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json-api
WHAT???????
Blue jays
What daaaaa heck
tazzuka
Wait?! WHAT!
Jtrav54
But why ?
KCelts
#Shocker!
JT19
But Quick just came back from injury didn’t he? LA must really be worried that he will get hurt again or will not be 100% the rest of the year.
asuchrisc
With Quick back they are set. Campbell has been solid for Ontario. Budaj did a decent job filling in for quick. Guessing there is a bigger deal working in the background involving a goalie not named Quick.
asuchrisc
The update has Budaj. Crowded crease in LA
houseoflords44
This trade is a bit baffling. Goaltending hasn’t been the issue for the Kings. Budaj kept them in the playoff race with his play. Goal scoring has been their issue. I would’ve been less surprised if they would’ve gone after someone like Duchene. That at least would’ve filled a need
MG09
Hey Budaj, you have been great, thanks for everything you have done this year and keeping us in this thing! Oh by the way, there is a plane leaving for the other coast in 10 min, here is your ticket.
json-api
Kings won the trade. Genuinely gave up nothing. Budaj sucky prospect, 5th rounder, and a conditional pick
MG09
Not sure you can say Budaj is a sucky prospect, he is the reason they even have a shot. Sucks for him but I guess this is the business.
json-api
I meant. Budaj, and a suckyish prospect. I know Budaj has been unreal this season
JT19
Its purely a rental though. Highly unlikely that they resign him. And if Quick plays back to form, the team then has their marquee trade deadline acquisition riding the bench.
Polish Hammer
He’s 34 years old, far from a “prospect”.
houseoflords44
The Kings used cap space they could’ve used to improve their dreadful offense to get a player they really didn’t need.
iwant
Bishop wont be in LA long. Quick is tenured in LA and they’d be wrong to give him up. Bishop is trade bait to get the scoring center LA needs.
Matt Galvin
Bishop and budaj in another deal for a Center and others on the Market.
JT19
Budaj was included in the Bishop deal…so he won’t be packaged with Bishop for scoring help.
Dario
Doesn’t make sense, not unless they wanted to reward Budaj for he great work in goal by trading him so he can play more. They need more offense desperately, they should go all in for Ducshene to help Kopitar. Speaking of Kopitar, he’s fee the pressure of that $10 million dollar contract. He’s my favorite player but I fell that he was over paid by 1.5 – 2 million.
jd396
This is like one of those AI-to-AI trades in a video game
JT19
Lol I agree. I’ve played the NHL games for years and this seems like Dean Lombardi called up Steve Yzerman after seeing someone do this trade in a game. Solid backup player, random prospect, and a random pick for a star.
jd396
You see it go across the ticker on the bottom of the screen, roll your eyes, and say “Yeah, right, who would do that?”
tylerall5
And then you do trades to “fix” the trade, or at least I do.
jd396
Yeah, go “cheat” things back to normal, or make them trade someone else to balance it out.
Other times, once you figure out the AI, you could brutally exploit them and build legendary superteams without technically cheating. In NHL 2004 I had a team I built “fair and square” that, after spending a couple years snookering the AI out of everyone good, ended up winning 75 games a year and five consecutive cups.
Connorsoxfan
Madden valued 70 OVR receivers you could sign in FA as equal to half a star player. 2 cheap league minimum contracts and you could trade for almost anyone in the league.
jd396
This trade didn’t get less weird in the hour since I first saw it. I don’t get it, unless they know something we don’t about Quick health-wise.
Daniel Dubay
I guess the price was right to block the Flames from acquiring
Jay 24
What if this is insurance for the playoffs plus a card whose rights can be traded to Vegas in exchange for ‘future considerations’ where the consideration is Vegas not claiming certain players in the Expansion Draft? :o
JT19
It’s definitely insurance for Quick assuming the Kings even make the playoffs. I don’t see Vegas trading for his rights for “future considerations” involving who not to select in the draft though. He’s a free agent at the end of the year to begin with (although plenty of trades for pending free agents do happen). Vegas holds most of the cards in this scenario though because there are plenty of decent goaltenders who will likely be exposed, with the most notable being Matt Murray unless Pittsburgh can find someone to take Fleury/convince Fleury to waive his NMC.
Daniel Dubay
Not sure about that. If anything the Kings have a former captain, with a huge contract, who they can attach Bishop too and dump on Vegas.