Fourth Group of Cuts (6)

Tripp, Clarke, Kelly, Rullier, Schmidt, and Seeley were assigned to Manchester.

http://www.lakings.com/news/news_detail.asp?id=1015

I really thought that Tripp would stay up and that Simm would go down. Other than that you can bet that Rullier will get a call up by the end of the season.

who's left?

Tripp getting sent down really surprised me. I guess the last couple of games and the last week, he's been surpassed by the other players. Too bad. At 25 years old, I was hoping he could win a spot with the big club. He's a hard worker that drove towards the net...maybe he'll come up later on in the season and get a chance. I'll be pulling for this guy...

who's left?Goalies (3)
Cechmanek
Hnilicka
Huet

Defensemen (13)
Corvo
Gleason
Grebeshkov
Holland
Kuznetsov
Miller
Modry
Muir
Norstrom
Norton
Strbak
Visnovsky
Zizka

Forwards (21)
Allison
Armstrong
Aulin??? – don’t believe Aulin was officially cut
Avery
Bartecko
Belanger
Brennan
Brown
Cammalleri
Chartrand
Deadmarsh
Flinn
Frolov
Klatt
Laperriere
Palffy
Pirnes
Robitaille
Sim
Smithson
Stumpel

I know the Kings' site says they have 12 defensemen left, but I don't remember any of the above d-men being cut. Maybe they count Norton as a forward and do not count Aulin :dunno:.

Check to see if I'm missing anyone. This is who I have for who's left:

MUIR, Bryan
MILLER, Aaron
ZIZKA, Tomas
KUZNETSOV, Maxim
ARMSTRONG, Derek
STRBAK, Martin
PIRNES, Esa
CAMMALLERI, Michael (Injured)
NORSTROM, Mattias
STUMPEL, Jozef
VISNOVSKY, Lubomir
AVERY, Sean
ROBITAILLE, Luc
LAPERRIERE, Ian
BROWN, Dustin
FROLOV, Alexander
BELANGER, Eric
KLATT, Trent
CORVO, Joe
DEADMARSH, Adam
CHARTRAND, Brad
PALFFY, Ziggy
AULIN, Jared (Injured)
BRENNAN, Kip
GREBESHKOV, Denis
ALLISON, Jason
GLEASON, Tim
SIM, Jon
MODRY, Jaroslav
FLINN, Ryan
SMITHSON, Jerred
HOLLAND, Jason
BARTECKO, Lubos
CECHMANEK, Roman
HUET, Cristobal

Edit - Sam beat me to it.

anyone want to list who is going to be unprotected?

Most likely. Aulin and Cammalleri will start the season on IR. Same with some people as well. So that will open up some spots.

Personally I think last nights lineup was as close as you are going to get to opening night with a couple of changes.

This is what I have :

36 REMAINING

Goalies (3)
32 - Roman Cechmanek,
35 - Cristobal Huet,
1 - Milan Hnilicka,

Defensemen (13)

2 - Bryan Muir,
3 - Aaron Miller,
5 - Tomas Zizka,
6 - Maxim Kuznetsov,
8 - Martin Strbak,
14 - Mattias Norstrom,
17 - Lubomir Visnovsky,
27 - Joe Corvo,
38 - Denis Grebeshkov,
42 - Tim Gleason,
44 - Jaroslav Modry,
53 - Jason Holland,
63 - Brad Norton,

Forwards (20)
? - Lubos Bartecko, LW ,
7 - Derek Armstrong, Center,
12 - Esa Pirnes, Center,
13 - Michael Cammalleri, Center,
15 - Jozef Stumpel, Center,
19 - Sean Avery, Center,
20 - Luc Robitaille, Left Wing,
22 - Ian Laperriere, Center/Winger,
23 - Dustin Brown, Right Wing,
24 - Alexander Frolov, Left Wing,
25 - Eric Belanger, Center,
26 - Trent Klatt, Right Wing,
28 - Adam Deadmarsh, Right Wing,
29 - Brad Chartrand, Right Wing,
33 - Ziggy Palffy, Right Wing,
37 - Kip Brennan, Left Wing,
41 - Jason Allison, Center,
43 - Jon Sim, Left Wing,
49 - Ryan Flinn, Left Wing,
52 - Jerred Smithson, Center,

anyone want to list who is going to be unprotected?

JF, here's my best guess... based pn the players that are "eligible" for the waiver draft:

Steve Kelly
Chris Schmidt
Brad Chartrand
Jon Sim
Jerred Smithson
Maxim Kuznetsov
Brad Norton
Bryan Muir
Richard Seeley
Jason Holland
Pavel Rosa
John Tripp

I think Kuznetzov not getting into camp hurts him here... Norton is versatile and tough and therefore it's questionable if he'll be left out there, but Brennan and Flinn aren't eligible for the draft and therefore I think it makes sense to dangle Norton.

Although Lubos Bartecko is a possible keeper as well.

I don't think Huet is eligible for the waiver draft (could be wrong about that) so the Kings will protect Roman (obviously) and Hnilicka and pretty much keep their goaltending in tact.

Frolov is ineligible for this draft by ONE GAME I believe. :yo:

I might have some ineligible guys on this list... I didn't go into heavy research on it, so I apologize, but you didn't expect to see Jason Allison or Deader on this list anyway, so if I'm off, I'm not off by too much.