Speculation: LA Kings Offseason Thread

[KingsHockey24]

Take your avatars advice and hit yourself in the head with a bat for that post

God I wish Kyle Clifford would bonk me on the head with his long stick.

 

[redcard]

Alright, noone is allowed to post in this thread again until they've taken a cold shower.

 

[King'sPawn]

Alright, noone is allowed to post in this thread again until they've taken a cold shower.

Okay, who's joining me in the shower so we can post in this thread again?

 

[deaderhead28]

Okay, who's joining me in the shower so we can post in this thread again?

Time for a lot of cold showers indeed @redcard

 

[Sol]

What’s to get back on topic about at this moment?

1. byfield needing ONE more SCORE.
2. Byfield being a bust
3. Teubert sucked.
4. Turcotte sucks
5. Vilardi got shafted
6. Vilardi trade was amazing
7. Kings stayed the same with all the moves
8. Kings are soft
9.kings have gotten so good
10.Todd an idiot.
11. Blake an idiot.
12.Yanetti a sleazy idiot.
13. PLD bromance.
14.Kopitar being softer than charmin
15.Ziggy stardust posting an irrelevant kings factoid from the 1700s
16.Axl and his Alts fantasizing about Todd.
17. KingsHockey24 fantasizing about Clifford.

We just need to start the season or this sexual tension will continue to build.

 

[Herby]

What’s to get back on topic about at this moment?

1. byfield needing ONE more SCORE.
2. Byfield being a bust
3. Teubert sucked.
4. Turcotte sucks
5. Vilardi got shafted
6. Vilardi trade was amazing
7. Kings stayed the same with all the moves
8. Kings are soft
9.kings have gotten so good
10.Todd an idiot.
11. Blake an idiot.
12.Yanetti a sleazy idiot.
13. PLD bromance.
14.Kopitar being softer than charmin
15.Ziggy stardust posting an irrelevant kings factoid from the 1700s
16.Axl and his Alts fantasizing about Todd.
17. KingsHockey24 fantasizing about Clifford.

We just need to start the season or this sexual tension will continue to build.

Could make predictions and see how they hold up. Most of the big moves have been made

PLD is a big hit with the Kings. 30G/80Pt.

Fiala leads the Kings in scoring with 90 points

Kopitar falls off to around 20/65 and for the first time in his career is not considered the Kings 1C by the end of the season.

Danault's offensive stats fall off big. Less than 40 points.

Danault is dominant in a shutdown role.

Trevor Moore shows again that 2021-2022 was a career year at a perfect time for him.

Clarke finishes as a Calder candidate. He becomes a big star on the PP. This is what a lot of impact players in the NHL do, they come in at 20 and they look the part. He becomes despised by our rivals in the same way Zegras is here.

The Kings Power-Play is Top 5 in the league

The Kings PK is not in the Top 20

Doughty cedes a lot of offensive icetime to Clarke and fails to score at a 40+ point pace for the first time since 2014. Doughty still proves to be an effective defensive stopper.

Byfield scores between 35-40 points, 12 goals, enough for his truthers to say he is showing improvement offensively but not enough for his doubters to say he hasn't been a disappointing pick. The debate will still be raging a year from now.

Turcotte scores his first goal and point and plays around 25-30 games. Has 6 points and is on the fringe of of the lineup for the playoffs.

Bjornfot does not finish the season with the Kings

Spence crushes it in the AHL but has no spot in the NHL for this season. But will next season...

The Kings are priced out of Roy and he plays out his contract and signs elsewhere.

The Kings goaltending is an issue all year and they end up trading Moore or Arvidsson, + picks for a goaltender they can trust in the playoffs, sometime before the deadline.

The Kings finish 3rd in the Pacific behind Vegas and Edmonton and lose to the Oilers in the 1st round again. Some teams just don't match up well with other teams and continually have to play them in the playoffs. We are basically Craig Ehlo vs. Michael Jordan when we play the Oilers. Our best hope is Vegas doesn't win the division and it's either the Kings or Oilers. But right now it's likely Vegas wins the division and the Kings/Oilers finish 2/3.

MacLellan is made the scapegoat and fired after the season.

Blake is retained as GM and incredibly given another coach by Robitaille.

Welcome back to the LA Kings, coach Ian Lapperiere.

Pinelli has a really good AHL season, gets a cup of coffee and is a favorite to be the 4C a season from now.

Edmonton gets over the hump and wins the Stanley Cup.

Robitaille goes on The Pravda Podcast next summer and says "We lost to the champs, ya know" , 17 times.

Axl sends me DM's all summer saying "They lost to the champs ya know"

Kaliyev scores 25 goals and establishes himself as a serviceable 3rd option on a scoring line.

Trevor Lewis is this years corpse. (We have to have one every year, right?).


Other

The Rangers throw in the towel on Laf and move him at the deadline.

Owen Power will have a big breakthrough season and be a consensus #1 d-man by the end of the season.

Jake Sanderson will do the same

Cole Caufield has 48 goals in 84 games with Marty St. Louis as coach. He will score 45-50 goals this season.

