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Butch 19 said:
I guess Jack Kent Cooke was not a patient man... :shakehead
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Other than pushing the NHL for an expansion team in Los Angeles, you are right. His whole goal was to field a team of "names" right away so that the "knowledgeable" fans in Los Angeles (i.e., transplanted Canadians) would get behind the team faster.

But the reality of the situation was that those Canadian fans were already loyal to their roots. Cooke should have appealed to the new hockey fans in the city, and built the team from youth. From this standpoint, he was a moron, and history tells us that it was a horrid decision.

The trades YP showed above just make me cringe and live the nightmare all over again. Thanks for nothing, YP. You just made my Monday.
 
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Always liked this SI cover.
 
Ron said:
I meant kovarco :laugh:

Yeah, believe it or not, I BOUGHT that one when it first came out...in 1975. :laugh: ****, I'm old man.
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Would be pretty cool if you still had it after all these years.

Btw, I feel sorry for anyone who lived through subpar Kings teams and the disco era, what an awful combination. :laugh:
 
kovacro said:
Some of my favorites:

Oct 9/78: LA acquiring Boston goalie Ron Grahame for their 1979 1st round pick which turned out to be Ray Bourque was awesome.

March 10/80: LA acquires Jerry Korab (Buf) for their 1982 1st round pick (Phil Housley)

Oct 18/83: LA acquires Brian Engblom and Ken Houston from Washington for Larry Murphy.

They also mortgaged a handful of 1st's in the early-mid 70's for players past their prime.
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Unfortunately, they did this from the very beginning:

May 20/68: LA acquires Skip Krake (Bos) for their 1970 1st round pick (Reggie Leach)
 
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kovacro said:
Would be pretty cool if you still had it after all these years.

Btw, I feel sorry for anyone who lived through subpar Kings teams and the disco era, what an awful combination. :laugh:
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Hey - don't drag down disco with ****** Kings' teams.

Disco was, and still is, pretty awesome.

And re the Kings/mont SI cover, I got this in '75 when I subscribed to SI, but it got lost years ago. But I just picked it up at Frank & Sons for $3 or $4 a few months ago.
 
Butch 19 said:
Hey - don't drag down disco with ****** Kings' teams.

Disco was, and still is, pretty awesome.

And re the Kings/mont SI cover, I got this in '75 when I subscribed to SI, but it got lost years ago. But I just picked it up at Frank & Sons for $3 or $4 a few months ago.
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kovacro said:
Would be pretty cool if you still had it after all these years.

Btw, I feel sorry for anyone who lived through subpar Kings teams and the disco era, what an awful combination. :laugh:
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I have no idea what happened to it. I think I tossed all my SI magazines at some point in the late 1970s... :(

Or, given the circumstances, probably tossed it after that devastating first round loss to Toronto that season. That would be like me.
 
Butch 19 said:
Hey - don't drag down disco with ****** Kings' teams.

Disco was, and still is, pretty awesome.

And re the Kings/mont SI cover, I got this in '75 when I subscribed to SI, but it got lost years ago. But I just picked it up at Frank & Sons for $3 or $4 a few months ago.
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Hated it contemporaneously, but love to listen to some of it now. Some of it is amazing...this one is one of my favorites:

 
^ That's the first time I've seen Dave Taylor stuttering. I know I had read that he stuttered a lot but I think by the time I started watching the Kings (late 80's) and when he was GM of the Kings, I think he'd gotten rid of it to a degree. Or maybe I just never noticed?

On another note, I didn't realize that Nick Nickson was getting the Foster Hewitt this year. Congrats to him! The Kings have a shoo-in (had to google the spelling) for PBP once Bob retires.
 
Great finds, Ron!

Of course, I already posted it, but I'm going to leave this here for posterity. Belongs here, I think :)

A Hockey Card History of the LA Kings

Here are a couple outtakes from my piece. First, Brian Kilrea on a 20-year-old Jim Fox:

"I wish he were my son. He never caused me one bit of trouble, never argued. He's just a kid with a happy face." (Edes, Gordon. "The Kings Have Three of a Kind." Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1980.)
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And this hilarious anecdote from Vachon's retirement ceremony:

Megaphones were given to the fans at the Forum Thursday night so they could cheer Kings General Manager Rogie Vachon, who had his jersey retired before the Kings played the Boston Bruins.

