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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Yeah, next step would be to move Rittich then. If you're paying Lehner starter money to be the starter then I dont want a 2.7m million back up around and id rather have Backlund/cheaper back up/cheap ufa bottom pairing D than Ryan/Forbort/Rittich but thats just me.
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That is definitely something I considered, but I still chose to move Backlund because Ryan, Rittich and Forbort would be UFAs after that season and would give us the cap space required to re-sign Dube, Valimaki and Kylington (again). With knowing the cap will remain the same in 2021-22, it made sense to me to shed the longer term contract.