Speculation: LA Kings Offseason Thread

[Mats26]

Your point?
When did you buy it from the handful of guys that said it before you?
Please show me the receipts..

The Kings continue to do development their way and will never change it.
Either a guy distinguishes himself as a solid player on both side of the puck and makes contributions or he is in the AHL or further down the lineup, and or eventually a cap casualty.
None of you guys sits in TMac's toll keeper booth nor behind the screen piloting Blake's eye in the sky...

Specifically said it with forwards only though, a long while ago. We seem to make NHL players out of D men, i.e Durzi, Forbert but we can't even develop a Luff into a decent 4th line scrub. My worries back then are still valid today and should be addressed if we expect to develop higher end prospects like Pinelli, Fagemo, Chromiak, etc to be making the team. Byfield and Kaliyev are still work in progress too.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Free Agent wishlist:

1. Semyon Varlamov
2. Wayne Simmonds
3. Brendan Lemieux
4. Jonah Gadjovich
5. Antti Raanta
6. Michael McLeod
7. Thomas Greiss
8. Ryan Reaves
9. Nathan Beaulieu
10. Zack Kassian
11. Cam Talbot
12. Brett Ritchie
13. Vladislav Namestnikov
14. Nick Ritchie
15. Martin Jones

Please.. one of these Rob; I'm not asking for much here..

Love them all except #6.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Love them all except #6.

Ideal 4C that can put up 25+ points, over 60% in the dot, has size and plays a hard nosed game.

 

[Trash Panda]

At this point, the Kings should just throw in the towel on finding a miracle UFA signing for pennies on the dollar, and roll into camp with what we have.

When rosters get trimmed down in the fall, there could be a waiver deal to be had, and otherwise just hope for some LTIR cap space from one of our high-dollar redundant forwards & make a deal at the deadline.

It’s a shit sandwhich 5 years in the making.

 

[kingskring]

 

[SettlementRichie10]

It’s baffling to me that they didn’t qualify JAD. This management team is bizarre.

 

[Trash Panda]

It’s baffling to me that they didn’t qualify JAD. This management team is bizarre.

It’s a common tactic for teams to not qualify a player they think they can simply re-sign for a lower amount than the QO.

That being said, if I’m JAD, I’m running away from this organization fast as I possibly can, and trying to find some bottom-six minutes in a low-expectations environment.

 

[Fishhead]

It’s baffling to me that they didn’t qualify JAD. This management team is bizarre.

JAD is eligible for arbitration, so he would just have to turn down the QO and go to an arbitrator to plead his case. Since it would be player elected, the team can only walk away if it's in excess of a fairly high amount, several million per year I believe. Obviously JAD isn't getting that, but if he turned down the QO and was awarded $1.5M per year, the team is on the hook for it. At least that's how I read the CBA, I could be totally wrong. But I think it's 100% the right move to make.

Did MacEwen get a QO? I think he's in the same boat.

 

[No Name The Nameless]

Your point?
When did you buy it from the handful of guys that said it before you?
Please show me the receipts..

The Kings continue to do development their way and will never change it.
Either a guy distinguishes himself as a solid player on both side of the puck and makes contributions or he is in the AHL or further down the lineup, and or eventually a cap casualty.
None of you guys sits in TMac's toll keeper booth nor behind the screen piloting Blake's eye in the sky...

Yeah. Stfu everyone. Stop talking about the Kings on a Kings message board.

 

[Moses Doughty]

It’s baffling to me that they didn’t qualify JAD. This management team is bizarre.

It's fairly common to do with an RFA at his level who has arb rights, try to sign him for cheaper and avoid the awkwardness that comes with arbitration

 

[Schrute farms]

Yeah. Stfu everyone. Stop talking about the Kings on a Kings message board.

Don’t you dare talk negatively about my surfing buddies. They are infallible. Everything is awesome.

 

[deaderhead28]

It’s baffling to me that they didn’t qualify JAD. This management team is bizbizarre.

Not really.

 

[Moses Doughty]

Thoughts ahead of NHL free agency: All eyes on Maple Leafs adding Reaves

Ahead of July 1 free agency opening, Elliotte Friedman shares some thoughts from why the Hurricanes and Red Wings could be interesting, to how Ryan Reaves could be a Maple Leaf.

www.sportsnet.ca

Friedman is "speculating" that the Kings could add Cam Talbot and a Trevor Lewis reunion. Also seems to confirm that Quick is a Ranger

 

[FSL KINGS]

Did Friedman just say a Lewis return to LA was possible????

 

[Moses Doughty]

Did Friedman just say a Lewis return to LA was possible????

Barring a Lizotte trade (but that goes against Rosen's tweeting from tonight), guess he could be a 13th forward who provides some PK help with Iafallo gone?

 

[JKG33]

Hard pass on Talbot, hes garbage. If that's the dumpster diving they're doing I'd rather just bring Quick back.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Cam Talbot and TREVOR LEWIS?!

 

[CarlSneep]

T-LEW

 

[Johnny Utah]

That’s an AHL signing.

 

[No Name The Nameless]

If we signed Lewis, coach would be playing him on the third line.

 

[King'sPawn]

Thoughts ahead of NHL free agency: All eyes on Maple Leafs adding Reaves

Ahead of July 1 free agency opening, Elliotte Friedman shares some thoughts from why the Hurricanes and Red Wings could be interesting, to how Ryan Reaves could be a Maple Leaf.

www.sportsnet.ca

Friedman is "speculating" that the Kings could add Cam Talbot and a Trevor Lewis reunion. Also seems to confirm that Quick is a Ranger

Talbot makes sense. Hoven just wrote about how the Kings could sign a 35+ goalie to give a low salary with bonuses for a lower cap hit.

 

[FSL KINGS]

If we signed Lewis, coach would be playing him on the third line.

Lewis could bump Byfield off Kopi's line!!!!

 

[Schrute farms]

Oh my smh

 

[Johnny Utah]

Kassian. Comtois. Gadjovich.

 

[Telos]

Lewis could bump Byfield off Kopi's line!!!!

This is TMac we're talking about, not Sutter... He would center Fiala and Kaliyev