Thornton interview
Lombardi said that Thornton, who also had a no-trade clause, gave him a list of four teams he would like to go to that he thought could win the Stanley Cup. The Kings almost had a deal with one of these teams but then that team went and did a large deal that ended up keeping that one from happening.
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``I wasn’t really looking forward to leaving my kids for a couple of months so I’m happy to be able to stay with them. I’m a little disappointed that this team is not in the playoffs. That’s probably the biggest disappointment right now.
``I just do the same thing every day, I come in and do my job. Who knows what they’re going to do down the stretch here, whether it’s going to be a revolving door of kids or if we’re just going to stick with what we got and play it out. I don’t know if they have a plan yet as to what they’re going to do. All we can do is come in and act like a pro every day.
``We all want to win. This is my 18th year and I haven’t won. So of course I would love to win a Cup, but I’m also aware it would have had to be a perfect fit for me to go somewhere and it just wasn’t meant to be. Meanwhile, I don’t want to cheat these guys out of anything the last 18 games so I just have to hold my head up and play hard every day.''
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Rich Hammond has covered the Kings, on a full-time or part-time basis, since the 2000-01 season. He was the beat writer for the entire John Torchetti era and has witnessed Bob Miller singing country music in a Nashville honky-tonk bar. A native of Los Angeles, Rich has worked at the Daily News since 1999 and also serves as the paper's deputy sports editor. E-mail Rich at rich.hammond@dailynews.com.
Jill Painter joined the Daily News in 2000 and during the last eight years she's covered the Dodgers, Cal State Northridge, UCLA, Kings, golf and everything in between. Even though she's from Colorado, she still freezes in the Staples Center press box but always manages to thaw her fingers in time to make deadline. E-mail Jill at jill.painter@dailynews.com.
forgot the " at the end of the second quote.
I hope they keep you thornton!