{"id":215869,"date":"2025-10-15T22:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/215869\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T22:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:52:08","slug":"los-angeles-kings-acquire-pheonix-copley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/215869\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings Acquire Pheonix Copley"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Los Angeles Kings have brought in a familiar face to serve as the team\u2019s third-string netminder. After losing him on the waiver wire a few weeks ago, the Kings announced<\/a> they\u2019ve traded for netminder Pheonix Copley<\/a> from the Tampa Bay Lightning for future considerations.<\/p>\n

Further, despite recalling<\/a> him on an emergency basis only a few hours ago, the Kings also shared that they\u2019ve loaned Erik Portillo<\/a> back to their AHL affiliate, the Ontario Reign. Assuming he can make it to Los Angeles before tomorrow night, Copley is expected to serve as the Kings\u2019 backup tomorrow night against the Pittsburgh Penguins behind Anton Forsberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The reasoning behind the trade is simple. The team\u2019s Editorial Content Manager, Zach Dooley, reported<\/a> earlier that Darcy Kuemper<\/a> and An\u017ee Kopitar<\/a> are dealing with lower-body injuries. While Kopitar has been deemed \u2019questionable\u2019, Kuemper has already been ruled out for tomorrow night\u2019s contest.<\/p>\n

Copley\u2019s status as a veteran and familiarity with the organization likely played a big part in the Kings reacquiring him from the Lightning. Over the last three years, starting as a backup and transitioning to a third-string role, Copley had managed a 28-7-5 record for Los Angeles with a .897 SV% and 2.75 GAA. While playing for AHL Ontario last season, the 33-year-old netminder appeared in 42 contests, earning a 24-17-1 record with a .904 SV% and 2.49 GAA.<\/p>\n

Although he was rostered on the Lightning to start the year, he had yet to appear in a game for them. Andrei Vasilevskiy<\/a> has gotten off to a disappointing start to the campaign, but the team relied on Jonas Johansson<\/a> as the next man up instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles Kings have brought in a familiar face to serve as the team\u2019s third-string netminder. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215870,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[49,48,104406,104407,763,4247,94009,82,745,4584],"class_list":{"0":"post-215869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-darcy-kuemper","11":"tag-erik-portillo","12":"tag-los-angeles-kings","13":"tag-newsstand","14":"tag-pheonix-copley","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-tampa-bay-lightning","17":"tag-transactions"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}