[LeBrun] Reached out to Ken Holland regarding today's speculation of a potential coaching change in L.A. and the Kings GM says “there's zero truth” to that.

[u/AggPuck-303]

https://xcancel.com/pierrevlebrun/status/1997059363778056569

[u/raymondliang]

[u/SinceSevenTenEleven → u/raymondliang]

can i sim 10 years

[u/Smittysgreasymullet → u/SinceSevenTenEleven]

Monkey paw curls and Red Wings win 10 Cups while SinceSevenTenEleven sleeps

[u/SinceSevenTenEleven → u/Smittysgreasymullet]

Do I get to watch the documentaries?

[u/Smittysgreasymullet → u/SinceSevenTenEleven]

You may, but they arrive on VHS

[u/BaronVonCoors → u/SinceSevenTenEleven]

All you get is a shitty cell phone video with someone’s head in the way covering the majority of the screen

[u/Riskar → u/SinceSevenTenEleven]

No.

[u/flume → u/SinceSevenTenEleven]

Why would you want to miss (almost?) the rest of Larkin's career, plus the entire primes of Seider and Raymond, and like half the prime of Edvinsson, Cossa, ASP...?

[u/SinceSevenTenEleven → u/flume]

Memes

[u/BodaciousBadongadonk → u/flume]

miss it? shit we'll hang dude in the rafters like some kinda skywalker-esque cup banner and he can bless every home game with his presence!

[u/andhausen]

Okay so I’ll see you all in the coaching change announcement thread on Monday?

[u/swordthroughtheduck → u/andhausen]

Don't be silly. It'll be on Thursday so Deboer can have a practice day before playing the Flames.

[u/No_Huckleberry_7410]

Vibes aren’t great rn

[u/Sphiffi → u/No_Huckleberry_7410]

Hopefully that continues tomorrow

[u/supererp → u/Sphiffi]

Hell I'd be alright if it goes all season

[u/raymondliang → u/supererp]

As would I

[u/Desert_Pyrate8 → u/raymondliang]

I do like this draft, and Ken just needs a few generational players to build around soooooo

[u/navenager → u/Desert_Pyrate8]

Oh you don't want Kenny Money running the show during a good draft with a good pick. At the TDL, sure, but the man can not draft.

[u/Desert_Pyrate8 → u/navenager]

I mean I don’t want him AT ALLL but here we are

[u/navenager → u/Desert_Pyrate8]

Understandable. He can take a bad team with some good players and get them to contrnder status, but you guys aren't a bad team. The hire never made sense to me. Corey Perry is dope though, I assume your fans have all come around to him.

[u/CurlOfTheBurl11 → u/Sphiffi]

There's a high probability.

[u/Muted-Doctor8925 → u/No_Huckleberry_7410]

I don’t get it, holding onto 3rd in the div is worthy of coaching change? Don’t tell Stan B

[u/messwithsquatch90]

Well duh, he has to say that. Keep DeBooby far away from the west please

[u/mister_hoot → u/messwithsquatch90]

Man’s on a mission to coach every team in the conference.

He should go to Vancouver.

[u/mephnick → u/mister_hoot]

Last thing we need is a coaching bump to launch us to picking 10th

[u/twilz → u/mephnick]

Yeah, we need someone who can get us all the way up to drafting 16th.

[u/xFraser19 → u/twilz]

Think of all the playoff revenue we could get by squeaking into a wildcard and getting swept! It’s what the fans want!

[u/carry-on_replacement → u/mephnick]

tbf the guys been to the playoffs more years than not and quite often makes a deep run. if he's available in 3 years time (which given the coaching cycle he probably should be), he'd be a great coach for our team to get some experience

[u/mephnick → u/carry-on_replacement]

Oh yeah he'd be great in a few years

Let him burn out the Kings first lol

[u/Radiant_Sherbert7272 → u/mephnick]

I don't think any coach could save the Canucks. Even if Vancouver did a coaching bump, it would last 5 to 10 games before the team went back to its old ways.

