Pipe Dream

Created by: OldNYIfan

Team: 2021-22 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: Sep. 28, 2021

Published: Sep. 28, 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

I wonder how the pairings would work.

I'm probably overpaying by the second, but All-Stars are All-Stars.

I'm with our esteemed colleague tkecanuck341 in hoping that neither Lemieux nor Wagner is on the final roster, at least by the New Year.

Late Edit: the second half of that last sentence should be "in thinking that neither Lemieux nor Wagner will be on the final roster, at least by the New Year."

Trades

LAK

Chychrun, Jakob

ARI

Anderson-Dolan, Jaret
Määttä, Olli
Turcotte, Alex
2023 1st round pick (LAK)
2023 2nd round pick (LAK)

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

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$81,500,000	$77,252,988	$0	$1,912,500	$4,247,012

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	Arvidsson, Viktor $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Kempe, Adrian $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Danault, Phillip $5,500,000$5,500,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Vilardi, Gabriel $894,167$894,167 ($850,000$850K) RW, C RFA - 1
Grundström, Carl $725,000$725,000 LW, RW RFA - 1	Athanasiou, Andreas $2,700,000$2,700,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Brown, Dustin $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Andersson, Lias $874,125$874,125 C, LW RFA - 1		Moore, Trevor $1,875,000$1,875,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
	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
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	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
Björnfot, Tobias $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 2

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Lemieux, Brendan $1,550,000$1,550,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Wagner, Austin $1,133,333$1,133,333 RW, LW UFA - 2

Top Comments

Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:05 p.m.

tkecanuck341

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 14,582

Likes: 6,156

Hope is a strong word. I like Wagner. There's just no room for him.

Lemieux is a gritty forward with scoring potential that didn't really provide any grit or scoring during the games he played with the Kings last season. I'd be fine letting him get snagged off waivers or recouping a 4th round pick for him in a trade.

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Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:11 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 40,526

Likes: 25,402

Quoting: tkecanuck341

Yeah, I had trouble with that verb, but didn't want to spend a lot of time thinking up a better way to phrase how we think. You did better.

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Sep. 28, 2021 at 5:35 p.m.

tryger

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 6,478

Likes: 4,511

Quoting: tkecanuck341

Not sure we have anyone to stand up for our guys if Lemiuex is gone. Our defense got ragdolled last season without some grit.

Sep. 28, 2021 at 6:03 p.m.

tkecanuck341

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 14,582

Likes: 6,156

Quoting: tryger

Not sure we have anyone to stand up for our guys if Lemiuex is gone. Our defense got ragdolled last season without some grit.

He had several chances last season to "stand up for our guys" and didn't. For a player meant to provide "grit", he wasn't very gritty.

Sep. 28, 2021 at 6:10 p.m.

MNKingsFan

Moose

Joined: Feb. 2021

Posts: 260

Likes: 145

Quoting: tryger

Not sure we have anyone to stand up for our guys if Lemiuex is gone. Our defense got ragdolled last season without some grit.

Yeah, I wonder how we’d do against San Jose and Calgary without a fighter. He just needs to be a serviceable 4th liner which I think he can be.

AZ would want more than this for Chychrun. I think my last best offer would be Turcotte, Anderson, Faber and a 1st. All those pieces would fit AZ’s rebuild. That might be a bit rich for other Kings fans but any deal for Chychrun is going to be painful.

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