Angus Booth

You also have two defensemen in the AHL that are basically NHL ready.

Angus Booth could slide in and play on a third pair.

Krasanov could slide in and play on a third pair.

And it seems that LaViolette likes Krasanov more if you had to sort of arrange the depth chart.

Number eight at this point would appear to be Kursanov, who is sort of a hybrid player, but he's not going to give you a lot of goals.

So I'd call him more of a defensive player of the two.

And then Booth is more of an offensive player of the two.

But again, more of the hybrid sort of sense because Booth does play really solid defense.

His dad, Jason Woolley, was a solid 13-year NHL veteran, a two-way defenseman who also played in the AHL and ECHL.

And don't sleep on Angus Booth.

He'll probably be the number one D-man on Ontario in terms of ice time with increasingly solid Kirill Krestanov likely to continue as his partner in the number two spot." I would think Jared Woolley, this is me talking now, I would think Jared Woolley, I would...

To me, he's more of a Matt Greene type than a Mikey Anderson.

Um, and then if you move Cece out, you know, who's, who's gonna be that sixth defenseman? I don't think Henry Bastavage is ready for that.

You know, uh, Erik Gustafsson or Angus Booth, are they an upgrade over Cody Cece? Probably not.

Um, and then Keith has a Ma- Matthew Barzal trade here, and, and with all due respect, Keith, I'm not gonna really get into that because there's just no indication that the Islanders are looking to trade Matthew Barzal, and he also has a 22-team no trade list, and he's shown no signs that he wants to go anywhere, and he has a big say in if he goes or not.

So I just don't think a Matthew Barzal trade is realistic right now.

Uh, the following players have been loaned to the Ontario Reign.

They are forwards Ottu Yemsen and Cohen Ziemer, as well as defenseman Angus Booth, Kirill Krestanov, and Jared Woolley.

No surprises there as well.

Uh, the following players have been placed on injured reserve non-roster.

Lane Pedersen was the fourth line center alongside Taylor Ward and Martin Chromiak.

The defensive pairings were new Kings captain Drew Doughty along with Brian Dumoulin, Angus Booth and Scott Perunovich, and Kirill Keshtanov with Erik Gustafsson.

The goalie was Anton Forsberg making his second start of the pre-season with Eric Portillo serving as the backup.

As far as the level of competition the Kings would face, the Ducks did not play many of their high-end NHL talent, unlike what the Utah Mammoth did the night before when they played five of their six top forwards.

It just means there, the right, the right amount, the, like the right sequence of injuries have to happen.

Was talking to a fan about this during one of the intermissions, you know, wondering about w- you know, what it would take for Angus Booth to make it into the lineup.

And it was like, I'm not gonna say it's not gonna happen, but the right sequence of injuries have to happen.

If Drew Doughty gets hurt, Angus Booth isn't any closer to making the lineup, you know? It, it would require an injury to either Edmundson, Anderson, or Dumoulin.

Then that would bring Gustafsson into the lineup.

Then Gustafsson, Dumoulin, Anderson, Edmundson, whoever didn't get hurt previously would also have to get hurt to bring somebody up from Ontario to fill that spot.

It's a free spot.

It is Eric Portillo at the cost of Scott Perunovic or Angus Booth or Jared Woolley.

Or it's Eric Portillo at the cost of maybe Jared Wright or Taylor Ward or Andre Lee.

Yeah.