{"id":141613,"date":"2025-08-13T05:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141613\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T05:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T05:46:08","slug":"top-prospects-for-los-angeles-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/141613\/","title":{"rendered":"Top prospects for Los Angeles Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How acquired:<\/strong> Traded by Buffalo Sabres for third-round pick in 2023 NHL Draft on March 1, 2023<\/p>\n<p><strong>2024-25 season:<\/strong> Los Angeles (NHL): 1-0-0, 1.02 goals-against average, .966 save percentage; Ontario (AHL): 24 GP, 15-5-3, 2.82 GAA, .889 save percentage<\/p>\n<p>The Kings are in excellent shape with their goaltending prospects, so you could easily put one of three names here: Portillo, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/carter-george-8484857\" title=\"Carter George\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carter George<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/player\/hampton-slukynsky-8484417\" title=\"Hampton Slukynsky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hampton Slukynsky<\/a>. For this season, we&#8217;ll go with Portillo (6-6, 218). The 24-year-old was dealing with a back issue last season but did make his NHL debut against the Anaheim Ducks on Nov. 29.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were cautious,&#8221; Murray said. &#8220;We don&#8217;t want to mess around with the back, and he was really good last year. He&#8217;s a confident kid and he wants to learn. He&#8217;s great with the goalie coaches. We just need to make sure his back is healthy and he&#8217;s ready to go this year. He&#8217;s training in Sweden and he&#8217;s feeling good, and we&#8217;re looking forward to getting him into camp.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Projected NHL arrival:<\/strong> This season<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How acquired: Traded by Buffalo Sabres for third-round pick in 2023 NHL Draft on March 1, 2023 2024-25&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":141614,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[293,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-141613","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115019880539947572","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}