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KingsHockey24 said:
Don't forget Ben Hutton.

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Oh yeah...but I remember Hutton playing mostly for the Canucks
 
Herby said:
In 2 decades posting on this board, I think the general attitude which was strongly against trading for Eichel was one of the most surprising things I can remember. He was exactly what this team needed in both the short and long term and so many people were against it.

He is a spectacular player that would have given the Kings the thing they need most to win another SC (someone better than 11 and 8) now and still been able to be a 1C for the life of his contract.

The Kings had (at the time) a deep and highly regarded prospect/u-23 player pool and a need for a 1C, instead the Kings hoard their youth, which takes a step down and Eichel is traded to a division rival and wins the Cup in his first full year there.
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But imagine where the Kings would be without a top prospect like Alex Turcotte contributing to the team by spending a majority of his career on IR.
 
Lundquist on the broadcast crew watching Quick skate with the cup again. Chokes me up.

Nice that we traded Quick so he could end his career on top.

Happy for a lot of the former King's.

9 > 97 + 34
 
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Ziggy Stardust said:
But imagine where the Kings would be without a top prospect like Alex Turcotte contributing to the team by spending a majority of his career on IR.
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I realize people get emotionally invested in prospects, the same thing happens in college sports with 5 star kids. But man, to me Eichel is the type of player you throw those emotions out the window for. He would have been the Kings best player the last two playoff runs, and the Kings #1 center through his age 29 season (prime).

The most important part of a hockey team, and the toughest to acquire is a dominant #1 center. The Kings could have seamlessly gone from Kopitar to Eichel (and still had AK as a dominant 2C)) and had an elite #1 center from 2006-2007 through at least 2025-2026.

Now the laughable results from high center picks have the team rumored to be possibly looking at PLD, he isn't close to the level of Eichel.
 
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GameNight said:
is now a good time to mention that Martinez and McNabb led the league in blocked shots?
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I mean I mentioned it before but it's just an ongoing testament to the fact that the Kings don't know how to utilize/deploy guys. Think of all the guys contributing on contending rosters around the league that are ex Kings, even just from camps--they can identify talent and then don't know what the f*** to do with it.

Amadio being a 1st liner this playoff run
Everyone knows Cernak, but Eyssimont couldn't get off the reign yet had no problem playing in WPG or in the playoffs on TBL
Guys like Gudas and Whitecloud were even at Kings camps

There is ZERO doubt in my mind the moment the Kings let Kaliyev go he's taking a 2nd line shift getting 40 goals elsewhere, Spence turns into Spurgeon 2.0, etc
 
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Quick acted like a passenger during the celebration, because he was. I'm sure he's "happy" to win, but this one won't mean a fraction of what the other two did. Completely different story for Martinez
 
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KingPuckChoo said:
did they say knights had a 15lbs per player advantage on the panthers??

Vegas took that Dean Lombardi mentality straight to a cup win
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Way better to have Blake Lizotte nearly lead the team in penalty minutes. That's a recipe for winning playoff hockey.

Blake's roster construction is just laughable. So soft. This might be a Cup contender if the year were 2045 but they haven't completely p***yfied the sport yet.
 
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BigKing said:
Way better to have Blake Lizotte nearly lead the team in penalty minutes. That's a recipe for winning playoff hockey.

Blake's roster construction is just laughable. So soft. This might be a Cup contender if the year were 2045 but they haven't completely p***yfied the sport yet.
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These guys would get dummied in ball hockey.
 
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FSL KINGS said:
Lundquist on the broadcast crew watching Quick skate with the cup again. Chokes me up.

Nice that we traded Quick so he could end his career on top.

Happy for a lot of the former King's.

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They even showed the jazz hands goal earlier in the game.

chris kontos said:
Quick's name on the stanley cup 3X
Blake's 1
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For accuracy’s sake, Blake has his name on there twice.
 
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Herby said:
I realize people get emotionally invested in prospects, the same thing happens in college sports with 5 star kids. But man, to me Eichel is the type of player you throw those emotions out the window for. He would have been the Kings best player the last two playoff runs, and the Kings #1 center through his age 29 season (prime).

The most important part of a hockey team, and the toughest to acquire is a dominant #1 center. The Kings could have seamlessly gone from Kopitar to Eichel (and still had AK as a dominant 2C)) and had an elite #1 center from 2006-2007 through at least 2025-2026.

Now the laughable results from high center picks have the team rumored to be possibly looking at PLD, he isn't close to the level of Eichel.
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At that time it had not really sunken here in that the Kings were really trying to contend. It still seemed like they were just insulating young players to go through it all and not blocking them from the lineup while spending multiple first round picks. They are half in half out now in a lot of ways still.
 
Schmooley said:
At that time it had not really sunken here in that the Kings were really trying to contend. It still seemed like they were just insulating young players to go through it all and not blocking them from the lineup while spending multiple first round picks. They are half in half out now in a lot of ways still.
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It was a chance to trade some lottery tickets for a legit player while keeping Byfield.

Pretty sure they traded for RV and signed Danault by that point.

Got to give every prospect seven years though.
 
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kingsboy11 said:
Vegas winning, meh whatever

Happy for our former Kings though. Crazy seeing Quick with his kids and seeing them all grown up after all these years.
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I remember it like yesterday his little girl choking post game after the win and Sutter was all concerned. Damn time flies!
 
King'sPawn said:
In fairness regarding Gudas, the Kings actually tried to sign him. League stepped in and said no. Yannetti mentioned that on the podcast too.
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That's awesome I'll have to give that one a listen

But not saying the Kings did anything 'wrong' there necessarily--just that they can obviously identify talent just not what to do next.
 
BigKing said:
It was a chance to trade some lottery tickets for a legit player while keeping Byfield.

Pretty sure they traded for RV and signed Danault by that point.

Got to give every prospect seven years though.
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And then 6 months later they trade a better prospect for a worse and older player.
 
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