Greene has been skating, FWIW. From a few audio sources.
Also, thought this DL interview was a really phenomenal look at his thought process, and I like how he alludes to what we all knew but other fans thought opposite of--DL basically said, no, you're not trying to go "well Chicago added x so we have to..." because that's dangerous. Stay with your plan.
But curious about the boldfaced (after an awesome paragraph):
http://lakingsinsider.com/2016/02/29/lombardi-explains-trade-conversations-deadline-approach/
“Rob was fairly easy,” he said. “The biggest thing to it as you saw that work out, that in keeping your eye on the cap and then the thing with Rob was obviously next year’s salary. Like, I could’ve gotten him earlier, but there was an issue in the money the next year. But the way that is now structured, it was almost like you’re not going to get a better player than that for what we’re going to end up playing, and then it becomes the issue of, OK, before we did it, we went back and Darryl and the coaches and I and Blakey, we sat and watched Rob’s game in Pittsburgh and Chicago, and then we put in the games that he played in the conference finals with us before he left and then tried to make a decision on ‘was the drop-off,’ so-to-speak, an issue of his slower or whatever, or maybe the role and the fit not being right and him being caught in between, and I think all that work was being done, we got permission from Chicago to talk to him before, and one thing good about it is he knows what Darryl expects, and I talked to him about the team now, and the other thing too about moving his family. It was critical that one of the reasons I think he left was because his wife wanted to be closer to his family. ‘I don’t want you coming out here if your wife’s staying back east,’ and she was all excited. And the guy, he commands a lot of respect in that room. And like I said, for giving what we have to pay him, as well as fitting in, it’s almost like, ‘Well, it makes too much sense,’ and then on [Versteeg], you’re right. You’ve seen us do that before, right, when we got Stoll, or Mike. It was either guys who had been to the finals or won.
A lot of those veterans had been in that position, and certainly Versteeg fits that. And the other thing, too, is Darryl’s very familiar with Versteeg, so even though we’re not as familiar with him as maybe a Scuderi having been here,
there’s also a history with Versteeg with the Sutter family, if you go back to his time in Alberta. But the winning part you’re talking about, absolutely. It’s a war zone. You better know what you’re getting into. Now I think we just got a taste of that last night.”
What's the Versteeg/Sutter connection??
