You agreed with me but then wrote a big post that was basically like 'why didn't do the opposite of what you said, though'. They looked at their depth chart and saw no room for him. They didn't want him as a 7th D. I can't find if he was injured at all last season because he missed 20 games, but looking at his game log it doesn't appear so, it looks like they were just healthy scratching him, especially late in the season; it looks like he was only in there about half the time. Chances are at the exit interview each side expressed some dissatisfaction with the other and they made the decision to get rid of him. That's how it should go in this league.