Dude, he’s going to kill you now. You’re only hope is that his English is so rudimentary he doesn’t understand what it says, otherwise he’s going to eat you. Although I agree the minor penalties are absurd, he started to show more balance in his game as the year went on. He scored game winning goals two games in a row if I remember correctly.

His stat line is kinda crazy. 76 games played – 2 goals. not bad I guess. 2 GWG – wtf?How does that happen? Raitis sucks, but at least he’s clutch? Zero assists in 76 games, how can that even be possible? Not one assist? Whats his career number for assists, 3? I checked, and its 6. This guy is pure luck on the ice, and its mostly bad. I dont think I like Westgarth much better, I guess I hope Clune has a good camp and beats out both.

Raitis Ivanans led the team in minor penalties. He played 6:22 minutes a game. That’s unconscionable.

Wow. I had no idea he was that costly — for sure that’s the kind of toughness that won’t help you get wins.

Maybe Smytty can box.

I despise Denis Gauthier more than Kevin Y

No way. No fucking way.

But you do make a good point. Gauthier at least is a hockey player. He’s incompetent, but he does contribute defensively at times, just not against the Red Wings in October. (Valterri Filppula never was, nor ever will be, on the Kings.) And he even sometimes produces offensively. At a game I was at last year, I threw my drink at the wall after Gauthier scored.

I’m not sure Raitis has an ounce of hockey knowledge in his body. I’m not sure he even knows what the hell the game “hockey” is. There are enforcers, and then there are guys like Ivanans, who spends more time in the penalty box than he does on the ice. He’s probably more productive in the box than on the ice because he only hurts the Kings (and occasionally guys like Brashear and Parros) when he’s on.

You know what, we should put him in a cage with Brock Lesnar. Admit it, you’d dish out big bucks to see that at Staples Center before the season opener.