Dean Lombardi Book

[kingsholygrail]

Who would you want to read the audio version?

 

[Lt Dan]

Who would you want to read the audio version?

Either:

Peterman

or

Bruce Willis

 

[Matt13]

Who would you want to read the audio version?

 

[bland]

So that made me curious...

Scott Parse for his career w/ the Kings...

Corsi% - 48.58%
xG%. - 51.42%
GF% - 65.08%

while skating like 10 minutes a game before his career was ended due to injury...

You dirty mother hugger!

 

[apocalypse]

Epilogue: small players gotta be real good to play in this league.

 

[All The Kings Men]

You dirty mother hugger!

Not during a pandemic I'm not! She's 75!!!

 

[Lt Dan]

Not during a pandemic I'm not! She's 75!!!

what about a slap on the ass?

 

[All The Kings Men]

How dare you

 

[King'sPawn]

what about a slap on the ass?

You didn't like it when I did that to you.

 

[KINGS17]

On their podcast, DB and the Mayor said DL was holed up in Wyoming and has a 700 page draft of his book written.

Seven hundred pages? That's not so bad, it's less than volume 1 of Obama's latest autobiography.

 

[KINGS17]

Yup that's Dean alright. Never seemed like the guy who loved speaking publicly, but once you got him to do that he would never shut up

Yeah, Dean would talk your leg off once he got going. He definitely was enthusiastic about his plan, and if you were fortunate enough to get invited to see all the boxes on the wall, he really got into it.

 

[KINGS17]

Have any of you read Andy Murray's book? It has a complete appendix of the essays written by the players on "I play my best hockey when..."

 

[Lt Dan]

You didn't like it when I did that to you.

I was playing hard to get

 

[DryIslandBartender]

Take my money Dean!

 

[Brodeur]

Some of the San Jose chapters should be interesting, he started there in 1992 before being named GM in 1996:

1993: Sharks pass on Chris Pronger (possibly due to drafting Mike Rathje the previous year), instead target Viktor Kozlov.
1995: Reaching for Teemu Riihijarvi over a consensus top 10 guy like Petr Sykora.
1996: Not having the nerve to not pick Andrei Zyuzin, but managing to trade him before his value dwindled.
1998: Accidentally trading away the Lecavalier pick.
2002: Lombardi kinda started that brief trend to acquire an impending UFA (Theo Fleury in this case) just to lose him as a free agent to get a compensatory draft pick. Market for that corrected almost overnight. As a result, the compensation pick system was done away with in the new CBA.
2003: Lombardi plays hard ball with Nabokov/Stuart who miss the first month holding out. Kiprusoff drops the ball and the Sharks season gets sabotaged. Lombardi gets canned as a result.

 

[The Butcher]

Maybe we'll get the full scoop on the Mike Richards and Voynov fiascos and just how deeply their actions divided the locker room.

 

[johnjm22]

It's seems like there wouldn't be much of an audience for this book. It's a very niche group that even knows who Dean Lombardi is.

 

[Anguyen92]

It's hard to say. I was watching the Steve Dangle podcast during the off-season and in that offseason, they had guests that happened to have a book release from Brian Burke to Harnarayan Singh to Ken Reid. Other than Brian Burke, does anyone, here, really know who the other two guys I listed are? Heck, Steve Dangle has a book of his own and I really don't think many outside of those that watches hockey Youtube content or Maple Leafs fans are interested in reading it. I mean I'd read it.

I wouldn't mind reading DL's perspectives on the stuff that happened in his GM career from the ups and the downs.

 

[King'sPawn]

It's seems like there wouldn't be much of an audience for this book. It's a very niche group that even knows who Dean Lombardi is.

You don't think executives care about trying to arrange a group of coworkers to succeed in a common goal? Managers, CEOs, etc always look for ways to build a team.

 

[KINGS17]

I have already read two books by Dean:

1. Killing the New Jersey Devils
2. Killing the New York Rangers

 

[Nickster]

Brian Burke to Harnarayan Singh

I've heard Harnarayan's "Bonino, Bonino, Bonino, Bonino, Bonino" Punjabi goal call on a couple Canadian media outlets. Although I always thought his name was "Hunter-Ryan Singh" figuring it was some Canadian-affected name until the last Calgary game on NHLTV where I saw him and his name on screen for the first time.

 

[bland]

It's seems like there wouldn't be much of an audience for this book. It's a very niche group that even knows who Dean Lombardi is.

I don't think that there is another human being alive whose book I would rather read.

 

[Axl Rhoadz]

I still want to know why the Kings fired him....I'm convinced it's because Lombardi refused to let Sutter go.

 

[Brodeur]

I have already read two books by Dean:

1. Killing the New Jersey Devils
2. Killing the New York Rangers

Bad drafting after the lockout killed the Devils, the 2012 run was just fun and unexpected. Parise and Kovalchuk leaving plus Lou being against a rebuild expedited things. Mix in a broke owner as well.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I still want to know why the Kings fired him....I'm convinced it's because Lombardi refused to let Sutter go.

Missing the playoffs repeatedly with a high payroll and making a string of questionable deals probably contributed to it. In the offseason leading up to their final seasons, they kept talking about needing to adapt, and it never happened.