Rumor: KINGS 2018-19 Season - The Luc and Rob ****show

[KINGS17]

Clarke and Howe and Stevens et. al. would be suspended 3/4 of every season though

but I'd pay good money to watch even a 60 year old Clarke get a hold of matthew tkachuk

I don't know why you say that.

 

[deaderhead28]

I kept it short....and simple lol and stunned

Well coming from you I appreciate that

 

[deaderhead28]

Clarke and Howe and Stevens et. al. would be suspended 3/4 of every season though

but I'd pay good money to watch even a 60 year old Clarke get a hold of matthew tkachuk

Yeah most of the old school players would be getting 5 min majors every night and or suspended these days how this league is ran.I was just old enough to see how the game was played in 82 and what it has become today.

 

[kovacro]

Yeah most of the old school players would be getting 5 min majors every night and or suspended these days how this league is ran.I was just old enough to see how the game was played in 82 and what it has become today.

Ahh the early to mid 80’s in the NHL was a fun time.

 

[deaderhead28]

The team is dead last and shows little desire to improve. Who turned on who?

Again,some fans now are surprised by the lack of success and the nose dive this team has taken when others called it back in 2015.The fact those who called me and others chicken lils and insulted us,are now seeing the light of this team is encouraging.Thats was the meaning behind the who turned on who.Again it's a observation not personal.

 

[KINGS17]

Ahh the early to mid 80’s in the NHL was a fun time.

The NBA had its moments as well.

 

[deaderhead28]

Ahh the early to mid 80’s in the NHL was a fun time.

Those years and the early 90's were great.

 

[deaderhead28]

The NBA had its moments as well.

Those early 80's Celtics and Laker teams were great as well.

 

[kovacro]

I miss the old barns like The Met Centre (Minny), The Spectrum (Philly), The Aud (Buffalo), Maple Leaf Gardens, Montreal Forum, Boston Garden, Chicago Stadium, Le Colisee (Quebec). They all had their own character.

Used to love watching games from those arenas, especially come playoff time.

 

[Peter James Bond II]

++++Over the last 14 games, dating back to the home loss to Minnesota on November 8, Los Angeles has gone 4-for-38 on the power play and 29-for-45 on the penalty kill.

++++The Kings fell to 4-17-1 when scoring three or fewer goals this season. Los Angeles also conceded six or more goals for the third time this season.

Abysmalhorridbrutal

 

[Peter James Bond II]

The Kings Offense should be called 'The Popcornopolis Offense'

The only thing offensive about their offense, is it's offensive to the fans.

 

[damacles1156]

++++Over the last 14 games, dating back to the home loss to Minnesota on November 8, Los Angeles has gone 4-for-38 on the power play and 29-for-45 on the penalty kill.

++++The Kings fell to 4-17-1 when scoring three or fewer goals this season. Los Angeles also conceded six or more goals for the third time this season.

Abysmalhorridbrutal

MOOOOREEEEEEEE SPEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDDD

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Any examples of what changes the team made that signaled a change towards more speed and skill? Was it the Phaneuf and Nate Thompson additions? Or Devin Setoguchi?

Besides the guys who got older and moved on/retired/committed crimes, a good majority of players from 2014 are still around. I also don’t see what additions they made that added more speed and skill to the roster.

And I’m not sure if anyone would describe this current iteration of the Kings as being a finesse team that displays speed and skill. They’re the opposite of all of that, and soft.

 

[damacles1156]

Any examples of what changes the team made that signaled a change towards more speed and skill? Was it the Phaneuf and Nate Thompson additions? Or Devin Setoguchi?

Besides the guys who got older and moved on/retired/committed crimes, a good majority of players from 2014 are still around. I also don’t see what additions they made that added more speed and skill to the roster.

And I’m not sure if anyone would describe this current iteration of the Kings as being a finesse team that displays speed and skill. They’re the opposite of all of that, and soft.

That's my point.

I am making fun of the fact, that Blake tried to turn this team into some kind of hybrid fast transition team, while losing the identity and system the roster can actually play. If you want to be the Hawks circa 2010-2015 guess what; you have to tear down your roster and draft those type of players.

I am all for turning the Kings into a fast transition team with lots of speed and skill. But I know what that means, it means a rebuild and redraft of the roster.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Blake inherited an incredibly flawed and broken team without any depth and hasn’t done much to change anything in terms of the roster makeup.

They don’t have the personnel to be a fast, skilled team, nor do they have the machismo to be a big, physically imposing, physical team.

He certainly should have started fresh, but he repeated the same mistakes Lombardi made, and that’s entrusting these malcontents to deliver consistent results.

 

[Johnny Utah]

Blake hasn’t done anything because he was convinced they can still contend. I guess we were all duped by last years team. Though, we were knocked out by Vegas, we had a solid regular season.

