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GDT: GM #6 LA Kings vs Toronto Maple Leafs @4:30pm 10/15/18

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I don’t understand why Leaf fan is trolling here.

Go enjoy your win.

Think of it as revenge for 93’.

Ugh, this is shaping up as a season of piss poor hockey and we are only a few weeks in.
 
KingPuckChoo said:
1-Fire Stevens
2-Fire the *****ebag that doesn't comprehend the word POWER in Power Play
3-Ship SagTitty to Seattle
4-Ship **** Martinez to Quebec (reference: 2 Live Crew)
5-Give Clifford + Thompson a severance package
6-Wait for Quick + Brown to come back
7-Hire Vigneault - let him choose his staff
8-Profit

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1. FIRE STEVENS
2. FIRE STEVENS
3. FIRE STEVENS
4. FIRE STEVENS
5. FIRE STEVENS
6. FIRE STEVENS
7. FIRE STEVENS
8. IS STEVENS FIRED YET?!
 
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KingsHockey24 said:
Tanner Pearson 1 point in 6 games, invisible.
Adrian Kempe 1 point in 6 games, 1 goal in 37.
Michael Amadio 1 point in 6 games, also invisible.
Trevor Lewis 1 point in 6 games and terrible in general.
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There's less than 5 players that have played even decently.
 
Zero secondary scoring.

Amadio, Pearson, Lewis, Kempe have all been ass cheeks.

Doesn't help that Forbort get's the ice time that he does.
 
Ziggy Stardust said:
I’ve stopped watching post game shows and reading post game comments because they continue to say the damn thing over and over. They’re all worthless words.
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This was right as the Kings were skating off, saying “sometimes it’s fake confidence, but you gotta be positive”. Foxy’s homerism is off the charts. Even the casual fan can see that this team is not competitive right now. You can’t fake it.
 
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BigKing said:
Going to admit that I like this response since I usually feel that you believe--at a minimum--everything is fine and--more often than not--things are better than they are.

There is a roster issue, most definitely, but we can't let Stevens off the hook because he isn't doing the best with what he has to work with. If they are going to lose while playing Thompson his minutes, let's go ahead and lose with Wagner or another youngster getting important developmental minutes instead. Thompson is a rapidly diminishing asset, one in which you already know what you are going to get.

As for last season, they were healthy and 5-0-1 after the Montreal game that saw Carter go down. They then rode a scoring streak from Kempe and, I know you will like this, were on the plus side of most bounces. The latter usually evens out over the course of the season and the former proved to be unsustainable.

There was definitely some tire pumping for Stevens but most of it was given to Blake which was entirely too much, too soon. Lombardi's team, with the Blake addition of Iafallo, went out and produced after ****ting the bed the year before and basically giving up on Sutter. It could have been a cardboard cutout of a dude in a suit behind the bench since it wasn't any special strategy from Stevens that led to them scoring more, just like it wasn't Stevens making them not score in January.

This team needed to remain completely healthy at the key positions while also adding. They added in Kovalchuk but lost Brown, Quick and Vilardi since the latter was all-but-penciled-in to make the roster. The Top 6 needs these guys so someone else can slot down, much like how the 2012 team couldn't score until Carter came along and the lines became more balanced.

At the moment, they are last year's team but without a power play goal and Quick. That team had to grind out a playoff appearance on the back of Hart & Norris-worthy seasons from 11 & 8 and then scored 3 goals in 4 playoff games.

It's just not good enough and it is more of a roster issue than coaching, but Stevens isn't helping. The roster issue is likely not going to be addressed via trade so the Kings need a significant boost from its prospects. A guy who is not very good, slow and is in the last year of his contract should not be getting line promotions prior to going up against a fast team on the road. It is pretty ridiculous.
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Big King,

Back home, able to respond a bit more in depth,

I am how did you put it, "since I usually feel that you believe--at a minimum--everything is fine and--more often than not--things are better than they are." Because I don't go bi-polar over one performance, one game, one mistake etc, you have some guys in here banging there head against the wall because the Kings aren't gonna go 82-0 while scoring 500 goals and allowing none.

