Kings Article: Now Retired, Jarret Stoll Looks Back At His 12-Year NHL Career

[FrozenRoyalty]

Edmonton Oilers, getting to within one victory of winning a Stanley Cup Championship with the Oilers in 2006. He spent four seasons with the Oilers before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings, playing seven seasons with the Kings and helping lead them to two Stanley Cup Championships.

Recently retired, Stoll looked back on his career in an exclusive interview with Frozen Royalty, with an obvious emphasis on the Kings' 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup runs. Check it out at...

Now Retired, Jarret Stoll Looks Back At His 12-Year NHL Career

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[PJ Kings Hockey]

Edmonton Oilers, getting to within one victory of winning a Stanley Cup Championship with the Oilers in 2006. He spent four seasons with the Oilers before being traded to the Los Angeles Kings, playing seven seasons with the Kings and helping lead them to two Stanley Cup Championships.

Recently retired, Stoll looked back on his career in an exclusive interview with Frozen Royalty, with an obvious emphasis on the Kings' 2012 and 2014 Stanley Cup runs. Check it out at...

Now Retired, Jarret Stoll Looks Back At His 12-Year NHL Career

I'll have to thumbs up your work here for great interviews with one of my favorite Kings, Jarret Stoll. I just read Part 2 this morning. Stoll is an honest and engaging person and it's good that he and Greener will remain with the Kings organization.

Thank you for the prospect interviews you've been doing. I'll have to start commenting more because they've been the Kings hockey highlight of my summer so far, especially with the lack of any official video interviews of the draftees. Keep it up, Gann. Your work is much appreciated.

 

[KINGS17]

The Stoll and Greene for Lubo trade is one of the most pivotal moves made be Lombardi in building the three-year run team 2011-12 through 2013-14.

The culture change was started with this trade.

 

[johnjm22]

I think the trade had less to do with culture and more to do with Dean shifting his philosophy from skating/offense to defensive-first oriented hockey.

Also, Lombardi traded Visnovsky when his value was at a low point. Did the same thing with Cammalleri.

Even so, he got nice value. Both Stoll and Greene were valuable members of the cup teams. It's a shame both players broke down so quickly in their early 30's or else the trade would be looking even better.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I think the trade had less to do with culture and more to do with Dean shifting his philosophy from skating/offense to defensive-first oriented hockey.

Also, Lombardi traded Visnovsky when his value was at a low point. Did the same thing with Cammalleri.

Even so, he got nice value. Both Stoll and Greene were valuable members of the cup teams. It's a shame both players broke down so quickly in their early 30's or else the trade would be looking even better.

Visnovsky was 32 when he was moved and became quite the injury prone player after he was moved, only appearing in 80+ games once after he moved on from the Kings. His stay in Edmonton was quite short lived as well, spending less than two seasons there before he was dealt to Anaheim at the 2010 trade deadline.

Stoll was 26 and Greene was 25 at the time Lombardi acquired them, and their careers here lasted over 7 seasons. Yes, they definitely broke down by the time they hit their early 30s, but I think the trade more than served its purpose.

Stoll wasn't very popular in his last few years here (same with Greene), but there's no denying how valuable they were to the team in both Cup runs. Hell, it was Greene's defensive play in front of his own net that started the sequence that led to Alec Martinez's game winning goal in OT in Game 5.

 

[johnjm22]

Visnovsky was 32 when he was moved and became quite the injury prone player after he was moved, only appearing in 80+ games once after he moved on from the Kings. His stay in Edmonton was quite short lived as well, spending less than two seasons there before he was dealt to Anaheim at the 2010 trade deadline.

Stoll was 26 and Greene was 25 at the time Lombardi acquired them, and their careers here lasted over 7 seasons. Yes, they definitely broke down by the time they hit their early 30s, but I think the trade more than served its purpose.

Stoll wasn't very popular in his last few years here (same with Greene), but there's no denying how valuable they were to the team in both Cup runs. Hell, it was Greene's defensive play in front of his own net that started the sequence that led to Alec Martinez's game winning goal in OT in Game 5.

I don't disagree with anything you're saying here, but Dean waited to trade Visnovsky. He should have done it earlier when he had more value.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

I think Dean got exactly what he wanted to from that trade though, two players in their mid-20s who could be long term fixtures on the team. Plus Stoll back then was considered to be a pretty productive center coming off a subpar year after suffering from a concussion. He actually put up pretty respectable numbers as a two-way center in his first three seasons here. Then his numbers tailed off and he became more of a defensive specialist who could win draws, and by the end of his stay he wasn't good at any of those anymore. His physical style took a toll on his body, just as it did to Richards and Greene.

 

[johnjm22]

When Dean took over Visnovsky was coming off a tremendous season and was signed to a ridiculously cheap contract (1.37M cap hit for two more years).

It was Lombardi himself that said he was getting amazing trade offers for Lubo. Instead of moving him he decided to resign him. When DL later moved him it was after he had a down year and some of his value had dissipated.

 

[SlimCharles]

Cheers to Stoll.

I completely forgot Visnovsky played for the Ducks. Also, he scored 68 points in 10-11 which is crazy to me. I didn't realize he had an even better season than 05-06 with the Kings (only by 1 goal, but still). It's amazing how productive he was when he played a full season.

 

[Quattro]

Lubo was my favorite player and I was PISSED when that trade happened. In retrospect, even I have to admit it was a really smart move by Lombardi.

 

[SettlementRichie10]

Visnovsky was 32 when he was moved and became quite the injury prone player after he was moved, only appearing in 80+ games once after he moved on from the Kings. His stay in Edmonton was quite short lived as well, spending less than two seasons there before he was dealt to Anaheim at the 2010 trade deadline.

Stoll was 26 and Greene was 25 at the time Lombardi acquired them, and their careers here lasted over 7 seasons. Yes, they definitely broke down by the time they hit their early 30s, but I think the trade more than served its purpose.

Stoll wasn't very popular in his last few years here (same with Greene), but there's no denying how valuable they were to the team in both Cup runs. Hell, it was Greene's defensive play in front of his own net that started the sequence that led to Alec Martinez's game winning goal in OT in Game 5.

They weren't popular in the beginning because Stoll was a second line C and Greene a top four d-man, and they clearly weren't good enough to play those roles.

Once we added more pieces, knocking Stoll down to the third line and Greene to the third pairing, they were in the right roles and flourished.

 

[kingsfan28]

They weren't popular in the beginning because Stoll was a second line C and Greene a top four d-man, and they clearly weren't good enough to play those roles.

Once we added more pieces, knocking Stoll down to the third line and Greene to the third pairing, they were in the right roles and flourished.

Exactly. Once Richards and later Mitchell/Scuds were added, both were in the perfect places to play.

 

[FrozenRoyalty]

I think the trade had less to do with culture and more to do with Dean shifting his philosophy from skating/offense to defensive-first oriented hockey.

Also, Lombardi traded Visnovsky when his value was at a low point. Did the same thing with Cammalleri.

Even so, he got nice value. Both Stoll and Greene were valuable members of the cup teams. It's a shame both players broke down so quickly in their early 30's or else the trade would be looking even better.

Actually, it was as much about culture as it was anything else, which I've reported in more than one story.