GDT: 2023-24 Western Conference Quarter Finals LA Kings vs Edmonton Oilers @7:00pm 5/1/24 Oilers lead 3-1

[AbsentMojo]

He overpaid players to contracts that were too long.

He did with Brown and Richards. The Brown one (someone can corect me if Im wrong) is that Brown took a help-the-team contract with a promise he'd get a big contract next time. Richards non-buyout was a huge blunder. Prob some others Im forgetting...Maybe Gaborik's was another

 

[kingsfan28]

Firing DL was a mistake and I'm tired of pretending it wasn't.

Wasn't he fired for refusing to adjust to the new NHL, the one we see today? He was watching the nhl evolved and refused to believe it. The Richards contract buy out and refusing to fire Sutter was also a problem. DL was a dinosaur stuck in the slow grind it out era. He was a good builder, but his drafting and other things in his last few seasons got him fired. The real issue was not promoting Futa, instead giving it to Rob. But we know who picked him.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Wasn't he fired for refusing to adjust to the new NHL, the one we see today? He was watching the nhl evolved and refused to believe it. The Richards contract buy out and refusing to fire Sutter was also a problem. DL was a dinosaur stuck in the slow grind it out era. He was a good builder, but his drafting and other things in his last few seasons got him fire. The real issue was not promoting Futa, instead giving it to Rob. But we know who picked him.

Allegedly. Of course, they haven't adjusted to the current NHL so not sure what that was all about.

 

[SherVaughn30]

Wasn't he fired for refusing to adjust to the new NHL, the one we see today? He was watching the nhl evolved and refused to believe it. The Richards contract buy out and refusing to fire Sutter was also a problem. DL was a dinosaur stuck in the slow grind it out era. He was a good builder, but his drafting and other things in his last few seasons got him fired. The real issue was not promoting Futa, instead giving it to Rob. But we know who picked him.

Futa moved on to the Preds or was it somewhere else?

 

[kingsfan28]

Futa moved on to the Preds or was it somewhere else?

Stayed with LA until around 2020, now works with Carolina.

 

[SettlementRichie10]

Wasn't he fired for refusing to adjust to the new NHL, the one we see today? He was watching the nhl evolved and refused to believe it. The Richards contract buy out and refusing to fire Sutter was also a problem. DL was a dinosaur stuck in the slow grind it out era. He was a good builder, but his drafting and other things in his last few seasons got him fired. The real issue was not promoting Futa, instead giving it to Rob. But we know who picked him.

Kind of a wild f***ing take considering the best player on the 2024 Kings is a Dean Lombardi pick.

 

[BaileyFan]

NHL officiating has been between incompetent and totally corrupt since I've been watching in the 90s. I'm sure the sports books aren't helping but it's always been a mess.

Kings still would have lost this series with half the pks and twice the pps.

Yeah that’s why it’s hard to get too mad at the calls, it only would have served to make the Kings’ loss more embarrassing.

Oiler fans and the moar goals crowd got all pissy when McDavid didn’t draw a single PP in the sweep to the Jets in 2021 and NHL has been calling games tighter ever since.

Also “stay out of the box” is not and never will be a real strategy with how unpredictable officiating is. You’re almost never gonna take zero penalties in a game, Kings came close in Game 4 but didn’t and look how that turned out. Yet that didn’t stop our brain trust from making that the official policy instead of figuring out a way to kill more than 50% of PP’s at any time in the past 3 years.

 

[jgs]

As a Kings fan, I seriously have doubts on Beckman getting the Kings back on track again. The Kings won Cups with Lieweki in charge, since Beckman has taken over he placed Luc and Blake in charge of the Kings and this team is in serious trouble. The Kings have absolutey no Identittty. What are they? Are they a hard phsyical playing team? Nope, Are they a skilled team? Nope, Are they a fast pase Team? Nope. Are they a goal scoring team? Nope. Are they a good defensive team? Nope. It is practically impossible to win when you have no identity.

 

[bland]

The refs Old Yeller'd the Kings tonight, but honestly, it was time.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Why did we hate Lieweki again?

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

Dubois has 4 shots in 5 games? Yikes. 0 in game 3. 0 in game 4. 0 in game 5.

 

[tny760]

Dubois has 4 shots in 5 games? Yikes. 0 in game 3. 0 in game 4. 0 in game 5.

how do you even begin to sell this as blake

"big"? that's it?

 

[kingsfan28]

how do you even begin to sell this as blake

"big"? that's it?

By selling him off?
Pretty obvious in the interviews they we're talking about PLD not showing up.

 

[johnjm22]

 

[tny760]

at least we get to be reign fans now!

By selling him off?

but he can change him! he swears!

 

[kingsfan28]

at least we get to be reign fans now!

but he can change him! he swears!

This is Luc/Rob's Mike Richard moment.

 

[tny760]

This is Luc/Rob's Mike Richard moment.

so you're saying... he needs to plant oxys in his bag crossing the border back home and put a brown paper bag full of cash in his car?

 

[kingsfan28]

so you're saying... he needs to plant oxys in his bag crossing the border back home and put a brown paper bag full of cash in his car?

You said it, I didn't....

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Refs were really bad tonight, but it's hard to get too upset about it because the Kings simply aren't good enough regardless.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Don't become a poisoner of the moment, just because Blake was an awful hire doesn't mean Lombardi and his laundry list of long discussed bad decisions didn't deserve to be fired.

 

[kingsboy11]

I was watching the 2014 stanley cup dvd with my dad a couple of days ago and my god this current team is so far off from where they were 10 years ago. Just watching the players talk about the team and that season and the struggles that went on that year, but nothing ever seemed to bother them. I know that team in particular was special and it would be impossible to replicate, but what a massive fall from glory this team has had.

This current team is so mentally fragile and we've seen it numerous times this season where when things get tough they just shut down completely. And the worst part for me watching this series is that I don't think for a second that they ever believed that they were going to beat them. There was more belief 2 years ago in that 1st series against them.

Changes have to be made. They can't keep going like this,

 

[bouncesonly]

This entire series felt like the Kings treated each game like another regular season game against the Oilers. Absolute shit mentality, the whole team. Losers. Last minute of an elimination game, goalie pulled....wtf are they doing? Passing the puck for a whole minute. Absolute morons.

 

[Frolov 6'3]

Glad it is over.

 

[Scottkmlps]

Color me shocked when I woke up & checked the boxscore. An outdated playing system, married to an outdated organizational system. From how they go about player development all the way up to BLuc, it is all outdated and changes need to be made.

 

[Bandit]

Hoping Blake and Robitaille will be fired by noon pacific, but let's be real. That's probably when they'll announce their extensions.