Mike Richards (Warning in OP)
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Completely different roles. Normstom was relied on to stop goals not score them while providing a physical presence. At worse Brown is supposed to be providing secondary scoring and a physical presence.
I don't care how much ice time Richards is getting, especially when he has to play with Nolan, Clifford, and Lewis on his wing. Richards is more of a playmaker than a scorer now a days, and since he has to play with those guys he's not going to rack up any points playing with grinders. As for Brown, for 3 years he was a little under paid, now he might be over paid. If he doesn't score, he better be hitting and being a pest.
I agree Brown doesn't have to be scoring to be productive however I am not sure where that line is as I think he does need to provide some secondary scoring for the kings to be elite.
kingsfan
President of the Todd McLellan fan club by default
Smyth helped get LA in the playoffs and make us respectable his first year with the club. How he left was brutal but it bit him in the ass as he missed out on a cup.
Roenick to me is one of the worst kings of all time.
kingsfan
President of the Todd McLellan fan club by default
That's cool. I'm not debating it. If you hate Roenick, that's fine and I understand it. In my own personal opinion I simply dislake Ryan Smyth more than Roenick.
Opinions are like *******s after all.
I hate Roenick and Smyth. **** Ronning, Anson Carter, Trent Hunter, Jeff Odgers, and Mark Parrish too
Herby
How could Blake have known?
You honestly made me double check to see if Jeff Odgers actually played a game for the Kings, lol.
Raccoon Jesus
We were right there
kingsfan28
Its A Kingspiracy !
JR...Bum!
Mike Richards ...WINNER!
One came to LA to work on his tan and acting career, the other came to win championships.
Crap ,I think it was Doug Bodger. I always get the two confused.
I always wanted to combine them in to the Odger Bodger
The Tikkanen
Pest
No Dave Babych memories? As for Richards, I loved the way he played the game but it's apparent now the mustard is off the hot dog. I don't know what happened, he's in shape, he's injury free yet it looks like he has lost his hand/eye coordination. The puck seems to bounce over or off his stick , he never looks fluid or smooth when he has the puck. You see this in pro sports from time to time, some guys just get old one day sooner than others. I'd be shocked if Richards ever becomes what he once was again, whether it be for the Kings or some other team. The 6 million dollar question is do the Kings even need that Richards or is his current role why he's here? Or is it the NTC?
Its hard to hate Babych. He was the Willie Mitchell of the 80's.
You can't blame him for his partial season here, he was ready to retire and he was still better than Duchene 2.0
kingsfan
President of the Todd McLellan fan club by default
Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but pretty sure Richards (and Carter, for that matter) doesn't have a NMC. They would have kicked in shortly after they were traded out of Philadelphia (July 1st of that year?) but would have only applied had they stayed in Philadelphia. Which kind of explained Carter's discomfort with going to Columbus at the time. Signs a long term contract in Philadelphia with a home town discount, buys a place on the Jersey shores and gets traded to Columbus less than a year later.
They did almost exactly the same thing to Hartnell this year except Hartnell told them to kiss his ass and waived his NMC to move on (I think Hartnell had signed a 6 year contract about a year ago). We all know what happened in LA the past three years after Richards and Carter showed up (although they were only an auxiliary piece to LAs' success, according to some Philly fans) and I wouldn't be surprised to see Columbus make the play-offs and have a long run with Hartnell there; Philadelphia not so much. Funny how that works.
Ziggy Stardust
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Babych seemed to lose all of his strengths when he shaved his mustache.
Tim Watters also looked off without his stache. Like he lost his ability to fall on the puck to gain a faceoff.
Tim Watters also looked off without his stache. Like he lost his ability to fall on the puck to gain a faceoff.
kingsfansince1967
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Bottom Line, Mike Richards is an important part of this LAK team and any pretention to repeat cannot be done without MR in the line-up. His contributions are not always on the scoresheet but what he brings to the team and the younger players is of great value.
Certainly won' be playing with Clifford and Nolan on his wings at 5 on 5 and getting little or no power play time, although I'd be half tempted to againmove him to one of the points with Doughty on the number one unit. That seemed to have some earlier success but, for whatever reason, Sutter moved off it and the results speak for themselves.
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