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Confirmed with Link: Kings signing Cammalleri to 1/yr deal, 1m + bonuses

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kingsholygrail said:
How do bonuses impact cap?



Here come the excuses.
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What excuses? Do you not dispute that Blake's hands are tied as to how much he can improve the team?

They won't be able to contend again until they restock the horrible system and start having access to talent on ELC's and some of the awful contracts run out.
 
Lombardi would be crucified if this was his July 1st. He was last year and it's the same situation, although Blake has more cap to play with.

Is what it is, but DL would be raked over the coals if he entered this season with the current roster.
 
Herby said:
And I don't know what some of you expect Blake to do right now, in order to get a high end talent you either need cap space to sign the player or youth to trade for one. Blake inherited a situation where he was in cap trouble and had a laughable system.
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Cammalleri deal is a no-brainer. Worst case they bury it in ONT. And after they sign their roster-worthy RFAs (Shore, Gravel, LaDue, Johnny B & Mersch for about $3M or $4M), Blake will have cap space to do something trade-wise or bring back Jarome. Or work on C depth...Call Fisher and see if he'd take a 1 yr $4M deal. We have recording studios in L.A. too ya know.

This wasn't a great UFA crop.
 
BigKing said:
Lombardi would be crucified if this was his July 1st. He was last year and it's the same situation, although Blake has more cap to play with.

Is what it is, but DL would be raked over the coals if he entered this season with the current roster.
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We both know that's a false analogy.
 
BigKing said:
Lombardi would be crucified if this was his July 1st. He was last year and it's the same situation, although Blake has more cap to play with.

Is what it is, but DL would be raked over the coals if he entered this season with the current roster.
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He put himself in that position, Blake is taking over. Not a fair comparison and you know it.
 
BigKing said:
Lombardi would be crucified if this was his July 1st. He was last year and it's the same situation, although Blake has more cap to play with.

Is what it is, but DL would be raked over the coals if he entered this season with the current roster.
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What can Blake realistically do in one off-season?

Do you realize how bad a situation the Kings are in right now with the bad contracts, and the fact that there is no one on cheap ELC's to cancel out Gaborik/Brown.
 
BigKing said:
How so?
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DL has had many years to implement a new direction into the team, and keep them competitive, DL cap strapped the team, and destroyed the farm. DL had more than enough chances to right the ship and didn't. He got fired for complacency, and failure to adapt to an offensive NHL. So if this was his UFA he would have been raked over the coals because he's been at the helm long enough, and has made plenty of mistakes, and never adapted.

Blake hasn't been a gm for an NHL season yet, and we have more cap now, and got some drafted real good prospects this year, and the organization through its firings has made it very apparent they're going to adapt to the new NHL which DL failed to do.

So to compare DL who was at the helm for many years, to a guy who's going in a new direction and just starting, it's just not fair, and not very comparable. Blake hasn't made mistakes yet, so why crucify him?
 
Herby said:
What excuses? Do you not dispute that Blake's hands are tied as to how much he can improve the team?

They won't be able to contend again until they restock the horrible system and start having access to talent on ELC's and some of the awful contracts run out.
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No more tied than Dean's were. :laugh: But Blake can do no wrong, I get it. Every signing is brilliant and magical. This Teddy Purcell is going to be a PPG player and take the Kings to glory.
 
BigKing said:
I'm not crucifying Blake.

"New direction"? Which direction is that?
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An offensive style team compared to a defensive team. The teams new direction is offense. They fired Sutter and DL because they refused to play an offensive game. Blake has made it evident that the Kings are gonna play the style of the new NHL.

And Reclamation project is right, great drafting, we actually kept our first round pick which was an unfamiliar feeling, and got Folin for nothing, and got a highly touted goalie from notre dame. I mean, I don't remember the kings doing that for a while.
 
Sol said:
Yes the probability is very likely, but there isn't some massive consequence term wise.

Is there anything you would have wanted to be done, because personally I don't see what else could have been done at the moment? They tried Thornton and it didn't work? What do you think they missed?
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I don't even think they really tried Thornton, tbh. But we will never know. I predicted a very quiet off-season for the Kings and so far I'm right. We're going to approach 2017-18 with more or less the same roster as last season.
 
kingsholygrail said:
No more tied than Dean's were. :laugh: But Blake can do no wrong, I get it. Every signing is brilliant and magical. This Teddy Purcell is going to be a PPG player and take the Kings to glory.
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How can you compare the two when DL tied the organizations hands himself, and it's up to Blake to untie them.. At least give him a chance. It's unfair.
 
Winger23 said:
To me the problem is it's what the kings always do. Seems like the only thing they do are the high reward low risk crap. Do you feel Cammy actually makes this team better?
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He might, he might not, but it's such a nothing gamble, it doesn't hurt.

It's what the Kings always do--you're right. SOmeone posted earlier that NHLNet had said we're the team with the fewest July 1 signings since 2008ish. Those were our prime years of being a contender, too--why would things suddenly be different? I find it hard to be upset about Blake at it for inheriting this situation and taking a gamble.
 
kingsholygrail said:
I don't even think they really tried Thornton, tbh. But we will never know. I predicted a very quiet off-season for the Kings and so far I'm right. We're going to approach 2017-18 with more or less the same roster as last season.
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I'm just trying to understand one thing, what would you have wanted Blake to have done immediately, and at what expense?
 
I'm not a Blake apologist, and I know a lot of you guys are upset at the current state of the team. I just think that disappointment is being placed on the wrong person.

This was DLs and Sutters doing. Let's give Blake some rope to hang himself like we did with Dean. Except let's hope he doesn't need it.
 
Since it's for $1 million, 1 year, it's a low risk move. I'm okay with that, just as I'm okay with any "low risk" move.

With where the team is now, they sort of need a few low risk moves from free agency. Granted, low risk isn't how contenders are built, but it's a "necessary evil" to give the team a year to assess their direction. They've spent so many seasons "going for it" with big contracts, they need to have a reassessment period.

Besides, most teams usually bury themselves by overspending on free agents. Let the desperate teams sink themselves.
 
Can't believe he's already so old, man, seems like only yesterday. Funny to hear him talking about Rob and Luc as teammates and to the NHLnet panel as colleagues :laugh:
 
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