Speculation: Fire Rob Blake Blow it Up Offseason Thread (update: Robitaille, Blake and Hiller stay)

[Bandit]

So lose Roy for nothing: check.
Lose Arvidsson for nothing: check
Acquire some shitheads to block our remaining kids: check

But hey, we won a playoff game last year!

only items on my wish list, somehow pry pinto from ottawa, trade englund and figure out what to do with kaliyev

Easy: Lose him on waivers for nothing!

 

[JJDrums]

Wish the media in LA for hockey was the same as it is here in Toronto. Luc and Blake would be destroyed and it would be the most satisfying thing to come out of Kings' hockey in years.

 

[WHOneedsSOX]

So lose Roy for nothing: check.
Lose Arvidsson for nothing: check
Acquire some shitheads to block our remaining kids: check

But hey, we won a playoff game last year!


Easy: Lose him on waivers for nothing!

And still have Kaliyev lol

 

[head eyes]

Waiting for the inevitable Black & White upload called "The Next Step" with the usual propaganda from the regime being "right there".

 

[FrozenKing18]

What are the chances that Drew said, "I want Lewis to stay," and Blake complied.

 

[fsanford]

There is a reason cannibus seed adds pop up when I jump into the Kings forum...

 

[ru4reals]

Just saw on the main free agency thread we signed Lewis again. Unf**kingbeleivable.

 

[Fat Elvis]

BLuc needed to be replaced before today. Now it's too late. Closer to being a lottery team than a contender. Defense is far worse, didn't replace goals lost and your 1C and 1D are another year older...
Front office can't stay out of their own way. Horrible

 

[Choralone]

What a disastrous Free Agent day. Foegele may be ok, but the rest is pure shit. Blake is like a teenage girl with her first credit card.

Edit: Forgot about Copely - I'm ok with the goaltending depth.

 

[funky]

Blake went 3 for 4 today


Foegele - great signing. Pain in the ass to play against.

Copley. - vet back up in AHL to aid Portillo

Lewis - as long as he’s making league minimum and is the 13th forward. Don’t want kids sitting in the press box for a long period of time.


Now the other signing. Even if he goes three for four, he struck out with the bases loaded? That’s all people remember. That contract is three years too long and 2 million too much a year

Where is our offense coming from?

Has to be a trade in the works. Have too many players

 

[Kurrilino]

i guess Blake finally lost it.... those signings

 

[Choralone]

J̌ust saw on the main free agency thread we signed Lewis again. Unf**kingbeleivable.

We need a crying emoji for the like button - and not the kind for crying laughing, but one that touches the depths of despair.

 

[SmytheKing]

The Lewis signing makes no sense. Love the guy, but what's the difference between him and Turcotte or Thomas or Fagemo really? I mean, I get he's a center. I mean if he isn't signed, and any of those three guys play in his spot for the whole season...are the Kings going to crater?

Just another example of Blake and Luc thinking this team is something that it isn't. Let the kids play for crying out loud.

 

[MonkeysUncle]

Or

Wish the media in LA for hockey was the same as it is here in Toronto. Luc and Blake would be destroyed and it would be the most satisfying thing to come out of Kings' hockey in years.

If ownership was actually paying attention and not just looking at checks and balances, then We'd already have new management right when the season ended

The Lewis signing makes no sense. Love the guy, but what's the difference between him and Turcotte or Thomas or Fagemo really? I mean, I get he's a center. I mean if he isn't signed, and any of those three guys play in his spot for the whole season...are the Kings going to crater?

Just another example of Blake and Luc thinking this team is something that it isn't. Let the kids play for crying out loud.

Bad management will always be bad management

 

[BaileyFan]

Blake went 3 for 4 today


Foegele - great signing. Pain in the ass to play against.

Copley. - vet back up in AHL to aid Portillo

Lewis - as long as he’s making league minimum and is the 13th forward. Don’t want kids sitting in the press box for a long period of time.


Now the other signing. Even if he goes three for four, he struck out with the bases loaded? That’s all people remember. That contract is three years too long and 2 million too much a year

Where is our offense coming from?

Has to be a trade in the works. Have too many players

All Copley will wind up doing is roadblocking Portillo from getting starts in Ontario because he “needs to be game-ready in case of an injury to Kuemper or Rittich”.

You know this.

