"Fresh Ideas"?!?!? That's hilarious!! This is the fourth time today, and the NINTH time this month, that you've proposed the ridiculous inclusion of Brandt Clarke in a trade to Toronto (8 times for Marner and once for Nylander), and on each of the earlier occasions, received unanimous opposition to the idea of including Clarke in ANY trade.

But go ahead. Just put your head down and ignore every single reaction you get. It's a horrible, terrible, no-good, horrible idea for the Kings, but you don't want to listen to what you don't want to hear.

Having worked for Rob I can say with 100% certainty he would accept this deal if it was offered and Marner came with an extension of 4-8y at $11.5M or less.

It would immediately erase the PLD disaster, buy him another season as GM and solve the RHD problem he has.

Kings fans genuinely have no understanding of the game. You can't have Doughty, Spence and Clarke as your RHD. None of them are solid enough defensively and all of them will take time away from each other in offensive situations.

I think Kings fans so don't realize how much power guys like Kopitar/Doughty have. They are a large reason for the Fiala/PLD moves which were completely unnecessary in an attempt to accelerate the rebuild.

Doughty doesn't want Clarke there and today the organization rather put Clarke in the AHL, press box or third pair than risk upsetting Doughty by giving Clarke real minutes.

So in short if you think this trade wouldn't be accepted I'd highly recommend taking some time to learn more about the game and the business. It's has to be one of the least educated and most absurd takes you can have. I'm quite certain many analysts have done their mock Marner trades and many have Clarke coming back to Toronto in an LA trade.

You sir aren't smarter than people who do this for a living.

Nothing could illustrate your utter lack of insight better than this idiotic generalization, and betray your total unfitness for a position in any hockey operation. Thanks for revealing yourself.

I've sat in the arena more times than you ever will. The lower bowl is largely Canadians who moved to Cali and the Kings are their second team.

The rest of the fan base is largely fair weather.

Doughty doesn't want Clarke there and today the organization rather put Clarke in the AHL, press box or third pair than risk upsetting Doughty by giving Clarke real minutes.[/quote]

Doughty literally said yesterday in his exit interview that “he sees a lot of himself in Brandt Clarke and he’d love to sit down and watch video with him to help his defensive game.”

The idea that Doughty doesn’t like Clarke is absurd.