Kevin Fiala scratched for missing team meeting

[NHL1674]

Gets benched in the last game and responds by missing a team meeting.....what the hell was he thinking? Or does he even care?

 

[Dust]

Sounds like another former King, although not a winger but a centerman, Pierre-Luc-Dubois!!!!!

Maybe the Hollywood lifestyle changes people.

Funny enough he played all 82 games as a King last year. Can't scratch your shiny new big signing.

 

[WaitingForThatCab]

Pretty good hockey player but an even better idiot, a classic combo. Should trade him to Philly just to see if Torts can yell some sense through his skull.

Torts will stab him within six weeks.

 

[Rorschach]

Well at least he didn't cough it up at the blue line trying to dipsy doo. He should have gotten scratched for a week for that one.

Pretty good hockey player but an even better idiot. Should trade him to Philly just to see if Torts can yell some sense through his skull.

Torts used YELL!

It's not very effective...

 

[FrozenKing18]

Hey Caps, so we have this player you’ll really like.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

This will come as a great surprise but Rob Blake gave him an 8x8

Our front office is giving Milbury a run for his money

 

[kilowatt]

This guy kinda looks like Brock Faber

 

[Erep]

Blake does not need to rush, but I could easily see Fiala on his way out.

Not a Kings fan, so I am enjoying this, but lets be real, Fiala isn't the only one that needs to go.

 

[Osprey]

This will come as a great surprise but Rob Blake gave him an 8x8

That is a great surprise. I thought that he signed for 7.88x7.

 

[kilowatt]

That is a great surprise. I thought that he signed for 7.88x7.

the franchise is saved!

 

[ItWasJustified]

The guy is strictly in business for himself.

If I looked like him I would probably be that too.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

For context, he was benched for the last 25 minutes of their win over Utah for multiple unnecessary selfish offensive zone penalties.

The guy is strictly in business for himself.

That's why LA I think was almost about to get over the Edmonton hump. They were right there, and they started adding guy after guy who could score but absolutely not buy into their system, which is what makes them so succesful.

 

[Reality Czech]

He should be one of the 5 best wingers on the planet but he’s never been a particularly serious player. Easily in the 95% percentile or better as far as pure athletes go in the NHL

No he shouldn't be. He's not that good, come on.

 

[Dueling Banjos]

Emmentaler brains

 

[BaileyFan]

This will come as a great surprise but Rob Blake gave him an 8x8

Our front office is giving Milbury a run for his money

It’s really bizarre how people think Bergevin would be a worse option than Blake at this point. Blake could never dream of winning a single series even by accident, let alone seven of them like the Habs did.

 

[HaNotsri]

He should be one of the 5 best wingers on the planet but he’s never been a particularly serious player. Easily in the 95% percentile or better as far as pure athletes go in the NHL

Yeah he only learns the language everywhere he lives (I think he speaks 5 now) and during his shl-time he put in as much extra practice as he could. Besides learning fluent swedish in a short time he prepared for nhl by having english lesson on his way to practice.
Fiala always set extremely hard to reach goals for himself, he's nothing but a serious player.

Can he improve his game? Yes, but if he isn't among the hardest workers on Kings there's something going on. He' also kind of different as a person so if it's a frat-boy team I could see there being issues.

 

[sonic92]

Kinda getting these vibes from this.

 

[Look Up]

Needs to get a Swiss watch to keep track of time.

 

[JPT]

Kevin Fiala, ladies and gentlemen.

Such a punchable face.

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Forsberg should have never taught this guy about mustaches

 

[Bruce Granville]

Thanks for Faber and Ohgren

So it was a good thing to sign and buyout Suter and Parise for creating these cap issues and not being able to keep Fiala?

 

[MNRube]

No he shouldn't be. He's not that good, come on.

Yes he is. Has every tool he needs and is still an explosive athlete. You clearly haven’t watched him enough

 

[sr edler]

There was a Swedish poster on this site in some thread a while ago who said when Fiala played in Sweden (HV71) the team management group had to take him aside and instruct him to greet/answer arena personnel as he apparently just ignored them when they greeted him. If that's true then it's pretty damning and probably indicative of some underlying psychological/mental issues.

I get he was young when he played in Sweden, but you just don't act like that.

 

[D Wakaluk]

Matches the eyetest

There's always a small satisfaction when the good ol douche-meter is right