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Originally Posted by Split98
I don't understand what message they want to send to Rittich with this move, nor do I understand the risk..
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Here is the message, and it's from higher up:
"You are an RFA this offseason, with arbitration rights, and we're not going to let you have 60+ GP in a season on your resume if we have the cushion not to, because we need to lowball you come July".
If power plays weren't so sensitive to player confidence and chemistry, we would probably be seeing Tkachuk experimented with on PP2 as well, but I don't think they want to risk that blowing up in their face.