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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
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.
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Holy overreaction Batman!
Rittich cannot play every game.
Sure, this is the first game back, but in the context of the schedule (as posted above) this is probably the best game to give Smith.
I feel the coaching staff probably have the starter penciled in for most of the remaining games, and will only change if injuries or extreme performance trends impact that