What I Wish Had Happened

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Created by: OldNYIfan

Team: 2022-23 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: Mar. 4, 2023

Published: Mar. 4, 2023

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Description

Chicago traded Jake McCabe with 50% retention and Sam Lafferty to Toronto for a 2025 first, a 2026 second and two "prospects." Suppose we had offered a 2024 first (one year earlier than the Toronto first) and a 2025 second (one year earlier than the Toronto second) for McCabe alone.

Chicago would get to keep Lafferty (or sell him somewhere else) and earlier draft picks. We would get to keep our 2023 first instead of our 2024 first and would have two more seasons of McCabe at a much cheaper cap hit than having the trouble of having to re-sign Gavrikov (no sure thing) at a much higher cap hit.

There are some quality prospects at RW, LD and G clustered around the 23rd overall slot in many 2023 mock drafts that I would love to see on the Kings Reserve List. Our lack of that draft pick may have an unfortunate cascading effect on the rest of the draft and the off-season.

If you want to argue that exchanging Jonathan Quick for Joonas Korpisalo was a good move, fine, make whatever deal you want; but the actual trade wasn't financially necessary and in fact could have serious negative long-term financial effects.

Free Agent Signings

CREATED		YEARS	CAP HIT
Quick, Jonathan		1	$5,800,000

Trades

LAK

McCabe, Jake

TOR

2024 1st round pick (LAK)
2025 2nd round pick (LAK)

Additional Details:

Probably could have gotten away with Jacob Moverare instead of the second

LAK

2023 1st round pick (LAK)
2024 3rd round pick (LAK)

CBJ

Buyouts

Dion Phaneuf: $1,062,500

Termination Fees

Mike Richards: $900,000

Buried

Cal Petersen: $3,875,000 ($5,000,000)

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

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
24	$82,500,000	$82,476,667	$637,500	$3,900,000	$23,333

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Byfield, Quinton $894,167$894,167 ($2,650,000$3M) LW, C RFA - 2	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 2	Kempe, Adrian $5,500,000$5,500,000 LW, RW UFA - 4
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
Fiala, Kevin $7,875,000$7,875,000 RW, LW UFA - 7	Lizotte, Blake $1,675,000$1,675,000 C RFA - 2	Vilardi, Gabriel $825,000$825,000 RW, C RFA - 1
Iafallo, Alex $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 3	Anderson-Dolan, Jaret $750,000$750,000 C, LW, RW RFA - 1	Kaliyev, Arthur $894,167$894,167 ($150,000$150K) RW, LW RFA - 2
Grundström, Carl $1,300,000$1,300,000 LW, RW RFA - 2	Kupari, Rasmus $863,333$863,333 ($350,000$350K) C, LW, RW RFA - 1	MacEwen, Zack $925,000$925,000 RW, C 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	Copley, Pheonix $825,000$825,000 G UFA - 1
McCabe, Jake $2,000,000$2,000,000 LD/RD M-NTC UFA - 3	Roy, Matt $3,150,000$3,150,000 RD UFA - 2	Quick, Jonathan $5,800,000$5,800,000
Durzi, Sean $1,700,000$1,700,000 LD/RD RFA - 2
Edler, Alexander $750,000$750,000 ($750,000$750K) LD NMC UFA - 1	Walker, Sean $2,650,000$2,650,000 LD/RD UFA - 2

Mar. 4, 2023 at 3:52 p.m.

In_Utero

HockeyandMusic

Joined: May 2021

Posts: 206

Likes: 43

I wish the Kings would have traded for Hellberg, who’s been very good on a cheap deal.

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Mar. 4, 2023 at 5:18 p.m.

Billy316

Jesus Christ Is King

Joined: Mar. 2017

Posts: 2,621

Likes: 751

You got the better deal as it doesnt come with term.
LAK is changing the guard up until Doughty 's deals done .
At this point i doubt Roy or Walker get new deals as Clarke , Durzi and soon Spence will all be pushing them out.

Their Left D is a a little light , true
But Its cheaper paying for a rental then paying someone to take a contract you signed and will regret .
If anyone i woulda targeted Sandin as he was a beyond perfect complementary player for LAK
TML needed him to be more then he was. LAK needs him simply to be a 2nd pair Defensman who can cover Durzi so he can jump up on the rush.
Someone who's confident and capable enough to threat passes and spring Durzi loose on a couple breakaways.

I get TML is sore about giving up Durzi a RD they so desperatly need even now.
But LAK coulda paid a 1st and Grans getting the samed Value Gustafsson offers if not more in context to this playoff run (Longterm Grans >Gustfssson.
Gus cant be trusted we paid for him for our SCF run and him and Merril had to split ****s with either Weber/Petry of EG or Chiarot /Eddy for JM
We trusted them the first few games in TML almost got eliminated then we overworked our top 4 to compensate and 2/4 have been injury ridden since (one of them retiring early)

LAK woulda been a perfect fit
Plus having your 2nd pair as TML's 2018 1st and 2nd round picks would just be ultimate troll level if you win a cup with em

Mar. 4, 2023 at 5:19 p.m.

tkecanuck341

Joined: May 2016

Posts: 14,713

Likes: 6,217

I'm fine with the trade the Kings made, I just don't think Quick should have been included at all. They have the cap space to carry 3 goaltenders and let Quick finish out the season in the team suite.

At the very least, the Kings should have approached Quick ahead of the deadline, told him they couldn't afford to keep him as the backup with his quality of play, and given him the option of finishing his contract in LA, or pursuing a trade. There was obviously a team involved in his services, and the Kings could have done better by Quick if they would have facilitated the trade with Vegas themselves. They still could have brought in Columbus to retain 50%.

Instead, Rob Blake looks like an a-hole and Kekalainen looks like the hero.

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