insidesocal.com - 7/3/2009
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A quick interview with Dean Lombardi...
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Question: How did this one come together?
LOMBARDI: ``We were trying to avoid what happened last year with Orpik. It was the exact same situation. With Orpik last year, we knew what Pittsburgh offered, and we made our offer but the (current ...
insidesocal.com - 7/2/2009
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insidesocal.com —
OK, here are all the quotes from tonight's
interview with Dean Lombardi. I typed fast, so excuse...
any typos. The only thing to add is that I asked Lombardi if he had any talks with agent Don Meehan about Alexander Frolov, and Lombardi said those would ...
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Lombardi July 1 quotes
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pensburgh.com - 7/2/2009
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pensburgh.com —
Rob Rossi of the Tribune-Review reports: Add
the Kings to a list of teams in the...
hunt for D Rob Scuderi . Minnesota and the Penguins also remain in the hunt, but I’m told the Kings are above $3 million annually on a long-term deal. That Scuderi hasn’t accepted yet ...
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Report: Los Angeles Kings close in on Rob Scuderi, offer ...
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Empty Netter Assists - 7-3-09
Empty Netters —
... -"We were trying to avoid what happened last year with Orpik. It was the
exact same situation. With Orpik last year, we knew what Pittsburgh
offered, and we made our offer but the (current team) is always going
to get the last chance, and they got him. In this case, we found out
what Pittsburgh was offered and we knew we just had to blow them out of
the water. When you're talking about offers, it's not just the money.
It's cost of living in L.A. and it's taxes. If you're offering $500,000
more, it's really not that much when you look at everything. So we knew ...
Puck Daddy's 2009 Free-Agent Frenzy Report Card
Puck Daddy —
... from the Penguins (four years, $13.6 million), but that's what a team in Los Angeles has to do to land talent. He's famously nicknamed "The Piece," and GM Dean Lombardi sees him as a vital one on the blue line to play with either ...
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Question: Can you talk about how this came together?
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