also unloaded the final year of Sean Walker’s 4-year, $10.6-year pact. Barring a dramatic turnaround in Petersen’s play, they were looking down the barrel of 2 more years of that. The Kings buried a little over a million dollars when he was sent out, but ate nearly $4 million as dead cap. Thereafter journeymen Pheonix Copley and Joonas Korpisalo took his meal money and ate his lunch at the 5-star restaurants while Petersen rode the buses in the minor leagues. 868 through just 10 appearances under his expensive new deal in 2022-23 before abruptly getting waived and sent to the AHL at the end of November. 895 in the final year of his prior, $858,000 deal then to a dreadful. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 911 as Jonathan Quick’s backup, he was signed to a 3-year, $15 million extension in training camp of 2021. Start with netminder Cal Petersen, 28, who went from up-and-comer to suspect to bust over the last 2 years. It’s what the Kings were able to move out that raises the eyebrows. Neither can be expected to make an impact in Tinseltown in the 1 year remaining on their respective contracts, and were moved only to balance the number of NHL-class contracts coming and going. GM Rob Blake took on that $2 mil chunk of Provorov’s salary and also added a couple of underwhelming players, namely 27-year-old Hayden Hodgson (7 NHL games) and 33-year-old Edmonton native Kevin Connauton (7 NHL teams). Indeed, as fierce division rivals of the Edmonton Oilers it is the Kings’ corner of this 3-way deal that interests me the most. Surely not out of the goodness of their tiny black hearts? Why would the Kings do that? the alert reader might be asking. Key to the deal was surely defenceman Ivan Provorov, who moved from Philly to CBJ by way of LA, who kept his contract just long enough to retain 30% of it, a shade over $2 million for each of its remaining 2 years. The next issue of Edmonton Journal Headline News will soon be in your inbox. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder.

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