LAK D Swap Rightys for Leftys

Created by: Billy739

Team: 2022-23 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: Oct. 24, 2022

Published: Oct. 24, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

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

MTL Fan just trying to show thing from the LAK side post trade.
So they can see the cap would work both short and longterm even if tight next year for a bit.
Show the lines and the potential for it to work from your side .
Our side well really anything is better then Wideman and Savard with rotating LD's on our RD.
So what comination of pairings their involved in really isnt as relevent as it is for a Contender like LAK
Matheson could move up to top pair but i know you like Anderson there
So i put him with Clarke instead as Roy/Durzi combine for 8pts to lead the team and shouldnt be touched as such.

MTL and LAK have been linked since Spring to Walker and Roy.
Recently Hughes spoke of Walkers importance to him and Spence much diffent then MB POV.
I say why not both??

Brandt is likely to have skipped over Spence as LAK headcoach from the interviews i heard of him speaking about Brandt Clarke seems like he's as high on him as Marty St Louis is on Kaiden Ghule.

With this jump in the line you now have 2 RD Stud Prospects playing LD with Edler day to day this past week.
Walker moving gives 1/2 a spot on RD or maybe pair them together rotating as needed.
Spence is officially out of the picture and should be available in trades soon as they has Grans for call up now and more time via ELC and Waiver Exemption

So Walker and Spence out, what does LAK get?
Ylonen im putting in as an overbid to bridge the gap in such a large trade.
To a Team like LAK Ylonen's play vs cap will be valued especially from a Defensive POV.
Well Spence i'd say Norlinder and a 2nd round pick
Walker on the other hand i'd 1 for 1 with Matheson

Its more or less the same level of value with different approaches.
Both have their injury issue but Walkers are Byron level while Mathesons is Anderson level.
He makes 2m more then Walker but produce 2m worth more offensively and defensively.
Its 1 for 1 because depite both their issues each team needs what the other has in these players mostly because of their shot position to give their teams access more freely to shooting lane's they're missing with 5/7 NHL D all shooting Right

MTL want Walker because despite being injury prone he'll help and Spence is the main goal here and Walkers just the bonus . Spence will play 2nd paid RD beside Harris and Walker by Xhekaj who will ensure anyone looking to injure or rough up Walker will get knocked out like Watson,Kastellic and Kassian.

Walker
Spence

For

Matheson
Norlinder
Ylonen aka Lehkonen Lite who never stops skating or moving.
2nd round pick in 2024

Trades

LAK

Matheson, Michael
Norlinder, Mattias
2023 2nd round pick (MTL)

Additional Details:

He's had a good camp and playing well in Laval at 22 years old he's not quite ready but close similar to Spence.(He took time to adjust to Small Ice)

Matheson Produce's upto 40% more then Walker while playing more minutes and a bigger role. He doesnt fit MTL's system as we have no triggermen on our back end with Petry and Weber gone now. That said beside Doughty or Roy thats a big step up from Savard and Wideman.

MTL

LAK

Ylönen, Jesse

Additional Details:

Traded Seperately as i believe the value above is accurate but MTL will likely sweeten the pot so LAK give up Spence too. Ylonen is the kicker MTL add's in to make the deal happen

MTL

Like his dad he needed a few years in the AHL where he thrived scoring clutch goals all the way to a ECF game 7 with Laval.

Lehkonen and his dad played a very similar style and while his game is very similar he's a playmaker first where as they were shooters first.

He's the ideal 3rd guy on a line like Glenn Anderson he'll make a career off people choosing to see him as the weak link just because he played on a line with more talented players. He covered Kuri and Gretzky defensively once they hit the Neutral Zone usually setting up the rush from there and getting a point.

He'll be NHL ready within the next year
Truth is he might be ready now we have so many wingers he wasnt given really any shot . Neither was RHP who was a favorite of MSL a the end of last year "Laval-agher" wasnt given a look either sent down quick. This year unless you were defense we didnt pay much attention

Buyouts

Dion Phaneuf: $1,062,500

Termination Fees

Mike Richards: $900,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2023
2024
2025

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$82,500,000	$77,690,834	$637,500	$3,550,000	$4,809,166

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kempe, Adrian $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Fiala, Kevin $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 7
Moore, Trevor $1,875,000$1,875,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Danault, Phillip $5,500,000$5,500,000 C NMC UFA - 5	Arvidsson, Viktor $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Kaliyev, Arthur $894,167$894,167 ($150,000$150K) RW, LW RFA - 2	Byfield, Quinton $894,167$894,167 ($2,650,000$3M) LW, C RFA - 2	Vilardi, Gabriel $825,000$825,000 RW, C RFA - 1
Lemieux, Brendan $1,350,000$1,350,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Lizotte, Blake $1,675,000$1,675,000 C RFA - 2	Grundström, Carl $1,300,000$1,300,000 LW, RW RFA - 2
	Anderson-Dolan, Jaret $750,000$750,000 C, LW, RW RFA - 1	Wagner, Austin $1,133,333$1,133,333 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Anderson, Michael $1,000,000$1,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Doughty, Drew $11,000,000$11,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 5	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 1
Durzi, Sean $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD/RD RFA - 2	Roy, Matt $3,150,000$3,150,000 RD UFA - 2	Petersen, Cal $5,000,000$5,000,000 G M-NTC UFA - 3
Matheson, Michael $4,875,000$4,875,000 LD M-NTC UFA - 4
Edler, Alexander $750,000$750,000 ($750,000$750K) LD NMC UFA - 1	Clarke, Brandt $894,167$894,167 RD RFA - 4

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
		Iafallo, Alex $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 3

Top Comments

Oct. 24, 2022 at 8:01 a.m.

Ledge_And_Dairy

Joined: Jun. 2019

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Why would LA do that? They are already very cap strapped and this only works with Iafallo out. He will be making his return in mid November though. They also don't need a player like Ylonen as their prospect pool for forwards is very deep and he is pretty dime-a-dozen.

Oct. 24, 2022 at 8:31 a.m.

BadaBing

Go Habs Go

Joined: Oct. 2021

Posts: 1,984

Likes: 467

Why would the HABS even consider this trade. They will be looking elsewhere.

Oct. 24, 2022 at 8:40 a.m.

kingsfaninSD

Joined: May 2017

Posts: 1,170

Likes: 286

Kings decline easily. They can't afford no do they want Matheson.

Oct. 24, 2022 at 11:39 a.m.

KINGS67

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 3,674

Likes: 1,632

This doesn’t work for LA. Iafallo will return

Oct. 24, 2022 at 12:23 p.m.

F50marco

Joined: May 2015

Posts: 19,594

Likes: 6,734

Assuming the cap could work for LA, which it wouldn't, I still wouldn't do it from a Habs perspective. That is a massive overpay for a good but not elite prospect.

Matheson is a legit top 4 dman on a decent contract. Ylonen and Norlinder are not throw in prospects. That 2nd rounder is going to be low in the 2nd round. That's a ton of value for essentially Spence. I need to see more of him at the NHL level before dropping that kind of value on him.

I don't mind just going after Walker just as a replacement for Wideman or something but it has to be for somewhat cheap because the Habs don't need to be overpaying for literally anything right now while they're rebuilding and Walker isn't that great anyway. Not too mention that when Eddy and Matheson are back healthy, the Habs will have a decent top 6 D. Eddy and Harris will play the right side when everyone's healthy again.

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