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Originally Posted by Jables16
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.
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I agree with all those points.
One player i haven't seen anyone mention is Colin Miller, Whom they traded for Lucic.
Guy was an absolute stud in the AHL last year as a sophomore (52 points in 70 games). I watched him a couple times and was beyond impressed. At the all-star skills competition he had the hardest shot and was also the fastest skater (Poirer was 2nd).
I was really pulling for the Flames to get him after Friedman said in one of his 30 thoughts blogs both him and Derek Forbort were generating a ton of interest on the trade block.
Anyways my point being imo he also qualifies as a key departure and maybe we can swindle another good young defenceman from Sweeney in the future!