Speculation: Another year of this Bluc **** (The 2024-25 season thread)

[Surf Nutz]

PLD to Washington is easily the best trade Blake has ever made or will ever make.

Leaving himself an emergency parachute on the original disaster move was not dumb.

 

[FSL KINGS]

PLD to Washington is easily the best trade Blake has ever made or will ever make.

It's just incompetence.
-Blake shouldn't have made the trade without a plan to fit PL into the team.
-Blake needed to step in between Todd & PL. Both gone. Solid Todd extension before firing.
-The contract was problematic. Not Blake's first rodeo on cap crippling investments into a player that ultimately didn't fit the team.
-Blake dumped an asset for a 5 mill by 3 years contract that had lost the starting job. Got lucky Kuemper rebounded. We'll see how he does in the playoffs.

But wait! There's more! The gowing rate to dump a 5M goalie signed for more than one year is
Walker (injured 2nd, 3rd pair PMRD)
Grans 2nd round pick
2 Million in cap, Provorov
That was Kuemper's value leaving Washington. We have comps.

No faith in Blake.
No faith in Hiller, crap special teams & Burroughs cements that.
No faith in Luc for allowing this to fester, but we're right there.

Team needs a fresh perspective & A GM with some actual experience. An actual GM might not have to lean on Luc for his input.