@NHLRussell Need to do something regarding goalies, because Portillo is out of waivers. I’m not saying bring one in, but one needs to go out, because I don’t see Portillo clearing.
@MarcelAndRogie@NHL_Muse@KevinWeekes Along with three goalies that should be on an NHL roster next season (Portillo requires waivers). Right now the Kings need to move a goalie out, not get another.
@randycarter9375@mayorNHL Kadri would be Kings highest scoring Center if he joined Kings today and he still averages over 19 min. Pettersson is high-risk, high-reward. Kings cupboard is empty, I actually don’t hate them going for EP, either he comes back or it’s long rebuild, but that’s coming without him
@adamscochran@krassenstein This is so disgusting and I am so embarrassed to be an American with this stuff going on. And anyone who says “he had a gun” can go straight to hell, because you are the ones fighting for people to be able to have guns too.
@MarcelAndRogie@NHLRussell I blame him for those things too. But the GM could have not kept the coach and/or not have signed terrible D to replace Spence & Gavi even if he kept the coach. Ceci was a GM choice, and not a good one. GM took this team from being a piece or 2 away to ♾️ in one offseason.
@MarcelAndRogie@NHLRussell I blame the GM for those moves not the coach. Not saying by there isn’t blame to go to Hiller for anything, but our GM made the same moves everyone would have predicted he would make no matter which team he was the GM for.
Please @NHLRussell@mayorNHL@DennisTFP@KingsMenPodcast or someone in #LAKings media ask the @LAKings questions about the analytics behind this line combo. FYI, only two players in the NHL have worse average game score and they have both only played 1 game.
Early returns for the new acquired $8.5M Dumoulin-Ceci 3rd pair:
- Outscored 0-4 at 5 on 5
- 33.3% xG rate at 5 on 5
- Dead last in @hockeystatcards game score in both of the games
Who needs Gavrikov and Spence at the exact same cap hit. 🔥🔥🔥
@DennisTFP@KingsMenPodcast@NHLRussell@mayorNHL@LAKings True. Also, Regula looks worse in one game to be fair. I’d love to be optimistic about this, but at this point it’s looking bad. Hopefully, he has an amazing game and I look silly.
@DennisTFP@KingsMenPodcast@NHLRussell@mayorNHL@LAKings All of these things for certain, but will need to face tough competition. Is this the best D on the roster even? Moverare has had better analytics than Ceci last season and he’s sitting. Clarke had and currently has better analytics and he is playing fewer minutes.
@KingsMenPodcast@NHLRussell@mayorNHL@DennisTFP@LAKings Thanks Jesse, this makes sense. Definitely worth monitoring, since it’s what analytics already told us would occur. I want to be proven wrong, but early returns do not look good.
@KingsMenPodcast@NHLRussell@mayorNHL@DennisTFP@LAKings I get that, so how about we back it up with the entire last seasons data? Two games is too small a sample size, for sure, but it’s supporting data that we already had.