Speculation: 2019-20 News/Rumors,Roster thread Post Deadline

[cyclones22]

Unfortunately, I don't think it's because Kopi wants others to shoot and not himself. It's that he constantly thinks it's better to maintain possession and peel back and pass if he thinks he doesn't have a great chance to score. He's always looking for the best opportunity to score, which unfortunately doesn't often materialize when he passes the puck because not only is he the best shooter on his line, but he's also the best playmaker. So the odds of someone else taking his pass and converting it into a scoring chance or setting someone else up isn't great. Sometimes the best scoring chance is the one which presents itself right off the zone entry and on the rush. I don't think his mentality will ever really change. So let's hope that Kopi isn't washed up by the time he's lined up with true finishers.

 

[kilowatt]

It’s interesting. He’s being unselfish, right? That should be a good thing but the majority of the players he’s passing to have a much worse chance of scoring than he does if he shot the puck himself. So due to his unselfishness they score less, therefore win less games.
If he shot more, the team would win more but he wants his teammates to shoot, which hurts the team. So his unselfishness is pretty selfish.

Kopitar’s an asshole, confirmed.

 

[Maynard]

Weird logic in here. Maybe Kopitar's shooting % is high because he takes shots that actually have a chance of going in? If he shoots more his assist total likely goes down...perhaps he's best positioned to determine whether a shot or pass offers the best odds. Of course anyone on here headed for the HOF feel free to disagree.

So we can’t discuss a player’s strengths and weaknesses unless we ourselves are headed to the HOF?

 

[Maynard]

Kopitar’s an asshole, confirmed.

What a ridiculous exaggeration of my post.

 

[Bandit]

Kopitar’s an asshole, confirmed.

Shoulda traded up to draft Gilbert Brûlé instead.

 

[HookKing]

So we can’t discuss a player’s strengths and weaknesses unless we ourselves are headed to the HOF?

Nope.

 

[FrozenKing18]

The Kings original colors (1967 NHL Expansion) were purple and gold. Same as the Lakers since Jack Kent Cook owned both teams and The Forum.

Lol I know that’s the original colors. I’m poking fun of it because the Kings ditched that color scheme

 

[kilowatt]

What a ridiculous exaggeration of my post.

It was a joke

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

So we can’t discuss a player’s strengths and weaknesses unless we ourselves are headed to the HOF?

I've been there twice, so I'll bless you one of my trips as permission

 

[Maynard]

It was a joke

Oh...sorry.

 

[Maynard]

It was a joke

This happened to me in the COVID thread too. I’m gonna shut it down for a while lol.

 

[Stimpythecat]

 

[Statto]

Here’s a thought. Did Brown in fact have Covid-19 when he was hospitalised with ‘flu? Given his very slow recovery you’d have to think it was possible. My recollection is that it started slow (he played through it) and he then went downhill fast, he then seemed to be affected for 2-3 weeks before looking well again. It would fit. Even then there were plenty of people thinking he still looked jaded at times, which again fits. They have confirmed cases in France from December so it’s not a huge leap for it to have made in to LA.

I’d be interested to know if he was retrospectively tested.

 

[RocketKing]

I've been there twice, so I'll bless you one of my trips as permission

I went once when they just opened the "new" HOF, did you get a picture with Stanley?

 

[Bandit]

Here’s a thought. Did Brown in fact have Covid-19 when he was hospitalised with ‘flu? Given his very slow recovery you’d have to think it was possible. My recollection is that it started slow (he played through it) and he then went downhill fast, he then seemed to be affected for 2-3 weeks before looking well again. It would fit. Even then there were plenty of people thinking he still looked jaded at times, which again fits. They have confirmed cases in France from December so it’s not a huge leap for it to have made in to LA.

I’d be interested to know if he was retrospectively tested.

Didn't they say he had Pneumonia? Pretty sure.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

Apologize if this has already been mentioned, but the most recent podcast of 'Spittin Chiclets' with the Milan Lucic interview had some pretty positive/interesting comments about Lombardi and Sutter. Check it out!

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

That was actually a lot of fun

Apologize if this has already been mentioned, but the most recent podcast of 'Spittin Chiclets' with the Milan Lucic interview had some pretty positive/interesting comments about Lombardi and Sutter. Check it out!

I'll check it out today while I'm on my Zoom meeting. Thanks for the heads up

 

[Statto]

Didn't they say he had Pneumonia? Pretty sure.

This is it though, Pneumonia is one of the issues Covid-19 can cause.

 

[Statto]

This is it though, Pneumonia is one of the issues Covid-19 can cause. Pneumonia can be both bacterial or viral, it’s a catch all term for lung inflammation

 

[Telos]

It's funny looking back at those deals now because of how many mistakes are intertwined in them, and how they all get negated by "they won the cup." Just remembering some of the threads around here during the time and how things turned out is pretty funny to think about.

The deal that still stands out to me was the Visnovsky trade. We were all floored by that and how it went down, but looking back that was an unbelievably clutch deal.

 

[cyclones22]

It's funny looking back at those deals now because of how many mistakes are intertwined in them, and how they all get negated by "they won the cup." Just remembering some of the threads around here during the time and how things turned out is pretty funny to think about.

The deal that still stands out to me was the Visnovsky trade. We were all floored by that and how it went down, but looking back that was an unbelievably clutch deal.

Yep, because in the end, all that matters is the Cup even if there are missteps that need to be corrected along the way. If it ended up being "Wow, those trades set the Kings up for the golden age of 3 Conference Finals appearances in a row. That's pretty impressive!" and that was the extent of it, how would we look back upon that time? We'd look at it as a stretch of really good hockey, but missed opportunities. Who and what went the other way means nothing to me as long as the Kings won big. We witnessed a 3 year stretch of hockey that 99% of hockey fans would kill for and trades are rarely ever about what immediately exchanges hands in the deal.

 

[Fishhead]

Great find and very amusing. It really highlights how there is a lot more risk with rental deals than first appears. A lot of picks get moved around so it gets lost in the shuffle, but they are still assets. So maybe that 2nd doesn't seem like much because less than a quarter of them hit 200 games, and even less become stars, but they could eventually end up as a JW.

DL wasn't a genius because he obviously didn't plan that whole thing out, but what he did really well early on was evaluating what he had and acting accordingly. The player they wanted wasn't there in those drafts, so he moved the picks. Teubert, who he really liked, didn't pan out so he moved him before his value bottomed out.

 

[KopitarFAN]

I'm all in on the 24-team playoff, no need for teams like the Kings, Detroit, Ottawa etc to ramp up for ~10 games only to be sent home.

 

[Sparky206]

This is it though, Pneumonia is one of the issues Covid-19 can cause.

Think about it, your saying Dustin Brown is case 0 in the USA, but none of his teammates come down with it or anyone else in the organization despite it being highly contagious