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Kings Will Reach The Cap Floor
by Paul on 09/06/08 at 04:33 PM ET
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from Kevin Paul Dupont of the Boston Globe,
Have no fear, says Los Angeles general manager Dean Lombardi, the Kings will make it to the NHL’s salary “floor” of $40.7 million in player payroll before opening night.
However, the financial formula will not include, contrary to rumors in recent weeks, taking high-priced goalie Nikolai Khabibulin off Chicago’s hands, or dealing away budding superstar forward Anze Kopitar.
“Some of the stuff that goes around is just crazy,” said Lombardi. “Like Kopitar. We’re going to trade our best young player to get to the floor? If the people who start that stuff would put just two cents worth of brains into thinking about it first . . .
“But that’s the kind of stuff that gets out there, and then we had to respond to it, just to quell the masses.”
continued with numerous NHL topics discussed too…
I do find it laughable when Lombardi says he has to respond to trade rumors to quell the masses. The knowledgeable NHL fan knows the vast majority of trade rumors are made up and don’t have any chance of happening. But it only takes a few people, yes, even those who claim to be have trusted sources, to stir the pot and take advantage of those fans who will believe everything they read.
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The LA Kings: Obsessed with hitting the bottoms of everything for over a decade.
Hey, they’re going to make the cap floor? Hooray!
God, what a pathetically run franchise. Reading about the Kings is like reading about a dog that got hit by a car and is limping and whining in the middle of the street.
Posted by HockeyinHD on 09/06/08 at 07:53 PM ET
Reading about the Kings is like reading about a dog that got hit by a car and is limping and whining in the middle of the street.
Huh? Unless that dog intentionally went out and got hit by the car, I don’t get your analogy, HD.
The Kings are more like a team that decided to consciously spend as little as humanly possible on their sports franchise...and failed even at that. Oh, wait. That’s exactly what they did...and there were no hapless canines involved. 
Posted by OlderThanChelios from Grand Rapids on 09/06/08 at 10:47 PM ET
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Speaking of pot, its probably the ones who are BUZZed making these stupid rumours up.
Posted by PuckHound61 from Speckville USA on 09/06/08 at 04:27 PM ET