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tryger

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Forum: Armchair-GMWed at 10:23 am
Thread: 3 way Eichel deal with new info
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>NeedTheCleanser</b></div><div>One of Turcotte/Byfield has to be replacing Vilardi, not to mention Sam can play center.

Also, if Byfield doesn’t overtake Vilardi in the org depth chart next eye at, his development is not going as planned</div></div>

Turcotte and Byfield have not fully graduated to that role, Vilardi was thrust into his role at 2C way too fast, which is a mistake they won't make with Byfield or Turcotte. They made the mistake of letting Vilardi play because of his age, and not factoring the guy spent two seasons on IR because of his back injury. Regardless of all this, Vilardi ended the season pretty strongly with their acquisition last season of Andersson.

In the future, he will play a tough-nosed third-line once Byfield or Turcotte prove they are ready for 18-20 min a night. But you are missing the main point here, if the Kings declined this trade what team is willing to get Reinhart RFA (during a cap freeze) rights by giving up a top 10 pick (where the top 2-10 are murky, to say the least), a teams best prospect graduate (on an ELC), and a 2nd rounder? In terms of asset management, wouldn't the Kings be better off if they: keep Vilardi, the 1st, and overpay a free agent for 2 years ($6.5-7M) until their prospect crop is ready?
Forum: Armchair-GMTue at 1:53 pm
Forum: Armchair-GMTue at 12:24 am
Thread: Picking up the pieces
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Sabresfuturecupwinners</b></div><div>You can't expect to keep all your good prospects in trades... Kings would be lucky for Kaliyev to become as good a Reinhart. Sabres want an NHL ready player for the 11th best goal scorer in the NHL last year, a duel position top 3 player on almost any team in the NHL. I hate giving up Reinhart but he's certainly worth this package.</div></div>

Kings have lots of great forward prospects, most of them are centers, that's who they would move if they were so inclined. The biggest issue with signing Reinhart is it would need to be a sign and trade to justify the value of 8th overall and a blue chip prospect, and he has no reason to do that.

And I agree he's a stud, but Kaliyev is on an ELC in a cap freeze, it doesn't matter if he's half as good, he's a 1/7th of the cost during a cap freeze when the Kings need scoring and they can use their cap space for a 20 goal scoring winger without selling the farm.
Forum: Armchair-GMTue at 12:09 am