Blake calling potential free agents- "Have you heard of the 1-3-1?.....Hello??....Hello!?!?"

@richardweaver7832

4 күн бұрын

😂 like Blake ACTUALLY does his job!

@richardweaver7832

4 күн бұрын

My bad, except for bad trades and REALLY bad contract extensions

Underwhelming is an understatement. Its almost as if they made it their mission to pick up the lowest production players possible. With some of the lowest scoring in the league, they needed goal scorers and got everything but that.

good luck, Hiller, you're going to need it

Terrible day all around as a Kings fan. Lost Roy and Arvi as well and to top it off Arvi goes to the Oilers.

I would have preferred Dillon or Zadorov over Edmunson but I’ll say this to me the biggest problem the Kings have had in the 3 playoff series vs Edmonton was a lack of grit and I will say trading for Jeannot and adding Foegle and Edmundson addresses that. I just think Guentzel,Stamkos and Debrusk was never really an option. I don’t see Burroughs competing unless Edmunson gets hurt which is likely and Englund falls out of favor with the staff.

We've just been hit by a Rob Blake body check.

@gretzkyan

4 күн бұрын

This feels more like his hip check

Bergevin has yet to make a decent move.

@joeya8721

4 күн бұрын

I have no idea why he's part of the Kings organization other than he's Luc's buddy because they're both Franch.

The salary cap was a mess when Blake took over. Got two cups out of it, but still paying the price. Blake comes in and makes some stupid moves, the biggest in Bergevin who is definitely responsible for Edmondson. Front office has to go. Play the kids and get another front office.

@donwilson4934

3 күн бұрын

Ya- that bergevin guy has a bad record of shit at other team

@gideonvictor

2 күн бұрын

Cup wins were 10 years ago now. This is all Blake now.

As long as tickets sell and new jerseys sell, AEG is satisfied.

Kings fan since '87. Blake is on par with McMaster as worst gm ever in Kings history

Kings have a slow start to the season , Blake doesn't make it to december

I wanted Chychrun, who has a presence defensively and offensively. The Capitals get him and Roy? They just got significantly better. This Kings team is worse. Arvisson is a better scorer than Foeggle. Roy is better than Edmundson. Plus the other players we lost. I have no idea how they are signing a 32-year old defenseman who is a journeyman to a 4-year deal for significant money? Foeggel is a solid player, but nothing overwhelming. He's a good depth piece, or bottom six player. Lizotte was an energy player-- he's gone. Where are the goals going to come from? They've done nothing to address their need for a sniper or elite playmaker. They weren't in a position to add big time players, but they could have made trades and reconfigured their team. This is not a championship team-- not close.

As an Avs fan, I like these moves. I've coveted Foegele & Jeannot in COL. JE is a bit expensive, but plays a tough, playoff style game. Losing PLD is big. You can always rent scoring.

Three straight playoff disasters against Edmonton. Time to be bold. Behold! Edmondsond and Foegle and Keumper! That should do it

I'm happy. I would rather watch a non playoff team that competes than whatever that debacle was last year. Sure, they had that long road winning streak last season, and the goals were coming flowing like champagne on New Years; but those of us who know...knew. And those of us who don't...didn't. Jeannot probably doesn't score 20, but at least he can impact the game, throw that big hit, muck it up, and bring that intimidation factor. Foegele is another guy who brings it every shift. I remember when he walked down the tunnel with a Kobe t-shirt. That was too funny. Lewis is a winner. I don't care what all these know nothing say. He impacts the game as well with great pressure and play reading. When he scores his 100th goal as a King, it will be one of the finest moments ever. Roy, Arvie, Liz,.are all gone. Good, i say. After years and years of failure and defeat, they can all go. They will give up more goals with Clarke, but so what. Whatever. Kuemper should have been traded, and Talbot would take 2 y 5 mil. That would have been nice. The Edmunson deal is a headscrather. Was somebody really offering this guy that much money and term that Blake was desperate to match or did Ed's agent pull a fast one? Idk. Slafkovsky got 8 years, 60.8 mil. Now you know what Byfield's agent will be asking for.

