Fantasy Impact: The Philadelphia Flyers have sent Vincent Lecavalier and Luke Schenn to the Los Angeles Kings for Jordan Weal and a third-round draft pick.

The Flyers get: a promising, underrated and underutilized prospect with scoring-line upside. They also freed up immediate cap space and get a draft pick to boot.

The Kings get: some veteran leadership in Lecavalier, who will likely spend most of this season in the press box but occasionally could dress and contribute in a limited capactity. They also get a veteran defenseman who could fill the No.4 or No.5 spot effectively. The cost was a decent draft pick, a lot of cap space, and a player they weren't using. With Matt Greene on LTIR and Derek Forbort not quite ready, the team needed a depth defenseman.

Players Impacted: This does nothing for Lecavalier's value. He's not expected to do much, regardless of where he plays. And he acknowledges this and has said that he will retire at the end of this season. Schenn holds little fantasy value unless your league counts hits, in which case he's a solid 150-200 hits player. So in fantasy hockey, this trade comes down to Weal.

Weal has been in that dreaded no-man's land where a player isn't getting sent to the AHL because he'd have to clear waivers (which he wouldn't), yet at the same time isn't given ice time or game action with the NHL club. The Flyers are different than the Kings in that they desperately need a forward. RJ Umberger and Scott Laughton are each seeing about eight minutes per game nowadays. The team may want to send Laughton to the AHL so he can get 18 minutes per game.

As for Weal himself – he had 139 points in his last 149 AHL games. He has nothing left to prove there. I'm cautiously optimistic about how this could work out for him.

Fantasy Players this helps, in order:

1. Weal (profile here and prospects fantasy report here)

Fantasy Players this hurts, in order:

1. Laughton (profile here)

2. Lecavalier (profile here)