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Which LA Kings Prospects Are Contending For Roster Spots?

By Vincent D'Angelo

EL SEGUNDO, CA - JUNE 27: Los Angeles Kings Prospect Defensemen Kale Clague (34) looks on during the Los Angeles Kings Development Camp on June 27, 2018 at Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California. (Photo by Joshua Lavallee/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
EL SEGUNDO, CA - JUNE 27: Los Angeles Kings Prospect Defensemen Kale Clague (34) looks on during the Los Angeles Kings Development Camp on June 27, 2018 at Toyota Sports Center in El Segundo, California. (Photo by Joshua Lavallee/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 05: Daniel Brickley #78 of the Los Angeles Kings skates during the third period of a game against the Minnesota Wild at Staples Center on April 5, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA – APRIL 05: Daniel Brickley #78 of the Los Angeles Kings skates during the third period of a game against the Minnesota Wild at Staples Center on April 5, 2018 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images) /

Danny Brickley – Danny Brickley is the most recent prospect to play his first NHL game as an LA King and he didn’t go unnoticed. Brickley is currently a point per game player (1 game played 1 assist) and if he can keep that up he is going to fit in very very well with this LA Kings team. All joking aside, Brickley looked good in the sheltered minutes of his 1 NHL game last season but that game meant a LOT. That game is what persuaded Brickley to join the LA Kings, no other team would have allowed him to burn a year off of his contract if he was signed and the LA Kings did.

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Brickley is a good cheap asset for this season and he numbs the pain of losing Christian Folin to free agency. Though he isn’t the point scorer that Clague is, Brickley is reliable on both sides of the puck and garnered almost at a point per game in the NCAA last season.

I’d expect to see him as a 6-7 Defenceman this season but he will move up the depth chart. He has to beat out teammates like Kurtis MacDermid, Oscar Fantenberg, and Paul LaDue.

Verdict: Brickley will be on the LA Kings final roster heading into the regular season but will most likely find himself in a position like Fantenberg, LaDue, and MacDermid did last season.

He has the opportunity to surpass them. However, like Fantenberg and MacDermid, Brickley is a Left-Hand shot so you will more likely to see Paul LaDue in the line up as a right shot offensive defenseman.

Expect Brickley to play 10-20 games this season with the LA Kings, hone his skills in Ontario and prepare himself to make a push alongside Kale Clague for the 2019-2020 season.

To end this article I am going to offer up a simple Depth chart to show where certain players and prospects I expect to make the LA Kings stand as of today by skill. (These are not my projected lines!)

Forwards:

Ilya Kovalchuk Anze Kopitar Tyler Toffoli
Tanner Pearson Jeff Carter Dustin Brown
Alex Iafallo Adrien Kempe Gabe Vilardi
Kyle Clifford Michael Amadio Trevor Lewis
Rasmus Kupari* Nate Thompson Jonny Brodzinski
Aidan Dudas* Jaret Anderson-Dolan Akil Thomas*

Defense:

Drew Doughty Jake Muzzin
Alec Martinez Dion Phaneuf
Derek Forbort Paul LaDue
Kale Clague Danny Brickley
Kurtis MacDermid Oscar Fantenberg

Goaltenders:

Jonathan Quick
Jack Campbell (Cap hit is lower than Petersen)
Cal Petersen
Peter Budaj

* – 2018 draft, we don’t know their capability/ceilings.

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