Once a Kings Fan Too
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We don't need anyone to take Max Comtois off our hands and we don't need Matt Murray with John Gibson and Anthony Stolarz on the roster, so Anaheim declines.
I don't know where the widely-held misconception that we need dead weight for cap purposes comes from -- we're $18 million under the cap floor with 5 forward and 2 defense slots open, and our three RFA forwards will probably consume $6 million of that. It won't be hard to spend $12 million on 5 actual players this off-season. And if we're taking on cap dumps, it will be with some immediate and valuable tangible benefits involved, like first-round draft picks. Heck, I can see us trading Max Jones and Sam Steel for the 26th overall selection in this year's draft and Jeff Petry or even Brendan Gallagher.