Ogrezilla
Nerf Herder
Trading Niskanen for futures is a good trade for us, organizationally speaking, right now. It's outside of the box, so the chances of Shero actually doing something this ballsy is beyond remote, but we have no 2nd round pick this year, the 2015 is ridiculously deep, and trading Niskanen allows us to be a LOT tougher from the back end for the playoffs. This essentially kills two birds with one stone.
I assume, of course, teams would be interested in paying quite a bit for his services. Again, trading a guy having a career year is never a bad idea (especially if he's not indispensable). This SHOULD have happened with Pascal Dupuis, but it didn't happen.
It makes us a worse team going into the playoffs. That makes it a bad idea.