Another set of questions and answers. Still quite a few to go. Looks like we might be headed for a record!
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Monthly Archives: July 2009
Forum answers V
The next set of questions and answers…
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Forum answers IV
For those not at the Michael Jackson memorial, here’s the fourth set of Open Forum questions and answers. Still plenty to go…
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Moulson signs with Islanders
Forum answers III
The third set of questions and answers…
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Forum answers II
The second set of answers. Lots of good questions coming in, and some of them aren’t even about Travis Moen! Apparently, “Are the Kings going to sign a third-line winger?” is the 2009 version of “When are the Kings going to trade for a goalie?” Here’s the next set of answers…
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Forum answers I
Please feel free to keep posting questions, but here’s the first set of answers…
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Open forum?
Kings’ salary structure
With a little more than two months before the start of training camp, a realistic roster is taking shape for the Kings. Here’s a decent guess at how the roster could look, with 2009-10 salary-cap hits included:
FORWARDS
Kopitar (6.8 million)
Smyth (6.25)
Handzus (4)
Stoll (3.6)
Williams (3.5)
Brown (3.175)
Frolov (2.9)
Moller (.875)
Lewis(.855)
Simmonds (.821667)
Ivanans (.600)
Richardson (.587500)
Zeiler (.543750)
Purcell (?)
DEFENSEMEN
Doughty (3.475)
Scuderi (3.4)
Greene (2.95)
O’Donnell (1.25)
Harrold (.583333)
Drewiske (.525)
Johnson (?)
GOALIES
Ersberg (.750)
Quick (.770)
BUYOUTS
Cloutier (1.033)
McCauley (.666667)
That would make for a salary-cap figure of roughly $49.9 million, with Johnson and Purcell still needing to be signed. If I had to guess, I think that you can add another $500K in, because I think Lombardi will still try to sign another defenseman (perhaps bringing back Denis Gauthier) in the $1-million range. A rough estimate of all of that might put the Kings in the range of $54-55 million, but also remember that there’s a cushion for bonuses, which is probably most relevant in Doughty’s contract. That would still allow the Kings to add a player at the trade deadline, and Lombardi has said that he would like to leave himself the flexibility to do so.
So that’s one way of looking at it, at the moment…
Ryan Smyth interview
Here’s the Q&A I did a few minutes ago with new Kings winger Ryan Smyth. He’s scheduled to come to Los Angeles this week and have his physical exam on Monday…
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