But the fans used them to boo the Kings off the ice after they blew a 3-1 lead and were tied, 3-3. (LA Times)
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Welcome! :)

Interesting find here, the opening to the 1982 playoffs (which resulted in that record-setting 10-8 win that resulted in the post-game show above).

 
These were just posted (by two different posters) in June 2015, so its no wonder I didn't see these before...

 
Ron said:
I have no idea what happened to it. I think I tossed all my SI magazines at some point in the late 1970s... :(

Or, given the circumstances, probably tossed it after that devastating first round loss to Toronto that season. That would be like me.
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that was the series that did me in for the next 4 decades,lol,we had done pretty well that year the building was electric and upon walking in and hearing kings fans chanting during warmups in got in my blood and then came the triple crown years great times........spent most of my money on kings hockey ,rock concerts and the sweet **** then wasted the rest
 
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I have wanted to do this for awhile. Let me know what you think. I am going to limit this to the last 25 years, so 1990 on for me, anyone who has been around longer can chime in. Sorry these are kind of jumbled, just kind of typed whatever came to my mind.

Best D-Man: Drew Doughty HM: Rob Blake
Best Forward: Wayne Gretzky HM: Luc Robitaille, Anze Kopitar
Best Goaltender: Jonathan Quick
Best Player: Drew Doughty. HM: Wayne Gretzky, Luc Robitaille
Best Coach: Darryl Sutter
Best GM: Dean Lombardi
Best Trade: Ziggy Palffy. HM: Jeff Carter
Best Free Agent Signing: Mathieu Schneider
Best Draft Pick: Jonathan Quick
Most Likable: Luc Robitaille, HM: Anze Kopitar, Adam Deadmarsh
Best Skater: Paul Coffey
Best Slap Shot: Rob Blake
Best Passer: Wayne Gretzky
Best Goalscorer: Luc Robitaille
Best Stickhandler: Ziggy Palffy
Best Hitter: Dustin Brown
Best Leader: Anze Kopitar
Biggest Heart: Adam Deadmarsh
Most Exciting: Ziggy Palffy
Best Chemistry: Rob Blake and Mattias Norstrom
Most Underrated: Jeff Carter
Most Memorable Goal: Alec Martinez vs. CHI, Wayne Gretzky vs. TOR
Best Series: Tie (vs. CHI 2014) & vs. TOR 1993
Biggest Nemesis: Patrick Roy
Toughest Defeat: 2001 Game 7 vs. Colorado HM: 1993 Games 3&4 vs. MTL


Worst Player: Steve McKenna HM: Ethan Moreau, Grant Fuhr, Chris McAlpine
Worst Coach: Larry Robinson
Most Unlikable: Dmitri Khristich HM: Ryan Smyth, Grant Fuhr
Most Overrated: Mike Richards HM: Rick Tocchet
Worst Skater: Bob Corkum
Worst Slap Shot: Ryan Smyth
Worst Trade: Wayne Gretzky to St. Louis, The McSorely fiasco with Pittsburgh where we essentially gave them Sandstrom
Worst Draft Pick: Colten Teubert
Worst FA signing: Steve Duchesne
 
