I’m glad Blake found a decent solution to getting rid of PLD and his contract. But there is NO excuse for how this played out. Essentially Vilardi, Kupari, Iafallo, Durzi and 8.5 M paid to PLD for one season FOR Kemper ! That’s it… That’s what it comes down to. The whole thing just shows that Blake swung huge for the fences and it was a big gamble that he whiffed on ! Any other organization would have fired him at the end of this season. There is zero reason this guy should have a job anymore. There is no defense for how piss poor both Luc and Blake have managed our assets ! Pitiful !! and they both should have been fired long ago !!! Owners of the Kings are totally spineless !!

@scottallan6770

7 күн бұрын

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Imaginary perspective: PLD is big, picked 3rd overall, has so much potential, he can be a beast! The reality: He's set for life even if bought out and appears to have no reason to try harder.

Byfield will be a full time Center next season. I’m assuming Fiala will be his primary winger. So you’ve got to decide if Laf fits on that line. Then you have a hole next to Kopi/Kempe. Maybe that gets filled through free agency.

So funny…. Not a knock on Paterno, but he says we need an impact winger. Hmmm how about Gabe Vilardi ??? The irony of how we got to this place is laughable.

Is there really a better PL? I don't think there is. He's shown who he is in now 3 different teams.

@lakingsbb23

7 күн бұрын

There is no better PLD. He has shown his lackluster play with 3 teams already. He is the problem. This nonsense of him playing with better players is asinine. 8.5 million. You better be playing your ass off no matter who your line mates are.

Lol it's really not hard to speculate and it's not a mystery. Did you expect Blake to come out and trash the guy? "We traded him because he sucked and gave no effort." Not gana happen but not at all hard to understand 😂

@michaelv1986

7 күн бұрын

Yeah cuz he just had to sell Capitals GM that the Kings “just didn’t use PLD right.” There is no excuse for not finding a way to use a 8.5M dollar player for an entire season. Bad coaching and Bad management !

BLAKE NEEDS TO GOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! Since 2017 Blake has taken the Kings from having one of the best Prospect pools in the whole NHL to the Abyss an average team at best and all that under Luc's watch! I understand loyalty but Blake doesn't have the balls to man up and resign since he is the true problem and should be held responsible along with Luc!!!

@rickyhazel1030

7 күн бұрын

Well everything you said was wrong 1st LA's prospect pool consisted of Kempe, Moverare, Roy, Walker, MacDermit, and Austin Strand, it was infact Blake that built the prospect pool to the envy of the league and by the way the guy you say needs to go is also the guy who built a team that has had the 3 best consecutive seasons in the entire history of the club that's since 1967 Blake isn't the problem toxic fans who think there in Toronto are much more of an issue

@karokaro7328

6 күн бұрын

@@rickyhazel1030 well my Toronto friend everything you said is wrong and everything I said is a fact! Since 2017 under your genius Blake Kings have missed the playoffs four times and made the playoff four times which they have exited in the first round every time Including three in a row to Edmonton and getting worse every year and that’s a fact, here’s another fact our prospect Pool is one of the worst as we speak, and whatever we had before he gave them all away that’s also a fact and here’s your last and current facts Blake signed Cal Peterson $5 million a year for 3years was a bust and traded! He signed coach Todd McLellan to a 3year 5 million a year contract highest in the NHL fired gone but getting paid till 2026! The biggest bust in kings history and the worst contract ever PLD A mind-boggling whopping 8years $8.5 million a year major bust traded, and let’s not forget all the prospects and players he gave away! ALL FACTS!!! Blake is Cancer Killing this organization and that’s a Fact!

@rickyhazel1030

6 күн бұрын

@@karokaro7328 well again your wrong 1st Blake has been GM for 7 seasons (Lombardi was fired after the 16'-17' season with Blake being hired before the 2017 draft but yes he has had 8 drafts), LA missed the play-offs 3 times (during the rebuild) making them 4 times including the last 3 seasons, while yes the Kings have lost 3 straight to EDM in increasingly less games, I would point out that EDM has gotten better losing to cup Champs VGK and currently playing for the cup the last 2 play-offs as for the prospects and players he's given away he's traded 4 prospects and technicaly only 2 proper prospects those being Helge Grans (who probably won't play in the NHL) and Brock Faber, who along with a 1st brought in Fialla, who has finished 2nd on the team in scoring the last 2 seasons, 70+ points in both trading. Villardi, AI, Kupari, and essentially Durzi for PLD was a crap trade no doubt but if we're being honest none of those players were indispensable Kupari has struggled, AI was redundant same with Durzi losing Villardi sucked and would certainly have helped LA but he's injury prone, and on to the contracts 1st coaching salaries don't matter, as it doesn't count against the cap, and beside McClellan instilled the discipline needed to be a playoff contender, he lost the room not uncommon with coaches, there usually the 1st to go when things turn sour, Cal's contract did not age well at all, won't deny it, though when it was signed there was reason for hope, he had fantastic numbers (in a limited sample size), it didn't work but Blake got out of that mistake without giving up much of anything literally the aforementioned Grans, a 2nd, the undrafted Sean Walker (who by the way didn't have a spot on the LA blueline nor did he have the trade value he had at this past trade deadline) and $2 mil in cap retention on Proverov, as for Dubois that was a debacle, bad trade, bad contract, now he's gone, probably the right move, sucks to lose the assets but as noted earlier all were expendable, Blake was able to move $9 mil in bad cap for 2 2nds and an undrafted player who didn't have a spot that is as good as it gets, but now that we've gotten both of Blake's only 2 mistakes out of the way, let's talk great contracts that he signed and trades he's made like, Mikey Anderson's 8×4, Adrian Kempe at 5.5, Trevor Moore at 4 or Matt Roy's last contract being at 3.1 and how about the absolute home run Muzzin trade or the Cambell trade that by the added Trevor Moore and Alex Laferriere and as mentioned before this team built by Rob Blake has for the 1st time in the 57 year history of the team averaged more than 100pts across 3 consecutive seasons those my friend are FACTS and seriously trying to prove your not a toxic fan by being a toxic fan not very effective

@karokaro7328

6 күн бұрын

@@rickyhazel1030 😂 WOW You seriously need to factcheck yourself! Toxic ? Don’t even go there! The truth hurts 😢Wait a minute Is this Rob Blake yeah it’s gotta be! How about ending this with a simple bet and a fact instead of writing a freakin book! No one gives a 💩 how many points you get in the regular season it’s what you can do in the playoffs! As long as Blake is around Kings will never reach the Stanley Cup finals that’s a Fact! I Love my Kings as a team and not as individuals! Since you’re such a Blake Fan You and Blake should get together and go Bowling!

@rickyhazel1030

6 күн бұрын

@@karokaro7328 everything I said was verifiable fact but you sound wounded did the truth hurt that bad that your response is name calling instead of disproving statements and again I'll remind if you the regular season most certainly matters if you don't make the playoffs you can't win the cup and generally the better a team performs during the season the better prepared to challenge for the cup and you know what I would absolutely love to go bowling with Rob Blake sounds like it would be alot of fun

Good take fellas but Blake ( the real cancer) is trying to cover his ass by saying they did not use or put PLD in a good situation WOW Seriously no shame!!! Just for the record PLD was given every opportunity and was played on all 4 lines and still he did not produce! On an interview (Locked on Kings podcast) with Jim Fox who said it the best about PLD "" AT 8.5MILL YOU ARE NOT A PLAYER THAT NEEDS OTHER PLAYERS TO MAKE YOU BETTER AT 8.5MILL YOU BETTER MAKE THE OTHER GUYS AROUND YOU BETTER""