Kings Video: Luc Robitaille Press Conference

[FSL KINGS]

Love people who have never played team sports, let alone been around professional sports as anything other than a fan, decide what good leadership is for a team.....the way people are talking they think making Ryan Reaves captain is a great idea and sure fire way to win the cup

Win a cup? We're talking about getting 4 wins in the first round for the first time in a decade.

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Win a cup? We're talking about getting 4 wins in the first round for the first time in a decade.

Keep up with the thread.

 

[FSL KINGS]

Keep up with the thread.

Sure, Kopitar is a bad Capitan because he isn't able to get the team inspired, playing up & the team does a crap job sticking up for each other, but that's ok because he's toast & retiring after next year.

Not a great Capitan but it's over now. We lost it somehow. (80's flashback ). Not actually going to compete next year with Hiller so just burn another year of the Doughty contract off. Hiller still needs about 2-3 years of development minimum to figure it out. Maybe send him to Ontario. NHL isn't a development League afterall.

Edit: Love Kopi but his time is over. It happens. Doughty on the other hand.

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

Sure, Kopitar is a bad Capitan because he isn't able to get the team inspired, playing up & the team does a crap job sticking up for each other, but that's ok because he's toast & retiring after next year.

Not a great Capitan but it's over now. We lost it somehow. (80's flashback ). Not actually going to compete next year with Hiller so just burn another year of the Doughty contract off. Hiller still needs about 2-3 years of development minimum to figure it out. Maybe send him to Ontario. NHL isn't a development League afterall.

Edit: Love Kopi but his time is over. It happens. Doughty on the other hand.

I must have missed something.....when you have been in the room for long amounts of time, to know that he doesn't inspire the team?

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Kings had Nolan (who fought Stewart in the playoffs), Dwight King (who's brother was a top 5 heavy in his era) - Dwight fought BJ Crombeen in the playoffs, Clifford (who was hurt in 2012 but was awesome in 2014 and also fought Desjardins in the playoffs), Fraser, Greene, and Mitchell. That is a lot of guys who can fight, hit, swing the stick, and make life hell.

Kings basically have three players like that now - Jeannot, Helenius and Edmundson. Last year, they had one, Englund.

and that's without mentioning Richards who fought a few times as well, f***ing up their lives...Couture busted his hand, Gomez, who else?

When you cant avoid the fighters and you can't avoid the stars, it gets tiring!

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

I must have missed something.....when you have been in the room for long amounts of time, to know that he doesn't inspire the team?

yah, show me one quote from a former player, coach...anyone that alludes to Kopi being a 'bad' captain. You won't, of course...but somehow guys who sit behind a keyboard for 20+ hours dishing hot takes seem to know more than everyone else. Gross...

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Honestly man at this stage I'd prefer a team that sucks but cares over the current 'turn the other cheek' p***yes

when you can totally neuter every tough guy who pulls on a Kings jersey it's a culture issue

 

[Johnny Utah]

Lucic and Jeannot are the nastiest players to play for the Kings in the last 7-8 years and both are UFA's after one year here.

I would also argue Lemieux (in Europe) and Kurtis MacDermid (in NJ) are a close 2nd.

 

[FSL KINGS]

I must have missed something.....when you have been in the room for long amounts of time, to know that he doesn't inspire the team?

King's sure looked inspired game 5. Kopi is a nice guy & that's great. Doesn't have the fire.



Got another Lady Byng nominee for being a great guy though.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I love Kopitar but if your captain can no longer provide the elite top line level of play AND is winning the biggest p***y award it's time to change.

 

[GoldenBearHockey]

King's sure looked inspired game 5. Kopi is a nice guy & that's great. Doesn't have the fire.



Got another Lady Byng nominee for being a great guy though.

I love Kopitar but if your captain can no longer provide the elite top line level of play AND is winning the biggest p***y award it's time to change.

Got it, one game.....ok, well they look inspired Game 2....so there ya go......seriously f***ing logic around here take a microscopic event, turn into a way to prove the macrop....great f***ing job.

List of Byng winners, MacKinnon, Datsyuk, Slavin, Barkov, Francis, Sakic....

Yea, list of real p***yes there......spoken by someone who's never played above D level beer league calling professional players p***yes...gotta love it....

And before you other pansies get your panties twisted, nothing wrong with not playing or playing shit level hockey, but to do that AND shit on a sure fire HOFer takes a special kind of stupid.

 

[psych3man]

I think between the Lombardi on Cam and Strick podcast and the Dustin Brown on ATKM one can piece together enough of what happened to be confident enough.

My man, why not just tell the damn story...

 

[tigermask48]

My man, why not just tell the damn story...

