Jake is due for a raise this season. It'll likely cost the team $2.5 - 3 million to keep him for the next 3 years or so.
If you're Benning, do you spend that money on retaining some of your other key free agents and slide in MacEwan for a full-time position? or do you keep hoping that Jake will pan out in the next year or so, turning this contract into a steal. It's a pretty big risk seeing as we are hoping to keep Markstrom, Toffoli, and Tanev with limited cap space.
Unless Jake signs for $2.00 million or less on another 1-2 year "show-me" deal, I think he is a goner.