Thread: Lombardi vs. Cammy

Originally Posted by coachrob

Why did Lombardi trade Cammalleri? Was he really a Cancer in the locker room? Did he really want to much money? Here we are nearly 2 seasons later & that Cancer is leading his 8th place team & the entire NHL in post season scoring & Lombardi is still left looking for a true sniper that will cost much more than Cammy. Yes, Lombardi got Teubert out of the trade, but he is looking more & more like just an average d-man. If Lombardi had drafted Myers with the pick, then things may be a little different, but the Kings would still need a sniper that they already had!

When people ask me if I'm happy with the job Lombardi has done, I always answer, "I don't know". Yes, he has improved the team, but how much better could the Kings be without so many bone head moves? Crawford? Cloutier? Cammy? Priessing? McCauley? to name a few.

When you are an NHL GM .500 is a pretty good batting average. Lombardi is hitting at least that with a pretty decent slugging percentage when you consider guys like Simmonds, Richardson, Handzus, Scuderi, Loktionov, Voynov, etc. and the development of Bernier. Doughty was a no-brainer so we don't have to give him credit for that.

Hell he gets all the credit in the world from me just for not f'ing up Bernier's development, like past GMs of the Kings would have done.