Craig Custance: I thought Dean Lombardi certainly earned the chance for at least one more season in Los Angeles. The guy won two Stanley Cups, after all. But this is an unforgiving business and in doing so he raised the expectations to a level so high that it ended up costing him his job when they weren't met. The job ahead isn't going to be an easy one for new GM Rob Blake, mostly because of the contracts on the books. There are some legacy contracts that aren't looking good, most notably the Dustin Brown and Marian Gaborik deals.
New questions abound after Los Angeles Kings' firings of Dean Lombardi and Darryl Sutter
