for him to add to their plethora of terrible contracts
The buyout isn’t a likely option at all. He will be traded or LTIR
Went w/other for buyout
He will not immediately be bought out, but after a couple years of continued healthy scratch, then LTIR, eventually they will need to get him off the books.
My $ would be on special added buyouts put into the next CBA.
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There was a possibility of moving Seabs for Staal + Girardi a year or 2 ago, which IMO the Rangers would have considered if they could have considered if they could have then flipped a discounted Seabs to perhaps EDM, but the win now crowds screamed the loudest.
Now, Seabs has so deteriorated that for this much $, I don't see a legitimate basis for another team to go there.