Kings' Lombardi: "I don't think the calvary is coming" at trade deadline
/Los Angeles Kings GM Dean Lombardi was on Sportsnet’s Hockey Central @ Noon on Wednesday afternoon.
On if Tanner Pearson’s season is done, and if that then impacts Lombardi's thought process at the trade deadline:
“I don’t think his season is done. There’s a chance he could be back down the stretch here. But whether or not, I don’t think the cavalry is coming. Like two years ago, it was Carter. Last year it was Gaborik. The one thing we do have, our Manchester team has been really good this year in terms of the way the players have come on as individuals and then themselves as a team.
“The other problem we have, don’t forget, is when we went through all of this stuff with Voynov – the cap space that we gained really doesn’t help you in terms of filling the hole. All we were after was to be able to field a roster.
“Because the reality, and this is what you asked earlier, that if we go out and say get a $4 million defenseman or whatever, a winger, and Voynov comes back, I’ve got a problem. So that whole thing about thinking getting the space helps me... unless they tell me Voynov is done for the year, or whatever, which I can’t ever get an answer, and I guess you’ve just got to wait the court process to play out, that option probably isn’t that available to us anyway.
“So we’re going to have to figure this out internally and I think that’s the way it should be.”
Source: Sportsnet/ Transcript: Nichols on Hockey
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