Fire Rob Blake!

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I think Blake meant to sign Edmundson for $3,850,000 TOTAL for 4 years, or $962,500 per year. Doh!!

1:41 Well, even if this year goes poorly, at least we have a former Winterhawk on the team.

I became a fan of the site when you played us this year. I’m a huge oil fan. I want to see you guys succeed but I have no idea what Blake is doing.

Blakes recent moves landed us two depth players and a goalie who lost his job on a bad team and only cost us 12.5 million....yea.....absolute genius......looks like Montreal from several years ago.....oh, wait.......

For way too long his trades and signings are like watching a parody named "Weekend At Blakey's"... We should have hired Bernie as GM to give more life to the office...

People need to check out Toffoli's comments about how he was traded from LA and see why he was never going to sign with LA again.

Rob is running the kings booooo👎👎👎

As an Oilers fan I'm hoping to see the Kings in the first round .

Basically, who knows what kind of team Blake is patching together, since neither he nor anyone else in the organization knows what the plan is. Looks to me Blake doesn’t even know himself. He drafts or picks or trades like throwing darts. Building an elite team shouldn’t be that difficult, but Blake makes it difficult or impossible. Remember an elite team means the top 8 out of 32 teams. Super elite are the top 4 teams. These elites achieve about 110 points, have stars that score 90 points per season, and the PP is dynamite prolific. Unless Blake lucked out with a lucky dart sticking in the bulls eye, I’m seeing the Kings having 90+ points and another low seed or even missing the playoffs by a few points short.

I've been spewing this everywhere. Size and grit with solid veterans to teach the kids. This should have happened 5 years ago. Losing the cancer of PLD was fixing an idiot mistake. He is not a great player. I'm not upset about losing Arvy, Roy and Lizo. Arvy can't stay healthy, Roy was fine, but gonna be expensive and Lizo is a rag doll with a motor. The kids now have vet tutors. All three are big and two have speed. Kings are back in a rebuild and probably won't make the playoffs, but the kids will get taught well and Kings won't get pushed around. Kings are still feeling the cap mess Lombardi left us in, but end of next year it looks a whole lot better.

It's important to note that there were as many as 4 other teams in on Edmundson all the way up to the end, so much so that the Kings had to add another 200k (over the life of the contract) to get him. These included FLA, NSH and NYR, some pretty good teams, so saying "I don't think anyone was else was interested in him" is just inaccurate my friend. There are plenty of things to bash on RB for, we don't need to make up stuff to complain about :)

Hey Eddie, love your show and follow it right here every night . Having said that, I happen to disagree with your overall reaction on what the Kings have done so far this off season. I like the fact that we added some grit, height and muscle to our line up. I was just tired of Kings keep getting bullied in most games, specially Edmonton. I also, don't understand all the bad vibes about Edmundson? The guy is just 31, solid stay home defenceman. He is a giant @ 6'5" becoming our tallest and biggest back court and he is signed for under 4 mil and everyone is freaking out? Have we forgotten how old Doughty, Kopi, lewis are? I am not suggesting he is at Kopi or doughty caliber, but he is as solid as back court as it comes at that price. I bet most people complaining about this signing, would have been upset had we had paid Matt Roy what Capitals were willing to pay him. More importantly, who actually thinks this is it and Blake is done? On a year which could potentially be his last, you would wanna go out with a bang? Don't you? Come on, it ain't as bad as some make it to be. In my opinion, we are better team at this moment with our young guns joining the roster this upcoming season and our new grit added to the team.

As a Kings fan myself and I apologize but this is definitely going to hurt some feelings but at this point don't really care because this pattern has gotten beyond annoying about this fanbase. I am not the biggest Rob Blake fan in the world but plain and simple with this fanbase there is no winning with it. Playoffs ended fans were crying about being undersized and needed more grit Blake goes out and gets exactly that and fans are now crying about that literally no winning. As usual everyone blaming Blake about "not doing more" on free agency but thing is how do you know he didn't try to? Free agents that is the players choice and only having something like 19 mill in cap space he had enough to fix the issues. Kings have at least 3-4 players that can score 25-30 goals (Kempe, Moore, Fiala, Kopitar) goal scoring isn't the issue. Roy wasn't staying we all could figure that out quickly, Lizotte loved him but undersized injury prone, Arvy literally never has had a heathy season only 3 times he has gone past 70 games. Everyone thinks Kuemper is going to suck because of how he played in Washington when if the Kings could make a average goalie like Talbot look amazing most of the season Kuemper will do better. The big thing the everyone seems to be forgetting is you have to get Thomas/Turcotte/Fagemo in so people had to go they cant spend ANOTHER year in Ontario literally just wasting them there. People need to realize that getting these kids integrated might make it a slight setback but they need their experience now. As far as the new guys Foegele if he can get 15-20 he's already a upgrade over Lizotte scoring/size wise and if he stays healthy and scores that much its almost a even trade off with Arvidsson since Arvidsson best year was 26 goals the first year was 20. Jeannot same thing get little bit of production and his grit its a upgrade over Lizotte, Edmonson is literally the only question mark but doubt he can be much worse than Englund

Can someone call Futa and see if he's interested in the job? To be fair, Lombardi had a rough start as well when he hired Crawford and then went all in on Cloutier (probably on Crawford's advice) and the Kings ended up with 5 goalies starting games. The drafting of players wasn't always great under Lombardi (Hickey, Teubert, Tambellini, Boyle, etc) minus some successes here and there: Doughty, Quick, Voynov...but what Lombardi did do mostly well was trade for players that were going to help the team. Blake has not been able to do that. Lombardi got game breakers in their prime: Richards, Carter, Gaborik, Stoll, Greene and got rid of overpriced dead weight like Visnovsky, BLAKE, Demitra and Norstrom. Plus, having a TOP NOTCH goaltender like Quick was what made all of the difference. I still remember Quick stopping breakaway chances and thinking: "I have never seen a Kings goalie do that routinely" because the Kings have never, ever consistently had good goalies. This Kings team now is nowhere near winning a Cup.

