KingsFan7824
Registered User
the thing about this trade that maybe some of you don't get why some us are pessimistic is the following
leave the mirages aside, let's see what this deal really is
did we trade for a full year of Sekera? no...we got him at the 59 mark correct?
so we traded him for AT LEAST 23 games and hopefully more if we make the playoffs, and even more so if he's signed
now...working with what we KNOW is the minimum guarantee of 23 games
out of those 23 games (which cost the Kings a 1st rd pick & McKeown) some people that are patient to a fault would say, hey give him a 5 game or so to adapt...although through experience when you trade a player that player would want to have an imediate impact (don't look too far...Stafford, Jagr, Myers all had an immediate impact with their teams). But fine! Give him 5 expensive games of adapting...so now i'm down to a mininum guarantee that Sekera will show up for 18 games...
that my friends, is a very expensive trade
if i told you, hey man here take Voynov for 18 games, in return just give me a 1st round pick AND McKeown...you'd bite? or hesitate?
now hopefully we sign him...but before that...hopefully HE'S DECENT ENOUGH FOR US TO BE WILLING TO SIGN HIM
i say, so far, (I STRESS SO FAR) bad deal
The 1st round pick doesn't matter. If the Kings miss the playoffs, it's next year's pick. If they make the playoffs, well that's the whole point of the trade. McKeown is probably at least a couple years from doing anything in the NHL, and there's always another draft to pick up another prospect.