I think you're getting a little ahead of yourself. Three cups in four years lol we're barely hanging onto a playoff spot. Not to sound like a pessimist, but let's be realistic here. If we win a cup this year, Lombardi can re-sign Stoll for 10 years and bring back Ivanans and Westgarth for all I care.
That's the point:
that's what people were saying last year en route to cup #2.
Also, why do people think Voynov has 1st round pick value? That whole situation is sticky, I honestly think he's seen his last days in the Kings organization and the NHL. There is 0 room for tolerance when it comes to domestic violence in the world of sports and in general. I think we need to take Voynov out of our minds and stop thinking about trading him or him coming back to the Kings. I think he's seen his last days in the NHL, to be honest.
I think that if he
does come back he absolutely has first round value. No one is banking on it, obviously, given the move for Sekera, but if he does, it's a bonus.
Who is talking about five years from now, the Richards contract and to a lesser extent the Greene contract had serious implications right away. Remember not being able to ice a full roster for cap implications, well you wouldn't have that if you didn't give $8m to the #6 d-man and a fringe NHL'er.
And you are drastically overstating the value of Greene and Richards to the 2014 team, they were not make or break players, not even close, and they were both on the decline. Committing the years and money to those guys made no sense and was based clearly on loyalty and nothing to do with on ice play.
I don't think you can possibly say that confidently given the razor-thin margin for error in our 2014 run. Each player had moments, even just off the top of my head Richards made the play vs. the Ducks in Game 1 and Greene was out there in the finals killing penalties in OT.
It's also hilarious to think that people are moaning about two point five million to our veteran cup winning leader defenseman. That has everything to do with loyalty, on-ice play, the fact that we just won the cup, and the market. Greene would have easily captured more to go to another team.
The Richards contract I can understand people being upset over, I can agree to disagree. But the Greene contract? I realize plenty were upset at the time about the term, but if there's a contract that handicaps us, it's not his. Immensely trade able too.
So much nitpicking. Obviously
every move we make has huge cap implications at this point, that's unavoidable. But hey, at least Stoll is the latest scapegoat, not Brown.
Edit: and not being able to ice a full team had more to do with an unforeseeable situation and the NHL's incompetence than DL's mismanagement of anything to do with the cap.
