Once a Kings Fan Too
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Why would it be better for us to trade a significant asset for Joel Edmundson, who played 61 games for Montreal pretty ineffectively, when we can sign UFA Erik Gustafsson, who played 61 games for Washington and had three times as many points as well as playing better defensively, for free and for less money?
Vancouver isn't under pressure to unload Tyler Myers expensively. Once his $5 million signing bonus is paid in the summer, bottom-8 teams like Arizona or Chicago will be lining up to take his $6 million cap hit for only $1 million in real money. Anaheim's standing ask to take Myers is for a 2024 fourth in exchange for Future Considerations, or a 2024 third for a 2024 sixth. Joel Armia, on the other hand, has a $3.4 million cap hit for two seasons (not one) but costs $8.6 million in real cash over that time, so almost by definition he'll be harder to unload (and more costly) than Myers.