The Kings should consider signing Hoffman to a PTO
35 points NHL training camps start this month, it is PTO season. Over the next few days, NHL teams will be signing available free agents to professional try-outs. When a player gets a PTO, it gives them a chance to make the team during training camp.
For the Los Angeles Kings, they could use another scoring winger that can play up and down the lineup. Of course, there is James van Reimsdyk and Max Pacioretty, but one player that is still a pending free agent and could fit well with the Kings is Mike Hoffman.
Hoffman was an elite sniper during his prime and since has shown that he can still put the puck in the back of the night, although he is older.
At 34 years old, Hoffman spent last seasons with the San Jose Sharks and scored 23 points in 66 games. In the previous two seasons with a better offensively constructed team, the Montreal Canadiens, he scored 35 points and 34 points.
If the Kings can get 35 points out of Hoffman this season, the PTO signing would be a great success.
Last season, 35 points would have put him five back of Pierre-Luc Dubois for ninth on the team in points.
Hoffman's fit is there with the Kings, it is now just up to the organization to offer him a PTO.