Blake said he wanted to get the players 'uncomfortable ' probably working because we're ALL uncomfortable now lol

With the names available in free agency, the Kings could have improved the roster on paper for sure. This does not feel like we did that. There are plenty of fans and clearly Blake and Luc, who thought that the Kings weren’t tough enough. That was the prominent line of thinking 10+ years ago, but this is now the era of the skill game. Looking at Florida, they have some sandpaper, but they also had skill and lots of it. Out hitting an opponent is not a favorable stat in today’s game, it’s misleading usually, it generally means your team didn’t have the puck that much and was chasing. I would love to have doubtful feelings proven wrong, absolutely, but most of our growth and success lies with the rookies and young guns now. We will see 👑

Not sure what you expected. I am glad the Kings finally added grit to the lineup, the problem is they lost all their depth already with the costly and foolish PLD trade. All of this frustration should be directed back to that as well as signing Gavrikov for way too much. That cost us Matt Roy.

Lottery pick here we come.

Arvidson, lizotte, Roy, and PLD go your return is Kuemper, Jeanot, Fogle, and Edmunson. I just don’t see it being better. The worst part is the term and asset management. Durzi got 6 mil. What about Walker, Roy and Faber. Blake should not have been given the opportunity to proceed running this team after the PLD and Cal Petersen deals

@joeya8721

4 күн бұрын

Dumping PLD was like winning a championship.

@jarrettpowers4627

4 күн бұрын

@@joeya8721 kind of? Would you rather spend 8.75 on PLD or Kuemper, Edmunson and Foegle… It’s bad man no one else was offering 3 x 4…

As a Laker and LA Kings fan I was very pleased with their draft picks. I think they both got steals. But free agency has been tremendously underwhelming for both franchises. Obviously the Kings did take a step back but it's time these prospects start contributing and growing. I don't expect the Kings to make the playoffs and if they do, they're a fringe playoff team. The real question is whether this natural step back to take two steps forward costs Blake or Hiller their job.

I think they are getting ready to give Byfield 8 million over 8 years.

to take the next step we need byfield, turcotte, clarke and portillo to lead the way. that's going to be asking a lot from the young guys

So with the 2 signings of Edmundson and Burroughs where does that leave Spence , Clarke and I'll throw in Moverare and you still have Englund?

@db-rc5fr

4 күн бұрын

They should let Spence walk.

California teams are at a huge disadvantage because of state taxes. Maybe a lot of the tier 1 free agents took that into consideration.

I like it. They desperately needed to get tougher and harder to play against. We'll see what else happens.

They're tanking this season!!!

You know what despises me the most about this whole scenario? The fact that no one apologized, in fact even mentioned the promise of getting to the 2nd round. Won't settle for anything less and neither should we mumbo jumbo. Smh

Why are people surprised by this? They have minimal cap space to work with due to Rob Blake’s disaster contracts, and second, Rob Blake flat out does not know how to build a team that competed in today’s nhl. He’s stuck in the 2012 and 2014 cup years

Words out the kings aren’t the place to be with the front office the whole PLD things is a bad look

It looks like we are playing for a lottery pick next season.

No one wanna come to la and play 1 3 1 😂

@Kurakodairu

4 күн бұрын

Or get taxed up the ass

I hate to be an 'Eeyore' but I'm 'whelmed' with these moves. Blake is shopping at 'Dollar Tree' for a special wedding reception. #Geez. Can you say.....mediocre?

Does anyone else find it weird our Hall of Fame GM seems to struggle the most filling roles in the position he himself played ? Would it have been the end of the world to get Chychrun for one year at 4.6M instead of Edmunson for 4M for 4 years ? I mean the plan seems to be trying to put the best possible line up in front of Kopitar and Doughty while they’re still performing at top or near top level.

Lol someone must be asleep at the wheel

Eddie, I understand what you are saying. But I think there is something people aren't looking at. If you were a player, and the Kings made an off to you, but Florida made the same offer would you choose to move your family to Florida or California? I would pick Florida. California is not a place I would want my family to live in right now. I live in California, and I am looking to leave. A lot of good players have turned us done, and I don't think it has anything to do with the team. It has to do with the state.

Blake is horrible with player money management he said before that he want to pay players high salary so it would draw other players to come to la kings and then with not much care towards goaltending wich is f in nuts Blake idk man wtf GKG

And this is not it blake has something else planned for sure 💯 coming soon GKG

@Brickstyles2

4 күн бұрын

Really because in his interview yesterday it sounded pretty much like this is our roster

I agree it was underwhelming. However are you really paying Zadorov 5 million per season as a 3rd pairing guy? There was a lot of overpayment. Everyone is forgetting Byfield’s agent mat be insisting on a long term deal, at which point the money becomes very restrictive. I think expectations were unrealistic. The cap situation is on Blake but it is what it is .

Well, on good news we didn’t sign anyone on an 8 year contract.

