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Originally Posted by Savvy27
If you are right that Pitlick is the same quality as bottom of the barrel UFAs, then it is definitely a bonehead move. I'd suggest that the Flames and Flyers management both see him as a better player than that.
As much as it is nice to think that decent bottom 6 depth is freely available every season, we witnessed how untrue that is last year. Simon, Nordstrom, Ritchie, and Leivo were all available and they were all serious disappointments (except Ritchie, I guess since he was re-signed). I've seen Pitlick described as a middle 6 player more than a 4th liner, so maybe there is more of a player there than many are thinking.
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Don't know the player well but he was 7th in TOI for Airzona last year, and a goodly distance away from the 8th player. Now they aren't a good team but that would seem to reinforce that he's either a 3rd liner or a high end 4th liner.