If Blake decides to blow it up who does he move?

Doughty and Kopitar have NMC clauses.

Brown has looked good in the past 1.25 years and I don’t know who would want him.

Would the Kings deal Carter? I was thinking that idea but then would they leave themselves with a center group of Kopitar, Kempe, Amadio and Thompson? That’s terrible.

Would the Kings deal Quick and go with Peterson and Campbell this early on?

The defense is already terrible; would the Kings deal Muzzin or Martinez? Who would take their spot then? Clague? Brickley?

 

[damacles1156]

If the Kings want to be a fast transition team loaded with skill+speed, it's time for a rebuild that will take 3-5 years of drafting and hitting home-runs in the 1st-3rd rounds. That's the shortest it would take.

It will probably take longer, cause they are going to have misses in the draft.

 

[damacles1156]

Who knows though.

Maybe Vilardi is a legit 2nd line NHL center next season, maybe Kupari is Patrick Laine 2.0, maybe Brickley/Clague are Burns/Vlasic for the Kings.

I probably have a better chance at winning the lottery though than the above panning out.

 

[Telos]

Hopefully, AEG gives Blake the green light to blow it up at the trade deadline. It's time to put this team out of their misery and rebuild.

 

[Winger23]

Blake hasn’t done anything because he was convinced they can still contend. I guess we were all duped by last years team. Though, we were knocked out by Vegas, we had a solid regular season.

If Blake decides to blow it up who does he move?

Doughty and Kopitar have NMC clauses.

Brown has looked good in the past 1.25 years and I don’t know who would want him.

Would the Kings deal Carter? I was thinking that idea but then would they leave themselves with a center group of Kopitar, Kempe, Amadio and Thompson? That’s terrible.

Would the Kings deal Quick and go with Peterson and Campbell this early on?

The defense is already terrible; would the Kings deal Muzzin or Martinez? Who would take their spot then? Clague? Brickley?

If they deal Carter, who cares who thier centers are? If the defense is already terrible, who cares who replaces martinez and muzzin?

My point is if they trade Carter, which imo they should, they also need to trade everyone you mentioned.

This team is beyond a retool or whatever you want to call it. A rebuild is a must at this point.

Get what you can at the deadline, and focus on the draft. What do they have to lose? Cant be any worse than they currently are.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I miss Bill Laimbeer too

 

[KingsFan7824]

 

[KingsFan7824]

Back in August, if Clifford was tied with Carter, Kovalchuk, Toffoli, and Iafallo for 3rd on the team in goal scoring after 29 games, that would've meant one of two things. Either things are quite good, or they're quite bad. There would be no in between with such a stat.

 

[Dooney]

I haven’t turned on the team, I have turned on management or lack thereof, coaches and the powers to be. Personally I think the team has done the same.

 

[LAKings88]

Drew Doughty, on how frustrated the team is right now:
We’re obviously super frustrated. Another game that we didn’t perform well enough. I don’t know if we even hit the 20 shot mark. It’s frustrating, it’s embarrassing, it’s a lot of things. I just don’t see enough emotion from the entire group to get us out of this. It’s not going to take three or four different guys every night. It’s got to take the entire group and I know that no one’s seeing the emotion out there. I’m sure you guys can see it from up top. We’re playing with a lack of emotion, and that’s the bottom line.
Doughty, on whether things seem to snowball when something goes wrong:
Yeah, but tonight we responded all right. We did get a goal almost right away after it felt like after they got theirs. Just once they got up 4-2 it took us a little bit to get back in the game and then obviously it just snowballed from there. But I do feel like we did respond a little bit better in the first two periods anyway, but it’s still not good enough, that’s the bottom line. Lost another game, gave up another five or six goals or whatever it is. I don’t really have too much to say. Just it’s pathetic, it’s embarrassing, it’s frustrating. It’s one thing to lose games when guys are competing. You can live with that. And you can live with doing good things, but when we’re not doing well and we’re not competing, you can’t live with it, and we haven’t lived with it since it started happening. It’s going to take everyone to get us out of this, not just three or four guys, like I said.
Doughty, on if he’s satisfied with the level of compete:
No. You see some guys playing physical and the bottom line is that the Kings have to be a physical hockey team. We’re not as skilled as the other teams, that’s just the bottom line. We have to be physical team. We have to be a hard team to play against. We have to have teams come in here and be like, ‘Oh no, we’ve got to play the LA Kings again in their arena,’ you know? I don’t see enough physicality from our team. I don’t see enough compete and that’s why we’re losing these games to teams that are fighting for the last spot with us in the standings too. I’m not talking about New Jersey necessarily, I’m talking about other teams, but how we’re losing to these teams. It’s not acceptable.

The last paragraph sums it up. LA has never been super skilled or fast. That’s why they had to play Sutter hockey to win.