Players do it, yes, but how many players who have already refused a better situation for themselves to stay with a team have done it?

.. Yes, and Landeskog is a player? And many big players have gone to a worse team in UFA recently, such as Taylor Hall (ARZ to BUF), John Tavares (NYI to TOR), Artemi Panarin (CBJ to NYR), Torey Krug (BOS to STL.)

The trust vs temptation thing is literally what I said, just re-worded. Of course he'll get tempting deals from other teams, but if Sakic trusts Landeskog to honor a deal then it won't matter.

K we're just arguing semantics here. I completely, completely disagree with doing the handshake bs. Its just not worth it at all in my opinion. If you think it is, great, but Im not going to try to convince you.