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About This Page: This is a discussion on News within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Lombardi provided a press conference call after the deadline passed to discuss the Kings' transactions and attempted moves and background information. The highlights:
• Thornton had a no trade clause
Lombardi provided a press conference call after the deadline passed to discuss the Kings' transactions and attempted moves and background information. The highlights:
• Thornton had a no trade clause (new information to me) and gave Lombardi four teams he would waive his clause for if a deal was made. A proposed deal was in place and but for a ‘bigger trade’ from the team in question, he probably would have been moved. Who knew that Hossa’s rental would get in the way of the Kings moving an asset... ouch! (My conjecture admittedly.)
• Foote’s deal most likely got in the way of the Blake move. Yes; a healthy Blake adds to the Kings and a new deal will be discussed.
• The Aubin deal is the first one between the Kings and the Ducks. Lombardi added that if it goes well, maybe next time, Los Angeles would work its way up to a fifth round pick.
• The Stuart deal was similar compensation for what the Kings got for Sopel and that was how Lombard decided he got fair compensation.
• Lombardi gets we need to build this team from the net out and defense is where the team has the biggest need. It was due to this that he drafted Hickey.
Love him or hate him, Lombardi has a plan and strength of conviction. Listen to the call in its entirety here:
Stop giving out no trade clauses so liberally. The Thornton deal was signed the first day of free agency on July 1, 2006. It is hard for me to believe that Thornton was such a necessary asset that if he wasn’t given the clause, we couldn’t have found comparable value in another player happy to get an NHL contract.
Burke calls no trade clauses ‘coach killers’ and as a rule avoids them absent atypical circumstances. An example is Giguere and he only got it because his son needs access to the physicians at the Jules Stein Eye Institute at UCLA and a trade would affect continuity of care. It sounds like Lombardi needs to take a page out of Burke’s playbook. In fairness, it was challenging for Lombardi to get free agents to come here the last two off-seasons.
With the youth and talent in place, that should no longer be such an obstacle.
• The Aubin deal is the first one between the Kings and the Ducks. Lombardi (tongue placed firmly in cheek)added that if it goes well, maybe next time, Los Angeles would work its way up to a fifth round pick.
wow carla. still give lombardi an "F"? maybe you should have waited for the facts before you so quickly judged him? i agree with you on the no trade clause issue, but i still think you were WAY off base in your previous post.
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Considering he was the one who gave Thornton and Blake the no trade clauses, and Blake the current over valued contract, yeah, I stick by my take. As to the deadline only, I am real happy with the direction DL is taking the franchise.
If Blake wanted to come home, then he didn't need to be paid top dollar. It is not like other experienced defensemen couldn't be had for less especially the first unrestricted period when GMs gave far less $$ for talent than they do now. There was no reason to make it Christmas and a no trade clause to boot.
Good article, Carla. I still think he's done a bad job thus far, because while he has an obvious plan, he can't seem to get it right (getting someone good in the net, getting good, solid D). Having a plan is all well and good and gives us warm comfy feelings for a little while, but in the end it's the implementation that is critical, and I haven't seen any progress in either goaltending or D (aside from JMFJ, no one has impressed me, plus how can you not love a guy with that nickname).
__________________ -Fish
"When you can't run anymore you crawl, and when you can't crawl, when you can't do that..."
Karma to whomever can finish that.
CarlaMuller
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