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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
Ortio needs I believe 8 more games or else he becomes a UFA. Would be brutal asset management to have Backstrom and Hiller let that happen if they have any desire to keep him around.
Basically if they send him down and keep him down - they have no desire for him to be in the organization.
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Just because he goes UFA doesn't mean the Flames can't sign him either before that happens or after. Ortio was available, free of charge, to all other teams on waivers this season. No one is knocking down the doors for his service.