Kovalchuk? Does it make sense?

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Created by: ISDriver

Team: 2018-19 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: May 31, 2018

Published: May 31, 2018

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

LA Kings want to get (A) faster; (B) more skilled. Kovalchuk fits the skilled part, but definitely not the faster part. At $6.0m/2yrs and 35 y/o, would it be wiser to go after a younger free agent? Which would most likely mean more term and money. If younger, who fits the criteria?

Free Agent Signings

RFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
LaDue, Paul		2	$1,100,000

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Kovalchuk, Ilya		3	$6,000,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2018
2019
2020

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
23	$80,000,000	$71,322,614	$0	$182,500	$8,677,386

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Kovalchuk, Ilya $6,000,000$6,000,000	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Brown, Dustin $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 4
Pearson, Tanner $3,750,000$3,750,000 LW UFA - 3	Carter, Jeff $2,636,364$2,636,364 RW, C UFA - 4	Toffoli, Tyler $4,600,000$4,600,000 RW, LW UFA - 2
Iafallo, Alex $925,000$925,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Thompson, Nate $1,650,000$1,650,000 C M-NTC UFA - 1	Vilardi, Gabriel $925,000$925,000 RW, C RFA - 4
Lewis, Trevor $2,000,000$2,000,000 RW, C UFA - 2	Kempe, Adrian $894,167$894,167 LW, RW UFA - 1	Amadio, Michael $717,500$717,500 ($182,500$182K) RW, LW UFA - 1
Clifford, Kyle $800,000$800,000 LW UFA - 2	Andreoff, Andy $677,500$677,500 LW, C UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Phaneuf, Dion $5,250,000$5,250,000 LD M-NTC, NMC UFA - 3	Doughty, Drew $7,000,000$7,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 1	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 5
Muzzin, Jake $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 2	Martinez, Alec $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 3	Campbell, Jack $675,000$675,000 G UFA - 2
Forbort, Derek $1,893,750$1,893,750 LD UFA - 2	LaDue, Paul $1,100,000$1,100,000 RD UFA - 2
Fantenberg, Oscar $650,000$650,000 LD UFA - 1

May 31, 2018 at 11:49 p.m.

MT_11

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Joined: Oct. 2016

Posts: 589

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It makes 0 sense for us to go after any free agent. If you look at our cap space, and at the number of players that have the little number “1” in the bottom right corner, you’ll understand why. Right now our goal should be opening up space to resign Doughty, Kempe, Amadio and anyone else that’s expiring next season

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Jun. 1, 2018 at 12:05 a.m.

SankFeravalli

Joined: Nov. 2015

Posts: 1,086

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Quoting: MT_11

I think Kovalchuk would be a really good fit for LA. They’ve always struggled with scoring. But MT_11 is right. Cap space won’t allow it. If they could dump Phaneuf then maybe it could work. But I don’t see that happening, considering they just traded for him and how hard his contract will be to move.

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