Yeah great point. We certainly haven’t been watching all season, it’s just this one game.
your lack of a gag reflex probably made you VERY popular in school.
GDT: 2021-22 season game 48 LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @7:30pm 2/15/22
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your lack of a gag reflex probably made you VERY popular in school.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
Two weeks of practice working on the same problems...only to be done in by the exact same problems, magnified.
I'll call it like I see it.
Herby
How could Blake have known?
Blake was also the one who made incredibly stupid development decisions with the two highest draft picks the Kings have had in a decade. Decisions that we are paying for right now at the NHL level. Making a couple of nice veteran signings and trades doesn't really make up for that. QB should have been in the NHL last year, it's painfully obvious now because (right or wrong) the coach doesn't trust him at all right now only 20 or so games into his career. If they knew last year was a throw-away and this year was the year they were trying to make the playoffs than why on Earth wouldn't you have had him in the NHL last year and let him play his game in a low-pressure spot and learn to be an NHL'er? The Turcotte thing, well I've beaten the dead horse on that one, but it was just Rob thinking he's smarter than everyone else (actually both things were).
It just makes me think that they have no idea what they are doing, that there isn't a plan to properly develop any of these players and just decided after last season (**** it lets try and just make the playoffs).
tny760
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oh i'm pathetic for taking issue with a failure to make changes that last more than 1 PP shift? to limpdick a game, on 2 weeks rest, against a team on the tail end of a b2b that has played an insane number of games in the past week and is going through a coaching change?
guess i'm pathetic then.
Herby
How could Blake have known?
Some of us don't really care about making the playoffs this season as much as we care about properly developing key players for the long haul. Blake obviously hit it out of the park with Danault and had solid hits with other veterans he brought in by trade. But, Byfield is in a stupid place again, last year in a garbage AHL when every other Top 2 pick in recent memory was in the NHL and now this year playing in a very limited role with garbage linemates (and playing pretty poorly himself too). Right now his confidence is at zero, and you can tell watching him. This is not a good way to handle a young player you invested the #2 pick on. Just like I said with Turcotte, good development means as much as good evaluation, and right now the development with both has been poor.
King'sPawn
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Only takes one game in two weeks for you to whine about criticisms and determine the people commenting are pathetic fans.
f***ing hypocrite.
Herby
How could Blake have known?
Didn't even realize they lost too.
The tournament was just tough to watch with how bad the play was. That would have been gut-wrenching to lose that way in a best on best.
Little Psycho
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Byfields first couple games he looked really good and now looks like hes terrified to make a mistake. Pretty much coming in low in the defensive zone then to get it out has to bail out his wingers. In the offensive zone just a little dump in and play as the third man high. So tentative. Let the kid loose. Him and Turcotte in the NHL this year have been the worst development situation Ive ever seen in my life. Most of us knew it would come to this the day Byfield was called up. So predictable.
Sol
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Succinctly put. Again this whole old boys club nepotism is terrible for teams because these people get unusually long ropes and the team suffers for it
Sol
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There’s no hill for him not worth dying on. As long as he can be a contrarian for the sake of being one.
The Butcher
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This coming from the guy who started a thread claiming the Kings were toast in early 2012. I wish I could pull it up.
I like Danault, but going out and getting a center in the off-season made no sense after drafting QB. There's nowhere to put him except in the bottom six where he's not going excel.
King'sPawn
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If they spread the wingers and distributed the ice time more equitably, it made great sense.
Getting Danault was one of Blake's best moves.
Reclamation Project
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At this point I've been thinking just say screw it and get Laine. First plus a couple prospects. Kings desperately need a gamebreaking scorer.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
I actually think Blake has put together a VERY good roster that before the season, made a LOT of sense--great defensive veterans who could insulate the youth as they came up, on paper a playoff challenger if not contender. You could either put a kid on the wings to get mentored by Kopitar, Danault, even Lizotte/JAD, or you could stack all the vets on a couple of lines and let the kids roll absolutely loose offensively and on the PP. There's actually a LOT of flexibility there for a creative, aggressive coach, a good mix of vets and youth, a LOT of utility/spare parts for playing an offensive uptempo game or a strong, tight defensive game.
Instead--the usage and implementation of those players has been almost exactly what I'd do if I were trying to f*** up the youth and the current at the same time. I have to assume they're on the same page, which is unfortunate--and I know we joke around about it a lot here, but it really does give me visions of Moneyball. Blake has put together this roster that TM has no intention of using in any way other than the only way he has known for years. It's borderline depressing at this point.
Sol
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At the most we have a playoff team and roster undoubtedly. The kings weakness is just f***ing Todd . I can’t be emphatic enough of how much I think Todd and Sturm are destroying this team from a tactical standpoint. The coaching is horrid, the handling of players is down right disrespectful and immensely illogical.
Herby
How could Blake have known?
Byfield was thrown into a team trying to make the playoffs with 6 games of NHL experience. Yes I know he missed the beginning of the season but even at the beginning of the season this team was trying to make the playoffs with the moves it made in the summer.
I just don't get why almost every single #2 pick in this century has played in the NHL as an 18 year old but the Kings felt the need to go in a different direction with QB? Now we have one stupid season in a watered down AHL (that by all indications hasn't gotten him prepared at all for the NHL) followed up by an NHL season where he is basically playing a 4th line role with an iconic player on his last legs and a mercenary, playing 10 minutes a night with no special teams time. Can anyone try and defend this development since being drafted? WTF are the Kings doing with the development of these prospects? It is as bad as anything I can remember from an NHL team. Just do what everyone else does Blake, you aren't smarter than the rest of the league, just stop.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
I mean it seemed like such a small thing at the time but in retrospect the signing and handling of Kovalchuk was a harbinger of exactly everything wrong with the org. Best defensive team in the league needs some scoring punch? Sign a specialist! ....then proceed to try him at the front of the net on the PP, then try him as a grinder, wonder why he's not grinding his way to the top lines, complain he's a liability and not scoring, then jettison him. You could replace the name "kovalchuk" with basically any one of the Kings kids' and replace "PP time" with "time with some of the worst liabilities in the NHL" and it's all the same thing. Groundhog day. Vilardi? Tkachev? Frk? Turcotte? Byfield? The name changes but the stupidity doesn't. The odds that they're all busts vs. the odds that they're all mishandled are pretty uneven to be charitable.
Arthur Kaliyev might score 15 goals from the 4th line while we have to deal with this
Arthur Kaliyev might score 15 goals from the 4th line while we have to deal with this
DryIslandBartender
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I made this point several times after the signing. You have Kopitar, Byfield, Turcotte, Kupari already. Where the hell does Danault fill a need?
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
It's not his fault TM has brain damage.
Danault SHOULD be eating into Kopitar's minutes, not the kids. It's an absolutely picture perfect signing if your coach isn't a dinosaur. I can't believe anyone would even glance his way halfway serious at this point as any kind of problem.
