It's happened what once in 5 post seasons, and we're going to have to define beast. If by beast you mean he played like a top line player then sure, but he's never had a McDavid, Draisaitl, Kucherov, MacKinnon, or even Eichel like performance in the post season.
This past year showed production for both.
yeh I’m probably overrating that. Should just take the kings fans word for it that he blows.
Our wingers need to pay attention in our end..
One of the reasons Mclellan is fired. He also again had a team shooting the puck in regularly on the PP. I never miss Mclellan much. If the Hiller wants a job he better learn not to just continue with everything McLellan did. We might see some surprises and wrinkles. Kings would be stupid to just be reliant on 1-3-1 with the goaltending they have.
Just an opinion but just get a lot with or without house and grow food here. We're 40% food self sufficient just doing standard gardening on a fair sized city lot with a house that takes up only 25% of the lot in footprint.
PLD is so heavily critiqued by some factions and as if he's a "team cancer" and yet the Kings have had him playing most of season with their young players. Thats why he doesn't have startling stat lines. Kopitar and Danault are getting the plum topsix players. PLD has been taxed with useless players like JAD (now gone) Kaliyev(too useless to even use) and Grundstrom (same). It was odd Kings were even still trying to make these players happen, now they have given up on all. Unlikely to even see those guys.
Stoll doing the Kings between periods is a fan of the quiet role thats been given PLD. He's pretty positive of what he will bring for the Kings. I respect Stolls opinion. 
This. Gregor just talked about it. Kane is making excuses for getting bumped to L4. Selfish prick.
You think PLD is on the 4th line to help young players? Pretty sure his demotions have been directly linked to being a lazy POSPLD is so heavily critiqued by some factions and as if he's a "team cancer" and yet the Kings have had him playing most of season with their young players. Thats why he doesn't have startling stat lines. Kopitar and Danault are getting the plum topsix players. PLD has been taxed with useless players like JAD (now gone) Kaliyev(too useless to even use) and Grundstrom (same). It was odd Kings were even still trying to make these players happen, now they have given up on all. Unlikely to even see those guys.
PLD though the Kings realize is responsible enough to be raising young players and if they didn't think so they wouldn't be doing it. Whenever he's with Byfield its another gear clicking and he has someone to work with. PLD got first assist this season on 3 different first NHL goals and was the one grabbing the puck for each of those young ones. Such a bad attitude..
Even with lower pts this season PLD has been strong on boards, relatively strong getting and skating pucks out and in playing a responsible game. The minus on the season is due to the awful players he's had to play with. Last dozen games he's around +10, and last 20 games starting to hit some more pts. LA fans are heavily critical even by Oilers standards and don't have a clue what PLD even does. They don't recognize his board play, transition, work on breaking pucks out. these are the quiet parts of the game you have to key on to realize. A lot of what Henrique or Nuge would do here.
The deep problems in LA this season was Kempe, Fiala production was majorly down, all of Kaliyev, Grundstrom etc didn't produce anything and they've had to weed out the rot that just wasn't doing anything or going anywhere. With Arviddson back they like running just 11 forwards.
That's diehard!
Try watching the games sometimes. I see 30-40 Kings games a year. In and around that. PLD has not been a problem and its been 3rd line he's on. Try to be at least remotely accurate.
