Kings don’t need or want any of that

kings gonna lose both players

And they’ll lose those players as well, so who cares. And they most certainly aren’t taking Byron back. There’s no need for any of those guys.

Athanasiou is an RFA and does Iafallo have it guaranteed he'll play on a first-line with any other team with the Kings cap space? Byron is being paid $3.5M on your fourth line, his best years are behind him, so I see him as a cap dump (veteran presence isn't important with Carter, Brown, Kopitar still with the team). Armia is gone after this season as a UFA, so he is also a cap dump. Mete is a RFA and he's fine but the Kings have bottom pairing guys like him and would likely lose him to the expansion draft. These moves all make the Kings worse in the short and long-term while helping Montreal both short term and long term. Kings Decline.

Yes, those are indeed three of the many players on your team in whom we have no interest and for whom we have absolutely no use.