After looking at Free Agency so far, i have 2 thoughts... 1. The best thing to happen so far is that Steven Stamkos didn't sign with the Golden Knights 2. This (last season and this coming one) reminds me a bit of the final 2 years of the Keim/Kingsbury Era in Arizona. They were great for the second to last year of that era [going 10-2 before losing all but (i believe) one of their last games and then getting bent over backwards in the Wild Card round by the Rams[. The next year they completely Wile E Coyoted themselves off a cliff going 4-13 and getting the 3rd overall pick in the draft. It was after that season Cardinals Owner Michael Bidwell Bid Keim and Kingsbury farewell (pun intended), eventually hiring Monti Ossenfort and Johnathan Gannon who have thrown out the old school Cardinals and (so far at least) built up a new era where anything but playing to win is unacceptable (and unlike Rob Blake and Luc Robitaille, Monti and JG don't play around). In this comparison, last year was the "next year will be different... right?" year, and so far this free agency period has built up to this coming season possibly being one where the Kings bottom out like the Cardinals in 2022-23 (albeit probably not putting as abhorrent of a product out during said season) barring an explosion of consistent greatness from the right players at the right time. Of course, I hope i'm wrong, or if i'm right, then the correlation continues long enough for Robitaille and Blake to be sent packing and the new President and GM are able to build something better for the future as Monti and JG seem to have done in AZ.

The Ducks did a better job doing nothing than the Kings did with these minor league trades. I understand Roy leaving for more money but letting Lizzotte walk away for almost half of the price of the 2 we just picked up. He was one of the very few who showed up all season and put in the effort.

I bet eventually in near future blake will b in san jose organization 🤝

Now trade for right handed shot... Martin Necus or Shane Pinto.

Only thing that could.help.is a trade for Laine

They shouldn’t even be involved in Free Agency. They should be dumping salary and looking to secure top draft picks over the next few years. In other words, they should start the rebuild that should have started in 2015. Lizotte is the only one I’m sad to see go. He’s a hard worker and good role model for young players.

I don't like the Kings being quite 😡

Kings are so cooked. Will be fighting for the final playoff spot or will bottom out entirely. AEG should sell the team, they just don't care about putting a winning product on the ice anymore.

That's could cost Blake

This team under Blake's guidance is going backwards.Jeanot move i like(they need sandpaper). Letting Roy go when u cld have resigned/fit in capwise instead of signing Edmundson/Foegele. PLD was a titanic disaster (lost Villardi,Durzi ,other guys moved were expendable) Least Villardi, though injury prone, is top 6 help. No goalies since Quick gone. Shld have looked at Chycrun then,if no Roy,who was traded for virtually nothing, or perhaps look at Askarov on Preds who has potential to be a franchise/elite goalie. Only good thing we did was go back to our vintage Gretzky jerseys.

Still need to save some money to resign Gav.

Toronto "West" (at best)

@Jessica_Roth

4 күн бұрын

We wish! The Maple Laffs will be good enough to give their fans false hope. We'll be lucky to grab a #8 spot and get wiped out in 4 straight.

Edmundson 🤦‍♀️… I’d rather just bring up AHL guys and say we a doing a hard rebuild… Watching a young team going towards future playoff runs is easier to swallow than barely getting in and then getting our ass kicked out of the first round 🏒

They signed arguably the worst contract in free agency. They used all their savings in the PLD-Kuemper swap and then some on Edmundson who has some of the worst underlying numbers around and is injury prone to boot. Too many years, too much money.

Prime example of leadership that doesn't have a clue on how to biuld a Cup contending team

They never should have fired McClellan.

@joeya8721

4 күн бұрын

Why? Dude was one-dimensional, uncreative, and rigid with an inability to make in-game adjustments and he doesn't make free-agent signings.

Out of the long list of young talented free agents we chose a guy who has yet to stay healthy for an entire season in edmondsun and then we over pay foegele… duclair would have been a better signing honestly what disaster. So many other routes we could have taken yesterday. Blake must wear a clown costume on July 1st every year 😂 he probably hands the players a blank check too

Pretty sure they may trade spence

@joeya8721

4 күн бұрын

Hope so, but you know they won't get fair value because Blake's a moron.

@xWESTICLESx

4 күн бұрын

Good.

Disappointed, what’s the plan?

@markpeters9098

4 күн бұрын

Disappointment is, “The Plan”.

@Jessica_Roth

4 күн бұрын

Move the team to Utah? Oh, wait, the 'yotes beat us to that.

FIRE BLAKE and win a prize...a BRAND NEW GM...

This is a disaster. Not that this guy will ever tell you!

