Speculation: Another year of this Bluc **** (The 2024-25 season thread)
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AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
FSL KINGS
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Byfield,
He showed he can drive a lines possession & produce with Kopi & Kempe last year. This year he's been tasked with running his own line. His defensive responsibilities have increased. Byfield has been asked to carry Foegele & Laferriere. Becoming a top 6 center that can run a defensively sound line is more important than being a one dimensional offensive forward. We're still waiting to see what he Byfield becomes, but there's no reason to think he isn't capable of becoming a good center you can throw out against any line you're playing.
Contrast that with Stützle. He gets more offensively gifted line mates, sheltered with offensive zone starts, constantly diving. Stützle gets put out against other teams worse lines to run up the points against the bottom 6 while protecting him from turnovers that are worse than what Fila's been benched for.
There are always one dimensional, offensive wingers available at the trade deadline. Top6 centers you can play against any line of an opponent are much harder to find & are more valuable. There's no reason Byfield can't still become this.
He showed he can drive a lines possession & produce with Kopi & Kempe last year. This year he's been tasked with running his own line. His defensive responsibilities have increased. Byfield has been asked to carry Foegele & Laferriere. Becoming a top 6 center that can run a defensively sound line is more important than being a one dimensional offensive forward. We're still waiting to see what he Byfield becomes, but there's no reason to think he isn't capable of becoming a good center you can throw out against any line you're playing.
Contrast that with Stützle. He gets more offensively gifted line mates, sheltered with offensive zone starts, constantly diving. Stützle gets put out against other teams worse lines to run up the points against the bottom 6 while protecting him from turnovers that are worse than what Fila's been benched for.
There are always one dimensional, offensive wingers available at the trade deadline. Top6 centers you can play against any line of an opponent are much harder to find & are more valuable. There's no reason Byfield can't still become this.
Lt Dan
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Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
Is there anything more Kings than overplaying Lewis to game 999 and then him getting LTIRed
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My hope with QB is that he’s in the headspace of focusing on getting his head around his new job/role. He’s done that at every stage and once he’s settled (usually taking longer than you’d hope) he takes off. That isn’t to say that I’m not concerned to some degree, I am,,but given his track record it’s not that shocking. He wasn’t given time to adjust to playing C properly before he was moved to W. The production took a while at W as he focused on his positional/defensive responsibilities and then the production came. I hope he’s now doing that at C. Of course that them brings back into question various development decisions but I’m mostly interested in the now. My optimism comes from the strong defensive play 5/5 plus his pk work.
SaltyElkHunter
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How many nights/days this year has he registered 1 shot or less on goal all season. ? Let’s set the over under at 12/25 games… who wants to play?
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AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
The whole lewis thing is so cringy.. like when Fox does a package at intermission on him doing the little things.. and shows a normal backcheck. Hiller puts him out on a 6 on 5 instead of Turcotte and promptly they get scored on. What is this weird worship of Lewis. I felt like we paid our dues having to watch him during the cup era... and now he's up here blocking a kid that could be developing. Sorry he got hurt, but its a blessing for the team.
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I guess the 1,000 game Lewis statute outside Staples and presentation will have to be delayed a couple months.
It's going to be difficult for the Kings to get thru this brutal schedule in December without Lewis. Next man up. time for everyone to step up their games. In Hiller/Bluc we trust!
It's going to be difficult for the Kings to get thru this brutal schedule in December without Lewis. Next man up. time for everyone to step up their games. In Hiller/Bluc we trust!
Lt Dan
F*** your ice cream!
I hope that "Real Deal" Akil is healthy soon. This is his chance to shine like someone who was all lubed up at a Diddy party!
tigermask48
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I ain't taking that action.
The only thing the Kings love more than being a black hole team, and trading 1st round picks, is terrible re-treads being brought back to suck. I wish I could say that's just a current front office thing... But it's not sadly.
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Probably gonna LTIR him until the playoffs so they’ll have an excuse to sign him to another contract next summer.
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AbsentMojo
F-ing get up and hunt! Cmon Todd!
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
Lias Andersson throws his silver medal at you
johnjm22
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Forgot that was our pick.
Kings ended up taking Kasper Simontaival a few picks later.
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