Poitras is too good to be sent down.
The ahl is also just as violent if not more violent. Lots of fringe tough guys in the ahl. Sending him to the ahl to prevent an injury doesn’t make any sense to me.
I think sending this kid down would be criminal.
Maybe he runs out of gas this year (he seemed to before getting hurt last year), and if he does then maybe you have to, but he was certainly one of the top 6 forwards on the team in preseason, and looks like he is ready to be that during the year (regardless of which line he plays on)