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Confirmed with Link: Marian Gaborik and Nick Shore to OTT for Dion Phaneuf (25% retained) and Nate Thompson

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If Gabby retires after the season, this is a bad move. That money could've been better spent than on a player like Phaneuf.

If Gabby plays out this contract, it's a good move. Maybe great move. Gabby needs to keep playing, tho. If the Kings knew that he's gonna retire, and traded him any ways, I'd be irate.
 
Don’t be surprised to see Dion on third pairing with Martinez. Forbort will stay with Drew, but Muzzin will move in also. Muzzin will play primarily with Folin. Gravel is 7 for now. LaDue gets sent back down. Dion could see 2nd Pp time and Pk time. No improvement in this trade up front, which is where the Kings need some upgrades.
 
BigKing said:
So $375,000 more in cap hit for the same three years but Dion is more serviceable at this point.

Price to pay to is basically handing them Nick Shore.

Thompson is gritty at least but Kings are on the hook for him next season as well at $1.65MM while Shore is RFA.

Can't wait for the screaming about both Clifford and Thompson having $1.6MM cap hits.

Dion is more valuable than Gaborik at this point. I'd rather have him for the next three years at only $325,000 more. I think giving up Shore to do so is better than buying out Gaborik.
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This only works if Gabby doesn't retire, BK. If he retires, we got f***ed
 
KingTrouty said:
If Gabby retires after the season, this is a bad move. That money could've been better spent than on a player like Phaneuf.

If Gabby plays out this contract, it's a good move. Maybe great move. Gabby needs to keep playing, tho. If the Kings knew that he's gonna retire, and traded him any ways, I'd be irate.
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If he gets bought out and retires, that's different. Too much money to just retire.
 
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KingsFan7824 said:
If he gets bought out and retires, that's different. Too much money to just retire.
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Well yes, if he's bought out it's different. We wouldn't win the trade, but we wouldn't lose it, either (if Shore wasn't involved, I'd call it a win even w/buy out). But if his full contract counts against OTT cap for the next three seasons, this is a much better trade. If he retires, we got ravaged
 
Blake did okay with this trade. Don't like seeing Shore go, but if Phaneuf can provide anything at all on a consistent basis, it's better than having Gaborik around not doing much of anything. Gaborik was great in the 2014 playoffs, getting the dirty goals everyone said he wouldn't pay the price to score.

 
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KingTrouty said:
Well yes, if he's bought out it's different. We wouldn't win the trade, but we wouldn't lose it, either (if Shore wasn't involved, I'd call it a win even w/buy out). But if his full contract counts against OTT cap for the next three seasons, this is a much better trade. If he retires, we got ravaged
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i don't exactly take marian for the type of guy that would leave that type of money on the table
 
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KingsFan7824 said:
Gaborik - Kopitar - Brown
Pearson - Carter - Toffoli
King - Stoll - Williams
Clifford - Richards - Lewis
Nolan

Muzzin - Doughty
Mitchell - Voynov
Martinez - Greene
Regehr
Schultz

Quick
Jones
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So that leaves Kopitar, Carter, Brown, Clifford, Lewis, Doughty, Martinez, and Quick from the 2012 run.
 
KINGS17 said:
Blake did okay with this trade. Don't like seeing Shore go, but if Phaneuf can provide anything at all on a consistent basis, it's better than having Gaborik around not doing much of anything. Gaborik was great in the 2014 playoffs, getting the dirty goals everyone said he would wouldn't pay the price to score.

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He scored more goals in 26 playoff games than he did in each of the 15-16, 16-17, and 17-18 seasons. Every day that goes by, I'm more and more convinced that they really did make a deal with the devil for that 2014 Cup.
 
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