"Dean Lombardi" is President, General Manager, and Alternate Governor of the National Hockey League/NHL's Los Angeles Kings. He previously served as GM of the San Jose Sharks, a position he held for seven seasons (1996–2003). In 2012, his sixth year as Kings GM, the team won its first Stanley Cup championship.

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Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book.

I want to know what happened this season. How can a team fall off the map like this? It's easy to pin it on the coaches, but the players have to face responsibility, too. They brought in a different coach and that didn't work.

So much of the challenge is to find what is good, and make it better.

First off, I?m a builder. And I see the foundation put in place by (recently fired Kings G.M.) Dave Taylor. People sometimes come in and make things look as bad as possible to paint themselves as heroes. But, that?s not the case here.