

While there's still time for more moves, and more will be made, most teams have set their roster just over a week after Free Agency opened.
The Los Angeles Kings are one of the teams who's roster is all but set after a fairly active off-season, headlined by trading Pierre-Luc Dubois to the Washington Capitals.
The general feeling amongst Kings fans is that it's been an underwhelming summer so far.
They've added Darcy Kuemper, Tanner Jeannot, Kyle Burroughs, Warren Foegele and Joel Edmundson, and a handful of organizational depth pieces expected to play in Ontario.
Notable names going out include Dubois, Viktor Arvidsson, Matt Roy, Carl Grundstrom and Blake Lizotte.
After a summer of moves every fan has the same question, did the team get better?
According to a recent article on The Athletic, the Kings have gotten noticeably worse.
The Athletic used Dom Luszczyszyn's model to grade each team's off-season and the Kings ranked 27th in the league.
Only the Carolina Hurricanes, Florida Panthers, Dallas Stars, Vegas Golden Knights and Winnipeg Jets had worse Off-seasons according to this model.
The Kings came in with a -19 net rating for the summer after their additions and subtractions.
A big focus was the downgrade from Roy to Edmundson, a big negative swing in the eyes of the model. A stellar season from Brandt Clarke could off-set they but that's a lot riding on Clarke's shoulders.
This piece from the article sums up their view on the Kings' off-season well.
"This Kings team already wasn’t good enough to go deep and they just got worse."
It's been interesting to see the negative reaction to LA's off-season moves from outside eyes.
There's been very few positive outlooks on their summer, and on paper it's hard to argue the Kings haven't gotten worse.
At least purely from a players out and players in perspective and the model reflects that.
As I've said a few times this summer, the Kings' season relies heavily on two things.
One, huge steps forward by young players like Quinton Byfield, Clarke, Akil Thomas, Alex Turcotte and Alex Laferriere. Potential step forwards from Arthur Kaliyev and Samuel Fagemo too.
Second, the Kings' lines being better than the sum of their parts.
Hockey isn't played on paper and sometimes having the right players is better than having the best players.
It doesn't always work that way, but that's what the Kings are relying on.
The Athletic here joins a growing list of outlets and voices who don't like the Kings' off-season and not without reason.
We already know analytics models don't fancy the Kings next season and Luszczyszyn's model continues that trend.
Now we have to wait and see if LA can outperform the models.