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Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 18, 2019 at 6:19 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJan. 9, 2019 at 9:26 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 18, 2018 at 9:52 p.m.
Thread: 3-way with Edmonton and Columbus
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>vinnylou</b></div><div>I like how the missing piece to acquire panarin is Pearson</div></div>

The missing piece to acquire Panarin is his willingness to sign an extension with whatever team he gets traded to. No team is going to give up anything significant for Panarin unless he agrees to an extension at the time of the trade.

Honestly, Nugent-Hopkins, a draft pick, and a quality prospect or young top-six forward is probably enough to get a trade done, as long as it's to a team that Panarin wants to play for. Right now, the front runners for his services are probably Chicago, New York, &amp; Los Angeles, in that order. If we are to believe the rumors, he doesn't want to sign in a small market like Edmonton. A 3-way deal like this could make sense, although it likely won't be to the Kings due to their cap crunch.
Forum: Armchair-GMJul. 11, 2018 at 9:22 a.m.
Thread: All we need. Pt 2
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KingsGKG</b></div><div>In a hard cap world, every team that is successful are/is/will be in the same boat. Capitals, Kings, Penguins and Blackhawks (last 4 cup winners). Winnipeg and Toronto will be joining them in the next few years. It's not the salary or players. It's the cap. Would you have suggested the Kings said to all these players "Thanks for the cup, now don't let the door hit you in the butt on the way out"? How do you sell that to a fan base? Three of those players are HOFers. Kopitar, Doughty and Quick. Brown is a guy with 1000 games played in a Kings uniform. Those 4 make up 32.6 million of it.

I HATE the inability of teams to get out of a bad contract under the HARD cap without the painful buyout process with affects on the cap. Let a team buy out (1) contract a year that can erase the hit against the cap?</div></div>

As a Leaf fan, LA's handling the cap is actually a good thing. And I understand blind luck has a lot to do with the Leafs success currently. But what I mean is this.

Toronto's core, apart from Tavares, are all 23 and under. Since we now know that signing these guys to cheap deals now only to have to overpay as the exit their prime is a bad idea. That lesson should mean the Leafs can give their big 3 young guys 8 year deals now and then when they are exiting their prime they'll get shorter term higher cap hit or much lower cap hit for term. Nylander for example, if he was to sign for 8 years it'll likely be around 7 million a season. And he'll exit that contract at 30. A 30 year old can't ask for a 8 year 10 million dollar a season contract. Everyone knows that's a bad idea and will be a huge cap anchor in 3-5 years. So they can give him a short 3 year deal at a high rate (If deserving of course) or a longer deal at a much reduced rate.

If TO goes down that route, if they win a cup or two, they won't be staring at terrible contracts looming over them for 4-5 years as these players slowly play their way to retirement.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 28, 2018 at 1:20 a.m.
Thread: RHD solution
I'm a Kings fan. Carolina loses big time here. Every single player is worse than their replacement:

Faulk &gt; Martinez
Faulk is a legitimate top paring defenseman (and Carolina's captain). Martinez is an ok #3/4 guy.

Skinner &gt; Pearson
Skinner was the Calder trophy winner his first year in the league and has hit 30 goals 3 times and 20 goals 6 times (7 if you pro-rate the lockout shortened season). He's a legitimate top-line forward. Pearson has hit 20g once in his career and, while he has potential, he has yet to prove that he can be a consistent top-six forward.

McKeown &gt; Fantenberg
McKeown is 22 and projected to be a very good defenseman. He's also rights protected for the next 4-5 years. Fantenberg will be 27 in October and played most of last season in Ontario. He will be a UFA at the end of this season.

There's no way Carolina even considers making this deal. Change Pearson to Toffoli, change Fantenberg to LaDue, upgrade the 3rd round pick to a 1st, and throw in a quality young prospect and maybe Waddell doesn't immediately hang up the phone on you.
Forum: Armchair-GMJun. 6, 2018 at 11:44 a.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMMay 30, 2018 at 8:00 p.m.
Thread: SlimCharles LA Kings
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>BenHubbard</b></div><div>I’d be very weary giving all that up for Phil. He’s been great and all but he’s now entering his 30’s on big deal and will expect another big deal when this deal ends. He has multiple cups now and who knows how effective he’ll be moving forward without Sid or Gino. I’d be sick if I were a king fan and made this move. Next thing is Gabe Villardi has a video game addiction and is heading towards bust territory if he doesn’t figure that out. He certainly won’t sniff any top 6 nhl roles next season.</div></div>

Kessel is signed for like 4 or 5 more years. I doubt the kings would resign him by then. Kessel will stay dominant for the duration of his contract. And that would make it well worth it.