Most of us thought that Matt Duchene would be one of the safer players on the Nashville Predators during their rebuild, mostly due to his contract and his actual desire to stay.
Even with a few years of really not playing up to his contract, it was believed that Duchene would be great to have in the locker room with his veteran experience and style of play.
This comes less than a week after the Predators traded away Ryan Johansen, the other infamous $8M veteran, to the Colorado Avalanche in what was essentially just a cap dump as well.