How future cup contender should be constructed

Created by: Playersoverpayed

Team: 2021-22 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: Aug. 21, 2021

Published: Aug. 21, 2021

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Move pieces of your strenght for a pieces of someone else's strenght.
Trade Sean Walker during the season if everything falls apart. 2022 draft class is also rich on RHD...
And I would be surprised if Danault stays in LA beyond his NMC (beyond 2023/24).

Trades

LAK

Blomqvist, Joel [Reserve List]

PIT

Anderson-Dolan, Jaret

Additional Details:

PIT need Cs, LAK needs Gs. PIT also has Clang in a pipeline so they could part ways with one of the Blomqvist/Clang. PIT is in a win-now mode (JAD will turn 22 in september), LAK can wait another year or two. Anderson-Dolan for Blomqvist is overpayment on LAK side, but decent G prospects are relatively rare, expensive and hard to acquire.

LAK

Fehérváry, Martin

WSH

Additional Details:

WSH needs RHD prospects, LAK needs bigger LHDs. Alexeyev has advantage against Fehervary on WSH team, while drafting Clarke makes offensive-minded Spence expandable. Fehervary is safer pick and NHL ready so you need to throw something more on a table (Madden). There is likely no roster spot available for Madden in LA, while WSH slightly lacks right-shot Fs.

LAK

Rajaniemi, Matias [Reserve List]

NYI

Andersson, Lias

Additional Details:

Tricking Lou is hardest armchair GM's job. How about former Ranger (no. 7 pick overall) who can play C and cost 2nd round pick for a ˝random˝ 6th rounder? 2017 project for contender vs 2020 prospect for team coming out of rebuild. Andersson can play now, Rajaniemi in a few years. Andersson is on a edge of bust category, while Rajaniemi could be cheap option on LHD in the future.

LAK

Samuelsson, Mattias

BUF

Faber, Brock [Reserve List]
Thomas, Akil

Additional Details:

Drafting Power makes Samuelsson expandable. BUF needs almost everything, especially RHDs and Cs, LAK has too many of each kind. Faber is also young all-around prospect which makes sense for tanking team. Samuelsson has medium ceilling, but big players are allways in demand and are not cheap. Thomas could struggle to make LAK team and can benefit from a trade.

LAK

NSH

Additional Details:

Third trading piece on LAK side is Joel Blomqvist, previeusly acquired from PIT for JAD.
In 2019 draft LAK had no idea they will select Byfield next year. Other Cs are expandable. Upgrade on G and downgrade on C vs upgrade on C and downgrade on G. It is also worth of note Turcotte is 2 years older than Svechkov and Bjornfot is 2 years older than L'Heureux. Bjornfot is expandable and NAS can use young LHD. L'Heureux is desired caliber, but still young with uncertain future.

Buyouts

Dion Phaneuf: $1,062,500

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Carter: $2,636,363 (50%)

Termination Fees

Mike Richards: $900,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
25	$81,500,000	$77,609,588	$0	$1,832,500	$3,890,412

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Iafallo, Alex $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Brown, Dustin $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Kempe, Adrian $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Danault, Phillip $5,500,000$5,500,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Arvidsson, Viktor $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Lemieux, Brendan $1,550,000$1,550,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Athanasiou, Andreas $2,700,000$2,700,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Moore, Trevor $1,875,000$1,875,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
Grundström, Carl $725,000$725,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Vilardi, Gabriel $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, C RFA - 1	Wagner, Austin $1,133,333$1,133,333 RW, LW UFA - 2
L'Heureux, Zachary $925,000$925,000 LW RFA - 5	Lizotte, Blake $800,000$800,000 C RFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Edler, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LD NMC UFA - 1	Doughty, Drew $11,000,000$11,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 2
Määttä, Olli $3,333,225$3,333,225 LD UFA - 1	Roy, Matt $3,150,000$3,150,000 RD UFA - 3	Petersen, Cal $858,333$858,333 G UFA - 1
Anderson, Michael $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) LD UFA - 1	Walker, Sean $2,650,000$2,650,000 LD/RD UFA - 3
Wolanin, Christian $750,000$750,000 LD UFA - 1
Fehérváry, Martin $791,667$791,667 ($132,500$132K) LD/RD RFA - 2
Samuelsson, Mattias $925,000$925,000 LD UFA - 2

Top Comments

Aug. 21, 2021 at 9:28 a.m.

gretzkyghosts

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Edited Aug. 21, 2021 at 9:42 a.m.

I can see you like my favorite LHD prospect Samuelsson as much as I do.
You also recognize that the Sabres black hole is RHD.
Samuelsson has already demonstrated in his short stint with the Sabres that he is NHL ready.
IMO he has a huge upside.
The Sabres would have to add but the only RHD that I would want from the Kings prospect pool is Brandt Clarke.
LA would of course say no to that.

EDIT:
Let me add, Kevyn Adams is an idiot.
Unless he is considering trading Dahlin, why did he draft Power?
But that is just another chapter of the continuing saga of the known as the Sabres.

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Aug. 21, 2021 at 9:43 a.m.

Imagine875948

Pens are the best

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Pens decline. Blomqvist is worth more and is one of the best goalie prospects. Pens have a very underrated goalie prospect pool.

Aug. 21, 2021 at 9:53 a.m.

TheFastAndTheFleuryous

GO KNIGHTS GO

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Preds scream NOOOOOOOOO like Luke Skywalker

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Aug. 21, 2021 at 10:50 a.m.

Pensfan89

Joined: Jul. 2017

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Pens decline. They will use their good goalie prospect depth to acquire top 6 players if they trade them. The problem with Anderson-Dolan is that he is a 3C that isn’t that great at faceoffs. He’d probably just be moved to wing here which really doesn’t fix out center depth problem. Which isn’t really a big problem in all honesty. RHD is more of an issue.

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Aug. 21, 2021 at 11:02 a.m.

Icedragon4405

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Caps easily decline, Fehervary is best D prospect and is likely going to make an impact in the NHL this year

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LAK

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