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You'd have to be crazy to give Liljegren that much money. I get people are high on him, especially Leafs fans, but this is a player who was heavily sheltered on a 3rd pairing for just about the entire season. The Leafs had 2 of the strongest puck controlling lines in the league this year, the Matthews line and Engvall - Kampf - Whoever, Their 3rd pairing guys also all had amazing underlying numbers. Sandin and Liljegren sure but also Dermott and Holl in their very limited usage there. The numbers for these 3rd pairers are likely to have been heavily influenced by playing with puck possession forward lines for a strong majority of their ice time.