{"id":19386,"date":"2017-11-23T21:47:44","date_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=19386"},"modified":"2017-11-23T21:47:44","modified_gmt":"2017-11-24T02:47:44","slug":"torey-mitchell-dealt-los-angeles-kings-fifth-round-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2017\/11\/23\/torey-mitchell-dealt-los-angeles-kings-fifth-round-pick\/","title":{"rendered":"Torrey Mitchell Dealt to the Los Angeles Kings for a Conditional Fifth Round Pick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Torrey Mitchell<\/a><\/strong> ended up being a smart investment for the Montreal Canadiens<\/a>. The team celebrated America’s Thanksgiving by dealing away the 32-year-old center. They sent him to the Los Angeles Kings<\/a>, and in exchange got a conditional 2018 fifth-round pick. If the Kings make the postseason this year, the pick becomes a fourth rounder.\u00a0 The conditions actually see the Canadiens own\u00a0fourth-round pick returned to them if the Kings make the playoffs. The Kings own the Canadiens 2018 fourth-round pick after last year’s Dwight King<\/a><\/strong> trade<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Torrey Mitchell Dealt to the Los Angeles Kings for a Conditional Fifth Round Pick<\/h1>\n

In the spring of 2015, the Canadiens sent away Jack Nevins<\/strong> and a seventh-round pick to the Buffalo Sabres<\/a> for Mitchell. Nevins had gone completely pointless in the AHL that season and still hasn’t even played a full AHL season to date. The pick is looking like a typical seventh-round\u00a0gamble,\u00a0Vasili Glotov<\/strong>. He is now 20-years-old and still looking like a junior aged project. He has 14 points in 21 games with the Shawinigan Cataractes this season.<\/p>\n

174 games and 37 points later, the Habs flipped Mitchell for a conditional pick from the Kings. Mitchell was an off and on bottom-six forward for the Canadiens. He has played at least 70 games in each of the last two seasons. He never broke over 20 points, though, reaching a high of 19 in 71 games in his first full year after the trade.<\/p>\n

While Mitchell was a trusted fourth line centre and penalty killer when Michel Therrien<\/strong> was the Habs head coach. He has seen his role diminish under Claude Julien<\/a><\/strong>. Even when he does play, he is often used on the wing, instead of at centre.<\/p>\n

Mitchell had a rough start to this season. He has only dressed for 11 of the team’s 23 games. He didn’t have a single point. Even his +\/- rating is a flat zero in the stats column. Mitchell’s only tangible statistic is a two-minute minor penalty. Considering the team’s unsuccessful start to the year, and the fact that Mitchell is not a Julien favorite, this re-coups an asset for the Canadiens and leaves room for a call-up of a younger player. The Habs are expected to make such a move before Saturday’s home game against the Buffalo Sabres.<\/p>\n

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