Anaheim laughs in your face and blocks your number

Both Anaheim and LA pass, And it's not even close.

If Filip Frosberg wanted $7,750,000 x 7 years he'd already be resigned by now. Try more like $9,000,000 x 7 years to $9,500,000 x 7 years to sign Forsberg.

It's just another trade Muzzin to LA day.

We have to get Comtois out of the deal and then there’s a convo to be had though

No chance you get forsberg for that. He wanted close to what Josi has. His ask was that it starts with a 9 and Nashville came back with something that started with an 8 and closer to 8.5 with an 8th year

Yet again, the zombie Muzzin-to-Los-Angeles pipe dream. The Kings aren't interested in this effort to shed significant cap.

Absolutely no interest in installing Jake Muzzin 2.0 even if he would waive his NTC, plus we could re-sign Alex Edler for less than Jake's cap hit, and we would probably get the same results without having to expend assets to re-acquire Muzz. I wish that the Toronto guys would stop doing this. It's like the Montreal guys with their silly Jeff-Petry-to-Detroit trades. And one year of Alex Kerfoot doesn't alter the equation because we have an overabundance of younger, cheaper left-handed forwards, both wings and centers, who we'd rather give playing time to.

For the record, here are the figures for Edler and Muzzin:
Edler, 41 games, 3 goals, 19 points, +18, 52.1 Corsi, 54.4 Fenwick, would not cost more than $3.5 million to sign.
Muzzin, 47 games, 3 goals, 14 points, -6 , 48.1 Corsi, 47.9 Fenwick, cap hit of $5.625 million.

For the record, Justin Holl outproduced 23 year old Maxime Comtois this season. His value is quite low right now, and getting a 4/5 dman and a pick for him isnt insane. I would turn it down if I was anaheim too, because I think theres a better trade out there, at least a Holl-level player with a 2nd round pick, but comtois had a worse season than Nick Ritchie, and he took a 2nd round pick to be moved (to also acquire Lyubushkin). Comtois if he has that season again is gonna be the kinda kid we see with questions about a QO. I think he'll rebound, its why I have him in this deal, but so far he hasn't shown hes better than a Pierre Engvall, and Engvall can play C and PK. Comtois with 33 points career high is worth more in name brand from breaking into the league young right now than on ice ability.

I'm just going with what the Media seems to throw out a lot. LA has a plethora of NHL ready and prospect RD, and minimal experienced LD. Edler and Stecher are UFA, leaving only Mikey Anderson who's an RFA, and Tobias Bjornfot. You could re-sign Edler, who is now 36. Muzzin had a bad season with injuries, but came back and was very solid in the playoffs, which is why people think he could be moved again because Muzzin always seems to be at his best in playoff rules.

Also, July 1 2022 Muzzin gets a bonus paid out, after that, despite a 5.625M cap hit, there's only 6M of real dollars paid out across the next 2 seasons, or 3M per year of real cash. For a lot of owners post-pandemic, that matters. Whether LA cares or not, maybe not, but that is something that makes him more likeable.

Helenius is just a prospect I like, personally I like Brock Faber more, but I think adding a bigger RD like Grans to the pool is preferable so I chose him. Kerfoot has 1 year to UFA, but is exactly like what LA is using these days. If something happens to a Trevor Moore or want someone else on the Danault line to free up Arvidsson, Kerfoot slides in there as another PP/PK option who can play LW/C/RW. Just a versatile, undersized energy player, who's more playmaker than goal scorer. If LA wants to make the playoffs again next year, he's not the worst option either, although there's probably cheaper players who can fill that role, although 3.5M for a 50+ point C/W who does both special teams is solid to me.

Fair enough, I mean we could easily still do 9x7 and carry a 20 man roster instead of 22, I just thought personally that's Filip Forsberg's value when you're paying for the tail end of his prime and 4 years of 30+. He can prob ge tmore in free agency tough, you are correct.