Riley Sheahan's NHL career looks to be over and his wife is not happy about it

In case you missed the news earlier this morning, the Buffalo Sabres announced that they have terminated the contract of veteran forward Riley Sheahan. 

The 30 year old forward is now an unrestricted free agent and is free to sign with whomever he wishes. The problem though... is that Sheahan was already available to all NHL teams on the waiver wire and everyone passed on him. And that's with an NHL minimum $750,000 salary. So... I can't imagine anyone out there picks him up.

It's believed that Sheahan asked to have his contract terminated, rather than accept another demotion to the AHL's Rochester Americans yet again. You may recall that Sheahan's wife Kecia Morway was outspoken on social media earlier this month when Sheahan received a demotion at that time. Calling it "insane" that her husband was forced to accept a demotion to a lower league in a different city.

"I'm sitting here at the end of my day watching Riley play. He's in Rochester currently and in my head I'm just like 'this shit is insane'," Morway posted on Instagram. "Imagine your boss calls you and goes, 'Yeah, hi. Uh we're going to need you to go pack up your shit and head to a different city than the one you live in and you may not even know the people around you and they and they don't know you but we want you to perform at your highest level. So, um go ahead and do that. And oh, do it. Do it tonight.' Like it's insane. Good job, Riley." 

It's crazy to me how out of touch Morway comes across in this message.

After all, Sheahan has suited up for eight different teams in the past three years! If there's anyone who you think would be used to being shipped around it's Sheahan and Morway! Granted, I don't know their personal situation but the fact of the matter is that since 2019 Sheahan has suited up for (deep breath) the Pittsburgh Penguins, Florida Panthers, Edmonton Oilers, Buffalo Sabres, Seattle Kraken, Charlotte Checkers, Buffalo Sabres (again) and the Rochester Americans. That's a lot of miles.

Fortunately or unfortunately depending on your viewpoint, it appears that Sheahan's traveling days may now be over though.