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Originally Posted by Weitz
No one that i have read thinks Lucic will stay after this year apparently.
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That would be very bad for LA, a 1st for one year of Lucic after trading a 1st and Roland McKeown for a couple game of Sekera.
Williams, Jones Stoll, Regehr maybe Voynov gone. Even Richards was still a serviceable player he just counted way too much against the cap to keep in the NHL.
This is going to be a very different Kings team from last year. They're going to to need young guys like Toffoli, Pearson, Nick Shore to keep progressing and for some of their prospects to step up and make an impact.
Both Kopitar and Lucic leaving as UFAs would be an outright disaster, but if they're out of the playoff picture come deadline time they could take home quite a haul trading them if they seem unlikely to sign. I do think Kopitar eventually re-signs though.