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Originally Posted by tomd
You realize that Lombardi inherited the starting goalie and the #1 center, right?
And given Lombardi's obsessive focus on D, I would expect the Kings to have one of the best defenses in the league. And to be fair, Lombardi has made several bone-headed moves in pursuit of defensemen (with Hickey being Exhibit 1).
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You do realize that while Quick was inherited, [and Bernier later drafted] they are BOTH products of Lombardi's development system, something no other GM in Kings history knew anything about [see Storr,Jamie].