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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Kings rebuild isn't looking as promising as it once did TBH.
Turcotte busted. Byfield might still be a top 6 center but doesn't look elite.
Vilardi, Kupari, and Kaliyev are great supporting pieces but not sure any are top line players.
They traded their 1sts in 2022 and now 2023.
So really the only piece of the rebuild that still might be a truly elite piece is Clarke.
Honestly it goes to show how hard it can be to get a rebuild right. In 2020/2021 the Kings were applauded for their drafting and had by far the best prospect pool in the NHL.
Now it looks good but not great. And as mentioned the people driving the bust aren't really people drafted during the re-build but pieces they added via trade and UFA, or kept through the re-build (Kopitar, Doughty, Kempe, Fiala, Arvidsson, Danault)
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True, but another way to look at it is you can collect rebuild pieces without going full blown Arizona bad on the current roster.
Maybe LA is the prototype a team like Calgary looks at in collecting young talent with high potential but still keeping some resemblance of NHL players too.
With our contract situation, that's probably the closest thing to a rebuild that can be executed anyway.