What about Turcotte?
Never been a fan of his development
He would need to have a really bad camp to be waived. He is signed to a three-year, one-way contract and will probably settle into a bottom-six energy role for the next three years, which I think he will do well in.
The whole development debacle was all-time bad from the start—from Rob Blake overriding his scouting staff on draft night to take Turcotte over Zegras, to the absurd decision to sign him after a disappointing freshman season and place him in the AHL as a teenager, to not pulling the plug sooner and recouping some of the lost draft capital, and finally the poor deployment in the minors. Another masterclass all around from Rob Blake.
That said, in defense of the Kings, it's incredible that a player who produced as Turcotte did as a 17-year-old in the NTDP would completely collapse offensively at higher levels. He had a higher points-per-game as a draft-eligible player in the USHL than Hughes, Caufield, Boldy, and Zegras, but five years later, he's just not in the same stratosphere at the NHL level.
I think any team who took him was going to end up with a disappointment, but I still think the Kings completely cratered any chance of a 2C or even a 3C with the decision to pull him from college. You look around at some of the players who played for two years and how much they benefitted from it, and then you see the Kings pulling a player who had 1 goal in conference play, it's very frustrating as a Kings fan with how they handle young players.