I believe that if the people in the front office believed that Hughes was cooked, done with no hope of recovery. He'd be on that bus by now. I don't think money left on the contract is part of the decision if he is cooked, done with no hope of recovery. That would be like you and me saying "I spent $3,000 dollars on this TV that doesn't work and can't be repaired but I'm going to watch Big Bang Theory on it because I spent $3,000 on it". In the human race... A total of Zero People would do something like that so I'll give the Pohlad, Falvine and others the benefit of the doubt that they wouldn't do something like that either.