Kings Article: Puck Daddy's Summer Series: The Los Angeles Kings from A to Z

[JureEe]

This is a franchise that began by giving away first-round picks so often that they didn’t see a first-round draft pick play in a Kings uniform until the team was 12 YEARS INTO ITS EXISTENCE.

you gotta be kidding me

rest of the article:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/puck-daddy-s-summer-series--the-los-angeles-kings-from-a-to-z-035916535.html

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[Ron*]

you gotta be kidding me

rest of the article:
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/puck-daddy-s-summer-series--the-los-angeles-kings-from-a-to-z-035916535.html

Unfortuately, that quoted part is the truth. Jack Kent Cooke didn't believe in rookies or young players, he wanted to stack the Kings with proven veterans who were well knows so that (he felt) the fans would fill the seats in the early years.

What a moron. The results speak for themselves, in that of course all the names he got were well past their primes and the fans didn't fill the seats anyway. The Kings really didn't play well until the 1974-75 season in which they had the 4th best record in the league (and 105 points, still a team record, and when points actually meant something), and then getting Marcel Dionne the following season so they can be a consistently good team.

Then again, I ramble...

 

[yankeeking]

74-75 is when the kings got into my blood , i went to a couple of games in 73-74 my first year in LA but that next yer was special, they had a lot of ex rangers on the team who i had grown up rooting for so it was an easy transition, but the thing that hurt the team was the penalty for signing dionne, maloney (who was like a brown/cliffy hybrid)harper and our number 1 pick that year who's name i will look up, set us back again but trading away pick after pick for has beens very frustrating, but hell it made 12 and 14 that much more SWEETER lol.....just glad i lived long enough to see it lol