ADD: Cammy was not a bad attitude on the ice nor in the locker room nor at practice, just when dealing with management from a team that always seemed to tweak him every which way they could.
He got injured this last season in a fight standing up for a teammate. The guy has heart, tons of game and whatever idiot called him just a sniper obviously doesn't go to games. He almost always get the puck intp the zone, without hardly ever drawing him linemates offsides. Face it, the Kings are losing money, didnt want to pay him his true market value and snubbed him by giving Brownie the deal he should have been offered.
As for the six million number, it was the NHLPA that took his case up with his agent and they based that number on Vannick's 7yr 7mil offer sheet from Edmonton thinking that Cammy's numbers weren't as good as Vannicks but if Vannick was worth 7 then Cammy is worth six. Clearly they overshot.
But the Kings offer pre-arbitration was insulting. Now our development in building from within will take that much longer and in the process we will lose more of our "core youth group" and as our better players fade away via trade or free agency, so they can win elsewhere, everyone will finally catch on, that management doesnt care about winning as long as Anschitz can develop Downtown and continue to get huge cash incentives and public bond money to fund his develpoment and fatten his wallet.
Talk is great and Lombardi can fill in his boxes (for player spots on the team of the future) but we still wont be play-off bound for three years minimum and who knows whether Kopitar, Johnson, O'Sullivan or Frolov will stick it out to wait. Based on Kings history, and reputation for poor player personnel decisions, would you?
