The thought process is….same clown show, same clown channel.
Well said.
Must be hard to devote your entire day to gate-keep online.
I chalk it up to Blake being a 1st time GM and having played for TM was comfortable with him. Maybe Blake was also under the illusion that the cup core was going to stay relevant at the time of his hire.
I didnt like last years D squad before DD injury. After DD went down, I thought it over-performed (dont know why). This year the squad is empirically worse (not saying the talent is worse) - but its not the same personnel (no Spence, Bjornfot, Stecher, Maata).. so thats hard to analyze. The main point in my post is I feel there is too much salary committed to offense and no 2nd pair LD or Goalies in the pipeline. And to be honest, I think the d-corps needs a 1st pair PM-LD as well to pair w DD who is becoming more stay at home. In order to rectify all that, Blake/TM should try to develop some young cheap offensive talent into the top 6, move some salary on offense, and use cap space to improve D and goaltending. Signing Moore and soon Vilardi...have way too much salary committed to the forwards. Something has to give there.
Yeah, but the thing is, even the best goalies only play about 75% of the games.
Reading comprehension: I don't think you read my post (that you made this response to) properly at all.... certainly missed the point completely. But guess that doesn't matter because -- agenda.
At the risk of regret: Byfield is the main topic and issue as it pertains to last night-- especially with the Kopi overuse.
Surely the goal is to win a cup, not games. To do that they must properly develop the top prospects or there’s no chance and if they are doing that well is open to debate. That’s why in of itself making the play-offs last year or this year isn’t the bench mark for me.
What’s fundamentally wrong with your entire premise is that Colorados core are home grown talent on a superstar level. Kings have not one person close to that yet. The Kings best players right now are Kaliyev and Vilardi. That’s a far cry from Colorado. Kings don’t have a superstar core yet and they might not. That’s the big undeniable problem that the Kings are facing. Byfield looks like ass for a super star pick. And Clarke is unfortunately not showing to be anything too special. Maybe a little above Voynov tier. Nothing like Kopitar, Doughty, Mackinnon, Makar.
Only Anderson played regularly on the left last year, so on left D it’s just 33%. That’s a big part of the problem because the D is unbalanced. So it is personal in that one player is out of position and playing too many minutes and another is aging and simply playing too many games.
Only Anderson played regularly on the left last year, so on left D it’s just 33%. That’s a big part of the problem because the D is unbalanced. So it is personal in that one player is out of position and playing too many minutes and another is aging and simply playing too many games.
There have also been a significant number of individual errors from Roy and Durzi in particular that have cost goals. They both turn the puck over for fun… thats on them.
It is of course a number of things, never just one or the other. However, it’s compounded when you have Björnfot and Spence ready to go, it just feeds the frustration as they are 2 of our best 6 defencemen and are more a part of the future than the guys playing ahead of them. Whilst I know it’s not as simple as just calling them up and playing them, it makes the frustration reasonable. So I’m blaming everyone for the share of it.
Sorry, I’m incapable of a short answer
As with other things I’ve said playing in the NHL and development are not mutually exclusive. They can help the NHL team and develop at the same time if used properly. The D is not balanced on the left so Björnfot is a logical option (played fine across his 4 games) and Spence is a better player IMO than anyone on the right not named Doughty. Like I said making room isn’t that easy but its still frustrating because these guys are the future.
