People forgetting that the Kings made the playoffs a few years back with #8 playing 39 games, #44 playing 57 games and Roy playing 67 games. And Walker only played 6 games with a bum knee. The team will be fine. Clarke + Spence more minutes = higher team ceiling. The floor is lower for sure. But Clarke is super talented and if he's relegated to 13 minutes of TOI, a game then Hiller is making a huge mistake. Drew will return and be fresh for the second half of the season and hopefully by then Clarke will have proven to be a Voynov type impact when he replaced Jack Johnson
Clarke is indeed talented but has a tendency to make bad mistakes at the worst time. Totally agree with Hiller saying he needs to continue to work on his gap control in the D zone.
I love Doughty and wish him a speedy recovery, of course, but I imagine a faster paced game sans-Doughty, who tends to slow down the pace when he quarterbacks.
The kids just have to hold the fort until he gets back. This is a litmus test for Kings' defensive or 2 way forwards to support or help out even more their defensemen.
Scary thought: For years, the 2 biggest stabilizing players for the Kings' defense have been DD and Matt Roy. For now, BOTH are gone (Roy permanently). How will the void be fille? Buckle up.
On Bergevin, i don't know myself how much his influence is, but when you look at where this build took a drastic turn, it was when they spent a first round pick on the Gavi and Korpi trades. That summer the Kings took an even bigger jump during that summer with PLD. All of the new directions came after Bergevin joined the club.
I'd go further and say the first big transaction that Bergevin may have had a hand in is the Fiala trade. We'll never know if Bergevin had any input into Blake giving up a 1st round pick and Faber when the Wild were as hamstrung as they were by the Parise and Suter contracts? And no, Fiala having providing the points he has for the Kings up to this point doesn't make that trade a wash either as many Kings fans try to make it out to be.
@@mbuckley3828 he was brought in to score. He is doing that. Before Bergevin came in Blake had mentioned he was looking for a scorer. He is smack dab in the middle of his prime right now and is getting better. The 2nd half of the season he was actually getting better on his 2 way game and during the summer he was awarded the MVP for most valuable player in the Worlds competition. I think the Fiala-Byfield-Foegele line has some real potential.
Doughty's injury is what it is. There's no use crying over spilt milk as they used to say. I just don't want to hear Kings management at any point use Drew's injury and absence due to it and its impact on where the Kings finish in the standings as any part of their reasoning however they decide to handle Blake's future with the club and his soon-to-be expiring contract.
Sadly you are spot on about Blake and Kings management making excuses as always and will for sure use Drew's injury again if everything goes sideways this year!
I love Doughty, but maybe it's time to start learning how to play post Doughty, Kopitar. It was coming soon anyway. Boy, the NHL sure is expecting our team to be Byfields's team. He is all over the place. Maybe our youngsters throw teams for a loop this year.
DD will be back. Unless the bottom falls out while he's gone i am only concerned with the playoffs. If he is gonna be back with plenty of time to get ready we should be fine if the Kings can hold it together with DD out. Next man up. Let's go....💪
Just this thought...2009-2010/2010-2011. One injury each year and the Kings went down like lambs. Maybe this year'll be different, but the 2011-2012 team definitely was tighter and had more senior members that drove the action. Anyway, the only time I ever broke anything/fracture was my left ankle. And my company treated me pitifully. The projection was for 6-8 weeks healing time. After 6 weeks, no one had called me, so I dug up my front yard, using my cast for the added weight. Frankly, I didn't care if I ever returned. I remained out for nearly 9 weeks. With Drew, he is a highly developed/physically adept man in his 30's. I suspect he will heal quickly and be back-easily-within a couple of months. Meanwhile, this will be an early chance for the Kings to test out some of the young guys. If things go wrong, ask Blake about how many young "d" men he pi***d away for whatever his imagined reasons...including having to throw them in as bait to get rid of other bad contracts he set up. With Lombardi, try to remember how badly we hated him for all the overpriced contracts he handed out as rewards. In the end, we lost a bunch of highly efficient men because of his apparent generosity. And then we traded off some of our talented young people to bring in rentals who "came and went". Remember when the Kings had the top prospects pool in the hockey world? Well, now blake has traded/given away most of them...and that was without ever having had a #1 draft pick since the first/1967 draft. Obviously that smuck, bet-tin-man will never take care of L.A. One can only wonder about "his" lottery!
The only bright side to this awful injury is that it came early in the season/preseason so Blake can figure out what to do next. I would definitely put him on the IR and get his huge salary deducted from the cap and then call Anaheim's Pat Verbeek and see how much it will take to pry away Cam Fowler 😏👍😎🙏
Whereas the more intelligent and way wealthier NFL which have teams that rarely give their regular players pre-season reps, the NHL owners place their veterans in harm’s way for meaningless pre-season games. Very well paid Patrik Laine and now Drew Dougherty have been injured and will miss the start of the regular season.
This flat out blows, really our most important player, this is why I hate preseason and playing in meaningless games, granted i know in some cases they need to play
Sorry my Kings Fans but as long as Blake is the GM with his so called advisor Marc "the Jinx" Bergevin this Kings organization is doomed as they have been in the twilight zone for the last 7 years under Blake and Luc!!!
