Marginally better roster and will be flighting for wild card spot like last year.
Good thing is that they can flip most of yesterdays signings + Doughty at the deadline if they are out of the playoff race.
Crazy that they are the oldest team in the NHL just 4-5 years from existing a rebuild.
@NHLRussell Your 26/27 LA Kings
Panarin-Kempe-Laferriere
Fiala-Byfield-More
UFA-Turcotte-Armia
Wright-Helenius-Ward
Anderson-Doughty
Edmundson-Clarke
Dumoulin-Ceci
Kuemper
Forsberg
Can only hope for a lottery pick at this point.
Trade request incoming from Kempe and Faila?
Completely cooked. It's mind blowing that Luc thinks this team still can compete.
- No Kopitar replacement, Laf/Kempe might play center
- No trades
- Turcotte will be option at center
- Don't sound like Laughton will resign
- Improve through weak free agency
- Hermansson over Belchetz, Suvanto, Morozov and Lin
- D core probably stays the same
Lottery pick next season for sure. And probably for the best.
@MarcelAndRogie They will dominate the next 10 years + will probably trade for McDavids and Matthews. While Kings continue to be a complete joke under Luc's leadership.
@JWPatarino@TheBannermenPod Exactly my thought.
Next season would have looked pretty good if list below was still here.
- Danault
- PLD
- Fog
- Gav
- Spence
@LAKings874 Any head coach going to LA will fired 1-2 seasons in. Recap of Luc’s teams:
- Avg at best
- Hammer the narrative of being close
- Fire the coach when team gets outplayed by half the league 40-50 games in.