Trade.
If the team will be crap without him, they will be crap with him, too.
I don't think we have as much reason to hope for similar results, but NYI lost Tavares for nothing and ended up better. BOS gave away Thornton for a poor return and ended up better. CAR moved on from Skinner and improved.
How many wingers signed to big deals after age 26 end up working out really well?
Mark Stone (so far)
Daniel Sedin
Zetterberg
Marchand
There's maybe another dozen or so that are 'unregrettable' (e.g. Oshie, Radulov, maybe Gaborik's big deal with the Rangers even though they ended up trading him), but the list of disappointments and disasters is much, much longer.
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