Logan Cooley runs away with the Hobey Baker and will be the #1 prospect at this time next year

Buffalo makes the playoffs

Pittsburgh misses the playoffs again

San Jose will be the worst team in the league

Brock Faber will be the defensive focused version of Brandt Clarke. Just like Clarke, to good to not play a lot.

Jack Hughes outscores Nathan MacKinnon

The players the Kings traded to Winnipeg have similar numbers to last year.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

 

[KingsHockey24]

ooOoH OHH I got a fun one that doesn't involve Kyle Clifford's long stick.

We can predict our scoring leaders for this coming season.

G/A/PTS
1. Kevin Fiala 37/52/89 (Shot Leader: 263)
2. Pierre Luc Dubois 29/44/73
3. Anze Kopitar 22/41/63
4. Adrian Kempe 29/32/61
5. Arthur Kaliyev 26/28/54
6. Brandt Clarke 11/38/49
7. Viktor Arvidsson 21/28/49
8. Drew Doughty 6/41/47
9. Quinton Byfield 12/27/39
10. Philip Danault 11/25/36
11. Vladislav Gavrikov 7/27/34 (Plus/Minus Leader +25)
12. Trevor Moore 12/20/32
13. Mikey Anderson 4/25/29 (Hit Leader:194)
14. Jordan Spence 7/19/26
15. Alex Laferriere 10/15/25
16. Samuel Fagemo 11/11/22
17. Alex Turcotte 6/14/20
18. Matt Roy 5/14/19
19. Trevor Lewis 5/9/14
20. Blake Lizotte 6/8/14
21. Tobias Bjornfot 3/9/12
22. Carl Grundstrom 8/3/11
23. Jaret-Anderson Dolan 4/4/8
24. Andreas Englund 3/5/8 (Penalty Minute Leader: 91)

Total Goals: 295 (Top 5 NHL)

1. Cam Talbot 43 Games Started / 2.61 GAA / .905%
2. Pheonix Copley 35 Games Started / 2.90 GAA / .901%
3. Erik Portillo 4 Games Started / 2.57 GAA / .908%

 

[Lt Dan]

I still expect big things from him this year and that he'll earn a roster call up later in the season

 

[chris kontos]

87 days until nhl hockey...

wonder if we're gonna get the once a month broadcast on kcal channel 9?

 

[Lt Dan]

87 days until nhl hockey...

wonder if we're gonna get the once a month broadcast on kcal channel 9?

I am guessing it'll be streaming via the NHL , probably via the MLB

 

[chris kontos]

I also have a somewhat morbid interest in just how cheap espn can get with thier nhl coverage.
"If we can cut down to one camera, broadcast in b&w ultra low definition and get local jr college a/v crew, think of the money we'd save!"

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Love pinelli, warm personality

 

[ZJames]

I did
Hence the comment so the cap hit is delayed a year
I may seem like an idiot on the surface, but I am smarter than the average Yogi bear

Idiot Savant?

 

[Lt Dan]

Idiot Savant?

I think you are giving me too much credit

 

[Trash Panda]

ooOoH OHH I got a fun one that doesn't involve Kyle Clifford's long stick.

We can predict our scoring leaders for this coming season.

G/A/PTS
1. Kevin Fiala 37/52/89 (Shot Leader: 263)
2. Pierre Luc Dubois 29/44/73
3. Anze Kopitar 22/41/63
4. Adrian Kempe 29/32/61
5. Arthur Kaliyev 26/28/54
6. Brandt Clarke 11/38/49
7. Viktor Arvidsson 21/28/49
8. Drew Doughty 6/41/47
9. Quinton Byfield 12/27/39
10. Philip Danault 11/25/36
11. Vladislav Gavrikov 7/27/34 (Plus/Minus Leader +25)
12. Trevor Moore 12/20/32
13. Mikey Anderson 4/25/29 (Hit Leader:194)
14. Jordan Spence 7/19/26
15. Alex Laferriere 10/15/25
16. Samuel Fagemo 11/11/22
17. Alex Turcotte 6/14/20
18. Matt Roy 5/14/19
19. Trevor Lewis 5/9/14
20. Blake Lizotte 6/8/14
21. Tobias Bjornfot 3/9/12
22. Carl Grundstrom 8/3/11
23. Jaret-Anderson Dolan 4/4/8
24. Andreas Englund 3/5/8 (Penalty Minute Leader: 91)

Total Goals: 295 (Top 5 NHL)

1. Cam Talbot 43 Games Started / 2.61 GAA / .905%
2. Pheonix Copley 35 Games Started / 2.90 GAA / .901%
3. Erik Portillo 4 Games Started / 2.57 GAA / .908%

Gotta say, I love the optimism here.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Gotta say, I love the optimism here.

You're right lemme nerf it a bit.

