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Helene has always been my favorite sports reporter. Ans this is a 100% accurate take from her.
Real talk
I saw this last night and was like, damn let’s get Helene as our GM or President (or fuck it, both).
jokes aside, she has great takes. someone’s gotta call it like it is.
Helene with another based take
I am so glad there is someone out there that called this teams poor decisions out with how soft and easy it feels like the media is out here (for better or worse)
Love her handle, fuck you LA Times
She’s not wrong. Luc is the real problem here. He kept Blake, a defenseman as a player, too long as a GM and hired defensive minded coaches who forced offensive minded players to play defense first.
Then he hired Hiller and Holland who have continued the defense first style of play.
Look up straight shooter in the dictionary, and you will find Helene’s picture.
This sums it perfectly.
Even if Hiller can do the team a favor, it is a mediocre roster at best, and a new coach can’t hurt but it will not fix what is ailing the LA Kings.
Could use more blunt honesty, like this, instead of the sanitozed bullshit from the usual ball-washers in state-run Kings media
I’ve agreed. As silly as it sounds I wanted him sacked after those shit adjustments against Edmonton game 3
He gave me the same sense of Darvin Ham against the Nuggets in 2023 when I knew right there he was cooked and didn’t have answers and isn’t the guy for us. Hiller ain’t gonna lead us anywhere
Love it, Helene.
People focus too much on the coaching and not enough on the team management, the whole fucking lot has to go. What is the makeup of this team it feels obvious to me at least that there are at least 3 competing play styles and not any libe-by-,line cohesion. Everyone’s just making it up as they play their shifts.
I swear Luc has been desperately trying to capture the magic that DL created, and every step of the way feels like Rob Blake and Luc just wanted to recreate that team, but they fundamentally don’t understand that team nor why that team wouldn’t work in today’s game
I love Defensemen, loved Blake as a Defenseman, but We need offensive players as well. Defense is good don’t get me wrong, but they lean too strong to that side and that is coming from me!
People don’t want to admit Todd McLellon carried this team with his “boring hockey”.
He had worse rosters than the last 2 and gave a better fight against Edmonton both times. At this point the only thing keeping the kings from lottery land is Darcy playing as well as he has the past 1.5 years
If the 3rd period last night is any indication, this group can compete but just don’t most of the time. That to me means a group that doesn’t want to play for their coach.
Fuck Jim Hiller! No earthly idea how he wasn’t fired the day we were eliminated last season.
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Helene has always been my favorite sports reporter. Ans this is a 100% accurate take from her.
Real talk
I saw this last night and was like, damn let’s get Helene as our GM or President (or fuck it, both).
jokes aside, she has great takes. someone’s gotta call it like it is.
Helene with another based take
I am so glad there is someone out there that called this teams poor decisions out with how soft and easy it feels like the media is out here (for better or worse)
Love her handle, fuck you LA Times
She’s not wrong. Luc is the real problem here. He kept Blake, a defenseman as a player, too long as a GM and hired defensive minded coaches who forced offensive minded players to play defense first.
Then he hired Hiller and Holland who have continued the defense first style of play.
Look up straight shooter in the dictionary, and you will find Helene’s picture.
This sums it perfectly.
Even if Hiller can do the team a favor, it is a mediocre roster at best, and a new coach can’t hurt but it will not fix what is ailing the LA Kings.
Could use more blunt honesty, like this, instead of the sanitozed bullshit from the usual ball-washers in state-run Kings media
I’ve agreed. As silly as it sounds I wanted him sacked after those shit adjustments against Edmonton game 3
He gave me the same sense of Darvin Ham against the Nuggets in 2023 when I knew right there he was cooked and didn’t have answers and isn’t the guy for us. Hiller ain’t gonna lead us anywhere
Love it, Helene.
People focus too much on the coaching and not enough on the team management, the whole fucking lot has to go. What is the makeup of this team it feels obvious to me at least that there are at least 3 competing play styles and not any libe-by-,line cohesion. Everyone’s just making it up as they play their shifts.
I swear Luc has been desperately trying to capture the magic that DL created, and every step of the way feels like Rob Blake and Luc just wanted to recreate that team, but they fundamentally don’t understand that team nor why that team wouldn’t work in today’s game
I love Defensemen, loved Blake as a Defenseman, but We need offensive players as well. Defense is good don’t get me wrong, but they lean too strong to that side and that is coming from me!
People don’t want to admit Todd McLellon carried this team with his “boring hockey”.
He had worse rosters than the last 2 and gave a better fight against Edmonton both times. At this point the only thing keeping the kings from lottery land is Darcy playing as well as he has the past 1.5 years
If the 3rd period last night is any indication, this group can compete but just don’t most of the time. That to me means a group that doesn’t want to play for their coach.
Fuck Jim Hiller! No earthly idea how he wasn’t fired the day we were eliminated last season.