[kingsfan]

Originally Posted by Johnny Utah

Why dude is dead on with the Simmonds stats and comments. He is playing like a monster this year. Richards is invisbile again tonight.

We traded two great young players for an under-rated, undersized player who is 3 years older than Simmonds and makes just over 3 times as much. The deal depleted Manchester, Schenn would either be down there killing it or in LA playing on the left wing to Stoll or Loktionov. Simmonds would look good on that 3rd line as well.

Trading Schenn does not 'deplete' Manchester. He's one player.

I'd also like to know how comforting that great 3rd line with Simmonds would be if we didn't have our leading goalscorer in our already drastically underperforming top six?

Originally Posted by Johnny Utah

I hope Lombardi loses his job.

I just took a shower and tried to imagine the line-up without the poor decisions Lombardi has made. I would kill to get the depth back of Teubert, Schenn and picks.

Can you imagine without the Richards deal and the horrible deals of Penner, Purcell and letting go Moulson?

Moulson-Kopitar-Williams
Gagne-Stoll-Brown
Purcell-Schenn-Simmonds
Clifford-Fraser-Richardson/Lewis

And we would still have a 2nd round pick and Teubert in Manchester.

So Gagne is still hurt, fine shift Lewis up or call up Loktionov and move Schenn to 2nd line LW.

That line up is downright brutal. Some nice upside with Schenn, etc. but overall brutal in terms of what kind of production we'd get now. Also, if we had no DL, you wouldn't have Williams, Stoll, Fraser, Richardson or Lewis as those all came as a direct result of trades.

Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust

Tampa Bay Times reports the Kings are pursuing Ryan Malone:

http://www.tampabay.com/sports/hocke...cle1213701.ece

Bernier for Malone is disgusting. Malone is actually a nice player to have, but at $4.5 million a season, frequent injuries and three more years on his contract, that just blows. Pass.

Originally Posted by SuperAlmeida

Go for it Deano!

Link: http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2...-more/related/

Good to know, and what I figured happened after the trade.

Originally Posted by Ziggy Stardust

Under the right circumstances, I think the Kings may have to consider trading Dustin Brown. To me, the right circumstances would involve two young emerging players for Brown, similar to what the Kings did when they dealt Nicholls for Sandstrom and Granato.

It's a big IF, but if Winnipeg was going to move Evander Kane, I'd try to pry Blake Wheeler (or Bryan Little) with him for Dustin Brown.

Kane and Wheeler/Little for Brown? Come on Ziggy, you're smarter than that.

Originally Posted by King'sPawn

https://twitter.com/#!/mayorNHL/stat...04001363685376



The Mayor doesn't usually spout nonsense, so I found this interesting. Especially interesting is the disparity in the rumored prices between Nash and Carter.

Maybe Howson remembers what we gave for Penner and just tried to up the ante a bit?

I still go for Carter, ball out. No way Howson's askes for even close to that much for Carter since they seem to want him out of there ASAP. I'd assume they are focusing on Voynov for Carter type deal with a pick or soemething else going Columbus' way as well.

For those concerned about Carter's 4 hits in 30 games, I'm not. First, yes he is a goalscorer, so he's not meant to bang and grind. Secondly though, if you go back and look at his time in Philly, he had 52 hits in 2007-2008, 54 in 2008-2009, 60 in 2009-2010 and 65 last year. It was actually going up each season.

Now he comes to a new team, with a new system and has a shoulder injury and you are surprised that his hits are down? I'm not. Hits first off are a subjective stat, so it will change from team to team, and secondly they seem to only indicate something not right with him physically, not an overall trend for his career or his style of game.