1. Kevin Fiala 80
2. Pierre Luc Dubois 71
3. Anze Kopitar 60
4. Adrian Kempe 57
5. Arthur Kaliyev 52
6. Brandt Clarke 44
7. Viktor Arvidsson 41
8. Drew Doughty 40
9. Quinton Byfield 35
10. Philip Danault 31
11. Vladislav Gavrikov 25
12. Trevor Moore 22
13. Mikey Anderson 18
14. Jordan Spence 14
15. Alex Laferriere 12
16. Samuel Fagemo 10
17. Alex Turcotte 9
18. Matt Roy 8
19. Trevor Lewis 7
20. Blake Lizotte 5
21. Tobias Bjornfot 4
22. Carl Grundstrom 3
23. Jaret Anderson Dolan 1
24. Andreas Englund 1

Cam Talbot 2.71 GAA / .901 %
Phoenix Copley 2.95 GAA / .899%
Erik Portillo 2.69 GAA / .903%

KINGS HOCKEY BABY

 

[Surf Nutz]

This is Byfields year. Either he will bust tremendously with the help of players like Kopitar. Or he will explode like a cannon. Either or we will know what we have with him by the end of this season and it will put to bed all the arguments.

Wrong again you don't get to strap a timer on Byfield , even though you keep trying to devise ways to blow him up and shifted to the time frame method.
Your comments are a haunted house of ghosts that will come back to spook you as they die untimely deaths upon being exorcised.

 

[Schrute farms]

Those GAAs for all three goalies seem a little optimist. All of them under 3/game -- idk about that.

 

[Sparky206]

ooOoH OHH I got a fun one that doesn't involve Kyle Clifford's long stick.

We can predict our scoring leaders for this coming season.

G/A/PTS
1. Kevin Fiala 37/52/89 (Shot Leader: 263)
2. Pierre Luc Dubois 29/44/73
3. Anze Kopitar 22/41/63
4. Adrian Kempe 29/32/61
5. Arthur Kaliyev 26/28/54
6. Brandt Clarke 11/38/49
7. Viktor Arvidsson 21/28/49
8. Drew Doughty 6/41/47
9. Quinton Byfield 12/27/39
10. Philip Danault 11/25/36
11. Vladislav Gavrikov 7/27/34 (Plus/Minus Leader +25)
12. Trevor Moore 12/20/32
13. Mikey Anderson 4/25/29 (Hit Leader:194)
14. Jordan Spence 7/19/26
15. Alex Laferriere 10/15/25
16. Samuel Fagemo 11/11/22
17. Alex Turcotte 6/14/20
18. Matt Roy 5/14/19
19. Trevor Lewis 5/9/14
20. Blake Lizotte 6/8/14
21. Tobias Bjornfot 3/9/12
22. Carl Grundstrom 8/3/11
23. Jaret-Anderson Dolan 4/4/8
24. Andreas Englund 3/5/8 (Penalty Minute Leader: 91)

Total Goals: 295 (Top 5 NHL)

1. Cam Talbot 43 Games Started / 2.61 GAA / .905%
2. Pheonix Copley 35 Games Started / 2.90 GAA / .901%
3. Erik Portillo 4 Games Started / 2.57 GAA / .908%

I mean I don't want to nitpick, but you can't get a 2.57GGA off 4 games

 

[Ollie Weeks]

I mean I don't want to nitpick, but you can't get a 2.57GGA off 4 games

Sure you can, if he doesn’t feature in all sixty(plus) minutes of every game played.

 

[kilowatt]

You're right lemme nerf it a bit.

1. Kevin Fiala 80
2. Pierre Luc Dubois 71
3. Anze Kopitar 60
4. Adrian Kempe 57
5. Arthur Kaliyev 52
6. Brandt Clarke 44
7. Viktor Arvidsson 41
8. Drew Doughty 40
9. Quinton Byfield 35
10. Philip Danault 31
11. Vladislav Gavrikov 25
12. Trevor Moore 22
13. Mikey Anderson 18
14. Jordan Spence 14
15. Alex Laferriere 12
16. Samuel Fagemo 10
17. Alex Turcotte 9
18. Matt Roy 8
19. Trevor Lewis 7
20. Blake Lizotte 5
21. Tobias Bjornfot 4
22. Carl Grundstrom 3
23. Jaret Anderson Dolan 1
24. Andreas Englund 1

Cam Talbot 2.71 GAA / .901 %
Phoenix Copley 2.95 GAA / .899%
Erik Portillo 2.69 GAA / .903%

KINGS HOCKEY BABY

Roy’s averaging about .28 points per game through his career. That’s about 24 over the course of a season. His production would need to drop by two thirds to have only eight points. Of his 81 career points, only four have come on the power play.

 

[KingsHockey24]

Roy’s averaging about .28 points per game through his career. That’s about 24 over the course of a season. His production would need to drop by two thirds to have only eight points. Of his 81 career points, only four have come on the power play.

Hey now - I never said that's a full 82 game season.

Matt Roy breaks his leg in game number 30.

 

[Sol]

Wrong again you don't get to strap a timer on Byfield , even though you keep trying to devise ways to blow him up and shifted to the time frame method.
Your comments are a haunted house of ghosts that will come back to spook you as they die untimely deaths upon being exorcised.

At least even though you have all the wrong opinions I still appreciate the fact that you write fanfics rather than just be boringly wrong.

 

[FrozenKing18]

Very cool. Now, can we not Cernak the guy?