Radio silence from Dean Lombardi isn’t something that Los Angeles Kings fans are used to. The famously loquacious former GM routinely gave interview answers that wouldn’t fit in just one screenshot, let alone in 140 characters or less. Dean Lombardi does not deal in sound bites; he deals in sprawling sound epics. His penchant for derailing interviews with lengthy anecdotes about history, or other sports franchises he admired, was legendary.
So his departure from the Kings’ organization has been unusually quiet. Even the announcement that Lombardi had taken a job with the Philadelphia Flyers came with little fanfare -- both in the media and from Lombardi himself.