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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Klingberg is on a one-year deal he just signed. Pretty sure we'd have heard about him filing a grievance if the Leafs were trying to stiffarm him into going on LTIR.
This isn't a convenience. He's pretty clearly just too broken to play good hockey right now.
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I'll play devils advocate here. When the leafs (Treliving) signed Klingberg in the off-season, the reactions I remember were that he was a huge defensive liability and the exact opposite of what the leafs should be looking for. Many suggested the leafs would regret this signing before he played a single game.
Now we're a quarter of the way into the season and the leafs regret the signing and want him gone. As you said he's on a one year contract. As a player on a one year contract who's playing on the most heavily scrutinized team in the league and playing for a contract next year would you a) fight tooth and nail to play every game, become a scapegoat for your crappy play and file a grievance against your team if they try to bury you on LTIR ( has this ever even happened before? ) or b) let the team pay you to not play and blame your performance on an injury in the hopes that another team will sign you next year because "you're healthy now"?