Upgrades for playoffs

Created by: bliker

Team: 2021-22 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: Feb. 3, 2022

Published: Feb. 3, 2022

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

Legend

Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Free Agent Signings

UFA		YEARS	CAP HIT
Staal, Eric		1	$925,000

Trades

LAK

Chychrun, Jakob

ARI

LAK

De Haan, Calvin ($2,000,000 retained)

CHI

Grundström, Carl
Tkachev, Vladimir
2023 4th round pick (PIT)

LAK

Domi, Max ($1,000,000 retained)

CBJ

LAK

2023 3rd round pick (NYR)

NYR

Athanasiou, Andreas

Buyouts

Dion Phaneuf: $1,062,500

Retained Salary Transactions

Jeff Carter: $2,636,363 (50%)

Termination Fees

Mike Richards: $900,000

Buried

Austin Wagner: $8,333 ($1,133,333)

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2022
2023
2024

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

EMBED

TEXT-EMBED

ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
22	$81,500,000	$73,590,421	$0	$3,007,500	$7,909,579

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Iafallo, Alex $4,000,000$4,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 4	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 3	Kempe, Adrian $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 1
Moore, Trevor $1,875,000$1,875,000 LW, RW UFA - 2	Danault, Phillip $5,500,000$5,500,000 C NMC UFA - 6	Arvidsson, Viktor $4,250,000$4,250,000 RW, LW UFA - 3
Domi, Max $325,000$325,000 C, RW UFA - 1	Byfield, Quinton $894,167$894,167 ($2,650,000$3M) LW, C RFA - 3	Brown, Dustin $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 1
Lemieux, Brendan $1,550,000$1,550,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Staal, Eric $925,000$925,000 C UFA	Kaliyev, Arthur $894,167$894,167 ($62,500$62K) RW, LW RFA - 3

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Chychrun, Jakob $4,600,000$4,600,000 LD/RD UFA - 4	Doughty, Drew $11,000,000$11,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 6	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 2
Björnfot, Tobias $894,167$894,167 ($212,500$212K) LD RFA - 2	Roy, Matt $3,150,000$3,150,000 RD UFA - 3	Petersen, Cal $858,333$858,333 G UFA - 1
	Durzi, Sean $809,166$809,166 ($82,500$82K) LD/RD UFA - 1
De Haan, Calvin $2,550,000$2,550,000 LD/RD UFA - 1

Scratches	Injured Reserve (IR)	Long Term IR (LTIR)
Määttä, Olli $3,333,225$3,333,225 LD UFA - 1		Edler, Alexander $3,500,000$3,500,000 LD NMC UFA - 1
Lizotte, Blake $800,000$800,000 C UFA - 1

Taxi Squad
Ingham, Jacob $818,333$818,333 ($0$0$0$0) ($15,000$15K) G UFA - 2

Top Comments

Feb. 3, 2022 at 6:22 p.m.

Aussie_Blackhawk

Joined: Oct. 2019

Posts: 4,986

Likes: 2,356

Id probably prefer just a straight 2nd from one of the other interested parties in CDH.

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Feb. 3, 2022 at 6:28 p.m.

PuckLuck_77

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 2,446

Likes: 2,299

Yeah, I wouldn't do nearly any of those trades as a Kings fan.

Arizona -- It makes no sense to send Anderson out for Chychrun. We're trying to solidify the left side and there's still a hole if you send out Mikey.
Chicago -- If you don't do Chychrun, you don't go for CHD.
Columbus -- I've never been a fan of Max Domi's game, so that's just a straight no for me to begin with.
New York -- I guess this is the only one I'd do. AA isn't coming back next year so I'd part with him at the deadline instead of losing him for nothing.

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Feb. 3, 2022 at 6:41 p.m.

OldNYIfan

Once a Kings Fan Too

Joined: Jun. 2018

Posts: 42,007

Likes: 26,612

I agree with our fellow Kings fan @PuckLuck_77 all the way down the line (which will come as no surprise to anyone). We shouldn't be trading any LD in an exchange for Chychrun, because next year our left side with him but after losing Edler and Maatta will be Chychrun, Anderson and Bjornfot and then depth guys coming up out of Ontario. To put it another way, why force yourself to make two moves (De Haan) instead of one?

Domi doesn't give us anything that we don't already have with Arvidsson, Iafallo, Kempe and Moore, plus Kaliyev and our other options on the third and fourth lines (including Brown).

I'd get anything we can for Athanasiou, who is just a victim of circumstances.

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Feb. 4, 2022 at 5:53 p.m.

bliker

Joined: Jun. 2021

Posts: 351

Likes: 89

Quoting: PuckLuck_77

So what would you think about the CDH trade without the Chychrun trade? It certainly helps with our left side until Edler is back and from his advanced stats he seems like a Martinez-lite

Feb. 4, 2022 at 6:00 p.m.

PuckLuck_77

Joined: Mar. 2019

Posts: 2,446

Likes: 2,299

Quoting: bliker

So what would you think about the CDH trade without the Chychrun trade? It certainly helps with our left side until Edler is back and from his advanced stats he seems like a Martinez-lite

I just wouldn't go for a guy that isn't really an upgrade on Anderson or Bjornfot. He's better than Maatta, sure, but you're still spending assets on someone you don't expect to be a piece of the team moving forward. Sure, Tkachev and Grundstrom aren't huge pieces. But I just think it's currently unnecessary, when even Maatta has been performing well enough to keep us in the playoff race.

In the end, if it's not a player at the Chychrun level, then it's just using assets for the sake of making a move. Which I'm generally just not a fan of.

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