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Originally Posted by Shootmaster_44
Right. I forgot about the ECHL vet limit. I wonder if they would ditch Setoguchi and Stretch, and risk losing them to another team, for a couple Kings who might only be there for a month or might be there for a season?
Do goalies count as vets? I know the Reign wouldn't turn down Quick if he wanted to play. But I have a feeling that the Kings wouldn't be too happy with that since they left Berube in Ontario to get playing time. Had they not cared about him actually getting minutes, he'd be backing up Jones in Manchester.
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For most of the vets on the Kings I think it's just a matter of finding a team to workout with and stay in shape rather than get minutes in a game somewhere. Well more a mtter of one or the other... Mitchell is skating with a bunch of Canucks players, Williams is somewhere skating with a bunch of players, Doughty I think was/is skating with a junior team, Bernier, Kopi, Brown, A-Mart (injured,) and one or two others I'm forgetting are in Europe. I think last I'd heard Lewis, Greene, and Clifford were the last remaining Kings in/around LA.
Might not be a good idea to bring in a bunch of NHLers and force the ECHL vets to sit as they are a needed commodity in the coming years for AHL callups should injuries occur. Clifford is a pretty saffe call because he can be brought in and not count against the limit, help the team win games, and isn't ruffling feathers of the old vets that are out a job. Just look at what's happened in Alaska with Gomez, Dubinsky, and a couple other NHL guys signing there and now they have disgruntled veterans that are key parts of their team once/if NHL hockey returns.