BigGoalBrad
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Kuemper can easily go back to being average and middle of the pack. This is an efficient cap dump.
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.It's been less than a year since the Ottawa Senators lost a first round pick because they tried to hide a NTC from a team. I think it'll take some time before that gets beat.
Sakic and Yzerman may be the exceptions that completely break this rule though.most clubs run by ex-players are pretty bad, you'd be hard pressed to find a Kings fan that is happy with BLUC
Laine!!!!!just wait til you see what blake manages to do with all this newfound cap space!
hence why I said most... there are a few who are exceptional and both of these guys are up there...Yzerman is a god damn wizardSakic and Yzerman may be the exceptions that completely break this rule though.
Chychrun for LA first in 2024 and 2025 while the Sens kick in a 7th rounder and one of their young netmindersLaine!!!!!
Maybe a change of scenery for Panarin?
Is Chychrun available?
PLease don't hire this guy as the next GM
Too bad numbnuts Blake didn't see the best developmental model for at least half those players was leaving them the f*** alone and letting them develop in Europe and not fighting for jobs,ice time with the other prospects in Ontario pure Genius that Blake must not have really done much in the way of the schooling going to Bowling Green ...what a turdJust a few years ago arguably the top-ranked prospect system in the league.
Kupari, Turcotte, Byfield, Bjornfort, Vilardi, Kaliyev, Madden, Durzi, Fagemo, Andersson, Grans, Thomas, Faber, Chromiak, Spence, Clarke ... Still time on a few of them and Byfield broke out this year but wow, what a disastrous development system.
As for the trades & signings because Blake was tired of waiting for the young 'uns to develop? They're still waiting to win their first playoff series since 2014.
At least Blake recognized (about a year too late) what a disaster PLD was and cleaned up his mess. Not much to praise there but he did the best thing for the team regardless of how bad it made the initial trade look for him.
Well yes and no...I guess Blake was getting so much heat he had to act on it...I wonder how much it actually cost the KingsYou should be happy to get rid of loser PLD's contract, I know I would be.
It was a sunk cost. They cut their losses. Take the L with the PLD trade and reset, that’s what they did
Would be much worse to have 7 more years at that AAV for an underperforming player
Trade for Nurse
Yet the capitals made the playoffs with another goalie.....There's a chance Kuemper just had a bad year last year. The Capitals team was bad and slow.
Blake could be in the running for GM of the year if he has a bounce back.
Yes he entered the year as Caps1st goalie, but lost his job to a way better Lindgren. Still you never know with goalies. Just the year before Kuemper was better than Lindgren.Yet the capitals made the playoffs with another goalie.....
The better view is to hope that LA's system plays better to Kuemper's strengths. The system / goalie match is always more important than the goalie's raw skill
and to my point, this year the caps had a new coach and thus a new system.Yes he entered the year as Caps1st goalie, but lost his job to a way better Lindgren. Still you never know with goalies. Just the year before Kuemper was better than Lindgren.
"after shipping out Vilardi, Iafallo , Kupari and a 2nd for Dubois"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 as Washington was more than happy to get out of that albatross contract, and this comes after shipping out Vilardi, Iafallo , Kupari and a 2nd for Dubois just a year ago, and then giving him a huge 8-year extension at $8.5M.
The issue here is that almost everyone on these boards could have told you when the trade was done just how much of a collosal disaster giving out a long-term deal to the always malcontent PLD was, but somehow Blake and the rest of the Kings front office didn't see it. Complete disaster.
They also extended Todd McLellan just a few months before finally firing him, another mega-puzzling move. You have to think that there is something seriously wrong behind the scenes for the Kings moves to look this bi-polar. Another disaster, and they should have parted ways with Todd long, long ago.
But worst yet, they just recently extended their management group! So basically Blake and co were allowed to pay a premium to make these disastrous move and then everyone is acting as if nothing happened. It looks like there is absolutely no accountability at the management level whatsoever.
Are the LA Kings the worst run franchise in the league?