Well, I suppose you could look at it in this way too. If he's an RFA at season's end then there's a good chance he can go anywhere he wants, because nobody is touching that QO. He'll expire and his rights will go elsewhere. If he came here and carved out a bottom six role, it still probably wouldn't be good enough for us to match his QO. We'd have spent developmental time on him that would have yielded us no future results. He makes as much as Nestrasil and Rask combined. If he took any ice away from those two players we're trying to develop, it might not be worth our time to do that only to send him packing at the end of the year. Which is something that annoyed me with Loktionov. We made an investment into his future and then walked away from it. He currently has 6 goals in 8 KHL games since returning by the way.
Plus, I would imagine there is a possibility that Magnus may wish to return to Sweden next year. It wouldn't surprise me at all. It seems as if borderline Swedish players are just as much if not more of a flight risk to go back home than Russian players, but for whatever reason it doesn't get a lot of publicity.
