Nasti
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There are a lot of Kings fans (not me) who still hold a grudge over the way Blake left in 2001 and again in 2008. The details are long and I don’t have the strength to get into it, but that’s where a lot of the animosity towards him comes from. Similar to Penguins fans and Jagr. None of this takes away from the fact that he’s been a bad GM.I'm 42, so I strongly doubt it, but maybe.
The point is that what you're saying makes no sense. Blake and Robitaille had nothing to do with the construction of the teams on which they played and they were pillars of the organization during their tenures. Rob Blake was awesome, and Luc Robitaille was the second-best finisher that Gretzky ever played with. Be mad at them as managers, fine, call them names, etc.. But their legacy as players? Just a weird way to go.
With Luc, we all suspect he stabbed Dean Lombardi in the back which led to the firing of the most successful GM in team history just three years after winning his second cup in three years. Since then, he’s done nothing but hire all his buddies and given fluff speeches. The guy has no business running anything.
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