Kings Get Goalie; Coffey Deal Considered : Hockey: Islanders’ Weeks, obtained for seventh-round draft choice, will be backup for Hrudey.

The Kings completed a minor trade Tuesday, obtaining goalie Steve Weeks, amid speculation they are close to obtaining Pittsburgh Penguin defenseman Paul Coffey.

The Kings obtained Weeks, a 33-year-old veteran, from the New York Islanders for their seventh-round choice in this year’s draft.

According to sources, the deal now on the table for Coffey would involve both the Penguins and the Philadelphia Flyers.

Under one scenario reportedly under discussion, the Kings would send defensemen Brian Benning and Jeff Chychrun to Philadelphia. The Flyers would send defenseman Kjell Samuelsson and goalie Ken Wregget to Pittsburgh, with Coffey going to the Kings.

King general manager Rogie Vachon declined to comment on the deal.

But he did concede he’s talked to the Penguins in recent days about what it would take to get Coffey.

“We’ve talked to them,” Vachon said. “It they are going to move him as they have said, he is definitely an interesting player to look at. And we’ve certainly looked at him.”

In Pittsburgh, where the Penguins beat the Toronto Maple Leafs Tuesday night, Coffey said after the game that he’s “heard rumors like everybody else, but I don’t know when it will happen.”

He acknowledged that it is not easy to concentrate in the current environment.

“It’s tough, real tough,” he said, “but my obligation is to play the best for the Penguins.”

In obtaining Weeks, the Kings end weeks of speculation over what they were going to do about a backup for goalie Kelly Hrudey.

Since the Kings traded Daniel Berthiaume a month ago, Hrudey’s only backup has been Darryl Gilmour, who has yet to play a minute in the NHL.

Hrudey has started 16 consecutive games and played all but seven minutes in the Kings’ last 18 games.

Although Hrudey has thrived on the work, leading the Kings into second place in the Smythe Division with a 4-1-2 mark in the last seven games, the team has been concerned over the possibility of injury or fatigue to the 31-year-old goalie.

“If Kelly was to go down for a long period, we would not be safe,” Vachon said.

Weeks has a 9-4-2 record in 23 games for New York this season, a 3.60 goals-against average and an .890 save percentage.

Signed last October as a free agent by the Islanders, the 5-foot-11, 170-pound Weeks is in his 12th NHL season.

He had previously played for the New York Rangers, Hartford Whalers and Vancouver Canucks, compiling a lifetime record of 111-111-35 with a goals-against average of 3.75. He playedcollegiate hockey at Northern Michigan.

“We would have no problem putting him in,” Vachon said. “He’s proven in the past he can play in the NHL.

“He’s a good kid in the dressing room. He won’t complain about not playing. The other players like that. That is very important.”