Obviously that's hyperbole, but are things better than the people on this board portray them as, absolutely, are they as better as let's say the Leafs problems, of course not, back from the off-season, I've said it, actually agreed with Herby for once, the roster is flawed, but in a hard cap league, the fix, isn't as easy as PLAY THE KIDS, or PLAY THE VETS, or FIRE THE COACH or TRADE EVERYONE,

I can guarantee you the powers that be, are taking stock of the way guys like Amadio, JAD, Pearson, Toffoli, Fantenberg, Cambpell are playing, but not only that, how they are off the ice, how they are in the locker room and they are going down their list and going, we want to keep him, him, him, not sure on him, let's keep watching etc.

Rome wasn't built in a day, the one thing that we can not let happen, is to let the base, the development core that Lombardi put in, go back to pre-Lombardi era, that would be the ultimate disaster.

I would love to see a huge trade, Pearson, Toffoli, Carter, and Muzzin for Draistiel and Nurse...yay!! change, but that ain't gonna happen. Like I mentioned before, you have guys like Wagner, JAD, Amadio that you really have to be careful with, they are all different and handle stress and losing differently and the worse thing you can do is just keep putting them out there if they can't handle it mentally, now I don't know if that's the case, but that's a concern you have to have. The Kings are notorious for not being able to develop players, that's slowly starting to change, developed Quick, Muzzin, Martinez, Toffoli, Pearson, Kempe etc, but they don't have a huge history of it like say, Detroit etc.

For example, tonight's game, fun to watch, they played well at times, and at times, you just went, WTF was that, but that's the game itself and every team has that, should Dallas blow everything up, trade Benn, Seguin etc, because Ottawa just beat them 4-1? Naw....probably not,

Everyone just needs to settle the hell down and realize that we are in this place because of the Cups we won, and the idea of trying to keep it together, it's not like we are St. Louis or San Jose and are in the position that never was.

The seasons, or the game, is cyclical, especially in a hard cap, you won't really ever have a dominant team stay dominant like Detroit, Colorado, etc of the mid-90s
 
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ScoreZeGoals said:
Where the hell are our mods?
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This team is long overdue for an enema and needs a real shakeup. Waaaay too many slackers who aren’t pulling their own weight.

Let’s be honest, this team isn’t good enough to do anything substantial in the post season.

We are seeing the same issues that has been hampering the team since the 2014-15 season. “We didn’t come prepared to play.”
 
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Does Stevens know that scoring goals wins games? This game is too fast for Stevens coaching style. I wouldn't mind Sutter back, as he knew how to get the most out of the players!
 
lumbergh said:
This was right as the Kings were skating off, saying “sometimes it’s fake confidence, but you gotta be positive”. Foxy’s homerism is off the charts. Even the casual fan can see that this team is not competitive right now. You can’t fake it.
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He probably still has the mindset of a player. It's always moving forward, it's always we'll work on this or that and get better. It's not wallowing in misery. That's what we fans do, because we have zero control over what happens. Not that Fox has any control, but as a player, he used to. It's easier to not be pessimistic if you have at least some agency over a situation. I think Fox knows they're struggling, but since that 14-15 season, he's gone above and beyond with the homerism, because it's not fun falling off the mountain top. He doesn't want those days to be over. The more we get homer Fox, the further away they are from the Cup. Robitaille has to sell the contender thing, because it's not unspoken. If someone tells you how big and bad they are, they're probably not. That sort of thing. If you're good, you usually don't have to tell people that you're good. They know.
 
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KingsHockey24 said:
Zero secondary scoring.

Amadio, Pearson, Lewis, Kempe have all been ass cheeks.

Doesn't help that Forbort get's the ice time that he does.
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This was the problem down the stretch last year. The middle six was not very productive for the ice team they did receive.
 
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