Have you ever had a restaurant ask for your credit card before they give you the menu? He reserved a VIP table with bottle service. This isn't your corner bowling alley ordering a round of Blue lights.
He would be 30 years old, with 2 major injuries and a $16M cap hit the next 2 years. We might get a 5th rounder if lucky. Not what I would call an explosive trade.
They outshout, outhustled, and outhit them and still lose. Stupid mistakes and they can't finish. With the Stanley Cup champs in town they are staring down an 0-4 start.