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Originally Posted by shadowlord
Well, they can't protect 2 goalies in the expansion draft, so they may want to get try and something back for Rittich instead of risk losing him for nothing via expansion, or as a UFA.
He's not proven-starting goaltender material yet, but with a decent cap-hit, he's better than a league-minimum backup goalie.
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On the other hand, I wouldn't mind Rittich getting picked in the expansion vs Bennett, Mangiapane, Dube, Tanev, Gio, or Kylington in the likely event that one of them end up exposed. You'd have to compare what sort of asset you can get in a trade vs the value of just accepting that a decent player will get picked when you have too many people you want to protect - I'm not convinced that trying to get under 7F/3D/1G or 4F/4D/1G "good" protectable players is better than loading up on as many good players as you can and just accepting that a good one will get picked.