All have now witnessed that Grundstrom will be a 20+ NHL scorer and the other 2 assets have great value.
You might want to slow down a bit. We witnessed 5 goals in 15 meaningless games at the end of a terrible year. 3 of the goals came against Anaheim, and another against the Oilers, two teams in the bottom half for GA, and in the bottom 10 in overall record. Let Durzi play a professional game at some level first, and we don't even know who the 3rd piece is, or what they would get if they traded the pick.
You shouldn't trade your assets that have much more potential than their current trade value. Like the Caps trading Filip Forsbeg for Martin Erat. Do all these younger players and prospects reach their potential? Of course not. Some of them do. Campbell is not young, but he's shown enough to be #1 goalie right now, period. His trade value is not great, as other GMs will just say "I'm not giving up a #1 pick for a backup goalie that's never carried a team, never played a playoff game and is 27 years old. We can offer a 2020 conditional #3 pick""...your reply is 'crickets'
And this is one of the problems Blake has. He's got a lot of different pressure points on the goalie position. If they can trade Quick, and Petersen has a good year next year, and Campbell has a good year next year, do you think Campbell is going to re-sign? If he did, now Petersen has to go, which would cause another pressure point against Blake. If Campbell isn't good next year, would you even want him to re-sign? In 38 career games, he hardly has a track record to fall back on as justification. If both Petersen and Campbell are good, both are going to want to be
the guy. These are pro athletes, they have egos. Petersen isn't that much younger than Campbell. The longer Campbell goes un-signed, the more likely he's gone one way or another, and that's even if they can rid themselves of Quick's contract. Compounding all that, is Petersen's RFA status right now. If they can sign him for 3 years, or even longer, what's that saying to Campbell, whether Quick is still here or not?
Unfortunately, like pretty much everything since 2014, the Kings have bad timing. Petersen isn't so young where he can play in the AHL for years on end anymore, Quick has too much term, and Campbell doesn't have enough. If nobody wants Quick, you pretty much have to trade Campbell, if Petersen has already been anointed the future #1.
You shouldn't trade your assets that have much more potential than their current trade value.
Like the Caps trading Filip Forsbeg for Martin Erat. Do all these younger players and prospects
reach their potential? Of course not. Some of them do. Campbell is not young, but he's shown
enough to be #1 goalie right now, period. His trade value is not great, as other GMs will just say
"I'm not giving up a #1 pick for a backup goalie that's never carried a team, never played a playoff
game and is 27 years old. We can offer a 2020 conditional #3 pick""...your reply is 'crickets'
