Answers, in brief
-- Brian Boyle and Lauri Tukonen have been sent to Manchester and Thomas Hickey has been sent back to his junior team. If my math is correct off the top of my head, Cloutier's departure will leave the Kings with 27 players, leaving two more cuts for tomorrow.
-- Lombardi says they're sending Cloutier to Manchester to give him work. Says he's physically fine but needs more games and will get them there. The plan is to bring Cloutier back to the Kings at some point, but that depends on how he performs.
-- If he's claimed coming back up, the Kings are on the hook for half of his total remaining salary, which would be $1.55 million this year and next, slightly prorated, I believe, depending on when it would happen.
-- No decision yet on Bernier. They're still playing it very close to the vest.
-- Keeping three goalies on the roster, even after London, is something they're considering. (Most likely to get Bernier his nine games before they have to make a decision.)
-- Boyle is still playing defense. They just wanted to get a look at him at forward the other night.
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Thanks, Rich. Who do you think are most likely to be the final 2 cuts?
No Frolov in practice today either,,, hope its a minor injury
As Crawford said yesterday, Frolov will be out for a week because of his groin strain.
interesting, so maybe fro isn't going on this trip? and then cut harrold. that leaves 3 goalies, 8 defensemen and 14 forwards.
Frolov is going to London and playing. He's just being held out of practices/exhibitions for the next five or six days.
...cool, then i'll guess zeiler and harrold get cut and giuliono goes. that leaves...
1. ARMSTRONG
2. BROWN
3. CALDER
4. CAMMALLERI
5. FROLOV
6. GIULIANO
7. HANDZUS
8. IVANANS
9. KOPITAR
10. MURRAY
11. NAGY
12. OSULLIVAN
13. THORNTON
14. WILLSIE
15. BLAKE
16. DALLMAN
17. JOHNSON
18. KLEMM
19. MODRY
20. PREISSING
21. STUART
22. VISNOVSKY
23. AUBIN
24. BERNIER
25. LABARBERA
I try to read everything, but did I miss a cut? I still count 9 defensemen (Klemm, Dallman, Harrold still here?) and 16 forwards (Zeiler, Murray, Giuliano, and Lewis still here?)
Lewis got sent to Manchester a couple days ago.