Defenseman and captain Rob Blake said Sunday that he has not been asked to waive his no-trade clause nor does he want to do so.
"I want to stay here and remain a King," said the injured Blake, who was at the team's practice facility in El Segundo. "I stressed that with them and talked about the plans of the Kings and the future and a lot of different things. That was it."
Blake, out with a broken left ankle, has been the subject of trade speculation with the NHL's trade deadline of Feb. 26 fast approaching.
He made his strongest comments, of late, about wanting to finish his playing career in Los Angeles. And he clearly would like to remain in the organization after that point, possibly in a front-office position.
"You're going to read a lot of stuff," Blake said. "Nothing has changed on my part. I expressed my feelings to stay here again and do what I wanted to do when I came here two years ago. . . . My goals have been, two years ago, to sign here, to finish here. And to do something here, and that hasn't changed. If it takes two more years, three more years, or five years, I hope I'm involved somehow with that process."
