On November 4, 2007 - I dubbed thee FLUBOMIR

11-04-2007, 12:30 PM #14
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Originally Posted by KINGS17
Visnovsky was bad, don't know who in the media picked him as the game's #3 star.
1. Are you kidding???? There was a whistle with about 11 seconds to go, and I invoked the "never leave a hockey game before the game is over, UNLESS it's friggin' pointless and you've had more than you can stand in one night" rule, and so I missed the three stars. Obviously picked by a blind person because Flubomir was just awful.


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I mention this because last night I got to call a few "die-hard" Kings fans to break the news that Flubomir Craptastic had moved on to Alberta... in a peach of a deal.

The Visnovsky trade is an excellent one for the Kings, and here's why...

1. Jarret Stoll is the first real dependable faceoff man the Kings have had in eons. As good as Eric Belanger might have been for a nano-second, he never compiled the kind of numbers that Stoll has amassed over the past three NHL seasons (all over 55%) - THIS is a positive. The Kings have been dreadful in the circles for this decade and beyond.

2. Jarret Stoll is not terribly expensive, and is a UFA at season's end. This means, (a) he becomes incentivised to perform for his new team this year, and though others have failed in this mission in the past, there's a good chance he will succeed because he is going to be playing with legitimate top 6 forwards over the course of this season --- something the Kings DO have. (b) if he fails, and as the Kings should fail, he becomes a pretty reasonable trade deadline acquisition for a good team that will be quick to point out that Stoll's poor performance comes from being on a dreadful team. (c) Tavares or Hedman... :-)

3. Matt Greene is a big kid, and can hit, and can be a legitimate stay at home defenseman who will not be as undersized as Weaver, or as overrated as Aaron Miller, and will be plugged into situations that will enable him to establish himself as a punishment to undersized opposing forwards who would normally take extreme liberties around the Kings crease.

4. If we believe the hype, Doughty, Hickey, Teubert and Johnson will all be patrolling the Kings blueline in a couple of years, and Visnovsky would have been old, overpaid and expendable. We're seeing loss-cutting in advance of what would have been some major albatross accessorizing.

5. The money saved will absolutely go a long way to satisfying players that need to be signed to much longer term deals. As we hear of 6 (Olesz) and 7 (Malone) year deals, the names O'Sullivan and Kopitar pop into our respective heads and flexible spending goes a long way towards keeping these two offensive talents in King uniforms for quite some time.

6. That annoying little pissant Jacob Kings Visnovsky has to go to some HF admin to get his username changed :-)