You certainly can’t blame Francois Beauchemin for taking the deal. In 2015, the Colorado Avalanche put a three-year, $13.5 million contract offer in front of him. Not only that, the Avs threw in a nice sweetener to the then-35-year-old defenseman: a no-move clause. For the next three seasons, Beauchemin could guarantee to himself and his family Denver would be his home if he so chose.
Beauchemin signed the deal, and here we are, not long after Year 2 of the contract. Will we see No. 32 in the new, Adidas Avalanche uniforms for a third season? The odds wouldn’t seem high, despite the fact that, should the Avs buy out his last year, they would get zero in the way of cap relief for the 2017-18 season.