He works for the team. Jesse says what he can, and you can sometimes tell he seems like he has more he wants to say. He has my respect for that. But he can't just give away the cow for free.

 

[Maynard]

My man, why not just tell the damn story...

He likes to make little puzzles so he’ll seem mysterious and intelligent here on the message board. Like…”I have the information and I could tell you, but you need to work for it”. It’s like passive aggressive gate keeping but there’s nothing interesting or funny on the other side of the gate.

 

[chris kontos]

It's nice seeing fans understanding the importance of physical play. Now if we only had a coach that understood it.

And a team president that wants to turn a contact sport into a soccer match.
Heavy physical play wins in the playoffs- always has and always will.

 

[bland]

He likes to make little puzzles so he’ll seem mysterious and intelligent here on the message board. Like…”I have the information and I could tell you, but you need to work for it”. It’s like passive aggressive gate keeping but there’s nothing interesting or funny on the other side of the gate.

I think you two are the same dude anyways...

 

[All The Kings Men]

My man, why not just tell the damn story...

It's not much of a story.

Lombardi did it to accomplish a goal that by his own admission wasn't reached.
Dustin Brown and his family felt a certain way about it but not enough to do anything about it and he never blamed Kopitar or held it against him and ultimately Lombardi and Sutter were fired and Dustin Brown retired an LA Kings with a statue outside the building and $67M in the bank.

 

[All The Kings Men]

I think you two are the same dude anyways...

Neither of us is that clever.

Well I might be but he isn't.

 

[Maynard]

It's not much of a story.

Lombardi did it to accomplish a goal that by his own admission wasn't reached.
Dustin Brown and his family felt a certain way about it but not enough to do anything about it and he never blamed Kopitar or held it against him and ultimately Lombardi and Sutter were fired and Dustin Brown retired an LA Kings with a statue outside the building and $67M in the bank.

I’m surprised you typed this out instead of linking to old interviews and a series of YouTube clips and saying “the truth is out there I’m not gonna spell it out for you simpletons”.

 

[All The Kings Men]

I’m surprised you typed this out instead of linking to old interviews and a series of YouTube clips and saying “the truth is out there I’m not gonna spell it out for you simpletons”.

I don't work at city hall

 

[BigBrown]

I might be wrong here but I don't think it matters a whole lot who wears the C. A leader is a leader, with or without a letter. I think it's pretty obvious that the real leaders during the cup runs were Stoll, Williams, Richards and so on. This team needs winners. They don't have to have letters, they just need to go out there and show how it's done. Let Kopi retire with the C, it doesn't matter anyway. Just my opinion of course.

 

[SaltyElkHunter]

So if the decisions are all made as a group and collective why didn’t they all collectively leave? Blake left because he was taking the heat and it wasn’t worth it. I smell a French rat! As someone who deals with people and large somes of money I have learned to pick up on body language, speech patterns, and tone and that f***er was lieing the entire press conference!

 

[SettlementRichie10]

In 1989, a French intelligence operative codenamed “L’homme Chanceux” airdropped into Southern California under the cover of nightfall.

What his real identity or mission was is not up for me to say, but a few weeks later, evidence of a firefight was discovered in the bowels of the Great Western Forum. The scene indicated another gunmen, possibly hailing from somewhere on the east coast.

Also found at the scene was a note scrawled with the words ‘every good army needs…’ The rest was illegible, smeared with blood. Some say this second gunmen couldn’t have survived his wounds.

Many believe L’Homme Chanceux is still active in California. What do I think? Well, if you read Les Miserables backwards, you may just find the answers you’re looking for…

 

[DryIslandBartender]

I think between the Lombardi on Cam and Strick podcast and the Dustin Brown on ATKM one can piece together enough of what happened to be confident enough.

He didn’t really address the captaincy change on your podcast. Brown hasn’t been bitter about it and had a different tune in another interview with yahoo! Saying that it was liberating and allowed him to just focus on the game. Browns career was never consistent, lots of peaks and valleys and no doubt that was frustrating to management.

Perhaps Browns game was never sustainable physically and he changed his approach to play longer.

 

[KINGS17]

In 1989, a French intelligence operative codenamed “L’homme Chanceux” airdropped into Southern California under the cover of nightfall.

What his real identity or mission was is not up for me to say, but a few weeks later, evidence of a firefight was discovered in the bowels of the Great Western Forum. The scene indicated another gunmen, possibly hailing from somewhere on the east coast.

Also found at the scene was a note scrawled with the words ‘every good army needs…’ The rest was illegible, smeared with blood. Some say this second gunmen couldn’t have survived his wounds.

Many believe L’Homme Chanceux is still active in California. What do I think? Well, if you read Les Miserables backwards, you may just find the answers you’re looking for…

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