Couldn't any player say this in an RFA negotiation? At that point wouldn't Liljegren be a 6M player?
Results would also help
For example, Lindgren is 62.6 CF% so far this year and last year 53.7% at 5v5
Chiarot has been 42.3% and 42.6% at 5v5 the last 2 years
Sanheim this year is 57.9 CF% and last year 46.8%
Lindgren is also going to be 26 when he signs his next contract, lots of run way left, similar to Sanheim. Chiarot got that contract as an older UFA, he had quite a bit of mileage on him already.
They could promote Miller to play with Fox instead of Lingren but then there is a hole at 2nd pairing LD. Lindgren does his job well ultimately.
Liljegren has been scratched quite a bit in the playoffs and bounces between 2nd-3rd pairing quite a bit versus Lindgren playing top pairing.
Lindgren gets 2nd unit PK and no PP time versus Sanheim getting 1st PP minutes and 1st pk unit, Sanheim is getting crazy minutes.