For now, it sounds like the only big #GoKingsGo add this season will be internal, when Viktor Arvidsson returns next month. As of today, Kings don’t expect to be players in the rental game this season. https://t.co/YoipaKXF61
– David Pagnotta (@TheFourthPeriod) January 11, 2024
The Dubois trade, one of the biggest thefts in recent years in Jason Demers’s eyes
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The Los Angeles Kings are a good NHL team, but they’re not exactly a powerhouse. With 47 points in 37 games, 11 clubs are ahead of them in the standings.
You’d expect them to be higher… and certainly not, as of January 11, 2024, behind the Flyers. Flyers.
Inevitably, you’d think the club would want to improve in the run-up to the trade deadline. On paper, the improvements could involve an addition in front of the net or up front.
The blue line isn’t the problem: the club gave up just 90 goals this season, placing it first in the NHL in that regard.
We can certainly assume that the Canadiens’ goaltender’s performance – as well as his contract – have dampened the Kings’ ardor, but we can also assume that the projected space under the $1,941 cap is a hindrance to the addition of any goaltender. Not just Allen.
According to Pagnotta, the Kings’ “addition” this season should be Viktor Arvidsson, who will return from injury. He doesn’t expect, because of the club’s monetary package, the Kings to be big players on the rental market by March 8.
After all, if the problem isn’t defensively (fewer goals allowed in the league, mind you), we can see that the problem is offensively. With 123 goals, the club ranks 18th in the league.
Let’s just say that, with his meagre output, Dubois isn’t doing his part in an attack that needs to give more. We agree.
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It’s precisely to compensate for his lack of attack that the Kings would have to make a move if they wanted to win, but his $8.5 M per season contract is necessarily blocking them at the moment.
If only they had a Gabriel Vilardi for less…
When you look at the Kings’ top earners, you realize that offensively, they’re all giving their team a lot of bang for their buck. Pierre-Luc Dubois and defenseman Vladislav Gavrikov are the exceptions.
Let’s just say that Dubois, who sees Kings fans not being satisfied customers at the moment, must be finding the time a little long.
In gusto
– When will Mikhail Sergachev return to action? Not just yet.
Jon Cooper said there is no update on the status of D Mikhail Sergachev, who he said is not skating and remains out week-to-week #GoBolts #TBLightning
– Lightning Insider (@Erik_Erlendsson) January 11, 2024
– Tough season for the Quebecer.
Marc-Edouard Vlasic should play tonight against the Habs.
His last game was on January 4.
1 assist in 19 games this season. Differential of -12.
– Anthony Martineau (@Antho_Martineau) January 11, 2024
– Makes sense.
Trading Cutter Gauthier wasn’t easy for Daniel Brière, but he’s happy with the return of Jamie Drysdale! pic.twitter.com/pBU0aHnQSW
– RDS (@RDSca) January 11, 2024
– Jeff Skinner still injured for a while.
Jeff Skinner is week-to-week with an upper-body injury.
– Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) January 11, 2024
– He’ll be even higher in 2025.
And the Blue Jays alum will only move up the rankings in 2024. https://t.co/qQVKknijTG
– Passion MLB (@passion_mlb) January 11, 2024