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Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2019 at 4:28 p.m.
Thread: General Manager Rob Blake
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>F50marco</b></div><div>Gonna just play devils advocate a little but I actaully overall agree with you.

1) Correction: Phaneuf had <em><strong>max 26</strong></em> good games and 67 bad ones. The way I see it, Gaborik when healthy was still a decent player and the advantage of Gabprik was when he was injured, which was often, he was on LTIR, giving the team cap flexibility and actual salary relief. Phaneuf was generally healthy player and was becoming painfully obvious that he couldn't keep up in the new NHL. I won't say this was bad trade <em>per se</em> but he misjudged some very important criteria that had he been more prudent, would have told him to stay clear of this move.

2) Agreed and even if it was him, not his fault in the slightest.

3) I don't think his hires have even been that bad, I think simply had misguided goals for their seasons under those coaches. Their loss to Vegas should have been an eye opener for them that its not the coaching style that was that bad, but its roster makeup and age group of the core that was misconstructed.

4) GM's get wayyyyyyy too much credit for their drafting. Truth is none of the players under his guidance have made the NHL yet so we can't crown Blake a genius just yet. I don't think any one of us could have done any worse with the picks he had simply using online draft mocks.... Development has EVERYTHING to do with how a player becomes a good player or not. That will be the thing to hang his hat on if they become good but we'll have to wait and see for that.

5) Agreed to a certain extent, that roster spot could have been given to a younger player. It didn't overly affect them but there were <em>some</em> negative impacts from it.

I think its been too early to judge him to harshly, while he hasn't killed it as GM he hasn't "Chiarelli'd" it up either.</div></div>

One thing worse than a GM that makes bad trades is one that does nothing. Blake does nothing. We are not rebuilding we are “Reloading” I think there’s been plenty to rule Blake a bad GM. He’s already hired 2 very bad head coaches and make 1 dumb trade and multiple stupid signings. Now here we are almost 2 years and he hasn’t really done anything at all except for hiring Todd and putting Kovalchuk on unconditional waivers.

I really think that after this next offseason people are going to see what I mean.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2019 at 4:24 p.m.
Thread: General Manager Rob Blake
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>KINGS67</b></div><div>Moron

That’s pretty much sums up my opinion of you. You seem to just hold a grudge against Blake.

He has been fine as a GM. It’s been what, 2 years relax kid</div></div>

Are you ****?

What is one good thing Blake has done other than not trading our picks and good players? Although I think the Petersen deal is amazing those are about the things he’s done well. Look at the coaches he’s hired. Todd is proving to be alright, but time will tell. The trades he’s made for playoff pushes when we were in that spot were absolutely garbage and you can’t argue. Signing Kovi and trading for Phaneuf were almost as dumb as hiring John Stevens (The worst head coach in Flyers history) They might as well of kept Gaborik and let him ride LTIR so we wouldn’t be ****ed in cap of players that aren’t on the team anymore.

I don’t understand the trouble you are having seeing this? Kings have hopefully 3 more good years in Kopitar and Doughty(although I am a firm believer that Doughty will be good till he’s 40) that’s nothing to wager on. Kings built up there prospect pool. They have a lot of good players about to come up. Now is the time to load up and go for another run. Not saying go all in but Add the players needed to make it a playoff team and the year after we’ll be in a position to go much further in the playoffs.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2019 at 4:17 p.m.
Thread: General Manager Rob Blake
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Joekings09</b></div><div>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</div></div>

Nobody within the Kings organization ever said anything about this being a rebuild buddy. In Luc’s words it is a “Reload”. We have good prospects ready to make the jump next season and With the additions of a few FA pickups then That will put them in a good spot. That sounds a lot like what a “Reload” would be.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2019 at 1:06 p.m.
Thread: General Manager Rob Blake
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>DoubleADoubleK</b></div><div>On a positive note, I heard that LAK might be sending a record amount of kids to wjc</div></div>

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...
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 19, 2019 at 11:10 a.m.
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