I’ll be at tonight’s “Kings Roundtable” question-and-answer event for season-ticket holders, just as an observer, but I’ll have a report about the event late tonight or tomorrow morning.
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Building from within
Pulling this from a comment from this morning…a good story from TSN about how Detroit and Pittsburgh built their rosters. It illustrates the value of a strong organization and it’s definitely something Dean Lombardi and Luc Robitaille would like you to read and buy into, because it goes along with their philosophy.
Looking ahead
Since this is a rather slow week — although both Don and I are in the process of locking up some more interviews — it’s a good opportunity to look forward and see exactly where the Kings stand in terms of players and salary. With an assist to the folks at nhlscap.com, here’s a look at all of the Kings’ returning players and what they’ll make (if they make the team, in some cases), in terms of salary-cap numbers.
The way I see it now, the Kings have players locked into 12 of their 20 spots. Those 12 players would make roughly $30.5 million. Add in Alyn McCauley’s buyout, and that puts them at about $31.2 million. That does not include restricted free agents Patrick O’Sullivan, Erik Ersberg and Peter Harrold. Here’s the whole breakdown, which doesn’t include the prospects signed recently and is based, in part, on some educated guesses…
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Forum answers IV
Here’s the last set of answers for now. Thanks for all the good questions this week and how about Dallas, huh? One more win and things will get really interesting…
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Forum answers III
The answers continue…
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Forum answers II
The next round of answers on a blistering-hot Friday afternoon…
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Forum answers I
Some good questions in the mix. I’ll start tackling some of the questions now, but feel free to keep adding them to the post below…
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Open forum
Futa/Yannetti interview VI
Finally…the end. Here’s the last part of the interview with Mark Yannetti and Michael Futa. It focuses mainly on where the organization stands now and where it’s heading and (hopefully) will give you some idea of their vision for the future. I hope everyone found the interview worthwhile! Here’s the last part…
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Futa/Yannetti interview V
OK, I thought this would be the final installment, but there’s still another one to come. In this part, Michael Futa and Mark Yannetti discuss what it’s like to work for Dean Lombardi and discuss how it can be both challenging and rewarding. It’s a bit of an insight as to what it’s like to work for the Kings these days…
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