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funky said:
The trade part does hurt when you see the success that Faber (huge fan) and Vilardi are having.

I just hope Fiala fixes the brain farts and PLD comes alive or the trades could both look real bad. I am 80% a Todd fan , 60% a Blake fan and 10% a Luc fan.

I would really like to see what happens to some of our players if we get a new coach that isn’t so lazy fair behind the bench . It seems that our team needs a spark or a kick in the ass.

As for Blake, I think he’s done a lot of good moves, actually drafted a lot of good players, and made some good trades. I don’t know how much interference is coming from above, I wonder why a team brings a guy like Bergeron in to assist. It just in my mind feels that Luc needs to medal in things.

I can see arguments being made each way. After watching the last month of hockey, at some point, the players have be responsible, make Smart plays, good passes, and not sit idle with the puck on the stick.

Unfortunately, the players that are doing it are our so called stars. If this coach can’t get them to snap out of it, it’s time for a new one.


You are right, my bad. I really hated that pick. I stayed home for my family, holding to watch the draft, and it just threw all my notes up in the air and walked out of the house after that pick.
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the Faber-Fiala trade is working out for both teams, no matter how you look at it. We needed a scorer, and thats what we got . Does he make mistakes ,yes, but he's a high risk reward player. The guy has 191 points in his last 3 seasons, 106 with the Kings so far. There is nobody in the org who could even touch his numbers or contribute the way he does had we not made the trade. As many have pointed out, going by the Kings model, Faber would be playing with Clarke in the AHL.
 
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King'sPawn said:
Which is why organizations should have quite a few and make sure there are contingency plans. As evidenced by, well, the Kings goaltending situation.
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The Kings have a unique strategy which is to allocate 2.5 million to their pair and see what they can find at the thrift shop
 
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King'sPawn said:
Which is why organizations should have quite a few and make sure there are contingency plans. As evidenced by, well, the Kings goaltending situation.
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Weird how each GM handled this. Taylor always threw a wild dart in the 3rd or 5th. DL around the same [wildly missed on gibson in the 2nd]. Then Blake goes 3 drafts without drafting anyone.
 
Raccoon Jesus said:
The way I see it is, if it's one of them, it's the player.
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Even then, partial blame should fall on the organization for not identifying those issues before drafting signing the player.

After Teubert was gone, Lombardi still owned up, that the draft pick was one were they tried to fill a weakness, but they failed to identify the character issues present.
 
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I'm more concerned with the frequency than the strength after all those dumbassed 4 and 5 day breaks earlier in the year. You think Kopitar and Doughty looked gassed now? Wait until the end of the month when they've played a game every other day for 5 weeks straight.
 
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KingsHockey24 said:
Oh no we lost Bjornfot..

Game 1 with Vegas : 18:38 TOI -1 2PIMS
Game 2 with Vegas : 9:23 TOI -1

He'll be sent down in a week.
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Englunds last two games: 16:13 TOI -2
10:55 TOI +1

Moverare same boat as well

It's almost like evaluating bottom pairing dmen in limited minutes is always going to be silly

He looked fine last night considering his partner and the opponent, yes i watched the enitre game on TNT because Colorado is always a fun watch and MacKinnon looks better than ever

But again this is about not seeing the forest for the trees, the latest form of Blake Copium
 
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Goaltending league wide this year has been voodoo. I think there were three goalies that went down to injury lastnight - Gibson, Forsberg and Kotchetkov.

Carolina is going to have no one left at this rate. Surely, they cannot lean on Raanta if Koch is out for an extended period of time and no word on Andersen coming back recently.

Interested to see how the Leafs use Samsonov after his recall.
 
kingsfan28 said:
Weird how each GM handled this. Taylor always threw a wild dart in the 3rd or 5th. DL around the same [wildly missed on gibson in the 2nd]. Then Blake goes 3 drafts without drafting anyone.
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I forget which blog it was but Mark Yannetti mentioned during an interview that the Kings were planning on taking Connor Hellebuyck with pick #151 in 2012 but Winnipeg took him at #130 (this was before Hellebuyck really broke out as a frontline starter). LA took Colin Miller instead. They didn't take a goalie with any of the remaining picks, so it wasn't a case of they had to draft a goalie.

Sometimes GM can get too much credit/blame for a mid-round pick. After attending five drafts, it's not unusual if the GM isn't even at the table when the team makes a pick. In 2011, Lombardi in the next section over talking to Drew Doughty's agent when the team drafted Michael Mersch.
 
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