Not surprised to hear that or that they’re hoping to bridge Byfield at $4-5 million instead of locking him up long term. Hopefully there will be a new GM who sees it differently this summer but if Blake is still here, I see no reason why he will stop with the full steam ahead philosophy. Current management clearly believes this vet core is Stanley Cup caliber and will move mountains to keep it together.
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soo......basically hockey is gonna hockey,
There's not a team in the league that can not beat another team on any given night.
Blake probably isn’t going to last that long, he’s gonna hand those out like tic-tacs, that’ll be for the next GM to worry about
BigKing
Blake Out of Hell III: Back in to Hell
If I'm Byfield, why am I taking less than PLD?
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
The biggest problem with locking up underperformers
and it's not like he's had a 'best season' elsewhere head and shoulders above what he's doing now
GameNight
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Re-sign Roy? It needs to be all in on Byfield and Clarke $$$, honestly no more re-signing of anyone on this roster over the age of 24, except Kempe. They need to focus on getting younger and better
I can see Clarke in a couple years for his next deal if Blake & co are still around
"You jerked me around, now I'm gonna jerk you around"
I can see Clarke in a couple years for his next deal if Blake & co are still around
"You jerked me around, now I'm gonna jerk you around"
BigKing
Blake Out of Hell III: Back in to Hell
Blake wants a team full of $3.5 - $4.5MM guys, waiver fodder on the 4th line and a new scrap heap goalie tandem every season.
KingsHockey24
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I'm still in the mindset that we buyout PL in the Summer.
Herby
How could Blake have known?
If Blake is still the GM it's very unlikely PLD is bought out.
For one it would be Blake asking for yet more money from AEG for people to not play for and coach the Kings.
It would be egg on Blake's face and admission of a terrible trade.
And most importantly if Blake is back they will be trying to contend again, and if PLD is gone you have the same issues as before. You can't win a SC with Danault as your #2C, if you move Byfield back to C you are a total disaster on the wing, losing your best winger in the hopes he can play at a similar level at C. And that is also assuming that AK at 37 is still at the same level, there have been many many nights this season where AK has been really bad, it's likely the amount of those will increase as he is a year older.
Now if there is a new GM and a total tear down, maybe it does happen. You put QB at C no matter what and just tell him that's his position, you hopefully draft high in 2025-2027 and start selling off many of the current assets. But the problem with that is you have nearly $4m in dead cap in 2028, 2029 and 2030 when Byfield and Clarke are in their stone primes.
For one it would be Blake asking for yet more money from AEG for people to not play for and coach the Kings.
It would be egg on Blake's face and admission of a terrible trade.
And most importantly if Blake is back they will be trying to contend again, and if PLD is gone you have the same issues as before. You can't win a SC with Danault as your #2C, if you move Byfield back to C you are a total disaster on the wing, losing your best winger in the hopes he can play at a similar level at C. And that is also assuming that AK at 37 is still at the same level, there have been many many nights this season where AK has been really bad, it's likely the amount of those will increase as he is a year older.
Now if there is a new GM and a total tear down, maybe it does happen. You put QB at C no matter what and just tell him that's his position, you hopefully draft high in 2025-2027 and start selling off many of the current assets. But the problem with that is you have nearly $4m in dead cap in 2028, 2029 and 2030 when Byfield and Clarke are in their stone primes.
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When Stutzle signed his deal, it was 10 percent of the cap. He was coming off a 58pts season.
If QB signs for 10 percent of next year's cap it would be around 8.7M. Slightly more than PLD.
8 years 70M for Byfield. Get it done Rob.
BringTheReign
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Nurse and Desharnais suck. I'd say more than half the goals we scored against them the past two series were because of boneheaded plays between the two of them. They can be "tough" all they want, but it doesn't mean jack when they can't be trusted to play winning hockey.
bland
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Oh, it would be fiscally irresponsible NOT to buy him out this summer. They get one chance to remove him without sacrificing any assets and actually save millions and millions of real money.
Forget ego, hope, sentimentality. Its just bad business to keep him.
kilowatt
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Then we just need to bring Athanasiou back and have the least engaged line all of hockey!
Athanasiou - Dubois - Mantha
Mantha has 19 goals - that would be tied for 2nd among Kings forwards.
And he can fight and play nasty. Someone the Kings don’t have in the top 12 forwards sadly.
And he can fight and play nasty. Someone the Kings don’t have in the top 12 forwards sadly.
FSL KINGS
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Mantha is in a contract year & will be skating hard. Re-signing him may not be the best idea.
kilowatt
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Even without Athanasiou (which was a joke), a line of Fiala - Dubois - Mantha would be absolute chaos at the very least
tny760
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i don't think i have enough crayons to describe how stupid it would be to try and sign mantha, especially as a pure rental
how do we go from one night lamenting how blake signed the shiny yet disappointing toy -- to suggesting signing the new shiny but disappointing toy
literal all tools, no toolbox player with the bonus of never having played a full season in his career
how do we go from one night lamenting how blake signed the shiny yet disappointing toy -- to suggesting signing the new shiny but disappointing toy
literal all tools, no toolbox player with the bonus of never having played a full season in his career
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There would be anger. Everyone would be angry. Both teams, coaches, fan bases, Ray Ferraro too.
You can't teach size!
Pics of Blake getting ready for the deadline.
kilowatt
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Say what you want about Metallica these days but Rob Trujillo’s a monster on bass
Really interesting and transparent interview with Mike Futa starting at the 25 min mark, tons of nuggets in it.
Whelp, there’s confirmation it was gonna be Barzal if they didn’t get Lucic.
What a stupid trade.
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