Why not? He's a young top 4 Dman who's going to be very cheap to resign. Granted, he only has like 120 NHL games or so, but he's not a streaky player and plays a steady game so there's no reason why he can't keep up his play from the first 120 games going forwards.

I would think that a cheap top 4 Dman like him would be attractive to plenty of teams, both contenders as well as budget teams like Ottawa. Colorado would gladly keep him, but we also have a log-jam at LHD so something has to give between him, Zadorov, and Cole.