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What’s next for Kings prospects Brayden Schenn?

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Lost in the mix of the Los Angeles Kings great start to the season is how the Kings are going to handle the future of prospect center, and 2009 first round pick, Brayden Schenn. Schenn has been a healthy scratch more often than not lately and thanks to that, a decision on whether or not to send him back to his junior team has been delayed. NHL teams get nine games played to decide whether or not that player stays in the NHL and start up their entry-level contract or be sent back to junior hockey.

For Schenn, what started out well this year has turned into being mired in the press box as the Kings decide his immediate future. As Rich Hammond of L.A. Kings Insider shares, head coach Terry Murray isn’t making a decision on him just yet.

“We haven’t made a decision on Schenn, nothing firm. … We did have a meeting, a coaches-manager meeting. We talked about a bunch of different scenarios, but we haven’t reached any decision. Just keep going through it, and keep working with all the young players that are here, that are part of the hockey club, and try to make them better every day.”

Schenn is still at eight games, meaning the Kings could put him in one more game before making a decision on his contract status, but Murray said he wasn’t sure whether Schenn would get into a game any time soon.

With Schenn being so close to the brink of forcing the Kings to make a decision one way or another, it puts him in the precarious spot of having to be the guy in the press box each night when he could be getting work with the Brandon Wheat Kings on a nightly basis in the WHL. Having him bust his tail in practices with the Kings while learning on the job means analysis of the situation from chair jockeys like us can get a bit crazy. Both arguments have merit, but at this point you have to think that coach Murray and Kings GM Dean Lombardi have a good idea of what they’re doing. Seeing Schenn handled this way, however, is most peculiar though.