People forgetting that the Kings made the playoffs a few years back with #8 playing 39 games, #44 playing 57 games and Roy playing 67 games. And Walker only played 6 games with a bum knee. The team will be fine. Clarke + Spence more minutes = higher team ceiling. The floor is lower for sure. But Clarke is super talented and if he's relegated to 13 minutes of TOI, a game then Hiller is making a huge mistake. Drew will return and be fresh for the second half of the season and hopefully by then Clarke will have proven to be a Voynov type impact when he replaced Jack Johnson
Clarke is indeed talented but has a tendency to make bad mistakes at the worst time. Totally agree with Hiller saying he needs to continue to work on his gap control in the D zone.
I love Doughty and wish him a speedy recovery, of course, but I imagine a faster paced game sans-Doughty, who tends to slow down the pace when he quarterbacks.
The kids just have to hold the fort until he gets back. This is a litmus test for Kings' defensive or 2 way forwards to support or help out even more their defensemen.
Scary thought:
For years, the 2 biggest stabilizing players for the Kings' defense have been DD and Matt Roy.
For now, BOTH are gone (Roy permanently).
How will the void be fille?
Buckle up.
On Bergevin, i don't know myself how much his influence is, but when you look at where this build took a drastic turn, it was when they spent a first round pick on the Gavi and Korpi trades. That summer the Kings took an even bigger jump during that summer with PLD.
All of the new directions came after Bergevin joined the club.
I'd go further and say the first big transaction that Bergevin may have had a hand in is the Fiala trade. We'll never know if Bergevin had any input into Blake giving up a 1st round pick and Faber when the Wild were as hamstrung as they were by the Parise and Suter contracts?
And no, Fiala having providing the points he has for the Kings up to this point doesn't make that trade a wash either as many Kings fans try to make it out to be.
@@mbuckley3828 he was brought in to score. He is doing that. Before Bergevin came in Blake had mentioned he was looking for a scorer. He is smack dab in the middle of his prime right now and is getting better.
The 2nd half of the season he was actually getting better on his 2 way game and during the summer he was awarded the MVP for most valuable player in the Worlds competition.
I think the Fiala-Byfield-Foegele line has some real potential.
Doughty's injury is what it is. There's no use crying over spilt milk as they used to say.
I just don't want to hear Kings management at any point use Drew's injury and absence due to it and its impact on where the Kings finish in the standings as any part of their reasoning however they decide to handle Blake's future with the club and his soon-to-be expiring contract.
Sadly you are spot on about Blake and Kings management making excuses as always and will for sure use Drew's injury again if everything goes sideways this year!
I love Doughty, but maybe it's time to start learning how to play post Doughty, Kopitar. It was coming soon anyway. Boy, the NHL sure is expecting our team to be Byfields's team. He is all over the place. Maybe our youngsters throw teams for a loop this year.
Good point! Let's see how the youngsters step up!
DD will be back. Unless the bottom falls out while he's gone i am only concerned with the playoffs.
If he is gonna be back with plenty of time to get ready we should be fine if the Kings can hold it together with DD out.
Next man up. Let's go....💪
Just this thought...2009-2010/2010-2011. One injury each year and the Kings went down like lambs. Maybe this year'll be different, but the 2011-2012 team definitely was tighter and had more senior members that drove the action. Anyway, the only time I ever broke anything/fracture was my left ankle. And my company treated me pitifully. The projection was for 6-8 weeks healing time. After 6 weeks, no one had called me, so I dug up my front yard, using my cast for the added weight. Frankly, I didn't care if I ever returned. I remained out for nearly 9 weeks. With Drew, he is a highly developed/physically adept man in his 30's. I suspect he will heal quickly and be back-easily-within a couple of months. Meanwhile, this will be an early chance for the Kings to test out some of the young guys. If things go wrong, ask Blake about how many young "d" men he pi***d away for whatever his imagined reasons...including having to throw them in as bait to get rid of other bad contracts he set up. With Lombardi, try to remember how badly we hated him for all the overpriced contracts he handed out as rewards. In the end, we lost a bunch of highly efficient men because of his apparent generosity. And then we traded off some of our talented young people to bring in rentals who "came and went". Remember when the Kings had the top prospects pool in the hockey world? Well, now blake has traded/given away most of them...and that was without ever having had a #1 draft pick since the first/1967 draft. Obviously that smuck, bet-tin-man will never take care of L.A. One can only wonder about "his" lottery!
The only bright side to this awful injury is that it came early in the season/preseason so Blake can figure out what to do next. I would definitely put him on the IR and get his huge salary deducted from the cap and then call Anaheim's Pat Verbeek and see how much it will take to pry away Cam Fowler 😏👍😎🙏
Whereas the more intelligent and way wealthier NFL which have teams that rarely give their regular players pre-season reps, the NHL owners place their veterans in harm’s way for meaningless pre-season games.
Very well paid Patrik Laine and now Drew Dougherty have been injured and will miss the start of the regular season.
This flat out blows, really our most important player, this is why I hate preseason and playing in meaningless games, granted i know in some cases they need to play
Sorry my Kings Fans but as long as Blake is the GM with his so called advisor Marc "the Jinx" Bergevin this Kings organization is doomed as they have been in the twilight zone for the last 7 years under Blake and Luc!!!
Vilardi wasn't wrong about the fan base.