LA Kings the most disastrously run franchise in the league

[Butsy Erickson]

They have no clear vision or direction, and Bluc has set fire to their pile of assets from the last decade with incompetent move after incompetent move. We're entering a dark period for this team - expect a long stretch of being a bottom feeder.

I fear dark days are ahead for kings fans, however thank god the Kings won twice in my life time. I can always grab a couple of tall cans and go back to youtube videos and rewatch those cups. Winning is hard, it takes balls to make trades and lots of luck.

 

[Butsy Erickson]

They were playing Kaliyev 2 minutes a night at times last year. Its pathetic

Todd ruined kaliyev, all this kid does is score. Bluc needs to give him a second chance.

 

[Danarqhy]

10-12 years ago brah, this thread is about the current team. Back then Kopitar and Doughty were still known as Kopidor and Brad Doty.

 

[Leafshater67]

They cut their losses. The cap space they freed up is valuable. Maybe it's better to ask, "what they hell are the Caps thinking?"

The caps are thinking they did a cap dump for a 2C that’s like 2.5m overpaid when they desperately need a centre. If he can return to his career averages prior to LA, they won massively.

They’re a bubble team with a lot of cap space and almost no depth up the middle. A 25 year old, 6’4, 225 pound 30 goal guy up the middle is a big bonus.

 

[Wateredgarden]

What about the Faber trade?

 

[BLNY]

The caps are thinking they did a cap dump for a 2C that’s like 2.5m overpaid when they desperately need a centre. If he can return to his career averages prior to LA, they won massively.

They’re a bubble team with a lot of cap space and almost no depth up the middle. A 25 year old, 6’4, 225 pound 30 goal guy up the middle is a big bonus.

Too many ifs for too many years. He's clearly a headcase at this point, bouncing from team to team. And he doesn't play that big most of the time.

I get trying to max out what's left in Ovechkin's career, but PLD hasn't really shown he's the guy for that. He's an under performing power forward type of player and not a distributor.

 

[Leafshater67]

Too many ifs for too many years. He's clearly a headcase at this point, bouncing from team to team. And he doesn't play that big most of the time.

I get trying to max out what's left in Ovechkin's career, but PLD hasn't really shown he's the guy for that. He's an under performing power forward type of player and not a distributor.

The later years don’t matter because the team will be a full rebuilder but then with intimate cap space in a world where the cap has gone up significantly. They don’t have a great prospect batch and they’re outside of their competitive window, trying to stretch it. It’s a low risk thing for them where they overpay by a few million to get a free guy who just this time last year was viewed as a 7m+ player.

 

[Omni Owl]

What about the Faber trade?

Fiala puts up points and can be a beast, but I was never a fan. You always stick with a 1D over a winger. Top D is just more important and rare to come by, especially with a stud like Faber. If Clarke pans out then the trade will sting less.

Blake is still cutting his teeth as a GM and it really shows, lots of growing pains and mistakes. It's a shame it has to be done with the Kings. Feel like they shitcanned Lombardi too early...

 

[Sabre the Win]

Yeah nothing can top the Buffalo Sabres, I mean we had Alumni players wearing bootleg Sabres jersey's with their name misspelled.

 

[SeanMoneyHands]

Trade for Ullmark and sign a top 4 dman and go all in the next 2 years before Doughty and Kopitar retire.

 

[Nikolajs Sillers]

Sabres exist.

 

[TehDoak]

Put some respect on the disrespect the sabres deserve. 13 years without the playoffs in a league that 50% of the teams make the playoffs is an achievement. If you flipped a coin 13 times, you'd get tails every time once in 8192 tries. You could have just just let EA Be a Manager bots run the team and you would have made the playoffs a few times.

 

[dabeechman]

What about the Faber trade?

Blake gets a pass on this one. Fiala has had a ppg average over the past 3 seasons. Faber was always expected to be good, but I think he is exceeding expectations.

 

[Jericho111091]

I wouldn't say the worst, but probably among them

 

[Byron Bitz]

Have you met the Toronto Maple Leafs?

Not nessesarily disagreeing with you, but it’s pretty funny that the worst run franchise in the league is 6th overall in wins overall the past decade.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

The Sens also had an ownership change and cleaned house with management since the NTC issue. The league handed the penalty after, which the new group inherited.

Changing ownership groups doesn't pardon the last 10 years of Sens history. Then add in hiring Green as the new coach.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

They would have saved more cap spacwe and a roster spot by buying out Dubois

3 years of Kuemper vs 14 years of buyout makes that a no brainer.

 

[Canadian Game]

Changing ownership groups doesn't pardon the last 10 years of Sens history. Then add in hiring Green as the new coach.

Contradictory saying a change in ownership doesn’t count but then using the hiring of Green as a point… who’s coached 0 games for Ottawa.

 

[Mattb124]

They just traded PLD for the decomposing corpse of Darcy Kuemper, a goalie way past his prime. Basically, they gave away PLD for (almost) free….

Blake is a genius for being able to give PLD away for (almost) free and not giving up a 1st or worse for another team to take him.

 

[Beukeboom Fan]

Contradictory saying a change in ownership doesn’t count but then using the hiring of Green as a point… who’s coached 0 games for Ottawa.

Who says I have to be comsistent! ;o)

Probably should have said Green wasn't exactly the best way to try and get fans excited after the shyte show over the last 10 years.

 

[DapperCam]

The Buffalo Sabres thank you for forgetting about them.

Sabres hold the record for all time longest playoff drought in NHL history. Not active record, ALL TIME record! They also have a lead on 2nd place by 3 seasons! It's a record that will likely never be broken in my lifetime. If that isn't the most disastrous, then idk what is.

 

[ZDH]

"You let PLD go for nothing."

 

[Honour Over Glory]

Immediately dropping the interim tag from Hiller is also a pretty weak move by Blake. This is a Kings team where you should be looking at your best options for the coaching position, not a bloke that was there a while as an Assistant and really didn't show much when it came down to the playoffs where he was completely out classed for coaching.

The NHL loves cronyism more than other leagues, you were a legend? Cool here's a job you didn't earn or keep the job you've been failing at for a couple of years where others would be fired.

 

[Omni Owl]

Immediately dropping the interim tag from Hiller is also a pretty weak move by Blake. This is a Kings team where you should be looking at your best options for the coaching position, not a bloke that was there a while as an Assistant and really didn't show much when it came down to the playoffs where he was completely out classed for coaching.

The NHL loves cronyism more than other leagues, you were a legend? Cool here's a job you didn't earn or keep the job you've been failing at for a couple of years where others would be fired.

The nepotism runs deep with this front office. I was extremely pissed they didn't try to hire the best coach available. But I guess management sees something in Hiller because he did right the course after TMac refused to make adjustments.

 

[VaporTrail]

Not even close to the Sabres level of futility...NHL recored 13 seasons of missing the playoffs and counting...And, on top of it our star players leave here only to win Cups and Conn Smythe trophies.