Mr. Chambers, with all due respect, have you suffered a head injury or something that caused you to forget that the expansion draft happened? I ask because that was the direct reason for Beauchemin being bought out yet you neglected to mention it. Instead you've made it seem with this article that the Avalanche made a mistake by buying him out. Meanwhile, had they kept him they would have been forced to protect him due to his no movement clause, and would instead expose one of our young forwards like Nieto and Andrighetto. Trading him would have been ideal, but as Beauch said in this very article he wasn't willing to go anywhere by Anaheim, and why would they give Colorado anything for him when he was likely to be bought out if no trade happened.

In short, buying him out was the right move, and this article makes it seem like the opposite. Yeah, he would have been useful as a bottom pair/healthy scratch mentor type player, but not at the cost of protecting him in the expansion draft.