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Thomas

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  1. Seeing as our seasons our dead and buried, might as well look forward to June. Who do you guys want your team to draft? Hughes? Kakko? Byram?
  2. It's fun watching the fair weathers jump off ship.
  3. Eh, the odds are long regardless. And Kings and 1st overall picks... But high draft picks are more helpful than not, even if not the ultimate prize. http://www.tankathon.com/nhl/pick_odds
  4. He actually has 325 million or so current or eventual constituents by literal definition. But please continue to dazzle me with this wit.
  5. Is there an opt-out? The lower AAV may not mean as much if it has one and the money is front-loaded.
  6. Alas I have found my better when it comes to battles of wit.
  7. That'd be one thing. Jones, Colin Miller and a first for one season of Lucic. /smfh The Kings are lucky that Lucic signed in Edmonton or they'd be worse off.
  8. More middle-aged. Old would have been "thug".
  9. Or as it's normally called, Wednesday
  10. Kovalchuk's contract isn't a big deal. He can be offloaded easily enough when desired. His numbers aren't terrible. And the Kings aren't going to be adding big contracts for the duration of the contract Dean trading for Gaborik defied expectations and really worked out. Signing him to a new contract didn't. Blake trading him for Dion Phaneuf was a really good job of making the best of it considering the nothing the team was getting from Gaborik The Milan Lucic trade really hurt.
  11. They tried to trade them but there just isn't a market. The rumor was a deal was in place to trade Quick to Columbus if they traded Bobrovsky. But the Blue Jackets didn't. The Kings are holding out for a first for him but clearly they didn't get any other bites. They'd love to part with Carter but his production to cap hit isn't good. And he has leverage that he could just retire if a trade doesn't suit him, killing the Kings cap. Brown was always going to be hard to move though I'm not even sure you really actually want to. His voice in the locker room during this struggle is important. Considering what it'd take to get another team to take his contract, it might not be worth it. And Lombardi is why we have all the contract issues and a dismal poor farm system. I don't know if Blake really believed this team could win this year, was told to try, or felt it necessary to try before imploding. But clearly the tea leaves have been read. Even if "retooling" is the preferred term to "rebuilding".
  12. I'm pretty sure you meant to put this in the Long Beach Ballpark thread.
  13. Inferring someone's genius from scholastic grades. That's about as white as you can get. Like BLT extra mayonnaise, hold the bacon, lettuce and tomato while watching the Oscars white.
  14. The forward market was dead. The Kings really wanted to trade a few but weren't going to take fifty cents on the dollar in trade value. It's like Gamestop employees are running the teams in the league.
  15. Of course one of the reasons the team didn't move to Long Beach in the first place back when the team was looking for a permanent home was the city's insistence of using Long Beach in their name.
  16. They fit Target field in 10.5 acres so it's possible if tight.
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