Ben Pope of the Chicago Sun-Times: The trade deadline draws ever close and Mattias Janmark was scratched over the weekend in an “organizational decision”. This is to protect him from injury in lieu of a trade deadline deal. That much is obvious.
New Jersey did it with Kyle Palmieri, Buffalo did it with Taylor Hall, etc, etc, etc. This is just preservation in lieu of what happened to Detroit and Columbus before this trade deadline for example. Jeremy Colliton said as much:
“A lot of teams are dealing with stuff like this,” Colliton added.