Hellebuyk or Gibson are both have huge salaries and not a solution for goalie issue at all.
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It’s pretty crazy to have a team that plays for 50+ years that has accumulated more championships than division titles.The last time and the ONLY time:
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Arizona >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Brewers, Dodgers, and Phaillies
LOL, no.
lexlavender
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Arvy and Roy are cap dumps, turcotte ++ will undoubtedly be a 1st, Akil Thomas, and probably a lesser d asset
Depending on the pieces coming back, there is zero issue there
Ok, no....so then define it.....
So our top guys aren't as good as the better teams top guys, and our teams best attribute is its depth, so we sacrifice two important parts of that depth for a goalie just to go for it now with a weaker team?
Sure, that makes a lot of sense.
Well Arvidsson isn't in the line up now, and you can roll with Laferriere......and you can apparently replace Roy with Clarke.....
You can't have it both ways, want to play the kids......and also want to keep the veterans
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If the goal is a deep run I’d be playing Clarke because we need the X-factor he might bring to do so. That means he’d need some time to settle into the team and translate his offensive game. He has it in him to be a difference maker in terms of stealing games. I strongly think we are missing an opportunity right now (and more so last season) to properly prepare him.
Watch for him to get called up with 5 games left, struggle in the Play-offs and the board to go nuts calling him a disappointment.
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If past history is any indication he'll get called up and benched and then to start next season they'll say he's not ready, rinse, repeat
Ok i see where our differences are then.
A contender is to me a team that has a real shot at the cup.
Teams that have demonstrated during the season that they can reliable beat everyone.
So far teams like Vegas or Avalanche come to my mind.
The Kings won so far against bottom feeders but lost against playoff bound teams,
which excludes them from the contender group for me
Any team that makes the playoffs has a REAL shot at the cup.....St Louis / Washington are both recent examples.
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If the Kings are looking really good at the TDL. I'd be completely fine with Blake blowing his load on a Saros caliber goalie.
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It is pretty strange but I think we all are happy with it being that way rather than the other way around <cough, sharks, cough>.
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johnjm22
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Gibson has negative value. Anaheim would have to pay to get someone to take on his contract.
Talbot has better career numbers than Gibson does.
Talbot has better career numbers than Gibson does.
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You're acting like I'm advocating for this, but every post I've made on this board over the last year shows that I think Blake is a degenerate gambler obsessed with optic wins over actually building a contender. My post is simply commenting on what I believe WILL happen based on Blake's behavior previously.
It's clear he believes any prospect and asset that isn't on the main team is now fodder to be shot into the cannon. He would easily trade the entirety of our once heralded prospect depth for a few spins at the roulette wheel.
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And yet you won't define a contender...go figure, and yea, every team that makes the playoffs has a real shot of winning the cup, it's literally what happens,
That's literally why games are played on ice...not paper.
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Buddy The Elf
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Still playing with house money as far as I'm concerned. Never thought I'd see the Kings win the Cup in my lifetime let alone twice and a conference final in between. Winning definitely diminished my passion as a fan but that's been somewhat revitalized since they've made the playoffs the past few years. I wouldn't call the past two years suck. I'd call it mediocrity but far more entertaining than it was being desperate for Deadmarsh/Palffy/Allison to all be healthy for three seasons which never manifested. That was the life of a Kings fan in the early 2000's. "Pallfy should be back by Christmas" but he never was. That was the only hope we had because there was nothing else to be excited about.
Dude, go back to the 80's with the Triple Crown Line......oh yay...we are gonna.....fall on our face....well crap next year....rinse and repeat for 10 years, 1988, Gretzky trade, yea, we are gonna....step on our dicks.....all but one year......ok great, Greztky is gonna be traded we are gonna get this great pa.....punch in the gut....ok...fine....then the 90's.....then the 2000's.....
Being a Kings fan is like being your own version of Charlie Brown every year.......
Buddy The Elf
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Oh I get it.. been around since 1988. Finally kicked the ball in 2012 and 2014 though!
Pretty much.....but nearly 40 years of it being pulled away from you, makes season like last, and this one look good....
