Marner is too expensive for the Kings, and their center depth stinks after this potential trade. They'd be better off signing Toffoli or a similar free agent to be offensively strong without losing Danault's 200-foot play or a cost controlled up and comer like Spence.

No thanks.

Thanks for proving beyond a reasonable doubt that the Marner-to-Los-Angeles idea is brain-dead and guaranteed to fail.

The defense is miles worse than the defense that just got overrun by Edmonton (Clarke for Spence isn't much of a downgrade while Clarke learns his craft, but Klingberg for Roy is astronomically worse and gastronomically revolting) and there isn't any cap space to acquire some grown-ups to make DuBois a contributing member of society. Imagine, for example, that instead of Marner, we had Byfield - Kopitar - Kempe, Moore - Danault - Arvidsson, and Trenin - DuBois - Fiala, with Spence instead of the Klingon. Moreover, giving up those two draft picks, and essentially taking a pass on this year's draft, is suicidally short-sighted.

But I'm sure that some of your Toronto brethren will keep touting this idiocy.

i think marner would fit in like a glove in LA but its not the right move for toronto in terms of the return

"Fits like a glove"?!?!?! Are you blind? The indisputable proof to the contrary is right before your eyes. As my esteemed friend @tryger says, keeping Danault and Spence and using the $5 million in available cap to add a free-agent forward to play with DuBois is a far better strategy than this undeniable train wreck.

What a breathtakingly atrocious idea, transferring the failed Toronto experiment to Los Angeles.

Man Kings fans get way to worked up 😂 I just wanted to see what it would look like

my statement had nothing to do with cap space. just the type of player he is. he would be amazing on a line with kopitar