First of all, I highly doubt you've said your piece...that would just be impossible.
Glad that they decided against the 11/7 nonsense and put Laferriere in. But lmao at Englund not only playing, but playing his weak side when we have a perfectly good Spence ready to go. Remember when it was smart to pay $1M to an AHL tweener because it would guarantee he got through waivers? I guess the Kings would rather eat the poison pill themselves than dare give Spence (let alone Clarke) a couple extra games.Hoven reporting his understanding of the plan:
For those who don't want to read it, here's the breakdown:
- Spence, Kaliyev sent down to AHL to be cap compliant
- Kings will wait until tomorrow to put Rittich on waivers. They feel Rittich is less likely to be claimed by teams already with a set roster
- Kings will send Rittich down to the AHL Wednesday when he clears. Kaliyev will come up to continue his suspension for the first two games of the season
- When Kaliyev's suspension ends, he'll be re-entered in the lineup. Laferriere will go back down instead of being a healthy scratch.
- While not stated explicitly, it sounds like Spence will come back up after Laferriere is sent down.
So games 1 + 2 will be:
Byfield - Kopitar - Kempe
Fiala - Dubois - Laferriere
Moore - Danault - Arvidsson
Grundstrom - Lizotte - Lewis
Kaliyev
Anderson - Doughty
Gavrikov - Roy
Englund - Bjornfot
Talbot
Copley
Then games 3 on will be:
Byfield - Kopitar - Kempe
Fiala - Dubois - Kaliyev
Moore - Danault - Arvidsson
Grundstrom - Lizotte - Lewis
Anderson - Doughty
Gavrikov - Roy
Englund - Spence
Bjornfot
Talbot
Copley
Maybe they shouldn't be spending assets to "go for it" two years in a row then.
Madness, indeed.
Told you all Englund would make the club
The only teams softer than the Kings last year all added tough players this summer. We can’t be the weakest and softest team in the league.
Yeah, a botched rebuild, shit defense, failing prospects, and the worst goaltending tandem in the NHL. I wonder why people aren’t happy..
Insider said the roster could change between yesterday and the game day roster so hopefully they are just sending Englund down with the third string goalie.
...and that said goalie is only signed through the year.
I'm pretty excited. Last year the King's needed a center to push Lizotte down the lineup, a top 4 defender & a goalie. Today we have added a good center & good defenseman. Goal isn't ideal, but should be an improvement on last year & shouldn't be too hard to upgrade during the season.
Utahstradamus!Told you all Englund would make the club
The only teams softer than the Kings last year all added tough players this summer. We can’t be the weakest and softest team in the league.
That is unfortunate. I feel for Spence. He mentioned more than once that making the team this year was his goal and he gets sent down because of waiver eligibility
Nothing to do with Englund, it appears the Kings are going to go 11/7 for now with the Kaliyev suspension. Spence will likely be recalled by Wednesday and in the starting line up, the third goalie is causing the CAP issue which demoted Spence. If Rittich is waived today, that helps the CAP issue prior to game #1. However the timing, the most likely scenario soon is Spence and Kaliyev up (to start serving suspension and get that out of the way), and Laferriere and Rittich down. The big wild card is Laferriere. If he does play on opening day and shines like he did in preseason, it's could throw a wrench in the plans, but Tmac as already said publicly Kaliyev is not losing his roster spot due to the suspension.
Looks like they could waive Tomkins (G) and send down their waiver-exempt forward if they wanted to make it work (if interested in Rittich). I don't know how comfortable they are with the current duo.
It's not much of a stretch I guess, one of them has to go down.
