General Manager Rob Blake

Created by: Hockeyguy77

Team: 2020-21 Los Angeles Kings

Initial Creation Date: Dec. 19, 2019

Published: Dec. 19, 2019

Salary Cap Mode: Basic

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Left Handed

Original Team

Waivers Exempt

Right Handed

Position

Trade Clause

Max Perf. Bonus

Expiry Status

Term Remaining

McDavid, Connor

$12,500,000 ( Performance Bonus

$250,000)

NMC

UFA - 5

Description

Rob Blake is arguably the worst general manager in the league right now. Trading for Phaneuf, hiring John Stevens, hiring Willie D, Signing Kovalchuk. Now the Kings have a total of $11,012,500 wrapped into players that aren't even playing for the Kings counting against their cap hit next season. Kovalchuk 6.25M, Phaneuf over 4M, and Richards 700k. He literally thought just signing Kovi and not doing anything else would help the Kings offense enough to make the playoffs, how stupid can he be? Also Trading for Phaneuf the year before thinking that's all the Kings needed? Pathetic. Kings owners need to fire him bc we all know Luc won't do it. Maybe they need to fire both of them. Clean house again and again until they find someone who knows what they are doing.....

Buyouts

Dion Phaneuf: $4,062,500

Termination Fees

Mike Richards: $700,000
Ilya Kovalchuk: $6,250,000

Draft	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Round 6	Round 7
2020
2021
2022

ROSTER

LONG-TERM OUTLOOK

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ROSTER SIZE	SALARY CAP	CAP HIT	OVERAGES	BONUSES	CAP SPACE
13	$81,500,000	$56,585,530	$0	$957,500	$24,914,470

Left Wing	Centre	Right Wing
Iafallo, Alex $2,425,000$2,425,000 LW, RW UFA - 1	Kopitar, Anze $10,000,000$10,000,000 C M-NTC UFA - 4	Brown, Dustin $5,875,000$5,875,000 RW, LW M-NTC UFA - 2
	Carter, Jeff $2,636,364$2,636,364 RW, C UFA - 2
	Kempe, Adrian $2,000,000$2,000,000 LW, RW UFA - 2
	Lizotte, Blake $925,000$925,000 ($850,000$850K) C RFA - 1
	Amadio, Michael $700,000$700,000 RW, LW UFA - 1

Left Defense	Right Defense	Goaltender
Clague, Kale $761,666$761,666 ($107,500$108K) LD/RD RFA - 1	Doughty, Drew $11,000,000$11,000,000 RD NMC UFA - 7	Quick, Jonathan $2,900,000$2,900,000 G UFA - 3
	Martinez, Alec $4,000,000$4,000,000 LD UFA - 1	Campbell, Jack $1,650,000$1,650,000 G UFA - 2
	Roy, Matt $700,000$700,000 RD UFA - 1

Top Comments

Dec. 19, 2019 at 12:57 p.m.

Lights

Joined: Apr. 2018

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Has built up a solid prospect pool though, but I agree signing Kovy and getting Phaneuf was idiotic.

Dec. 19, 2019 at 12:58 p.m.

Fox_Czar_Cup

Joined: Apr. 2016

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On a positive note, I heard that LAK might be sending a record amount of kids to wjc

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Dec. 19, 2019 at 12:59 p.m.

Hockeyguy77

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Quoting: ExpiredmilkYT

Has built up a solid prospect pool though, but I agree signing Kovy and getting Phaneuf was idiotic.

That's not really a credit to him though. That's Yannetti and his scouts as well as not trading good draft picks.

Dec. 19, 2019 at 1:06 p.m.

Hockeyguy77

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Quoting: DoubleADoubleK

On a positive note, I heard that LAK might be sending a record amount of kids to wjc

And most of which are 3, 4 years from making the Kings.
If you watch the Kings, the foundation is there. They are among the best in the entire league in possession and Corsi. They are 1st in shots against though. The issue is very simple and is not rebuilding or retooling. The issue is the roster itself. They need to be players in this coming Free Agency and get Kopitar, Brown, and Doughty the help they need to be a good team(which they aren't far away from being) before its too late. Hopefully Turcotte, Vilardi, JAD, Bjornfot, and maybe Clague can come up next season and make a decent impact. Lizotte, Walker, and Kempe are good pieces for the team, but not near enough. Roy is starting to impress, but who knows. In the end, that 11M cap hit from those 3 players are really going to hender how much we can do in FA. This next offseason is really going to be a defining time for Blake as GM...

Dec. 19, 2019 at 1:20 p.m.

Joekings09

Joined: May 2018

Posts: 180

Likes: 49

I’m pretty sure you just dumped on Blake for being aggressive about getting this team to compete for a playoff spot when he signed Phaneuf and Kovalchuk but you believe he needs to add in free agency this coming year to what, accelerate the rebuilding process to be competitive when they were just able to admit to themselves that a rebuild is necessary. Sounds like more of the same thing. The 11 million in dead cap space is unfortunate but we probably won’t be competitive until the year after next so it’s as fortunate of a situation as you could have considering the circumstances. When that space is greatly reduced, more players are moved out, more prospects are playing and feeling more confident and everyone is on the same page about McClellans system(since we’ll be introducing new prospects to it) then I think they may try for free agency, until then they can just bid their time

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