I must admit, I wondered who was going to be willing to have him take up a roster spot while sitting out for a full year, only to then get just one year out of him. He was going to have to sit out, correct?
This makes me wonder, is the portal more of a bridge that you're walking on and then you can jump off, like the bifrost? I have always thought of it more like the transporter in Star Trek, a machine that you go in and out of.
Would he have received a waiver because of the coaching change?