I wouldn’t say it’s necessarily cut and dry. Mr. Stone’s nebulous upper body injuries seem to come and go with a certain timing which could not be described as anything other than ‘perfect’.
I always liked Sean Walker. Not a guy you notice a lot out there and a quiet player, but does his job and is a quality defenseman. I wish him well in COL.
A bit surprised by Byram move. I'm assuming they feel that Walker is a good enough replacement to give Byram up and get the upside of Mittelstadt.
Not so sure. Kings will have to send Spence and Clarke to Ontario so they can be on the playoff roster for the Reign. Just a paper transaction. That being said, when Mikey comes back, one of them will be the 7th D man.JAD and Moverare waived, per Sevarelli's "X" account
Waived: - [PHI] F Ryan Johansen waived by the Flyers (cleared)
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More moves to come?
Byram seems to be often injured. Makes questionable plays and does not seem to be the same player he was the past 2 years. From what I gathered on the interwebs.
I think the chances of Moverare being claimed increase if they waited until tomorrow to waive. More trades will have been done and more teams looking for bodies to fill a roster after trading a d-man away.
Yeah i noted in the "other teams" thread that could see the oil and the panthers in the finals based on their moves. W pherry and henrique, they now may be able to have a 2nd line.
They also had to waive him today in order to meet the requirements for adding him to the Reign playoff eligible roster (same as they will do with Clarke and Spence, minus waivers). At the end of the day, they just would not have space for him once Mikey comes back as well. If they didn't waive him, they would have had to keep him and Mikey and then you'd be forced to send one of Spence or Clarke to Ontario for the rest of the season.
Yeah, the cap space issue is really forcing the Kings hand in many ways they probably wish it didn't.
IMO, it was more Blake not realizing that good RD are always in demand. He was selling very low to shed salary to bring in Gavrikov (and clear for PLD). If you are selling under duress, then you don't get market value. Philly was able to play him and get his value back to pre-injury and they got a bunch for him.
So chances this actually happens are pretty good then?
I think he was, but PLD was good.............. Not a horrible idea, but there may be some issues / baggage there.
If you recall, Walker was paired with that big RB mistake Cal Petersen (cap dump). Hard to figure the value that the Kings gave up vs what they got back in that trade.
