Quincey is young and has the talent this team needs on the blue line. He should be part of their future on the blue line at this point. He fits right into what the Kings are trying to build.

Underating Richardson? Maybe. Calder and Harrold. Nope. Harrold really doesn’t belong in the NHL. Calder has been on the downside of his career for awhile now. He’s got veteran experience, but he should be a third-line winger, not in the top six. At his age, he’s little more than a cheap placeholder.

It’s about trying to acquire “elite” prospects, in my opinion. Quincey isn’t elite. And, you’ve got to trade some talent to get some back.

It’s not a knock on Handzus to consider trading him, IMO. I also think you underrate Richardson, Calder, and Harrold. Harrold, especially. He’s a good puck moving defenseman. There’s a premium on those types (and super competitive, also) players around the league. Just not in LA where the onus is on size and chippiness.

I think, also, that Mike Fisher is a pretty good target, not to mention most of those prospects. Of all, only Hoeffel is kinda a question mark.

Oh yeah, I also think our prospect depth built by Lombardi allows us to consider parting with a Quincey. Although, if you don’t have to, you don’t trade him.

cheers.

Richardson, Calder and Harrold have very, very little trade value and won’t get the Kings much of anything at all.

Stoll? Possibly, but he’s probably worth more to the Kings than anyone else at this point. I don’t see the Kings trading him and I don’t think other teams are going to be all that much interested in him based on what he would bring to them and on his contract.

Anaheim was not going to trade Kunitz and/or Tangradi to the Kings. That would be a significant trade and because of their close proximity, the price the Kings would’ve had to pay would have been exorbitantly higher.

But, the one guy I might like to see acquired is Mike Fisher. I think he fits the DL/TM model adequately. But if prospects like Colin Wilson or Cody Hodgson are at all available, we need to act.

Mike Hoeffel
VanReimsdyke
Tyler Myers

I don’t know, but I think Kunitz and Tangradi may have fit well here.

Do you have any sense of the Kings interests?

We have bait. Richardson, Calder, Harrold, Quincey, and even even Handzus, Stoll, and the Manchester boys and goalies.

Whitney is hardly a standout.

Why is it we are sitting on our hands while other teams are making moves? Last year we didn’t get any of the young players moving at the deadline – Steve Bernier or Tuomo Ruttu, etc.