Obviously.
Hopefully it isn't Patty who is injured. His last game was the logical end result of the years long process. With Patty's mind set it is damn clear that he can act in a role of enforcer too (we know he was goalie so it's not about question of psychology), but that would be a surefire way to ensure he doesn't/cannot play by his true finesses. It would be ridiculously wasteful thing to do, regardless of reasoning. Patrik is not particularly injury-prone (one of false tags attached to him in HFB), but his injuries has came with his wrong utilization. His mind set allow him to specialize just about anything, but that doesn't mean it would be wise thing to do to direct him out-of-his core skill set, which, if we are perfectly honest doesn't increase an amount of his healthy game days in a long run.
You don't simply waste your rare GEM finesse artist player to mundane roughness in a corner. You know this very well, it is mysterious why...
It took one damn game to force the already made trade. On-Ice.