Los Angeles Kings 2024-25 NHL Season Preview | The Steve Dangle Podcast

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1. FIRST AF!

2. Il gatto nel video sa chiaramente più di me. Sembra che mi guardi con giudizio🔥

3. Go Kings Go 👑🏒💪🏼

   First look at Utah tonight, hopefully the Kings' great record vs Coyotes carries over

4. Why does Blake get hate but stevey Y gets a pass? They are both not very good at this point , at least the kings are a regular playoff team and can make the excuse of running into the oilers

5. Another first round loss to oilers lets gooo

6. Kings are going to be that mediocre good team for a while. It's the curse of being good but not elite.

7. I think we overestimated the future for this team. A lot of the prospects haven’t worked out. They’ve spent the last two offseasons adding size, but it’s come at the expense of skill, and it’s a net negative imo. They won’t score enough. The skater group is built to win 2-1, but they don’t have the goaltending for it.

   I saw someone on twitter say “2-1 mentality doesn’t work in a 4-3 league” and even though there are a couple teams that are exceptions, you need a Shesterkin or Bobrovsky to make it work.

   Kuemper and Rittich won’t kill the team, but they won’t steal games either. With the offensive struggles the Kings will have, they’ll need the goalies to steal games.

   My prediction for the Kings is 43 wins, 92 points, 4th in the division behind Edmonton/Vancouver/Vegas and just barely missing out on the playoffs.

8. Kings missed their window to trade Moore.

9. Unfortunately the Kings need to blow the team up again. Kopitar and doughty were the correct pieces to build around 15 years ago. Byfield is not close to as good as Kopitar is NOW. Clarke is not near as good as doughty is now. And the pacific is much more competitive than it was 15 years ago with McDavid draisaitl celebrini and Eichel now.

10. Looking at that potential roster for the King, i totally understand the forwards move…but that defense really could use more love cause they feel like one injury and it's over…In the net, i feel it's not as bad as the rest of the league think it is, Coopley could show some flashes again. Wildcard is a good guess with them but i wouldn't be surprise if they do a move in defense, i'm looking at that prospect pool and unless i miss something, no monster except Clarke are moving up ? Am i missing something Kings fans ?

11. Is this SDPN? I can't see any branding.

12. It's easy to question LA's prospects, considering they have had delayed impact on the NHL, but virtually all of the top prospects have faced significant injury setbacks concussions (Turcotte), 3 shoulder surgeries for Akil, broken bones and illness for Byfield, Villardi's back, Kupari tore his ACL even now Kaliev breaks his clavicle all being said I'm not worried about the foward core but I do worry about the blueline not re-signing Matt Roy is a mistake that will be hard to overcome and while I believe Spence and Anderson will be just fine Gavrikov was terrible away from Roy last season, Edmunson who was brought in to mitigate Roys loss is significant step down from Roy and has struggled defensively throughout his career and while Clarke has big offensive potential defensively he needs to take a massive step foward otherwise he'll be another Tyson Barrie and Doughty at a time when his minutes need to be reduced there really isn't a player who take those minutes and he wasn't particularly effective when not playing with Anderson all those questions on D make worried about the goaltending and how they hold up against what is liklier an uptick in high danger chances against now with all that I still believe that top 3 in the division is more likely than not VGK is worse on paper, SEA is worse on paper, CGY is in rebuild mode, and is VAN truly a better team than last season maybe I'm not so sure and EDM while I agree are likely the division winners they didn't look real awesome to start last season but I wouldn't be completely surprised if ANA had a big year next season they have a ton of young talent that IF those young guys take a big step could certainly scare the top half

13. NO PLAYOFF SERIES WINS IN OVER A DECADE 😂😂😂

14. Guess what? The Pacific division is wide open and the La Kings have as good a chance as anyone.

15. Edmonton 1st
    Vegas 2nd
    LA 3rd

    Wildcard fight between

    Canucks 4th
    Kraken 5th

    Then the spoilers

    Anaheim 6th
    Flames 7th
    Sharks 8th

    Canucks are overrated AF, if Demko is out for any significant time they will be playing catch up, their D outside of Hughes / Hronek is the biggest collection of bottom pairing 5-8th level Pylons in the show, 2 top 4 D, 4 top 6 forwards… won’t cut it, great bottom 6 sure but I don’t buy the hype.

    They beat up on Edmonton’s slow start last season and feasted on 4 of the bottom 10 teams which came from Pacific Division, they looked horrid against Nashville in round 1 and only mustered 5 games against Edmonton in a 7 game series, game 5 of round 2 was the only 60 minute game they played as a team.

    I don’t see it

    It’s Edmonton’s division to lose, LA will improve just by having Byfield at 2 C over Dubois. Vegas has a deep D core and still has a good team up front minus Marchessault, Vegas being Vegas will have no issue trading for top end depth if needed.

    Kraken will be better this year and will be fighting Canucks for wildcard along with Colorado, Utah, St. Louis, maybe Chicago

    Central

    1 Nashville
    2 Dallas
    3 Winnipeg
    4 Colorado
    5 Utah
    6 St Louis
    7 Chicago
    8 Minnesota

    Anaheim and Sharks more competitive, Canucks will have a harder time collecting automatic 2 points in California this year.

    Calgary who knows but they are “retooling”

16. easily the most overhyped team in the league

17. first round exit is their ceiling, lmao.

18. I can’t believe they gave Edmundson 4 years. Wow.

19. It really all depends on youth for the Kings – which is admittedly not super ideal, but if a few of these young guys pan out this team could be really dangerous. The big two are Byfield and Clarke. If Byfield can be a 70+ point top 6 center, that's massive for this team. If Clarke can be a 40+ point offensive d man, that's also crucial. Both need to be impact players – they have the skill, just have to put it all together. Then you have guys like Laferriere, Thomas, Turcotte, and Fagemo who could all surprise. Spence could/should take another step forward as a young d man. I understand why people are writing the Kings off, but there's a world where things work out. They now have more toughness to compliment the young talent. Goaltending could be questionable but I honestly think Kuemper can rebound in front of a much better team defensively in the Kings. Going to be a very interesting season regardless

20. If Byfield really does take yet another step and ends up excelling at center, the Kings could have a first line of FIala – Byfield – Kempe…. That's honestly pretty damn solid with a lot of playmaking/scoring potential. That's especially huge because it then means you have Anze freakin Kopitar as your 2nd line center and Phil Danault as your 3rd line center.

21. The LA kings are the Maple Leafs of the West. Good enough to make the playoffs but do nothing in them.

22. I'm not bullish about LA's chances. I think they could finish third in the division, but 4th is more likely and that would leave them outside the playoffs. The Central is just much deeper than the Pacific is.

23. LA Kings are having a Calgary Flames and Ottawa Senators "Don't call it a rebuild" rebuild going on