 

[KingsOfCali25]

The Lewis signing makes no sense. Love the guy, but what's the difference between him and Turcotte or Thomas or Fagemo really? I mean, I get he's a center. I mean if he isn't signed, and any of those three guys play in his spot for the whole season...are the Kings going to crater?

Just another example of Blake and Luc thinking this team is something that it isn't. Let the kids play for crying out loud.

The signing is that they want him to play every game but will give the kids a chance to start. As soon as one of the kids "fail" than they will throw Lewis in there and say we'll we gave them a chance (aka Kaliyev last year).

 

[Gjwrams]

I'll tell you this. I'm as uninspired in the upcoming season as I've been in a long time. Our biggest need...a top 6 center and we shit the bed. Very frustrated.

 

[kilowatt]

What roster are we even going to ice? My best guess right now:

Fiala - Byfield - Kempe
Moore - Kopitar - Laferriere
Foegele - Danault - Fagemo
Jeannot - Turcotte - Lewis

Anderson - Doughty
Gavrikov - Clarke
Edmundson - Spence

Kuemper
Rittich

Really feels like we're missing a top six forward right now.

 

[Choralone]

Phil and Nancy Anschutz are 84. I'm sure their focus in life has shifted, and I don't blame them for it. Beckerman is 67, though, and should be on top of this shit.

 

[funky]

I’m not even sure

All Copley will wind up doing is roadblocking Portillo from getting starts in Ontario because he “needs to be game-ready in case of an injury to Kuemper or Rittich”.

You know this.

I’m not even sure if Copley will rebound from his injuries. I am probably one of the only Kings farm that’s not a fan of his. All I know is it seems that teams are going to tandems nowadays. Nothing Portillo has more of a chance with a guy coming back from injuries than he does if we sign a solid guy.

 

[Schmooley]

What roster are we even going to ice? My best guess right now:

Fiala - Byfield - Kempe
Moore - Kopitar - Laferriere
Foegele - Danault - Fagemo
Jeannot - Turcotte - Lewis

Anderson - Doughty
Gavrikov - Clarke
Edmundson - Spence

Kuemper
Rittich

Really feels like we're missing a top six forward right now.

That would be a good top line but you know they are still going to revolve everything around Kopitar and run
Byfield-Kopitar-Kempe
Moore -Danault- Fiala
Foegele- x - Laferriere
Jeannot - Lizotte - Lewis

 

[Schrute farms]

Blake went 3 for 4 today


Foegele - great signing. Pain in the ass to play against.

Copley. - vet back up in AHL to aid Portillo

Lewis - as long as he’s making league minimum and is the 13th forward. Don’t want kids sitting in the press box for a long period of time.

Can you please grade my son's Econ final? He really needs a good grade to pass this class.

Copley is a nothing-burger. whatever. It's like a sacrifice bunt (def not a hit).
But Lewis?!? These so-called "kids" are not 18-21 year olds. they are men and it's time to not treating them like teenagers and play them. Akil Thomas is 24. Fagemo is 24. Turc and AK are 23.

 

[BaileyFan]

Waiting for the inevitable Black & White upload called "The Next Step" with the usual propaganda from the regime being "right there".

BUT BUT… LOOK AT OUR NEW JERSEYS!!!!

 

[tigermask48]

I said last season, if changes weren't made to the front office this summer, then things get much much worse before they get better.

Welcome to much worse.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I hope we are a god damn lottery pick! This is the biggest limp dick offseason I have ever seen!

Dont worry, we already gave up next year's 2nd rnd pick and I'm sure the 1st will be gone at the deadline as blake tries to save his ass

What roster are we even going to ice? My best guess right now:

Fiala - Byfield - Kempe
Moore - Kopitar - Laferriere
Foegele - Danault - Fagemo
Jeannot - Turcotte - Lewis

Anderson - Doughty
Gavrikov - Clarke
Edmundson - Spence

Kuemper
Rittich

Really feels like we're missing a top six forward right now.

Foegele-Kopitar-Kempe
Moore-Danault-Fiala
X-Byfield-Laferriere
Jeannot-Lizotte-Lewis

Turcotte, Thomas,Kaliyev

Anderson-Doughty
Gavrikov-Burroughts
Edmundson-Englund
Spence, Clarke, Moverare

Kuemper
Copley

Can't have those f***ign kids in the lineup messing things up!