Apparently the Colorado Avalanche are not planning on buying out Francois Beauchemin, and that is crazy. However, this hopefully means Joe Sakic has another plan/strategy in place.
I have no reason to believe that is the case because Sakic has consistently made bad moves as a GM over his tenure. Nonetheless, for my sanity I’m going to at least give him the benefit of the doubt.
So, I’m going to run through a couple options that are the more likely options if he doesn’t in fact buyout Beauchemin’s contract.
The first is the obvious — they’re both rather obvious — in that Beauchemin chooses to play ball with the Avs, and waives his no-movement clause (NMC) for the purposes of the expansion draft.