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About This Page: This is a discussion on LA Kings Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Originally Posted by 4/10/82
so here's the smacktalk about blake, so far as i can tell:
A) he's a prick because he'd "love to go to detroit" or some other
so here's the smacktalk about blake, so far as i can tell:
A) he's a prick because he'd "love to go to detroit" or some other contender;
B) he's a prick because he wants to stay in l.a.;
C) if he says he'll waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player and reduces lombardi's bargaining power;
D) if he says he won't waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player because he's sticking the team with his pointless services for the last seven weeks of the season.
congratulations, lgk. you have created a situation where there is literally nothing blake can say or do to satisfy you.
oh, and one more thing: all of the above is based on your preconceived ideas about blake, when you, quite literally, have no idea what's going on inside the organization. but why let your ignorance of the facts interfere with a good rant, eh?
so here's the smacktalk about blake, so far as i can tell:
A) he's a prick because he'd "love to go to detroit" or some other contender;
B) he's a prick because he wants to stay in l.a.;
C) if he says he'll waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player and reduces lombardi's bargaining power;
D) if he says he won't waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player because he's sticking the team with his pointless services for the last seven weeks of the season.
congratulations, lgk. you have created a situation where there is literally nothing blake can say or do to satisfy you.
oh, and one more thing: all of the above is based on your preconceived ideas about blake, when you, quite literally, have no idea what's going on inside the organization. but why let your ignorance of the facts interfere with a good rant, eh?
and Bingo was his name-o!
*except for jt, of course... he IS after all, the world's foremost authority on Rob Blake!
so here's the smacktalk about blake, so far as i can tell:
A) he's a prick because he'd "love to go to detroit" or some other contender;
B) he's a prick because he wants to stay in l.a.;
C) if he says he'll waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player and reduces lombardi's bargaining power;
D) if he says he won't waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player because he's sticking the team with his pointless services for the last seven weeks of the season.
congratulations, lgk. you have created a situation where there is literally nothing blake can say or do to satisfy you.
oh, and one more thing: all of the above is based on your preconceived ideas about blake, when you, quite literally, have no idea what's going on inside the organization. but why let your ignorance of the facts interfere with a good rant, eh?
so here's the smacktalk about blake, so far as i can tell:
A) he's a prick because he'd "love to go to detroit" or some other contender;
B) he's a prick because he wants to stay in l.a.;
C) if he says he'll waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player and reduces lombardi's bargaining power;
D) if he says he won't waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player because he's sticking the team with his pointless services for the last seven weeks of the season.
congratulations, lgk. you have created a situation where there is literally nothing blake can say or do to satisfy you.
oh, and one more thing: all of the above is based on your preconceived ideas about blake, when you, quite literally, have no idea what's going on inside the organization. but why let your ignorance of the facts interfere with a good rant, eh?
He's a prick because he isn't doing it quietly. Rather than keep it behind closed doors he blabbed to the Denver Post a couple of months ago to spark the debate. Why? Who knows but it could have easily brushed it off and said he wanted to stay in LA, he didn't. And now he contradicts himself.
All one needs to do is look to Toronto and Sundin. Both teams in a similar position with star players. Yet for the most part Sundin has done it quietly. When he does speak it he does not speak of what he wants in the future for himself, Sundin repeats the same refrain – he isn't thinking about his future right now. "I haven't thought about next season". Quotes from a recent article.
Blake on the other hand can not keep his trap shut about what HE wants next year for himself and down the road.
Clearly no matter what he really thinks when he talks and contradicts himself it sounds selfish and egotistically driven.
Those that hate Blake will hate Blake no matter what he does. JT's twisted influence has reached far and wide. All that you have to do is look at the facts and what Blake has said first hand, not by hearsay.
"(The Kings) would have to come to me first, but, yeah, it's a possibility," Blake said,...
...the team could become sellers by the Feb. 26 deadline. "Hopefully, we can turn things around here first, before any (trade) talk happens," Blake said.
"It's never been agreed that I'd waive my no-trade and I've never been approached about it," said Blake. "I don't know where that started, but I knew it would eventually creep in, given my situation."
However, Blake did not rule out the possibility of moving at the deadline, if Lombardi pitched the idea to him.
"I don't know how I'd approach it," said Blake. "My philosophy was to come back here and remain a King for the rest of my career. Unfortunately, when you get in last place, things do change. I haven't really sat down with Lombardi and spoke to him, but I'm sure that's something that will happen in the next little while — that we're going to sit down and discuss what the future holds.
"Obviously, you think about it, but until it happens, I don't know what I'd do in that situation."
"I want to stay here and remain a King," said the injured Blake, who was at the team's practice facility in El Segundo. "I stressed that with them and talked about the plans of the Kings and the future and a lot of different things. That was it."
He made his strongest comments, of late, about wanting to finish his playing career in Los Angeles. And he clearly would like to remain in the organization after that point, possibly in a front-office position.
"You're going to read a lot of stuff," Blake said. "Nothing has changed on my part. I expressed my feelings to stay here again and do what I wanted to do when I came here two years ago. . . . My goals have been, two years ago, to sign here, to finish here. And to do something here, and that hasn't changed. If it takes two more years, three more years, or five years, I hope I'm involved somehow with that process."
"I want to stay here and remain a King," said Blake told the Times. "I stressed that with them and talked about the plans of the Kings and the future and a lot of different things. That was it."
"You're going to read a lot of stuff," Blake said to the Times. "Nothing has changed on my part. I expressed my feelings to stay here again and do what I wanted to do when I came here two years ago. .My goals have been, two years ago, to sign here, to finish here. And to do something here, and that hasn't changed. If it takes two more years, three more years, or five years, I hope I'm involved somehow with that process."
Blakes opinion really has not changed. You don't know if Lombardi has asked Blake to waive his NTC. If Lombardi asked Blake to waive his NTC I think Blake would seriously consider it. So far nothing has come out that Lombardi has asked.
Last edited by Len-Det64; February 18th, 2008 at 11:51 AM.
so here's the smacktalk about blake, so far as i can tell:
A) he's a prick because he'd "love to go to detroit" or some other contender;
B) he's a prick because he wants to stay in l.a.;
C) if he says he'll waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player and reduces lombardi's bargaining power; D) if he says he won't waive his no-trade clause, he proves he's not a team player because he's sticking the team with his pointless services for the last seven weeks of the season.
congratulations, lgk. you have created a situation where there is literally nothing blake can say or do to satisfy you.
oh, and one more thing: all of the above is based on your preconceived ideas about blake, when you, quite literally, have no idea what's going on inside the organization. but why let your ignorance of the facts interfere with a good rant, eh?
This looks bad if you look at the collective minds of LGK as a single entity, but the correct answer is D.
I would like to add though that nothing he says in the quotes from the last LA Times article precludes a trade that would allow him to return next season.
Last edited by KINGS17; February 18th, 2008 at 11:51 AM.
Blake's willingness and loyalty to remain King will be displayed by how much of a home town discount he gives the team next season.
For now Lombardi has only himself to blame for giving the no-trade clause to him in the 1st place. And that is assuming Lombardi misses out on a potential return by not being able to trade him as opposed to not wanting to trade him for a medicre return.
Last edited by Riofan; February 18th, 2008 at 01:15 PM.
Blake's willingness and loyalty to remain King will be displayed by how much of a home town discount he gives the team next season. For now Lombardi has only himself to blame for giving the no-trade clause to him in the 1st place.
KFIT
