There remains two correct answers to this question:
1) on a well-run team that needs to get younger and faster and has young players ready to step in, having two 38 y/o dinosaurs taking all of the sheltered minutes we have because they're basically unplayable at ES, so that we can't develop kids in those minutes, is idiotic.
2) on a Jim Benning-run team, using up our cap space signing the Sedins to short term deals is vastly preferable to the ghastly, franchise-altering mistakes this moron would otherwise use this cap space for.
JB is totally going to sign them to 8 year 7 mil deals isn't he? Dammit!