"because you hate Blake" is frankly pretty f***ing lazy. I'm not one of those guys who has the pre-existing hatred for him. I was pumping his tires/pedigree/potential early on, and was advising patience.
And yes, results matter, as do process. Blake has neither right now. Did you ever have a question of what DL's vision was? Every piece of Blake's puzzle has question marks.
Every GM makes mistakes. It's about avoiding egregious ones and compounding ones. Blake is now doing both. That's how they get fired. That's how DL got fired. Blake is not a special snowflake.
For the record, I do not care about Rob Blake. They can fire him today, for any reason, and that's fine. They could've fired him 3 years ago, or never hired him, and it's all good. My stances will remain the same no matter who the GM is.
What is so confusing about what Blake's doing though? This is his team. This is the have a job or not team. He inherited a fundamentally different situation than DL, invested in the team, it fell apart, he got one chance to re-group, and is now trying to do what he originally tried to do which is win again with the you know who's. It likely won't happen, but that's the road they chose.
I have no idea when his contract is up, but if it doesn't work by whenever it's done, or earlier if it falls apart again, he should be gone. How much more he might screw the franchise before he's gone, really doesn't matter to me. If it takes a decade for someone competent to fix his mess, them it takes a decade for someone competent to fix his mess. It's part of the ever unfolding story of the LA Kings.
Had they not traded for Lucic in 2015, that would've been fine. Had they traded Kopitar at any point before re-signing him, that's fine. Had they traded Doughty before re-signing him, that's fine. The latter two likely weren't going to happen though, and obviously DL wanted to do his thing with Lucic, so it's not worth dwelling on for 9 years. If they didn't fire DL when they did, that's fine. It is what it is. It was probably time to go, but if they kept him, so be it.
Wow, i've never seen someone go round & round in a circle like you do. I think i understand some of the other poster frustrations they have discussing items with you. It's like a merry-go-round. In a vacuum, your post can make sense -- but combined with your round & round comments it's bizarre. Maybe you forget what you say previously; or you are devious and like to screw around on purpose. You are the one who brings a hypothetical scenario up in a response -- and then when I respond to that, you take the other position as if it's not possible lol. Why did you bring it up in the first place? So weird.
Its not whether things are possible, it's whether they're likely to happen. Then at some point, accepting that whatever happened, happened. When the Kings were a top 5 overall team the day Kopitar re-signed, it was exceedingly unlikely that anything else but re-signing him was going to happen. It doesn't matter if it put the Kings further away from another Cup than had they dealt him, he was going to be given that contract. Blame the Cup wins for that, but every player that won the Cups thst could be rewarded for it, got rewarded for it.
You either sign, trade, or let Moore walk. The unlikliest scenario is letting him walk for nothing. A very unlikely scenario, with the Kings as a playoff team, is trading him for picks. So they're going to re-sign him. That's just baked in the cake with the current context of the team. The option to trade him for picks as a UFA was there, but they werent goung to do that.
