In terms of the kinds of big decisions older teams on the edge of being truly Stanley Cup-competitive have to make in the summer, the Los Angeles Kings don't have to make many of them.

That's the good news.

The bad news is that's really only in terms of volume. In terms of importance to the near-term quality of the roster, general manager Rob Blake will have to make a number of seismic decisions.

The biggest of these, by far, is what they're going to do in goal, because all three of their goalies are pending UFAs. Backup Pheonix Copley missed the majority of the season with a knee injury and wasn't that good when he was healthy, so that's an easy guy to part with. But when it comes to Cam Talbot, who was great for most of the season, and David Rittich, who was phenomenal, the decisions get a