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The status of Simon Gagne continues to be a hot topic, especially after he took a full practice with the team yesterday – after not playing in a game for five months. Earlier today he took another step forward, skating in a team scrimmage. Afterwards, we caught up with him for some updates on how things went…
If you missed it, we covered the entire ‘Gagne Situation’ in an article here.
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Fresh on the heels of forward Nick Shore and the Kings agreeing to new one year contract, with an average annual value (AAV) of $925,000, we have updated our look at the team’s current salary cap situation.
2017-18 LA Kings Projected Opening Night Roster (with important notes at the end of the article)
Cammalleri
Kopitar
Brown
1,000,000
10,000,000
5,875,000
Pearson
Carter
Toffoli
3,750,000
5,272,727
4,550,000
Kempe
Dowd
Brodzinski
894,167
650,000
950,000
Clifford
Shore
Lewis
1,600,000
925,000
2,000,000
Nolan
Andreoff
950,000
677,500
Muzzin
Doughty
4,000,000
7,000,000
Martinez
LaDue
4,000,000
1,500,000
Forbort
Gravel
650,000
950,000
Folin
850,000
Quick
Kuemper
5,800,000
650,000
The above 23-man roster […]
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[…] story on Gagne, click here to read the article we posted over the weekend…and here’s a video interview we shot with him after hsi first scrimmage back with the […]
Appreciate your work, Mayor!
I hope he gets to play. He does well against Brodeur.
Can you ask him to re-enact this scene from Slapshot? thx
Finer Points of Hockey (available on youtube)