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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 7, 2022 at 10:39 p.m.
Forum: Armchair-GMSep. 15, 2020 at 1:47 a.m.
Thread: Moving forward
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>GrinReaper</b></div><div>LA has 1 LD signed for this coming season with their LD being all UFA in this landscape with the flat cap with a team that’s not going to spend to the cap 1.5 mil for Dman for 6th that has no really value is a smart GM and keeps his owner happy with Development being the main focus in LA</div></div>

Blake is smart enough to know that he would be doing Edmonton a huge favor taking 4 mil cap hit off your hands. There's a price to shed cap like that, regardless of real-life salary attached to the contract.

And no, the Kings do not have only 1 LD signed next year.
Anderson is signed, MacDermid is a left defenseman and is signed (despite CapFriendly insisting he's a righty, it's not true. He shoots left and plays solely on the left side), Bjornfot is signed and is expected to get NHL time, and Clague is also a lefty who will be expected to get 20-40 games.

The Kings desire a LD vet to play next to Doughty, but they won't be doing a divisional rival a huge favor just to get that. They'd much rather let the kids sink or swim. Or go after any of the other UFA vets. Or any of the other teams willing to pay to shed their high cap hit defenseman.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 25, 2019 at 11:29 p.m.
Thread: Kings Trades w NJ WPG VGK BOS
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>rhfa61</b></div><div>By adding Subban at $6M for 2 1/2 seasons, Kings roll out a RHD of Doughty, Subban, Walker, making their defense Top 5 again. By having a solid defense again, the Kings would take the pressure off the young guns coming up.</div></div>

I respect your opinion! Just don’t think Subban is worth that! Walker is better then Subban at this point so kings would be paying 6m for a 3rd pair guy. Just don’t believe they would do that. Especially giving up 4 young guys from their roster. Think they are better off staying the course and including guys in bigger trades or for draft picks. I actually like the way they are headed I don’t think they take on guys like Subban unless a 1st is involved. That overpayment trade to eat a contract! Otherwise they stay the course and build thru picks. I think after the expansion draft they will start being bigger players in free agency. By then they will have a solid group of prospects built up.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2019 at 1:20 p.m.
Thread: General Manager Rob Blake
I’m pretty sure you just dumped on Blake for being aggressive about getting this team to compete for a playoff spot when he signed Phaneuf and Kovalchuk but you believe he needs to add in free agency this coming year to what, accelerate the rebuilding process to be competitive when they were just able to admit to themselves that a rebuild is necessary. Sounds like more of the same thing. The 11 million in dead cap space is unfortunate but we probably won’t be competitive until the year after next so it’s as fortunate of a situation as you could have considering the circumstances. When that space is greatly reduced, more players are moved out, more prospects are playing and feeling more confident and everyone is on the same page about McClellans system(since we’ll be introducing new prospects to it) then I think they may try for free agency, until then they can just bid their time