Kings News: Fiala to for 2022 first-round pick and Brock Faber

[kilowatt]

I'm guessing we move Iafallo and Walker if we need the cap space. I doubt Vilardi's on the team next year either.

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

Guessing this takes them out of a Chychrun deal without their draft pick pick.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[KingsHockey24]

What's our cap space looking like after this?

Can we add a top 4 D?

 

[kilowatt]

Guessing this takes them out of a Chychrun deal without their draft pick pick.

Turcotte, Vilardi, Bjornfot, Grans, etc. Could still happen, but yeah, probably not. Maybe something around Soucy? JAD + 2nd?

 

[KingLB]

0.9 ppg the last three seasons. That paces for 73 over 82.

RISKY!!!!!

 

[Gjwrams]

I absolutely love the move, and the Kings and Wild were perfect trading partners. We get a 25 year old goal scorer (which for me was our biggest offseason need), for a relatively cheap costs (a mid 1st round pick and a good young RHD, which we are stacked at).

Now to get a LHD, and we have assets to move for it. I also think Iafallo will be moved. Not because he sucks, but because his cap money can be used to offset the acquired LHD.

 

[FSL KINGS]

There go my dreams of Lucic. Big extension. This is fine. Cost wasn't all that much.

Team has about 600k left to work with. Guessing Lemieux replaced with a cheaper face smasher & Walker swapped for someone like Logan Stanley making 900k

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[YP44]

Fiala - Kopitar - Kempe
Moore - Danault - Arvidsson
Kupari - Byfield - Kaliyev
Lemieux - Lizotte – Grundstrom

Iafallo will be traded. Kings need his 4 MLN for LD

Why do I keep seeing Lemieux in MacDermids spot?

 

[FSL KINGS]

Not that worried about the cap. Should be a large jump once escrow is paid off.

 

[YP44]

Guessing this takes them out of a Chychrun deal without their draft pick pick.

good

 

[SFKingshomer]

He was my #1 target due to acquisition cost and he can create on his own. I don't see him as a good fit with Kopitar unless it gets him to shoot the puck.

 

[Martyros]

Don’t like this trade at all. Why trade for Fiala when you can just splash in on free agency. Original take is that this not a good trade to lose Fabre and a first round. But hope to be proven wrong

Because they'd probably end up signing someone not as good as him to the same contract.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Kevin Fiala's average point total before this season was about 45.

This is risky as f***.

Gotta take risks at some point.

 

[Remparts666]

85 pts and he was not playing on the 1st pp for most of the year. He was on a line with Freddy Gaudreau and without Boldy for most of the year. This guy is legit and worth 8M easily, especially if this is a 7years contract as mentionned

 

[Martyros]

Vilardi or Kupari

I'd say both are available. Vilardi being the main one given that he's an rfa.

 

[KingsHockey24]

There go my dreams of Lucic. Big extension. This is fine. Cost wasn't all that much.

Team has about 600k left to work with. Guessing Lemieux replaced with a cheaper face smasher & Walker swapped for someone like Logan Stanley making 900k

Wait.. we only have 600k?

Don't we need to sign .. Kempe? And like.. everyone else?

 

[YP44]

I feel like my posts on this deal are definitely going to bite me as time moves on. At first I was happy, than mad at the cap, now I'm ok with the gamble but he needs to produce for sure.

 

[Sol]

Because they'd probably end up signing someone not as good as him to the same contract.

I don’t think the difference between Filip Forsberg and Fiala is Faber who’s undoubtedly going to be a top 4 dman and a 19 OA. Forsberg was asking for like 8.2 million. 300k difference. Don’t know about this one. Don’t think he’s a bad player, but I feel like free agency and keeping faber would have been amazing.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I don’t think the difference between Filip Forsberg and Fiala is Faber who’s undoubtedly going to be a top 4 dman and a 19 OA. Forsberg was asking for like 8.2 million. 300k difference. Don’t know about this one. Don’t think he’s a bad player, but I feel like free agency and keeping faber would have been amazing.

And what if Forsberg re-signs with Nashville?

 

[FSL KINGS]

Wait.. we only have 600k?

Don't we need to sign .. Kempe? And like.. everyone else?

That's with a filled out roster of RFA's & Kempe at 5.5M. Sorry didn't make that clear.

Point I was making is cheap LD & Walker probably moved unless something big moved.

 

[KingLB]

I don’t think the difference between Filip Forsberg and Fiala is Faber who’s undoubtedly going to be a top 4 dman and a 19 OA. Forsberg was asking for like 8.2 million. 300k difference. Don’t know about this one. Don’t think he’s a bad player, but I feel like free agency and keeping faber would have been amazing.

You have to, you know…sign Forsberg!

 

[Stimpythecat]

Whoa!

If Faber wasn't going to sign (and he probably wasn't since he hasn't signed yet) then he had to be traded. I am good with this.

Blake has said if someone meets his trade price, he will pull the trigger immediately rather than wait to try to get a better deal.

Any reaction from the Kings players like Doughty?

 

[YP44]

imagine if he had been signed for 11.1m