Stunning turnaround in such a short time for a guy that was on the outside looking in a year ago.
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Stunning turnaround in such a short time for a guy that was on the outside looking in a year ago.
kilowatt
the vibes are not immaculate
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If guys like Vilardi, Anderson, and Petersen learned from this seven game stretch, then it was a positive season. The odds of winning the lottery are so slim. The difference between 5th and 8th (which is where we were most likely to pick anyway) isn't significant. Lafreniere and Byfield most likely go one and two, but take your pick between Stutzle, Drysdale, Rossi, Perfetti, Raymond, and Holtz. Who knows how picks five through eight shake out. Our odds of landing the first overall pick dropped a whopping four percent. The positives of finishing the season on a seven game winning streak far outweighs an additional four percent chance to pick Lafreniere, in my opinion. Changing the losing culture was paramount this year.
After Lafreniere the deference isn’t that great between the top ten. Kings will get a good piece. May even still win the lottery.
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kilowatt
the vibes are not immaculate
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If you rearrange the letters in Gabriel Vilardi's name, you get Big Deli Arrival, and I think that's beautiful.
TruKingFan
Two-Time Cup Winner
Sens fans approve. Possibly picking #2and #3 (before the lottery) is just sick. F'n Doug Wilson.
I take heart in the fact that Ottawa's owner is so terrible, he'll mismanage whatever he gets from the draft anyway.
Hopefully the season gets called at a 69 game season and this counts for nothing other than a win for the kids.
cyclones22
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Exactly. What's the alternative? Hoping that all the young kids struggle on their call-ups instead of excel? Hope that Kopitar, Doughty and Quick show zero signs of life instead of flashing that they can still play at a high level and are capable of turning around their struggles? For the sake of what? 5 to 8% better odds of winning the lottery of which they have low odds of winning anyway? If your retirement plan is to win the lottery, you're going to grow old broke. A losing culture breeds losing, period. The youth on the team is rocking it and the players who should be leading the team are in fact leading. I'll take it.
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
They traded away last years 1st, only to get 2 in this years draft. SJ is the one who's really going to be out of the mix. They have an old bad team with no prospects . They're like us a few years ago , but without the 2 Cups.
The kings turned the prospect pool around with just 3 drafts. From worst to arguably best in 3 years.
Ziggy Stardust
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I’m just pleased and extremely satisfied to see the pain and miserable hockey we have had to endure is slowly starting to become a thing of the past thanks to an injection of youth. Some of us frustrated fans have been waiting for this moment, and things will get better for this team in the near future.
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
Man this postgame presser with TMac sounds more like the kind you'd hear after the last game of the year. I like what he's saying about the team going forward.
King'sPawn
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Unbelievable but unsurprising that people are upset over the Kings winning on the backs of the prospects already here stepping up.
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
Bingo. The guys look like they want to win again, and it is filtering through the organization. It's a very good sign.
regulate
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TruKingFan
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Right?? That's just incredibly myopic. But expected for some around here for sure.
MOGlLNY
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I’ll take the kids getting this winning streak with our core 4 over a small percentage of getting 1st overall any day of the week.
Bottoming out doesn’t help build a culture.
Bottoming out doesn’t help build a culture.
Yup if it's not our year for the 1st overall then so be it. Said it many times this years draft is deep especially in the top ten which is where we are projected to be picking. Plus there's this kid who's supposedly better then Lafreniere named Shane Wright and is draft eligible in a few years so I'm confident we'll suck then too and we will win it all then.
bland
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kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
Yeah, Twitter is full of guys really disappointed at the winning streak. All the same crap about falling out of the top 5, top 10, were screwing up our chance at the top pick, blah,blah , blah. . This draft is not going to make or break our upcoming seasons. No matter what, were going to get a good player with our first four picks.
kilowatt
the vibes are not immaculate
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It arrived a couple weeks ago - scored two more points tonight. Italian deli, not Jewish.
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
Remind me again what the odd of the Hawks picking in the top 3 last year after just missing the playoffs?