This is all on Dan Beckerman….. he should be fired for letting this mess go on this long.

No Eddie, we are not a small market team. My guess is that the owners finally had enough of blake pissing away their money. Perhaps they cut him off. Make Do! And expect to be fired/dumped/shoveled into a hole after next season! I can't believe they let so many good, young players walk or get jettisoned...for what, to save a few hundred dollars? Seriously? I suddenly have discomfort in the pit of my stomach...even ice cream can't fill that emptiness. For those who still complain about our minor league organization, just remember, most of those players are still playing-only, with other teams. For better or worse, Derek Forbert just signed with the Kraken...

Overpaid for Edmundson. Good take on FA. We could of done better. So sad!

Kings dumping overachievers who were a help to the team (Grundstrom, Lizotte, Roy) and top-quality talent (Arvidsson) in order to bring in a career bottom six (Foegele) a giant bust (Jeannot) and a redundant amount of "physical" 3rd-pairing defensemen (Burroughs, Edmundson) one of whom took way too many penalties and the other of whom is slower than a corpse. Utterly pathetic. Are they tanking to try and get a good draft position for next season? The Edmundson contract is big fat joke. Do we "promote" Blake to Senior VP in charge of Restroom Sanitizing now, or wait until the team craters at mid-season?

Rob is betting on luck 🤦‍♂️ getting random players hoping of a cup

Could’ve gotten a 100 point player but spread the money around to get mediocre anchor talents.

Man this show used to be a top priority but I rarely check in anymore. Blake tried a big splash last season and it backfired he seems to be a bit more cautious this year and he gets slammed for that now. Arvidsson can't play a full season, Roys contract won't look great in 2 years if not sooner. And what might be crucial is having cap space this season. The tight cap has handcuffed teams in recent years, every season there's a headscratching move for next to nothing as cap dumps. There have been opportunities for teams to improve without giving up assets every season just due to cap affordability. Not making big moves on the first day of free agency is a positive. Get the Hockey Guy on instead of recycling the same 3 or 4 guests that are on the Kings payroll. And if you don't know The Hockey Guy go check him out, no frills hockey coverage.

These signing make me laugh typical Rob Blake moves Lewis its time to retire - wasted rister spot - Could have easily gave Sens comparable to wash for JC This team needs a pure goal scorer - and a mix of youth and vets Not 8 players that play the same style - May as well have Roy the $ to stay- just brutal start to the offseason!

Hey guys, did you all forget that there is something called the salary cap? If you expected Blake to sign someone like Stamkos or Guentzel they won't have enough to sign Byfield.

Most likely we trade these players in the future 😄 for worser players

PLD floater....gone Arvidson always hurt.....gone Matt Roy overrated.....gone We're better today IMO Nobody pushes us around again.

Edmunson is one word… STUPID !!! Would have rather have Martinez for a year ! Oh yeah, so no Arvidsson, PLD, Lizotte and Grunstrom. And we got Jeannot and Foegele. They are fine signings and we got tougher for sure…..except where are our goals going to come from ?

@Jessica_Roth

4 күн бұрын

Forbort is younger, better, an alumni, and Seattle got him for *40%* of the money we're flushing down the toilet on Edmundson. FFS!

I used to agree with pretty much everything Eddie had to say here. But recently I find myself agreeing with almost nothing. He advocates for a return of Toffoli. Are you serious??? Absolutely not. The guy is slow with NO tenacity and produces on the man advantage only. It’s time for Turcotte, A. Thomas, and Clarke to be on the club for this seasons duration. Only other question is the 2nd line Center. We had him, he sucked, we move on. P. Dannault is NOT a 2nd line Center on a contending team. Period. He is C3, From game 1 to 82. Maybe Byfield needs to play the position where he was drafted. Even if it’s not time, it’s time.

Obviously this clown doesn’t know what a salary cap is. Kings haven’t even signed Q yet. No way Kings were going to pay some of those ridiculous contracts with so many still to sign. Eddie do your homework

So let me get this straight. Kings fanbase and KZread content creators scream and shout, “Play the kids, why are we singing vets to block their path.” When vets are signed, “why don’t we sign better vets.” And the funny one…lamenting letting Arvy go and signing Foegle. 😂😂😂 Arvy played in 18 games last year and has been consistently injured meanwhile Foegle is 3 years younger, bigger and faster, stays healthy and put up 20 goals last year. When did the Kings fanbase I know become so lazy and stupid? I’m sure this channel means well but the content (sans interviews) feeds that stupidity. Be better damn, this is getting old…