The LA Kings underwhelm on the first day of free agency signing Warren Foegele and Joel Edmundson. How does the Kings roster look now and we give a quick recap of the Kings on Day 2 of the NHL Draft. That and more on this edition of Locked on LA Kings.
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I hate to be an 'Eeyore' but I'm 'whelmed' with these moves. Blake is shopping at 'Dollar Tree' for a special wedding reception. #Geez. Can you say…..mediocre?
I bet eventually in near future blake will b in san jose organization 🤝
Blake is horrible with player money management he said before that he want to pay players high salary so it would draw other players to come to la kings and then with not much care towards goaltending wich is f in nuts Blake idk man wtf GKG
And this is not it blake has something else planned for sure 💯 coming soon GKG
I like it. They desperately needed to get tougher and harder to play against. We'll see what else happens.
They signed arguably the worst contract in free agency. They used all their savings in the PLD-Kuemper swap and then some on Edmundson who has some of the worst underlying numbers around and is injury prone to boot. Too many years, too much money.
I would have preferred Dillon or Zadorov over Edmunson but I’ll say this to me the biggest problem the Kings have had in the 3 playoff series vs Edmonton was a lack of grit and I will say trading for Jeannot and adding Foegle and Edmundson addresses that. I just think Guentzel,Stamkos and Debrusk was never really an option. I don’t see Burroughs competing unless Edmunson gets hurt which is likely and Englund falls out of favor with the staff.
I agree it was underwhelming. However are you really paying Zadorov 5 million per season as a 3rd pairing guy? There was a lot of overpayment. Everyone is forgetting Byfield’s agent mat be insisting on a long term deal, at which point the money becomes very restrictive. I think expectations were unrealistic. The cap situation is on Blake but it is what it is .
Kings dumping overachievers who were a help to the team (Grundstrom, Lizotte, Roy) and top-quality talent (Arvidsson) in order to bring in a career bottom six (Foegele) a giant bust (Jeannot) and a redundant amount of "physical" 3rd-pairing defensemen (Burroughs, Edmundson) one of whom took way too many penalties and the other of whom is slower than a corpse.
Utterly pathetic. Are they tanking to try and get a good draft position for next season? The Edmundson contract is big fat joke.
Do we "promote" Blake to Senior VP in charge of Restroom Sanitizing now, or wait until the team craters at mid-season?
After looking at Free Agency so far, i have 2 thoughts…
1. The best thing to happen so far is that Steven Stamkos didn't sign with the Golden Knights
2. This (last season and this coming one) reminds me a bit of the final 2 years of the Keim/Kingsbury Era in Arizona. They were great for the second to last year of that era [going 10-2 before losing all but (i believe) one of their last games and then getting bent over backwards in the Wild Card round by the Rams[. The next year they completely Wile E Coyoted themselves off a cliff going 4-13 and getting the 3rd overall pick in the draft. It was after that season Cardinals Owner Michael Bidwell Bid Keim and Kingsbury farewell (pun intended), eventually hiring Monti Ossenfort and Johnathan Gannon who have thrown out the old school Cardinals and (so far at least) built up a new era where anything but playing to win is unacceptable (and unlike Rob Blake and Luc Robitaille, Monti and JG don't play around). In this comparison, last year was the "next year will be different… right?" year, and so far this free agency period has built up to this coming season possibly being one where the Kings bottom out like the Cardinals in 2022-23 (albeit probably not putting as abhorrent of a product out during said season) barring an explosion of consistent greatness from the right players at the right time. Of course, I hope i'm wrong, or if i'm right, then the correlation continues long enough for Robitaille and Blake to be sent packing and the new President and GM are able to build something better for the future as Monti and JG seem to have done in AZ.
Still need to save some money to resign Gav.
Out of the long list of young talented free agents we chose a guy who has yet to stay healthy for an entire season in edmondsun and then we over pay foegele… duclair would have been a better signing honestly what disaster. So many other routes we could have taken yesterday. Blake must wear a clown costume on July 1st every year 😂 he probably hands the players a blank check too
Kings fan since '87. Blake is on par with McMaster as worst gm ever in Kings history
Well, on good news we didn’t sign anyone on an 8 year contract.
You know what despises me the most about this whole scenario? The fact that no one apologized, in fact even mentioned the promise of getting to the 2nd round. Won't settle for anything less and neither should we mumbo jumbo. Smh
Edmundson 🤦♀️… I’d rather just bring up AHL guys and say we a doing a hard rebuild…
Watching a young team going towards future playoff runs is easier to swallow than barely getting in and then getting our ass kicked out of the first round
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Now trade for right handed shot… Martin Necus or Shane Pinto.
Lottery pick here we come.
PLD floater….gone
Arvidson always hurt…..gone
Matt Roy overrated…..gone
We're better today IMO
Nobody pushes us around again.
Not sure what you expected.
I am glad the Kings finally added grit to the lineup, the problem is they lost all their depth already with the costly and foolish PLD trade. All of this frustration should be directed back to that as well as signing Gavrikov for way too much. That cost us Matt Roy.