Yeah I’m surprised he’s mad at the fans when Durzi played really well when he joined the Kings. And then Todd made him play on his offwing and made him a defensive dman. And then he sucked because Todd being the great coach he is thought it would be best to play Durzi to his weaknesses. That’s the fanbases fault? Go f*** yourself with that tweet. He should be mad that all of the execs are all bros hired by nepotism.
I still remember in my high school journalism class some 20 years ago. The first day the teacher had us bring a newspaper with us, he has us read only the headline and opening paragraph of a story. He then asks us if we notice anything. He goes the first rule of good journalism; a brief catchy headline, and a complete summary of the story in you opening paragraph. That's all you need to see.
Yea the fans were the ones making sure Durzi played on his off-side and killed penalties. The fans were also the ones to trade him because we felt like paying for Provorovs contract instead so he can play for Columbus.
It did for sure... before the internet, publications had to break stories that were accurate and build a brand based on quality of reporting.. there was no other way to build their customer base. Without that incentive, you have what we have now which is tabloid journalism.
With Blake job possibly in jeopardy, I think AEG might restrict the contract and therefore the pool of candidates. You might find someone thats willing to finish out the season without being guaranteed a contract going fwd.. but that is very awkward because it signals Blake may be on his way out to everyone... also they are already stuck paying Todd for next season. I think the only way this works is if Blake gets the pink slip as well and they use an interim GM.
Its also possible Blake has been handcuffed which would result in the same statements.. i mean if I was AEG and observe whats going on with PLD and the team in general, I may tell him he cannot change coaches or make any big deadline moves.. not that he could do much with his self imposed cap mess.
You know what, you are always f***ing right. I defer to your great wisdom.
Simply saying that he generated some chances downplays the quality of the chances he was generating. For a team having trouble scoring more than two goals a game, that it is important. Besides, the context has to be taken into account here: this is a soon-to-be 21 year old in his 13th NHL game playing with supreme confidence.
Only time he looked slow last night was when he was caught out of position and couldn't catch up to the big dude skating 20 miles per an hour on the breakaway goal. I'm not saying he is Makar level at all but rather that his play with the puck last night reminded me of watching Makar's first game when Makar had the puck.
It's definitely one of those ambiguous spins. The allusion I see, that some have posted here, is they think he will create the kind of depth to help win in the playoffs.
People talk about PLD in the playoffs with reverence like he was John Druce. I knew John Druce. PLD is no John Druce.
They can still get more points but that would be a miraculous record in the second half.
It’s actually insane that GM’s are in love with PLD primarily because he got hot for one week in bubble hockey against the least clutch organization in the league with every team coming off a 5 month unscheduled break. This isn’t even a specific Blake issue as Elliotte Friedman has said that multiple front offices think like this.
