The general manager and franchise legend will have the task of extricating his team from the hole he dug
Kings general manager Rob Blake, seen at the NHL draft June 29, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee, looks to have a challenging offseason ahead. Here’s one problematic aspect of promoting a great player to a key management position with the team for which he starred. When he screws up, his retired number suddenly looks awfully dingy.
Honestly, I need to hear compelling reasons for Blake to stay one more year. Lots or reasons to dump him now. One more year=short-term decision making when we're at least 3 years from being Cup contender. Cap crunched.on Friday was popular with that team’s partisans. Blake’s future job security might hinge on his ability to negotiate a buyout with Pierre-Luc Dubois and reverse
But this was just the latest in a series of brow-furrowing Blake moves. Forget trying to manipulate the cap through Long Term Injured Reserve as the Vegas Golden Knights have done the past two years to provide reinforcements for the playoffs, when teams don’t have to observe the cap. The Kings couldn’t even adequately shop for reinforcements at the trade deadline because they had little room.
“I don’t think I have time for retooling now,” said Kopitar, who indicated he intends to play through the final two years of his contract. “If we go into a full rebuild, it’s not something that I want. There’s some pieces that are obviously very useful here. And we got to build on that and build around it and … that culture back and mentality and, and yes, push forward.”Doughty, who has three years left on an eight-year, $88 million deal signed in 2019, concurred: “I have no interest in that.
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