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Waiver Wire Pickup Of The Year

by Paul on 12/19/08 at 04:20 PM ET
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from Pierre LeBrun of ESPN,

Last season, the waiver pickup of the year was goalie Ilya Bryzgalov.

This year, while still early, it may just be Kyle Quincey. In a move that didn’t exactly turn many heads in mid-October, the Los Angeles Kings picked up 23-year-old defenseman off waivers from the Detroit Red Wings. And they’ve been head over heels ever since.

“This is an example of not only getting a good player, but also of our infrastructure working,” Kings GM Dean Lombardi told ESPN.com on Friday.

When Quincey went on waivers, Kings pro scout Rob Laird made his case. “This guy can play,” Laird told Lombardi.

“He was right on,” Lombardi said of Laird. “That’s a great job by a guy that works in the trenches and goes out there and works his butt off.”

continued plus Sundin and Wings/Sharks talk…

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No Holes In Kyle Quincey’s Game

by Paul on 11/11/08 at 06:51 AM ET
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from Chris Foster of the LA Times,

Quincey was placed on waivers, the first step for the Detroit Red Wings to send him to the minor leagues. The Kings immediately snagged him Oct. 13 and then stuck him into the lineup, all the while looking for holes in his game.

“Any time you get a player off waiver wire, you spend the first week or so looking for areas in his game that said, ‘Yeah I understand what the other team was doing in wanting to send him down and get some seasoning,’ “ Murray said. “The biggest surprise is we haven’t found that after a couple weeks.”

Quincey has played 10 games for the Kings. He already has one goal, five assists, is plus-five and averaging 23 minutes of ice time while being paired with Matt Greene.

more about Quincey and the Kings…

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Quincey On The Wings

by Paul on 10/15/08 at 12:13 PM ET
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from Jill Painter of Inside the Kings,

As promised, here’s my quick interview with Kyle Quincey from before yesterday’s game....

On whether he was caught up in numbers game in Detroit.

“Detroit’s a very special place. Guys take pay cuts to stay there. Winnings is what they do there. They had 10 defensemen join camp. That’s a pretty hard lineup to crack. I’m grateful for my time there and being part of the Stanley Cup, their tradition and winning ways. I learned so much.”

more from Quincey, all Kings releated…

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Quincey Claimed By Kings

by Paul on 10/13/08 at 12:58 PM ET
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from Bruce MacLeod of Red Wings Corner,

Defenseman Kyle Quincey was claimed off waivers by the Los Angeles Kings, today. General manager Ken Holland said that the Red Wings don’t have immediate plans to add a player to their roster. Without Quincey, the Wings still don’t have enough cap room to fit a higher salaried played like Jonathan Ericsson or Ville Leino under the cap. There is enough room, however, for Darren McCarty, who practiced for the first time today since being sidelined with a groin strain.

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