Rob Blake is a freaking disaster

OTT declines, Kaliev is not worth a 2nd or 3rd, at most a 4th round pick

I mean they improved in net and they shouldn’t get pushed around as easy, they are already a very skilled team but they needed to become tougher.

Did they overpay sure they did

But if they see Edmonton again in playoffs the additions of foegele/ Jeannot/ edmundson will make things much harder for them.

Foegele was an underrated xfactor on their playoff runs.

I’d say run Jeannot on line 3 with moore/ Danault he’s solid defensively and could create a solid shutdown line with them, danault and moore are also an improvement over Trenin/ Sissons who he previously succeeded with so maybe he can gain his offensive spark again especially against easier matchups.

I do think tampas lack of depth and Nashville lack of depth in his finals season their didn’t help Jeannot to get over his slump

I wasn't happy with the Gavrikov/Korpisalo trade (I think that we could have outbid Toronto for McCabe), but I could live with it.

I wasn't happy with the Gavrikov extension, but I could live with it.

The Pierre-Luc Of-The-Woods debacle was disastrous, of course. We could have had Kempe - Kopitar - Vilardi, Moore - Danault - Fiala, and Foegele - Byfield - Tarasenko (or Arvidsson if we'd offered him what he wanted and settled for from Edmonton), plus the second for Durzi, a second for Iafallo (at the time), and a fifth for Kupari.

There's a good chance that the Kings won't do as well this season as they did last. At least we have our 2025 first.