Once a Kings Fan Too
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From a roster point of view, Los Angeles declines because the Kings already have 13 forwards under team control for 2023-2024 who were on the roster at the end of the season, plus forwards moving up like Jaret Anderson-Dolan and Alex Turcotte, so that Garland doesn't represent someone we need. From a cap point of view, every bit of our cap space has to be directed to re-signing our RFAs, especially Gabe Vilardi, Rasmus Kupari and Tobias Bjornfot, so any trade not directed towards an LhD has to be cap-neutral, and this would increase our cap by $3.25 million (which is almost half of our current cap space).