GDT: 2023-24 season game 50 LA Kings vs Buffalo Sabres @4:00pm 2/13/24

[Sol]

Kopitar has got to be put down. -6. You’re seeing shades of Todd’s over use of the old man still.

 

[RayMartyniukTotems]

For Blake's next move he'll offload the First rounders until 2036 to get the Kings players that give a shit or rather are NHL caliber...but wait if the Kings are really bad they can get MCelebrini or CEiserman

 

[KingsHockey24]

Kyle Clifford witnessed his old team get massacred tonight.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Kempe will be 28 and Moore 29 when next season starts, and the Kings are years away from legit contention. If you can get good value, both should be available

They need some veterans. Not everyone can be 20 on the team.

 

[dman3474]

Am I ok saying they didn’t look great tonight? Or am I going to get yelled at again?

 

[KingsHockey24]

This team needs a wake up call.

Trade a Mikey Anderson, Jordan Spence, Trevor Moore, Kevin Fiala, etc.

 

[kilowatt]

On the one hand... happy to see Hiller willing to shake up the lines a bit. Turcotte and Byfield looked pretty good.

On the other hand... *gestures broadly at everything else*

 

[chris kontos]

Female fan behind the Kings bench looks inconsolable. Paid top dollar to sit front row for this.

That was sad. Somebody needs to send a still of her to aeg

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Are you crazy no fan within a 1000 Km's will show up then

Hanging in to assets coming out of their prime through a rebuild so that they are 32-33 when you come out of your rebuild is not what smart teams do, so the Kings would likely keep them because they are not a smart organization.

 

[AbsentMojo]

I dont know why anyone expects a coaching change to have instant results.. they still have same overuse of Kopi and DD, and lettting a difference maker in Clarke sitting in the pressbox.. These guys dont have any fresh ideas...And now that the cinderella goalies are coming back to earth, Blake is even further exposed for building a half assed roster.

 

[johnjm22]

The parallels to the 05-06 season continue.

Hiller is the new Torchetti.

 

[lumbergh]

That was so bad it was almost entertaining.

 

[BigKing]

You’d hope they’d show some emotion and make things chippy. But it’s the typical meek response of rolling over and giving up.

Ongoing problem since the start of the Blake era. Creeped in on the Tkachuk/Doughty elbow but at least the Kings responded the next time they played.

Clifford/Wagner/Bjornfot/Roy/Anderson all concussed on chin-music or boarding hits. Offenders dealt with zero response during the game and nothing in the games to follow. Throw Doughty getting kneed and injured by the guy on Dallas. Same thing.

Not winning shit with that type of culture.

 

[ru4reals]

Whenever Kopitar doesn't play well in a game or a season, it must be an injury.

This was said about Iafallo time and time again. And he just wasn't all that good to begin with. Now Sad to see Kopi's age really showing. His worst game of his career by a fair margin.

 

[AbsentMojo]

The parallels to the 05-06 season continue.

Hiller is the new Torchetti.

The only thing I remember about Torchetti was he scratched Luc in his final season when the games didnt matter...

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

They need some veterans. Not everyone can be 20 on the team.

Kopitar is around for 2 more years after this, Doughty isn't going anywhere, Danault, Fiala, etc. There are veterans

 

[kilowatt]

I dont know why anyone expects a coaching change to have instant results.. they still have same overuse of Kopi and DD, and lettting a difference maker in Clarke sitting in the pressbox.. These guys dont have any fresh ideas...And now that the cinderella goalies are coming back to earth, Blake is even further exposed for building a half assed roster.

Spence was arguably our best defenseman tonight. Maybe we should trade Doughty, re-sign Roy, and play Clarke and Spence.

Gavrikov - Clarke
Anderson - Spence
Englund - Roy

 

[Seattle King]

Really glad I dont watch this shit anymore.

FIRE BLAKE NOW

 

[DAkings20]

Fire Todd!!

 

[tny760]

woof

 

[johnjm22]

If the Kings are gonna lose, if the Kings are gonna be bad, this is kind of what you want.

You want them to be so bad that the front office can't justify trading assets to prop up the roster.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Spence was arguably our best defenseman tonight. Maybe we should trade Doughty, re-sign Roy, and play Clarke and Spence.

Gavrikov - Clarke
Anderson - Spence
Englund - Roy

Something people need to consider, Gavrikov only has one more year after this and might want to move on if this turns into a rebuild

 

[Seattle King]

Kopitar's agent fleeced Blake for that extension right before his clients wheels fell off

 

[kilowatt]

woof

This mostly matches the eye test. Not sure what Dubois did to get a relatively high devensive score but the rest makes sense. Turcotte, Byfield, and Laferriere all looked pretty good.

 

[AbsentMojo]

Will be interesting to see how Hiiller plays this. Obviously this a dead horse team whip dont work, carrot dont work... Hiller probably same level of creativity as the ejected marsupial