The Los Angeles Kings look bad

[bouncesonly]

This has been going on since the run ups to the playoffs, the first round against Vegas, preseason, and the first 6 game of this season. You don’t need another 75 games to realize a change is needed.

 

[Seventyx7]

Kovalchuk has 5 points in 7 games. He may have lost a step, but he is far down the list of problems with the Kings.

 

[KrazyKings]

Anyone commenting on Kovalchuk and him being washed up haven't actually watched a Kings game this season. There is a lot of bad on the Kings roster this year, but Kovy is the least of our worries.

 

[treple13]

I was saying all offseason that people were sleeping on the Kings in terms of being a sneaky bad team. They've won a total in one playoff game in the last four seasons. A few of their players had huge seasons or bounceback seasons last year and they still were only a fringe playoff team. If any of those players falter a bit, they are likely to fall out of the playoffs.

Now that said, I still wouldn't be shocked if they came back and made the playoffs, but in a tougher Pacific I think there's enough teams better than them that it'll be hard.

 

[elmaco]

What's up with Quick? Seems like a shadow of his former self.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

No Kopitar last night. Hard to look good with the best Center in the West out of your lineup.

 

[Cellee]

Hard to look good with the best Center in the West out of your lineup.

He is not even the best Centre in his division.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

He is not even the best Centre in his division.

Shoot you're right. Second best. How I could forget Connor McDonald I don't know.

 

[Cellee]

Shoot you're right. Second best. How I could forget Connor McDonald I don't know.

Am I being hooked into some bit here?

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Am I being hooked into some bit here?

Just trying to cover for my egregious mistake

 

[Cellee]

Just trying to cover for my egregious mistake

But Connor McDonald?!

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

But Connor McDonald?!

Don't remember who but someone went into an important thread (probably the HART thread last year) and eased the tension by putting in his thoughts for Connor McDonald. It was pretty funny. Sometimes I try to do the same thing. Usually like here, it has minimal effectiveness haha.

 

[AuraSphere]

Who's looked like their best player so far? I'd imagine its Kovalchuk? He's been scoring working with nothing.

I'm trying to decide whether I keep Dadonov or Kovalchuk for fantasy pool hmm

 

[Iceman]

Quick just got back, maybe needs more time. Doughty just signed his deal. Both got their Cups... but I guess people will say it's the locker room cancer Kovalchuk's fault.

 

[Cellee]

Don't remember who but someone went into an important thread (probably the HART thread last year) and eased the tension by putting in his thoughts for Connor McDonald. It was pretty funny. Sometimes I try to do the same thing. Usually like here, it has minimal effectiveness haha.

Ah I see.

Must have missed that one.

 

[Chardo]

No Kopitar last night. Hard to look good with the best Center in the West out of your lineup.

He is not even the best Centre in his division.

Maybe not even the best center in his city

 

[Kale Hulls]

What's up with Quick? Seems like a shadow of his former self.

Came back off injury too quick.

 

[hotcabbagesoup]

Maybe not even the best center in his city

Who is this mystery center better than Kopitar and in the same city?

 

[thedonger]

Their forwards suck so bad outside of Kopitar and Kempe.

in that case, the isles will offer michael dal colle for tyler toffoli straight up. maybe a small add from the kings like a 2nd rounder to even things up.

 

[AngelDuck]

It’s really bizzare that guys like Lewis, Clifford, Martinez, Muzzin, Pearson, Toffoli, etc are all still on that team.

Do they plan on keeping all of those guys until they retire from the NHL? Because the time to move some of them was obviously in the last couple years

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I won't even go into too much detail because I've done plenty of that on our forum but I'll just say it's the coaching.

No one expects the Kings to be 'good', but even relative to expectations this is a complete shit show. Players have literally admitted they have no clue what they're doing, there's no confidence, there's no identity. We have the cockiest guy in the league on our team and even he is lost and wounded. Even our media, who is known for giving EVERYONE free passes, started ripping the org last night.

Something is gonna give and soon and I hope Buffalo feeds us a total f***ing drubbing on Saturday to affect change. They didn't even look this bad, defeated, and flat out disinterested before Terry Murray was fired.

Edit: The personnel obviously needs help too as @AngelDuck points out but they aren't lottery bad as is. Or shouldn't be, anyway.

 

[quackquackquack]

This all trickles back to Dean Lombardi and how he mortgaged the future for 2 cups. It seemed like a good idea at the time and winning cups is priceless but it resulted in the Kings having ZERO players coming up in the system that can make an immediate impact. Couple that with the fact he handed out $3M contracts like it was Halloween and we got a recipe for disaster

 

[tny760]

Anyone commenting on Kovalchuk and him being washed up haven't actually watched a Kings game this season. There is a lot of bad on the Kings roster this year, but Kovy is the least of our worries.

big facts

this team is being coached into total ruin

the poster above that referenced stevens talking about how he's revamping the team for the faster NHL is seeing the problem for what it is. all talk from stevens and the coaching staff, absolutely no delivery

you have one of the most lethal one timers in kovalchuk on the power play, and we've seen him in that spot maybe once? otherwise quarterbacking from the blue line with doughty's trash one timer down in his spot.. stevens claims he's trying to confuse the other teams, he's just as confused himself. he needs to go, desperately.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

big facts

this team is being coached into total ruin

the poster above that referenced stevens talking about how he's revamping the team for the faster NHL is seeing the problem for what it is. all talk from stevens and the coaching staff, absolutely no delivery

you have one of the most lethal one timers in kovalchuk on the power play, and we've seen him in that spot maybe once? otherwise quarterbacking from the blue line with doughty's trash one timer down in his spot.. stevens claims he's trying to confuse the other teams, he's just as confused himself. he needs to go, desperately.

I will never forget that for as long as I will be a hockey fan.

Say all the right things all summer, we're bringing on Kovy to put him in the OV spot, our PP needs a boost, etc.

*Immediately rams Kovalchuk to the front of the net for tips.*

"Oh, we were just trying to confuse them."

I wanted Stevens gone the moment he said that smug ass line and every game since he's proved me right. Anyone watching the press conference last night, JS knows he's dead in the water. that's a dude with literally no answers just playing out the string.

 

[Hockeyholic]

Window = Firmly shut

The window was firmly shut in April 2015.