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Lombardi Unaccustomed To Diplomacy
by George Malik on 01/18/07 at 08:16 AM ET
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Kings’ GM Dean Lombardi tells the LA Times how assistant GM Ron Hextall helped him avoid an international incident with Konstantin Pushkarev:
“Hex is down there and I call him and I’m losing my patience,“Lombardi said. “I’m in Western Canada, waiting in this huge line to cross the border and I’m yelling into the phone, ‘Get [Pushkarev] out of here. I don’t want him around our players anymore.’
“I’m out of my car and I’m just screaming. The border guard is looking at me and wants to go through my trunk now. He was ready to frisk me, people are beeping their horns behind me and all I hear in my ear is Hex saying, ‘Calm down, I’ll take care of this.’ … I’m yelling at him, ‘He’s going to tell every other player to try to go somewhere else to get their way.’ Hex is just saying, ‘Trust me, Dean, I can get to this guy.’ These are the critical moments in the development of a player.”
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