Once a Kings Fan Too
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One year of a perfectly good back-up goalie (whom we might want to re-sign) is worth more to us than one year of a bottom-pairing defenseman (whom we almost certainly WOULDN'T want to re-sign), and you can't make draft picks conditional on a player's re-signing any more.
Half of your fellow Toronto fans may not like him, but we're not trading 5 years of a starting goalie for a first-round draft pick and three guys, none of whom is a favorite to see the interior of an NHL arena without paying for the ticket.