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Stimpythecat said:
Save everyone the time. Solid B+.

A+ on the contract/cap side. Overall grade would have been higher with better playoff results.
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Those guys really make McNabb out to be much better than he actually is. He was exposed in the SCF, the same way he was in LA. The other thing I got out of it was they don't know the difference between being fast and playing fast.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Speaking of old school, this is how we used to get our Kings information back in the 90s...

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The Kings also had a 1-800 number hotline that was recorded by Nick Nickson that would provide callers with periodic updates. I was so excited when Nick Nickson announced that the Kings had acquired Petr Klima.
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Wow was that team bad. Look at that camp roster, I think even Johnny Utah thinks they had to many goons.
 
Herby said:
Wow was that team bad. Look at that camp roster, I think even Johnny Utah thinks they had to many goons.
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It all started with Barry Melrose and his mission to get the Kings bigger and tougher, and the end result was them getting slower and older.

At least by 2000 the team had a lot more talent, but man, the pipeline was just so damn barren.
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And I wouldn't fault the Palffy trade for the lack of top quality prospects. The Kings were just horrendous at finding talent back then and wasted so many early draft picks on guys who never panned out.
 
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Ziggy Stardust said:
It all started with Barry Melrose and his mission to get the Kings bigger and tougher, and the end result was them getting slower and older.

At least by 2000 the team had a lot more talent, but man, the pipeline was just so damn barren.
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And I wouldn't fault the Palffy trade for the lack of top quality prospects. The Kings were just horrendous at finding talent back then and wasted so many early draft picks on guys who never panned out.
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All you have to do is go by the 2003 draft as an indicator as to how clueless and unprepared they were at the drafting. We got so lucky with Kopitar it isn't even funny, and it had nothing to do with good scouting, more like accidental scouting.
 
kingsfan28 said:
All you have to do is go by the 2003 draft as an indicator as to how clueless and unprepared they were at the drafting. We got so lucky with Kopitar it isn't even funny, and it had nothing to do with good scouting, more like accidental scouting.
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They even lucked out with Dustin Brown in 2003.

Supposedly the Kings were high on Andrei Kostitsyn and Hugh Jessiman, both of whom went 10th and 12th (and Jeff Carter was sandwiched between them at 11).

It explains why they went with Brian Boyle with their 26th selection. They lost out on one giant reach, so they went with the other who to his credit at least panned out as a 3rd line center at the very least. And of course they follow that up with Jeff Tambellini, allowing the Ducks to take Corey Perry with the 28th pick. Ugh.

The Pushkarev pick at #44 is another big kick in the balls. Right after he was selected, the Bruins take Patrice Bergeron at 45, and Nashville took Shea Weber at 49.

I think the only defenseman that the Dave Taylor regime ever drafted who panned out was an overager in Lubomir Visnovsky, and the only goalie they ever hit came long after they were gone with Jonathan Quick in 2005.
 
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Ziggy Stardust said:
They even lucked out with Dustin Brown in 2003.

Supposedly the Kings were high on Andrei Kostitsyn and Hugh Jessiman, both of whom went 10th and 12th (and Jeff Carter was sandwiched between them at 11).

It explains why they went with Brian Boyle with their 26th selection. They lost out on one giant reach, so they went with the other who to his credit at least panned out as a 3rd line center at the very least. And of course they follow that up with Jeff Tambellini, allowing the Ducks to take Corey Perry with the 28th pick. Ugh.

The Pushkarev pick at #44 is another big kick in the balls. Right after he was selected, the Bruins take Patrice Bergeron at 45, and Nashville took Shea Weber at 49.

I think the only defenseman that the Dave Taylor regime ever drafted who panned out was an overager in Lubomir Visnovsky, and the only goalie they ever hit came long after they were gone with Jonathan Quick in 2005.
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I didn't see drafting Quick any different than the thrown a dart at a goalie in a later round approach they always used. The big difference was DL hiring an actual goalie coach who played the position as a pro to coach him and later Bernier.Also, it was DL refusing to rush them, letting them pay their dues in the minors to properly develop that eventually paid off big time. Every goalie under Taylor was rushed at some point and pretty much ruined.

Brian Boyle was a bust in every sense of the word as a King. It wasn't until he was traded and Torts told him if he doesn't get his shit together he'd be out of the league that he took it seriously.
 
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I think these have been one of my favorite Kings uniforms so far.

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HowDareYou said:
If they brought that logo back and made it modern jersey sales would be up crazy again like the first time they introduced that logo. Even to people that don't know la kings hockey know the chevy logo from the 90s

Actually I'm just a sucker for that logo
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Any logo that is not a crown sucks. I really don’t like the Chevy logo it’s awful and all the gangs wear it and don’t even know what the Kings are.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
Remember when the Kings missed out on Kovalchuk and the next best option was Alexei Ponikarovsky?

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Still find it amusing that when Shaq (New Jersey native) did the ceremonial puck drop a few years back, they didn't give him a custom fit jersey with his own name. Instead they gave him a tight Ponikarovsky one and I don't think he was on the team at that point.
 
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Maybe I have poor taste, but I just have sentiments to the Chevy and Home Plate logo.

Chevy because it was the jersey the Kings wore when I first got into hockey. Home plate for 2012/14.

The crown ones are nice, but my favorites are driven by sentiment
 
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