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Dallas Stars Daily Links: Tom Gaglardi Talks Trade Deadline
New Dallas Stars owner Tom Gaglardi has already talked a bit about what his team might be looking for at the trade deadline this season, and he continued to be open about the subject this weekend. With no practice and a pretty slow news day on Saturday ESPN Dallas released this Q&A with...
Dallas Stars Daily Links: Los Angeles Kings Fire Coach Terry Murray
The Dallas Stars handed the Los Angeles Kings their fourth consecutive loss Saturday evening, and that proved to be the tipping point for upper management, which fired head coach Terry Murray late Monday afternoon. Murray is the fourth coach fired this season and the second in the Pacific Division,...
A Drew Doughty Don Meehan Dean Lombardi Thought Experiment
Assume the Kings start the season without Drew Doughty. The strategy of Meehan/Doughty will be to wait for the Kings to crumble without Doughty and come scurrying back with a better offer. The strategy of Lombardi will be to weather the storm till 12/1, which is the date Doughty must sign by or...
Contrasting Lombardi's Sharks with Tallon's Panthers
As you might (!) know, the Florida Panthers spent a lot of money on free agents this summer in an attempt to not only reach the mandated salary cap floor but give the Cats' prospects more than enough time to develop; theoretically making the Panthers actually watchable down the road. The strategy...
Our Take On The Ryan Smyth Trade Controversy
Steve Tambellini tried to trade Gilbert Brule away for Ryan Smyth so that the Kings could buyout Brule's contract, but was shut down by league lawyers. Then he actually did trade Colin Fraser to the Kings in exchange for Smyth, and all was well until Dean Lombardi revealed the extent of Colin...
Mulletgate: is a formal grievance next?
Helene Elliott on Twitter this afternoon (link is broken, sorry): helenenothelen NHL mediator unable to resolve dispute btween Kings, Oilers over Colin Fraser's fitness. Next step: Kings must decide if they want to file a formal grievance with the league. If so, it would be heard and ruled on by...
Why Gilbert Brule Is Still With The Edmonton Oilers
As the Ryan Smyth trade blows up once again, it's worth clearing up some misconceptions about what happened with the proposed Gilbert Brule deal. On the evening of June 24th, Steve Tambellini and Dean Lombardi, General Manager of the Los Angeles Kings, reached an agreement to exchange Gilbert...
Panthers' Tallon to have hand in U.S. National Team player selection
Florida's Dale Tallon will have direct input when player selection gets underway for the next U.S. national team. He joins quite the colorful cast of characters, as outlined several days ago by USA Hockey: The U.S. Men's National Team Advisory Group includes National Hockey League general managers...
Oil Embargo vs. Oil Dependence
Dean Lombardi is not happy with the Ryan Smyth trade. Understandably so -- even with his hands tied, he still got stuck with an injured Colin Fraser. But he may have gone overboard with this snipe: "The bottom line for me, I would have rather invested my money with Bernie Madoff than invest in...
Brought To You From The Floor of STAPLES
Here we are at the 2010 NHL Entry Draft. STAPLES Center has been slowly filling up for the past two hours and I'm in the media pit witnessing first-hand the wheeling and dealing of the day. This will be a sort of open forum for those who can tear themselves away from the TV for a second or two,...
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