Quoting: Kings989
Don’t remember if I asked you this brother but why exactly do you hate Blake so much? I know you think I’m a Blake guy, I’m not yet he’s made some mistakes, but he’s also helped build quite a future. So I haven’t exactly made up my mind. Lombardi made some goofs too that I didn’t like but the end result was 2 cups so end result being how could I not like that. Every GM makes some horrible moves. As all of us on here know sometimes a trade is all about perspective lol! Or maybe you just don’t like him and don’t know why 😂😂I get that too, some people do that to me. Just curious.
Lombardi built a contender almost from the ground up and the result was 2 stanley cups, almost 3. He did whatever it took to win. That's why I love Lombardi.
As far as Blake goes, my issues with him started from the very beginning. He hired the worst head coach in Philadelphia Flyers because "he's a great friend and a hockey fan and my family knows him" the success of that season is on the players not that coach he had no system. Then fired him the next season after taking forever to realize how trash he is. There were plenty quality coaches out there. Then he makes Willie D the interm head coach? One of the worst coaches in Vancuvers history. I was so upset when he hired Todd, but luckily Todd seems to know what he's doing. We haven't had a coach like that since Daryl Sutter. We should have hired Alain V imo though.
As far as the prospects go all that credit goes to Yannetti and all of his scouts. Blake does really nothing in that area. All Blake has to do is not trade any of those picks.
So ask yourself this, what has Blake really done other than make mistakes up in that office?
If I'm the Kings owners I want him to make a splash this off season picking up RFA defensemen. To show he's in for the success if the future. Any GM can just sit back and let the scouts draft. Unless he wants to spend another 5+ years doing what he's doing now he could make this very easy and go after Sergachev and/or Deangelo and draft a winger in the 1st round and let the kids play and in 3 years we could be contenders again, who knows. It wouldn't be rushed either. We already have the best pipeline. Most rebuilders pickup a couple players from other teams in the rebuilding process.