Best D-Man: Drew Doughty HM: Rob Blake
Best Forward: Wayne Gretzky HM: Luc Robitaille, Anze Kopitar
Best Goaltender: Jonathan Quick HM: Felix Potvin
Best Player: Drew Doughty. HM: Wayne Gretzky
Best Coach: Darryl Sutter
Best GM: Dean Lombardi
Best Trade: Ziggy Palffy. HM: Jeff Carter
Best Free Agent Signing: Willie Mitchell
Best Draft Pick: Jonathan Quick HM: Tyler Toffoli
Most Likable: Luc Robitaille, HM: Anze Kopitar, Adam Deadmarsh
Best Skater: Paul Coffey
Best Slap Shot: Rob Blake
Best Passer: Wayne Gretzky HM: Palffy, Allison
Best Goalscorer: Luc Robitaille
Best Stickhandler: Ziggy Palffy HM: Justin Williams
Best Hitter: Dustin Brown
Best Leader: Dustin Brown HM: Matty Norstrom, Deadmarsh
Biggest Heart: Adam Deadmarsh
Most Exciting: Drew Doughty, HM: Ziggy Palffy
Best Chemistry: LAPD line, HM:Rob Blake and Mattias Norstrom , Doughty-Muzzin
Most Underrated: Jeff Carter, HM: Jake Muzzin, Stumpel
Most Memorable Goal: Alec Martinez vs. CHI, Wayne Gretzky vs. TOR, Eric Belanger, Smolinski, Adam Deadmarsh vs. DET 2001
Best Series: Tie (vs. CHI 2014) & vs. TOR 1993
Biggest Nemesis: Patrick Roy HM: Patrick Kane, AHL goaltenders
Toughest Defeat: 2001 Game 7 vs. Colorado HM: 1993 Games 3&4 vs. MTL


Worst Player: Steve McKenna HM: Ethan Moreau, Grant Fuhr, Chris McAlpine, Kyle Calder
Worst Coach: Larry Robinson
Most Unlikable: Smyth for me, no question.
Most Overrated: Rob Blake
Worst Skater: Bob Corkum
Worst Slap Shot: Ryan Smyth
Worst Trade: Wayne Gretzky to St. Louis, The McSorely fiasco with Pittsburgh where we essentially gave them Sandstrom
Worst Draft Pick: Colten Teubert
Worst FA signing: Steve Duchesne

That was a toughie, but added some of my thoughts in bold. I'm sure there's more, I'm just blanking out before the 2000s now :laugh:
 
Best D-Man: Drew Doughty HM: Rob Blake
Best Forward: Wayne Gretzky HM: Luc Robitaille, Anze Kopitar
Best Goaltender: Jonathan Quick HM: Felix Potvin, Rogie Vachon
Best Player: Wayne Gretzky HM: Luc Robitaille
Best Coach: Darryl Sutter HM: Barry Melrose
Best GM: Dean Lombardi
Best Trade: Jeff Carter. HM: Ziggy Palffy
Best Free Agent Signing: Willie Mitchell
Best Draft Pick: Anze Kopitar HM: Johnathan Quick
Most Likable: Luc Robitaille, HM: Adam Deadmarsh
Best Skater: Paul Coffey
Best Slap Shot: Rob Blake
Best Passer: Wayne Gretzky HM: Jason Allison
Best Goalscorer: Luc Robitaille HM: Glen Murray
Best Stickhandler: Ziggy Palffy HM: Jari Kurri
Best Hitter: Dustin Brown HM: Mark Hardy
Best Leader: Dave Taylor HM: Matty Norstrom
Biggest Heart: Adam Deadmarsh
Most Exciting: Ziggy Palffy HM: Tyler Toffoli
Best Chemistry: LAPD line, Triple Crown line HM:Rob Blake and Mattias Norstrom
Most Underrated: Sean Avery HM: Jaroslav Modry, Jozef Stumpel
Most Memorable Goal: Alec Martinez vs. CHI, Wayne Gretzky vs. TOR, Eric Belanger, Smolinski, Adam Deadmarsh vs. DET 2001
Best Series: Tie (vs. CHI 2014) & vs. TOR 1993
Biggest Nemesis: Patrick Roy HM: Patrick Kane, AHL goaltenders
Toughest Defeat: 2001 Game 7 vs. Colorado HM: 1993 Games 3&4 vs. MTL


Worst Player: Erik Rasmussen HM: Grant Fuhr, Chris McCrapine
Worst Coach: Larry Robinson
Most Unlikable: Mathieu Schneider and Jason Allison
Most Overrated: Rob Blake
Worst Skater: Steve McKenna
Worst Slap Shot: Joe Corvo HM Jarret Stoll
Worst Trade: Wayne Gretzky to St. Louis
Worst Draft Pick: Joey Ryan
Worst FA signing: Steve Duchesne
 
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