Speculation: Fire Rob Blake Blow it Up Offseason Thread (update: Robitaille, Blake and Hiller stay)

[Ziggy Stardust]

Hollywood Hiller is my guess.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I'll take 5 bucks on Announcing Hiller signing

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Meet the new Kings, same as the old Kings!

 

[Schrute farms]

Hiller being announced as the hire by the Kings will have about as much impact and notice to the Hollywood area (or even LA general) as a fly landing on the Hollywood sign.

 

[chris kontos]

Hiller 50 million 5 yrs

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

The great thing about the Hiller hire is that it saves the Kings money. Now remember to renew your season tickets for another year of subpar hockey!

 

[Kingspiracy]

I cant wait, i'm barring up with excitment thinking about how they can f*** this team up even more.

 

[Trash Panda]

It’s amazing how one of the highest valued teams in the entire NHL can turn in such a pathetic performance on the year, and see no major changes outside of a coaching “change” and letting FA’s walk that they can’t afford anyways.

Ownership must really not give a f***.

 

[Schmooley]

It’s amazing how one of the highest valued teams in the entire NHL can turn in such a pathetic performance on the year, and see no major changes outside of a coaching “change” and letting FA’s walk that they can’t afford anyways.

Ownership must really not give a f***.

Yea its crazy they are just gonna run it back.
Theyll probably change their offensive structure a little bit but it wont change much.
And theyll surely try to tout playing Turcotte Clarke and Thomas in the lineup as progress when the reality is they cant afford to bring back Roy Arvidsson and Lizotte.

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Luc, Blake, and Hiller...
Oh boy, what an exciting season this is going to be
Bringing back a coach who no other team in the league would think about as their head coach because we held on to lame ducks

 

[Choralone]

As the only guy left (AFAIK) with a subscription to the Athletic, I thought I'd post a brief summary of Eric Stephen;s' article, L.A. Kings offseason: Who stays, who goes from the roster?

First he mentions the Kings and Trent Yawney have parted ways.

Second, he breaks down the likely dispositions of the roster based on his guesses:

• Untouchables: Quinton Byfield, Brandt Clarke
• Not Going Anywhere: Anze Kopitar, Drew Doughty, Adrian Kempe, Kevin FIala, Mikey Anderson, Trevor Moore, Phillip Danault, David Rittich
• Staying Put, most likely: Vladislav Gavrikov, Alex Laferriere, Jordan Spence, Andreus Englund, Jacob Moverare
• Staying Put, for another look: Alex Turcotte, Akil Thomas
• Staying Put....most likely: Pierre-Luc Dubois
• The Toughest Decisions: Matt Roy, Cam Talbot, Blake Lizotte
• Difficult to See Them Back: Viktor Arvidsson, Carl Grundstrom, Trevor Lewis, Arthur Kaliyev, Pheonix Copley

 

[ScoreZeGoals]

Roy isn't a tough decision, they can't afford him now, and can't afford a $5m 3rd pairing defenseman going into the future. He's gone, and the time to move him was at the deadline

 

[Chazz Reinhold]

Roy isn't a tough decision, they can't afford him now, and can't afford a $5m 3rd pairing defenseman going into the future. He's gone, and the time to move him was at the deadline

But there’s no way they make it to 5 games against the Oilers if Clarke is playing instead of Roy! It was crucial to keep Roy for that extended playoff run.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Roy made a solid contribution in not being able to cover any passing lanes when the Oilers made cross passes to his side of the ice.

 

[Brownie to Pancakes]

Not trading Roy was one of the dumbest (not "worst" but surely dumbest) decisions I've seen. Expiring asset with good value and a readymade replacement waiting. You could put a few hockey games on in front of a f***in dolphin and it would figure out you need to trade Roy

 

[johnjm22]

It’s amazing how one of the highest valued teams in the entire NHL can turn in such a pathetic performance on the year, and see no major changes outside of a coaching “change” and letting FA’s walk that they can’t afford anyways.

Ownership must really not give a f***.

Realistically, they made the playoffs 3 years in a row. I can't remember an instance of a team making huge changes after that.

Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of the franchise's current path.

 

[BaileyFan]

Kings extend Hiller then Blakey takes another well-deserved surf vacation after an exhaustive coaching search and yet another successful season full of “progress”.

 

[johnjm22]

Not trading Roy was one of the dumbest (not "worst" but surely dumbest) decisions I've seen. Expiring asset with good value and a readymade replacement waiting. You could put a few hockey games on in front of a f***in dolphin and it would figure out you need to trade Roy

And normally GM's make dumb decisions that favor the short term when their job is on the line.

Blake apparently had full job security and he still couldn't make the responsible decision.

 

[Gjwrams]

Since its public information, I think you'd be interested in seeing this. Check this out for comparison.

Pretty surprised they don't do any paid advertising.

What does all that data mean Sol?

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

What does all that data mean Sol?

It means YOURE A DONKEY

 

[Sol]

What does all that data mean Sol?

they get pretty good traffic, and for some reason they are the place to go if you want Pheonix Copley news lmao. But LA kings Insider is the go to spot apparently. Most surprising is they dont advertise on Google for some reason. Always raises questions to me about business health when a business doesn’t even do a little advertising

 

[Trash Panda]

Realistically, they made the playoffs 3 years in a row. I can't remember an instance of a team making huge changes after that.

Disclaimer: This is not an endorsement of the franchise's current path.

Realistically, that kind of thinking is exactly how you end up like the oilers or the leafs.

It’s abhorrent.

 

[BaileyFan]

And normally GM's make dumb decisions that favor the short term when their job is on the line.

Blake apparently had full job security and he still couldn't make the responsible decision.

Blake made dumb decisions that favored the short term and still wound up handily losing his two biggest trades in the short term anyway.

 

[Gjwrams]

It means YOURE A DONKEY

I could have told you that without all the fancy charts.

 

[johnjm22]

Realistically, that kind of thinking is exactly how you end up like the oilers or the leafs.

It’s abhorrent.

A team that's about to go to the conference finals for the second time in 3 years ain't bad.