Implications of Richard Petiot's knee injury

The word is on the street. Richard tore the ACL in his knee during the Pacific Division Shootout game and it's bad, it hurts and will keep his away from the rink for the better part of this season. If not all of it. Ouch. Whole-hearted comiserations to Petiot.

Now, this obviously changes the landscape in the defensive corps of both Los Angeles Kings (where Petiot were to challange for bottom-pair / seventh d-man spot) as well as Manchester Monarchs (defensive stallwart there). It seems that former Blue Kevin Dallman takes Petiot's place on the depth chart (probably primarily serving as the seventh defenseman), while Craig Schira (who recently signed a try-out deal with the Kings), in the light of his outstanding effort at the PDS, secures the place on Manchester blueline. Chances are smallster Eric Werner can also be moving up the chart in the Monarchs organization.