I'm just going to call him Dave Taylor going forward. I haven't been this annoyed with the Kings this much since we had players like Brian Willsie, Beachball Cloutier and Marc Crawford at the helm.

A big pass on TT... way too soft. I don't ever want to see a kings player regularly slow down and hit the brakes so he doesn't have to go into the corners first.

Why blame Blake with eveything, the question is why the hell doesn't Luc Robitaille fire his ass!!

Look on the bright side, we have a shot at the 1st pick next draft

23:59 I made a comparison to the Cardinals with Keim and Kingsbury on the first free agency video, and i can expand on that here because Steve Keim also excelled at trading (or at least, that was what he did best even when it was bad).

Fire Blake!!!!!

Seriously need a right hand shot goal scorer.... hopefully it's Fagemo. Unfortunately won't be Toffoli.

Chycrun wld have been a great add over Edmundson. Didnt cost much,6 yrs younger ,and can put up points. He had been linked to Kings too.

Can somebody do a season review of off season kings performance over the last 20 years - feel like we had worse post post seasons

Kopi and drew when they at the country club with blake n luc no one thinking about hockey GKG Eddie

Kings lineup is very very solid. Calm down, folks. - View from Toronto

I feel better for some reason having kuemper then talbot hell ya

Have always been a huge oilers fan and have always hated arvidssen…to play against. So happy we have him now. Foegle is great but not on the same level.

As a Jets fan Tyler was not worth it in the end ...I was happy when they didn't resign him

When Blake signed Kovalchuck, you knew we were in for a rough ride with Blake at the helm. It felt like a parlor trick, something a more seasoned GM would have realized is not a good idea. Moreover, the Kings were primed for a rebuild at that point. The PLD signing (not the trade - the trade was fine) was another stupid gamble. I’ve wanted a genuine rebuild since 2015. Dean Lombardi got us out of the “black hole” and now we’re back square in the middle of it. I wish the Kings would just accept the fact that they are pretenders at ABSOLUTE BEST, and dump the veterans, unless they are interested in sticking around and mentoring young players. These hodgepodge teams, with no real identity, that Blake has been fielding have been such a far cry from the glory years. On the other hand, if there’s a clear plan/vision for the future, I think fans will get behind the rebuild. I certainly would. Side note, every season, no matter what, people will complain about not signing a scorer. I liked Toffoli but what’s he going to do in terms of addressing this team’s problems? He’ll score a couple goals, wonderful. But when the team lacks the talent and speed to create space for him, then what? He (and Kopitar and Doighty) also aren’t getting any younger.

And kings shouldn't go back for toffoli for 24 million over 4 years nah

Kuemper - ok , got out of the PLD dumpster fire and gained cap space Jeannot - ok, young, quick and tough with possible upside Foegele - ok , young, quick, and plays all out with possible upside But edmundson ? Dude hasn’t finished an NHL season ever… talk about injury prone 😂 maybe Blake knows something or he doesn’t 🤷🏽‍♂️😂 Good GM’s get good players to come to their organization no matter the constraints, they make it happen… Blake isn’t that guy in my opinion But excited to see our young guys in the lineup for sure this season

Really, Caleb Jones? Where? He goes....... ?

Poor Blake, a puppet GM, having to follow a visionary executive and GM like Lombardi and his almost-dynasty team that had two epic Cup finishes. I think Edmundson is one thing, signing Edmundson both for the salary/cap hit and term. Edmundson is not worth 10 million as a mediocre bottom pair defenseman unless he wins an $18 million lottery jackpot.

Losing Roy will already hurt the team defensively. Moving Gavrikov will make things even worse. I believe gavrikov has no trade clause anyway. 10 years now since 2014 and kings have got rid of many young players. Now they are adding older players. Turcotte, Thomas, and possibly Fagemo don't strike me as players who will come in and all of a sudden be nhl material. Kopitar is not getting any younger as well as Doughty. Kings are a hot mess with no real direction. With jets getting better and kings projected to be 4th in the pacific, I see LA missing the playoffs.

I think arvidson playing with leon he might b in for a career year

Fire Blake!!! our team has gotten worse than last year roster, recent mistakes, PLD basically givng up on Valerde, and why get Kemper, you have someone on the farm system like Portollo, why don't give him a shot, is it that bad that you don't have any confidence in him so that means its your fault also that you drafted him. Rob Blake sucks, bringing back Jim Hiller, I mean hes a nice in all but if he didn't win or go far with last years roster what you makes you think he will do a better job this year.. FAIL FAIL FAIL

Vegas and Vancouver are just as good as Edmonton. If you wanna win now your best positional players have to be as good as their best positional players. I’d take any of their top centers and top D and top goalies over kopitar and doughty and any goalie we have in a 7 game series. And before you disagree with me just know that Edmonton has two centers better and vegas has two centers better as well.

Edmundson will be a fan favorite. Exactly what the Kings have been missing for a decade.

People, players don't want to live in California. Simple as that. The state is a shit show. If I were a player, I wouldn't want to come to LA. It has nothing to do with the Kings team.

As a Kings fan this channel, the content and the moronic comments are an embarrassment. Hilarious to read…so there’s that. 😂