Hockey Trash Talk & BS thread

Quick is a bum , I don't care , but you're pretty wah

 

As an LA Fan they definitely did not make a mistake. The Kings had the worst GAA but a top 3 Shots Against Average. We needed a massive upgrade on goalie. Copley was playing really well and had a better win % and a better GAA than Quick. We picked up a goalie that has a better GAA and Save % one of the worst teams in the league. Plus we got a massive upgrade on Defense with a big bodied Defensman who is also left handed. Quick also expressed that he was not going to retire after this year, so Rob Blake decided that unloading an aging goalie and getting a young good goalie is a better route to take.

VGK can be a better system for Quickie at this point. He is playing lights out. Maybe the trade lite that fire in him again? Maybe It is the system that VGK has that suits him better? I am not sure but I don't think it was a mistake. They did him dirty but its business. I love Quickie but he played like ass with the Kings this year, the stats show it. I wouldn't VGK front office has common sense. They are always in a shit cap situation, they do their players dirty all the time. I will say they are trying their hardest to win a cup, but don't act like the VGK haven't done players dirty and take some massive L's on trades and their in a shit cap situation.

 

Quick 2023 Stats with LA GAA 3.50 Save % .876
Korpisalo 2023 Stats w/CBJ GAA 3.17 Save % .913

CBJ is the worst team in the league and the Kings have a top 5 defense. Quick had worse number with a top 5 defense than Korpi had with the worst team in the league. The Kings really turned their season around when they sent Peterson down and picked up Copley. Copley provided a consistent goal tender in the net for the Kings. Blake saw that has a need to fill hopefully long time with Korpi

 

omg a sane Kings fan ?

 

I try to look at all things. Was I happy losing Quickie...absolutely not. I think long term and for the rest of this season I think getting 2 good players for 1 aging player was worth it. Quick is 4-0 with Vegas, but has blown two leads in the 3rd, like had with the Kings. VGK has been able to bail him out in 2 of those games. VGK was up 4-1 in the 3rd and by the end before the empty netter it was 4-3. So lets not act like Quick has suddenly become an A lister goalie. VGK has just been better in front of Quick than the Kings were.

 

Carson Briere, what a shit head.

 

All good points. And I get why he made the move, based on team needs / performance. I think it's a clown move by the franchise, however. You can't give Dustin Brown a statue but dump JQ to Columbus. So on that front, I didn't like it. JQ was bad this year but I'm also not shocked that he is doing so well in Vegas. He's dropped off but if he us in the right headspace, he could maybe finish the year strong. But he probably would be best to call it quits after this year.

 

Crap move by the Kings, but I think JQ saying he isn't retiring at the end of the year + his performance this year, meant we had to make a move. JQ will get a statue and get his number retired whenever he decides to hang up the pads. I was talking to my VGK friend and he is happy the way JQ has been playing, he is worried that JQ will go back to the numbers he had on the Kings. I think Vegas has a better system that mask Goalie inefficiencies. Even he brought up how well their AHL call ups have been before they got injured.

 

I agree on all of that. And as much as I love JQ, I am also not sure if his performance is sustainable, even thought Vegas is "goalie friendly." It's weird because when Cal first was looking good, Quick struggled. And then when LA was ready to hand the key over to Cal, he just plummeted. And Quick actually played decent last year to make up for it. But this year, for some reason, he was almost unplayable and that was on a pretty good LA team.

His playstyle is outdated too, which makes it tough. It's like a modified version (adding in RVH) of how I played (and I was coached in the 90s lol.) It's such a reactionary style that relies on reflexes and aggression, rather than positioning and percentages, like 99% of other goalies in the league now. It's just really tough to play that style in todays game, late into your career. Him and Fleury are 2 of the best ever, to play that way, but both have been up and down, depending on the situation.

 

For sure with JQ and MAF playing the same style. Super fun to watch but they are definitely getting too old to play that style. Thing with JQ, when he is on, he's on. When he is cold, he lets in a lot of soft goals

 

Everyone was like fire Rob Blake...

 

FU LA

 

Still tied for 1st in the West...

 

wah

 

You're response makes no sense. Thanks for playing though

 

*your

As in "your team lost to Vancooter"

wah

 

Thanks for the English lesson in a Hockey thread. But you're correct in my incorrect usage. Kings still tied for 1st

 

Did you really have to give them the loser point?

 

we cannot beat the Canucks...we have beat them in regulation since 2018. They always play us so freaking good. Hate them lol

 

My man.