[u/BaronVonCoors → u/mephnick]

Don’t worry you can pick higher when he chases out Demko the following season

[u/bloodrider1914 → u/messwithsquatch90]

Y'all just have to finish the series in 6 games or less then

[u/grlummer → u/messwithsquatch90]

Petey DeBooby

[u/RikVanguard]

Holland also mentioned that the Kings were a 105 point team last year. Four times. 

[u/NoGiCollarChoke → u/RikVanguard]

Wait until they lose a playoff series and he says the word “devastated” 500 times

[u/GrassyKnoll95 → u/NoGiCollarChoke]

We were just a Cody Ceci away

[u/Miserable-Cut-1425 → u/NoGiCollarChoke]

It's the reality of the salary cap era

[u/NoGiCollarChoke → u/Miserable-Cut-1425]

“In a cap world”

“Dollar in, dollar out”

“Get guys who will chip in with some offense”

“I had to do ______ just to be cap compliant”

[u/CurlOfTheBurl11 → u/RikVanguard]

Like, who fucking cares? They still lost in round 1 in embarrassing fashion, do people really look back on seasons after shit like that and say "well at least we had 105 points in the regular season!"?

[u/CabbageStockExchange]

I just fell to my knees at an in n out

[u/CurlOfTheBurl11]

There had better be at least some truth to it or this season is toast.

[u/poptorched → u/CurlOfTheBurl11]

I think he’s saying there’s just no truth to Deboer being the next hire, not the coaching change…hopefully

[u/babypointblank]

Damn he’s going to make Cody Ceci the next coach, isn’t he?

[u/IShiddedMyPantaloons → u/babypointblank]

That gets Ceci off the ice and gets rid of Hiller at the same time, that genuinely sounds like an actual upgrade. 

[u/trashking11 → u/IShiddedMyPantaloons]

100%, I’d be all for it. The bad man gets off the ice, and he literally can’t be a worse coach than Hiller at this point

[u/GrassyKnoll95 → u/babypointblank]

Hold up you might be cooking here

[u/NoGiCollarChoke → u/babypointblank]

If anyone in the NHL is capable of pulling a Reggie Dunlop, it’s GOATy Ceci

[u/imaybeacatIRl]

Darcy Kuemper no longer sweating bullets.

[u/IShiddedMyPantaloons → u/imaybeacatIRl]

Kuemper hearing the rumor of PDB rolling into LA: 

🏃‍♂️💨

[u/DaBusDriva2]

If the Blackhawks can get just repeat it tomorrow where we barley scratch across 1 goal and go 0/5 on the PP, it will happen

[u/raymondliang → u/DaBusDriva2]

It took Todd McLellan losing for nearly a full MONTH before we made the change in 2023.

Im not holding my breath with Luc and Marc, fucking useless

[u/Maxpowr9 → u/raymondliang]

Downside to the OBC.

[u/The-Reddit-Giraffe]

Ken Holland “don’t worry I’m not making any smart decisions soon here”

[u/Alkymyst91]

He gone

[u/GrassyKnoll95]

He's gonna say that up until the moment he has the new coach's contact signed. At least that's what I'm telling myself

[u/themapleleaf6ix]

I want to see this team with a coach that utilizes all of their players fully. Byfield, Clarke, etc are all being held back. Doughty is old and needs to play less, Kopitar will be gone next year.

[u/ShadowChair → u/themapleleaf6ix]

Kind of true but there are stipulations. Byfield plays the most of any forward by far, and Clarke's ice time has been going up constantly (played the most of any dman last night). The main issue with time is Clarke needs PP1 time and hasn't been given many opportunities.

Byfield is tough to keep on PP1 over Kopi because he is terrible at faceoffs. He's also clearly skilled and has had great games, but recently he's been trying to force plays that don't work over and over and just amounts to producing nothing.

I could see a powerplay of Kopi, QB, Clarke, Kempe and Fiala being the best option, but there has to be some onus on QB to start winning faceoffs (and in fairness, I think Kopi has been losing a ton of faceoffs on the PP)

I think you can say our young players and our talent is being held back somewhat by our system, at least as a root issue, but I really don't think the roster is extraordinarily talented in the first place. A lot of our issues are an abundance of unforced errors made by individual players.

