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I know there’s been a lot of negative discourse about PL lately, but I still believe in the person and the player. You’re setting him up to underachieve by playing him with guys like Carl, Lewis, and Laf for 3/4 of the season. He knows he has to produce with the price tag attached to his name, and with the right coach and system I believe he can get back to the two-way impact and 60+ points he was putting up previously.
Guy made no excuses through a lot of tough questions and handled the buyout question graciously. Still need to see the intensity ramp up as he was frustratingly passive most of the season. Honestly believe learning a brand new system and trying too hard to limit mistakes can do that. Have a great off-season and we’ll see. But as Kings fans we MUST support our players!!!
lets hope next year he finds his footing, maybe he will be a beast next season , who knows.
Your contract should be bought out. A waste.
PLD=locker room cancer
BS…don’t believe him. He’s got no heart, he’s got no stamina. Buy him out before his birthday for 1/3 the cost of his contract or trade hime before July 1st, before his No Movement clause kicks in for the next 4 years
Please leave pld
Did he play all 82 games? That's big. He's taking a big chunk of the salary cap. Expectations are high. Deliver or not play. Those are the basics.
I belive he will do better next year well at least i hope
PLD had a full season to prove his worth and failed. Cut ties now before the team is stuck.We need hard working players and he did not show much promise.
I’m glad he’s with us. Not a good start but I’m giving him next year before I decide
I think if we can get a coach who instills discipline in the team and has him work, he’ll excel but it’s up to him to get the best out of himself. Not happy about his contract but if he can be better next season and really use his physique, it’ll be a different story!!
Give him credit facing the media's dumb questions trying to cause conflict and I'm not even a kings fan.
All due respect from just "A Fan"…Sorry, but those 'Things you can control" you did NOT control all season. For 8.5M/yr you should be able to produce anywhere on any line at any time. That's LEADERSHIP money and you needed a "Point System" from the coaching staff?!? Your cap and term are on Rob Blake. He'll pay for that. Your Laissez-faire attitude toward this game and this team is something you should pay for, not the team or its fans. In 44 years of watching Kings hockey, I have NEVER seen a more shiftless, lazy player take the ice this season than you. Have some pride and dignity in your game for crimeny sake! Someone's gotta say it. Happy to volunteer. Grow a set, prove me wrong and change your attitude. There are a lot of guys in that room you can learn that from, start with Mr. Danault. Buy him lunch when you talk with him and make it expensive. He's worth it.
Useless player. BUY HIM OUT before we are stuck for the next 7 years!
Put him with fiala and another decent forward for at least a half season then we can call him a waste of money
I feel like it's a marriage where your wife doesn't prove she can take care of the house and the kids because of adversity, but you can buy her out and get a divorce and get a 50% discount within the first year oppose the stuck with her until your kids 18! I know it seems crude but I don't trust this guy
I mean listen he’s not entirely wrong… PLD is the 2nd most skilled Center on this team by a long shot. And Phil Danault is a 3rd line center on a deep Stanley Cup contending team. Period. So what the F is the problem?!! Pull our heads out
What else is he going to say in regard to his performance? His contract is an issue for the GM to address, not the player.
You internet trolls, who have never played, are what is wrong with the world. PLD answered like a man. He'll be better next year.
He just didn't produce for the amount of money he's being paid. Period. This is the guy we got who is going to help us beat the oilers in years going forward and win playoff series? This guy has zero juice, zero passion.
Excuses excuses excuses…he had a full season to show his impact. The ONLY game he made an impact was vs Winnipeg in Winnipeg, he had 2 goals. Other than that, he’s invisible for 82 games
PLD was set up to have a subpar/mediocre season. Throwing him on the third line with multiple players with barely 100 games of experience (JAD, Laffy, Kaliyev, etc)
Did we expect him to takeover and carry? Look who he was paired with in Winnipeg. Ehlers, Copp/Connor
The only way to go is up. If PLD scores 30+ or 60+pts here on out, everyone suddenly forgets the first disaster season of a hot streak, road trip record breaking streak, to falling completely off the rails & our coach getting fired
Criminally misused
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"It's out of my control" It's literally not.
Chump couldnt even produce playing against other teams 4th liners and he thinks he can produce vs 1st liners?! Gtfo here.
48 year old Kopi > Prime PLD
What an epic failure this guy is. He didn't answer the questions. More fire, no compassion.
8.5 million
What a loser. He hasn't said anything convincing at all. Montreal dodged that loser
His "not in my control" bullshit is such a poor excuse…."I can't control how my summer will be"? Wtf is that supposed to mean. Such a loser attitude. He doesn't deserve to be in the nhl.
He has evidence that'll lead to the arrest of Hillary Clinton; doesn't care about his team nor his teammates.
Obviously PLD doesn’t want to play hockey anymore. His body language and facial language shows an indifference and apathy. He was biting his fingernails and playing with his mustache and beard. What adult almost 26 behaves this way on public TV and media outlets in hockey world. Something is missing upstairs. He had 82 games to prove his skills, energy, and toughness, all of which awfully flunked out. Dump him for sure, bite the bullet and take the losses and move on with this dud.
Any kings fan despising this man is completely fake and wrong. Yes he didn’t have the greatest season but it’s one season. He still has other seasons to prove himself. He isn’t the only reason we played as poor as we did throughout times in the season. Coming to a new organization isn’t easy and nobody knows what that’s like. We’re all just fans. Giving threats and just trashing him after one season is stupid and unfair for him.
I have faith in him. Playing with bottom 6 guys the majority of the season can’t help your confidence and or play. People don’t seem to recognize that. All of these experts keep saying he should have made those players better, yet it hard to make young players better when you are only as good as your line mates. He could have had a 60 point season if for not Laffy, Grundy, Lewis and even Kaliyv missing great opportunities to put the puck in the net from a nice setup from PlD.
PLD references his time with the Jets quite a bit, maybe some regrets on abandoning that top 6 stability, maybe
If he was being paid 4 mil, he would have been a slight disappointment, but showing some glimpses of promise. The fact is he is getting paid over 8 mil a year. That’s so crazy
Leon making 9.25 this guy ain’t half the player
Everything's out of his control yet everything's on "him" and he needs to do better? He seems so nervous and NO confidence in this interview… he needs to be let go he's not going to get better. HUGE disappointment this season. I wasn't sure about him at first then I started giving him the benefit of the doubt and now I know, he's an on ice coaster non-compete player.
Dump truck, huge mistake picking this guy up.
All these stupid fans let the guy play he moved from Canada to the us new team new everything and he played with rookies and without him laf wouldn’t be as good it’s not just numbers but he’s helping young players cause he was one of them
A lot of time and so many chances, but he strikes me as a guy who is really difficult to form relationships with. Especially as a teammate. Like, this feels like a tennis interview.
Definitely not impressed by him. Hopefully next year he steps up. Gkg
Great signing🤣🤣🤣 enjoy 7 more yrs of this guy 🤣
Give the guy time