We should have traded Matt Roy
This absolutely is the biggest mistake of the TDL.
Look im going to keep it 100. These are just my opinions so no need to get worked up over it.
- I see Byfield being a good player now but I think that game breaking talent isn't there with him nor is the drive which is going to be a big problem since he's the only important player from the draft on the Kings.
- I don't know how I feel about Clarke. He impresses me at times and is pretty lackluster as well. I feel that I got spoiled by Doughty too much when he was a rookie because Clarke seems far away from rookie doughty. Very far.
-Vilardi... I said this last year before and after they traded him. Best player from the draft and it isnt even close. He still is by far better than any of our players from the rebuild. He has game breaking talent, elite hockey IQ, and passion. I cant emphasize how important passion is. Vilardi is a f***ing magician near the net and creates like no other player on the Kings. Kings haven't had a player like that for such a long time. I don't know why they traded him. I think to be bitching about his injury issues when his ability was crazy high was stupid. A lot of you guys tried super hard to cope with that bullshit.
- The "development" staff. Now this is where the real shit show is, all of these people have to go. The scouts have got to go. The development team has got to go. Complete morons. All of them. No one should be spared.
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Kopitar and Doughty holding prominent positions in 2024. What on Earth is this bullshit? I will start by saying I dont give a f*** how many points Kopitar has. He shouldn't have been the guy at this point. He's way too old, and he is a total nonfactor in the playoffs. Why haven't we let someone else take those reigns who can maybe exceed with his icetime? Absolute stupidity. And Doughty.. I dont feel as angry with Doughty because he isn't as bad as Kopitar. But they both should have been traded. If Patrick Kane could be traded so should they. I loved both players for what they have done for this team back in its glory days but their retirement couldn't come sooner. I have ZERO idea why they extended Kopitar. Absolute stupidity.
- Blake and all his friends.. these bozos have single handedly set the Kings back for another rebuild and thats the truth. We have all for the most part been in agreemeent with this. You cannot rebuild and trade the youth away then expect to be successful. Blake extended Todd this season without anything to show for it??? really? You're extending him on what grounds exactly? And AEG made him fire him. Thankfully. But the real crux of the problem is Blake and we all knew this. Todd was an awful coach and should have been canned a long time ago, but Blake had to go with him as well. Blake is a complete idiot and so is the rest of the coaching staff.
- 1-3-1. Now this formation has absolutely killed the Kings. I for one don't think the Kings have as much of a skill problem than they have an approach problem. This formation is complete garbage and archaic. This system has been ran a train on with the Kings and it's still being heavily enforced. Kings were down 6-3 or 6-4 yesterday and they were running 1-3-1 with 3 or 4 minutes left. This is complete stupidity. How do you expect to win against the oilers without pressuring them? How the f*** does that work? We're the joke of the league and rightfully other players/coaches have called the Kings out for it. Yesterday Daryl made a comment that he doesn't know why the Kings are doing 1-3-1 and it isn't working, literally 2 seconds later McDavid skated through the 1-3-1 singlehandedly and created another scoring chance. Why the f*** are they doing this dumb shit?
In short, I hope everyone involved with this team got hit by an atomic bomb.
