Rob Blake Ruined This Team

To quote the Jackson Five, "One bad apple doesn't spoil the whole bunch girl." Might be true in love, but in a cap league as you suggest, "one bad apple CAN spoil the whole bunch"

The PLD trade was silly and the contract is even worse. I don’t see any team giving up anything right now to help LA get out of that contract. If he has a bounce back year next season and looks like the player he can be that’s when you’d want to trade him. Never sell low, sell high.

I was just gonna say something along these lines. Both the trade and contract made NO sense at the time, and they make even less sense now.

PLD conceptually is fine. He’s a big guy who can skate with a lot of production at the NHL level for a guy his age. What didn’t make sense is giving up Villardi and then proceeding to pay him at the level of players who have produced more when he was never going to be more than a 3rd line center for your team

I think he’s overpaid by about $2m from being a valuable asset.

TBH the only trades/moves i condemn him for are Bergavin type trades.
Its almost like he's a negative influence on those around him.

I mean you waited too long to sell on Durzi, Walked, Kaliyev heck even Roy now among others.
Sometimes Youth need to be moved just as much as the veterans
But you moved Muzzin just in time for a pretty good return
Although you did lose part of it on the Waiver wire this year
That said it comes back to all bad decisions came after Marc Bergavin signed on

Remove Marc and i bet you see an improvement
I bet you wont see another dumb move like over paying for a French Player just to spite his old team and seemingly screw his new one.