Jared Wright

The intention is there.

up dennis uh do you think the kings will make any type of trades before the deadline or will they wait yes i think they end up waiting dennis because you have to get closer to the deadline you really have to assess what you have and which players from ontario do you think it called up first during the season i already alluded to the two on defense um forward wise you know kenny connor's and Jared Wright are the first two.

It can be somewhat situational.

Taylor Ward could potentially be in that mix as well.

I don't know if he's quite as physical as Dwight King, but I do definitely agree he has a physical element, and he does have a better upside offensively than Dwight King had.

Uh, Don continues, "It's great that Jared Wright is back in Ontario for another year.

It gives him much needed time to develop his scoring touch.

He'll be on the Reign power play for at least a while, or longer if he can get it going." Yeah, I would agree.

Jared Wright, uh, NHL speed without question, but gotta find that scoring touch, gotta figure out how he can be a better finisher or at least, uh, get more shots on goal that could lead to scoring opportunities.

Um, if he can do that, I think he's got a real chance to be an NHL player.

If not, then he'll never be anything more than just kind of an energy guy maybe at the NHL level.

The Kings have announced the following players have been loaned to the Ontario Reign.

Kenny Connors and Jared Wright.

Okay, that's new because they were probably part of the 29-man roster.

And then the players that have been placed on waivers on purpose of assignment to Ontario was Taylor Ward and Scott Perunovich.

But we do wanna talk about, and we talked about this in our previous show, who are the players still on the roster that are fighting for those final roster spots.

Taylor Ward, Jared Wright, Kenny Connors, Andre Lee.

They are all still currently on the Kings roster.

Now, I believe that Lee, Andre Lee, and Kenny Connors have earned spots on the roster based on what I've seen in training camp.

Uh, I would love to see a fourth line of Kenny Connors, Andre Lee, and Taylor Ward, and see who stands out the most, and maybe that's the deciding factor into who gets, uh, on the roster.

I feel like Andre Lee has done enough.

Um, I, I think though maybe we don't play Lee, thinking that he's made the roster, so maybe you see Kenny Connors, Taylor Ward, and Jared Wright to see who gets the final spot.

Now, the caveat here is what's going on with Corey Perry? Uh, we don't know.

We would have Eric Haula making his LA Kings debut, centering the second line with Joel Armia and Andre Lee.

Kenny Connors was the third line center with Ottu Yemson and Jared Wright.

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.

Um, and I think a- if, if I'm picking it, Andre Lee absolutely is making the roster to start.

So that would leave one other roster spot available.

Um, and I think when you look at the other guys, I, I don't think Jared Wright would be one of them.

Now, he did get some significant NHL time last year, late in the season.

The second line had, uh, some potential NHL talent on it.

Uh, Samuel Helanius was centering Andre Lee and Jared Wright.

The third line, young, talented, will need some more seasoning.

Kenny Connors, Liam Lefebvre, and, uh, Taylor Ward.

All right, we've got several players on the Kings roster that are fighting for spots with the NHL club for this coming season.

I did wanna mention, uh, a few of them from this number two preseason game for the Kings.

Kenny Connors, Jared Wright, Andre Lee, Taylor Ward, and I'll even throw Martin Chromiak in there as well.

But we're gonna start with Kenny Connors.