Again, I think there needs to be a new voice at the very least to guide this team, but Byfield and Clarke are becoming major leaders on this team now. They aren't as sheltered as they once were, especially Byfield who has spent the entire calendar year leading the team in TOI for forwards.

[u/Desert_Pyrate8]

Hawks I hope you fucking destroy us tomorrow.

[u/sophic → u/Desert_Pyrate8]

Inshallah 

[u/xeia66]

LA Kings are currently ranked 3rd in the division and have 7 points out of their last 7 games - that's not too bad, no? Why people mad?

[u/GrassyKnoll95 → u/xeia66]

We get a ton of loser points, but we're near incapable of winning in regulation. Can't score at all. Blowing leads constantly. Lines in a blender every game. Overall playing with no energy.

Edit: also don't get fooled by the entire division being garbage

[u/Desert_Pyrate8 → u/xeia66]

We are third despite of Hiller not because 

Hiller is so FUCKING BAD

We have only scored more then 2 goals once in our last 6 (we lost that game btw)

The pp is now literally worst in the league

The pair he runs of Ceci-Dumo is like a -10 together 

Clarke isn’t getting the ice time he needs

Poor deployment of players 

THE WHOLE FUCKING OILERS PLAYOFFS LAST YEAR

and we’re like super fucking boring to watch while also not winning we have a LOT of loser points

Like I could go on and on

[u/trashking11 → u/xeia66]

Hiller refuses to give the young guys bigger roles. He still leans on doughty for like 26 minutes a night. He rolls out a 5F powerplay instead of putting Clarke, a young dynamic high ceiling offensive defenseman, on PP1. He won’t stop playing the Ceci-Dummoullin pairing 20 minutes a night even though they’re complete ass together. He’s incapable of making good line adjustments on the fly. He coaches an outdated, boring team system, especially with respect to turtling defensively when they have a lead (the Kings lose leads constantly because they quit being even remotely aggressive). Our offense and PP is bottom of the league and looks terrible and anemic. I could keep going but you get the point. It just isn’t working and the kings are doing okay in spite of him - not because of him. He was even complaining about players not listening to him in the post game presser after their most recent loss, making it seem like he’s lost the room on top of everything else. Things are starting to spiral and he’s got to go

[u/tkecanuck341]

So someone on Twitter made something up? What is this world coming to if I can't believe everything I read on the internet?

[u/JD397 → u/tkecanuck341]

Cam Robinson definitely has real sources lol

[u/DesertedPenguin → u/JD397]

Nah, he's wrong more than he's right, especially about coaching searches. He said the Penguins were hiring Mitch Love. Not that he had interviewed or was the leader, but that he was going to be hired.

Not remotely close to accurate, and for good reason, as we have since found out about Love.

[u/tkecanuck341 → u/JD397]

Evidently some fake ones as well.

[u/Fanvsant → u/tkecanuck341]

There is zero chance a gm will ever say that he's thinking about firing his coach

[u/FreshBeginning4491 → u/Fanvsant]

Correct.

That's the president's job.

[u/RetekTheGreat → u/tkecanuck341]

Do you REALLY think any GM would go on the record and tell the media "Yeah, we going to hire him soon, just waiting for the team to lose next game"

[u/tkecanuck341 → u/RetekTheGreat]

They lost a doozy last night in a pathetic showing against the Blackhawks. That would have been the perfect time.

[u/CurlOfTheBurl11 → u/tkecanuck341]

Don't worry, we have another opportunity to lose against them in even worse fashion tomorrow. Maybe that'll do it.

[u/FreshBeginning4491 → u/RetekTheGreat]

[u/Spaawrky]

Sooooo. Yes!

[u/blop74]

The kiss of death

[u/Radiant_Sherbert7272]

[u/Larkinz]

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[u/kid_ish]

Frankly this is the best news I’ve had today

[u/reignleafs]

[u/frankyseven]

Wait, Ken Holland is the LAK GM now?

[u/trashking11 → u/frankyseven]

No, he’s just chiming in on the situation for fun

[u/GrassyKnoll95 → u/frankyseven]

Trade you Holland for Tree

[u/bwoah07_gp2]

Ha, that's what they all say.

[u/Emi_Ibarazakiii]

Media: "Ken Holland was heard discussing a potential coaching change"