LegionOfDoom91
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A 40-point defenseman with only a commitment for one year may be worth the game if you're a team like Florida, who have assets and cap room to play with, or St. Louis, who are pretty desperate to make some noise. With 9 points in the first 16 games, he was doing just fine.
Remember, last year a team was willing to give up 2 2nd round picks for a 40-year old defenseman who hadn't played a game. Defenseman are always at a huge premium. If Streit is available, they will definitely get a haul.
Florida's looking for help up front. They got Campbell & Ekblad on their top PP unit. St. Louis is another team that needs more help up front than they do on the backend. They have Shattenkirk, Pietrangelo, & Parayko on the backend for their PP units.
Timonen had no committment to him past that year. In a lot of cases teams will overpay just for that flexibility of being able to just walk away if things don't work out.