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His name was Robert Bordson. His name was Robert Bordson.


I thought his name was Robert Paulson.


Well, in the book and subsequent movie, it was. In the reality of recent events in the NHL, it was a different guy. A similar sort of thing applies, though. (Don't worry, Robert Bordson is alive and well)


In that case...isn't the NHL season over? I thought I read here that the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.


Well, yes. This doesn't mean simply that hockey season is over. That just means that it's a mere 5 months until the NEXT hockey season starts, and that's really what's important.


Alright...so tell me about this Robert Bordson guy and why he's seemingly a member of Project Mayhem.


Robert Bordson may well be the answer to a trivia question some day as the LA Kings player with the shortest tenure in club history. It lasted 4 days. (Though, I guess officially, he doesn't become a free agent until Friday) He scored 0 goals and 0 assists in 0 games, averaging 0 minutes of ice time, and I'm reasonably certain he never even had a jersey with his name on it made.

Bordson was traded to the LA Kings by the Philadelphia Flyers, where he spent the last year playing for the Flyers' AHL affiliate (Adirondack Phantoms) in Glens Falls, NY. He put up a modest 21 points over the season and was considered the 20th best prospect in the organization. He was a throw-in piece in the big Schenn+Simmonds for Richards trade last week for the sole purpose of evening out the number of players moving in each direction. See, the NHL has a limit on the number of players an organization can have under contract at one time, and the Flyers were already at the limit, so in order to bring in two players (Schenn and Simmonds), they had to shed 2 players. Just like that, Bordson gets jettisoned to the Kings.

As it turns out, the Kings had absolutely no interest in Bordson as a prospect, so at 5PM Eastern Time on monday, when NHL teams were required to tender contract offers to all pending restricted free agents, the Kings did not give Bordson a qualifying offer, so as of Friday, he becomes unrestricted and no longer a member of the team. Kings fans will remember his time with the team fondly...or something.