Thomas

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?

23 hours ago, Tank said:

my buddy made an astute observation . . . the kings have stopped hitting. during their cup run, they were beating the crap out of teams up and down the ice, hitting whenever and whomever they could. They no longer do this. Why? What changed? It might very well be part of the reason for their demise as teams don't seem to fear them very much any more.

You can't hit what you can't catch.

44 minutes ago, nando714 said:

Staples center was dead last night. Never seen it that empty. 

Worse than 2005?

 It's fun watching the fair weathers jump off ship. 

6 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Kings are doing the Hughes thing.    Unfortunately, so is Ottawa.

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

2 minutes ago, yvangelfan said:

Dr. Phil,  I think Trump is instituting  effective policy to garner favor with his   63 million constituents .  Isn't it the  goal of every President to attain power for another 4 years?

He actually has 325 million or so current or eventual constituents by literal definition. But please continue to dazzle me with this wit.
 

Is there an opt-out? The lower AAV may not mean as much if it has one and the money is front-loaded.

12 minutes ago, yvangelfan said:

Dumb and dumber.

Alas I have found my better when it comes to battles of wit.

1 hour ago, Tank said:

lucic for martin jones. talk about  wanting  a do-over.

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.

1 hour ago, Vegas Halo Fan said:

Trump secretly envies leaders who can order things like this. He would like to be able to eliminate his detractors.

Soon enough

3 hours ago, calscuf said:

 It’s like if I paid someone to murder for hire and they killed the person and we’re caught and turned on me and my defense is “you can’t believe that guy, he’s a murderer!”

Anyone else read this as 

3 hours ago, UndertheHalo said:

I know that YV is an old white person because YV chose to use the word “Ebonics” when referencing a black person talking. 

More middle-aged. Old would have been "thug".

3 hours ago, yvangelfan said:

And that concludes today's national  "take a criminal to Congress " day.

Or as it's normally called, Wednesday 

2 minutes ago, Angel Oracle said:

Lombardi's one mistake was the big contracts to Brown and Carter, given their ages, after they had already tasted Stanley Cup success.

Then Blake compounded it with Kovalchuk's insane contract for a guy who didn't play NHL hockey for 5 years.

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.

21 hours ago, Angel Oracle said:

Does anyone else think Blake loves his star veterans too much, to trade any of them?

No reason why any of Quick, Carter, and Brown couldn't be traded in the off-season now?     Yes, they will need to absorb over 50% of Brown's contract.   The other part can then be used towards rebuilding.   Campbell is ready to be #1 goalie in a rebuild.  Carter is a bit complicated, only $7 million owed on his last 3 seasons, but cap hit is $5.2 million/season.

Blake is reminding me too much of Dave Taylor.   They need another Dean Lombardi to come in, and take advantage of the 10 picks in the deep June draft.

12 hours ago, Tank said:

bingo.

i don't know what blake's plan is, but it doesn't look to me like he really has one.

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".

1 minute ago, RallyMo said:

 

I'm pretty sure you meant to put this in the Long Beach Ballpark thread.

59 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

Someone here actually said that Trump was a genius.

Here, his Tomas Hagan wannabe lawyer was threatening to sue the shit out of Fordham if they released his grades.

Genius.

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.

Um..vote?

3 hours ago, Inside Pitch said:

 I believe it was the first time that had happened..  

It was the first since Dodger Stadium.

11 minutes ago, red321 said:

If you were to ask...what would be the worst place I could put a stadium in regards to ease of access...you probably couldn't find a better spot. 710 is the closest freeway, and is down to something like 2 lanes feeding into the waterfront area. Can feed people down side streets that are, at best, 2 lanes with no left hand turn signals.

Access from the south would be through Belmont Shores and Ocean or taking the 405 North through one of it's busiest stretches.  Access from North Orange County and IE would be the 22 and then feeding through side streets.

That would just be a total clusterfuck

Santa Monica?

16 hours ago, gotbeer said:

Silfverberg should have been traded.  

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.

1 minute ago, floplag said:

well... at least the "los angeles" would make some sense.   

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.

19 minutes ago, yk9001 said:

They fit a temporary swim stadium in that space for the US Olympic Trials a decade plus ago.

Barely.

Not sure I am seeing how a baseball stadium is going to fit in there.

And I've seen the average age of a major league baseball fan.  The Blue Line stop is a decent walk from there.

They fit Target field in 10.5 acres so it's possible if tight.