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"Those are two special people with special franchises" Lombardi told NHL Wednesday from his office at the Toyota Sports Center "I was very lucky to have two people like that"Lombardis connection to Lamoriello started in the late 1980s when he went to the Minnesota North Stars to bee an assistant general manager to Jk Ferreira a Providence native who knows Lamoriello well Lamoriello is also close with Lombardis fatherinlaw Bob Pulford another mber of the Hockey Hall of FaWhen a 39yearold Lombardi was hired as the new general manager of the still fledging San Jose Sharks in 1996 he turned to his fellow New Englander for adviceLamoriello invited Lombardi into his office in New Jersey and proceeded to unload all of his trade secrets on the young bra bold and quickthinking new mber of the NHLs fraternity of general managers"Ill never forget him taking into his office missing his own team bus and putting up his organizational chart and explaining to how an organization has to have structure if it is going to sueed" said Lombardi now in his sixth season as the Kings GM "He gave his blueprint It was amazing He wasnt even talking about his team he was talking about his organization But his point was if youre going to have a winning culture this has to be in order I still have the files the quotes he gave "Lombardi still keeps those files in his office at the Toyota Sports Center He still has the mory of Lamoriello telling his own public relations guy that the team bus headed for Philadelphia could leave without him because the eting with Lombardi was too importantThe ft that Lombardi was going to manage another team in the NHL did not matter to Lamoriello"I do rember the eting very clearly" Lamoriello told NHL in a phone interview Thursday "He just wanted to ask so questions and I enjo[censored] it Whenever you can help soone out you do it Dean is a good friend He wanted to know if I would are my philosophy with him and I had no problem doing that We spent a great deal of ti talking"Lombardi said one of the sections in the file is filled with quotes from Vince Lombardi"Lou said Whenever you get in trouble just take this out and read it" Lombardi saidHe does"That happens in life; there are always people that reh out for you and you are forever indebted to them" Lombardi said "Hopefully I can do that for so young people down the road"Seven years later after Lombardi was fired late in 200203 for one bad season after six good ones eh better than the next another hockey legend gave him his second wind at the age of 45Clarke then the general manager of the Philadelphia Flyers called Lombardi every week after he was fired to make sure he was OK that he was getting along"I was at the lowest point in my life" Lombardi said "At first when you get fired you get calls but then they stop and youre all alone This guy would call How are you doing today How are you doing today I was beat up but he picked up and called "Clarke who got to know Lombardi at the annual etings of the general managers just wanted to make sure Lombardi knew he had a friend"Every manager seems to be fired sowhere along the line and the protocol is usually to call the guy tell him the organization made a mistake but within a week its like you never existed" Clarke told NHL in a phone interview Thursday "It can get to be a very lonely ple when your whole life is hockey I knew he was hurting and I just called him to talk hockey because we were friends"Hockey was his whole life Its not like he was just passing through He was devastated"The day finally ca when Clarke phoned with sothing far more tangible than another "keep your head up" ssage He had a job offer for Lombardi to e be a scout for the Flyers"He called and said Enough pouting its ti to get up Thats enough You e work for get bk to work" Lombardi said "Talk about critical monts in your life"Lombardi beca the Western Conference scout for the Flyers"One thing is we were friends but we had a lot of faith in his hockey judgnt and we had a position for him" Clarke said "He knew the players in the Western Conference he loved scouting and he had to get bk in the ga I knew scouting wouldnt be the end for him but he had to get bk in the ga bk to being around hockey people"Lombardi wouldnt trade his three years with the Flyers for anything"It really opened my focus" he said "It was great to go into the rinks and just have to focus on hockey Sotis as GM we have so much on our plate that we dont get to watch hockey like we ould Then Clarke would always bring in every 90 days to go with the team and then sit with him"Sitting in his office was a great education Every third word to e out of his mouth is team If you ever want to see venom e out of his mouth just talk about sothing that is selfi There is nothing that irritates him more than selfiness Its pure anger"Lombardi wouldnt say he has used the Flyers as a model for how hes built the Kings but he has used them as an example of culture and why building a culture is so much more important than just building a team"When you have a culture it transcends generations" Lombardi said "Its passed on and everybody feels it"Its no surprise that he has exFlyers goalie Ron Hextall as his assistant GM and that so many forr Flyer players are currently starring for the Kings"Theyre the only team other than the Flyers that I like and want to see win" Clarke said of the Kings "Dean is bright Hes intense and hes very inquisitive"Hes also eight wins away from calling himself a Stanley Cup champion just like his ntors Wholesale Cheap NFL asics gel noosa tri 9 uk , NHL, NBA nike juvenate olive womens , MLB Jerseys from tradecheapjerseys. only at $19.99 per pc, Buy Cheap Jerseys with Free Shipping over 10 pcs nike juvenate black and white , opping now! mlb-jerseys_c221 Adodis is a Web design company and website development services firm based in Bangalore, India. 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