With Brayden McNabb leaving Saturday’s game with an upper-body injury and no immediate return expected, the Los Angeles Kings had a big hole to fill on defense. We thought we knew how they’d fill it.
McNabb injured on the play. Paging Kevin Gravel to the Kings ...
Blues score moments later, 1-0 STL takes the lead in early 3rd period.— Don Perez (@dsperez) October 30, 2016They did not do that.
Our followers (and Jon’s, for that matter) did not react very well upon hearing this news, so let’s try to come up with three reasons why the Kings might have chosen a 37-year-old veteran whose quality of play has plummeted in recent seasons, instead of a 24-year-old who might well have made the team out of camp if he wasn’t waiver-exempt.