Kings name Jim Hiller head coach full time

[Rowlet]

Luc said after the series loss this year that the team made progress and was in the series until the end. lol Nothing short of a tumble into the basement of the standings will provide change.

I mean... it ended in game 5 and the Kings were in that game, so by that definition they were...

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

Ok

 

[rajuabju]

Hiller may or may not be good. But he isnt the #1 problem.

Rob & Luc and the player / personnel decisions they've been making will preclude this team from success, wasting away the last years of Kopitar/Doughty, and equally as bad, they've destroyed the promising pipeline we once had.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Lmfao. I mean, even if you couldn't get anyone else to take the job and wanted to give the guy a full time job as someone familiar with the culture et al, why three years?

At the worst he's a TM clone who will change nothing and get similar albeit, nonexistent results. At the best he changes things up given he has an off-season and training camp to implement his own ideas. Given you haven't even seen if the best case is real, why would you opt for multi-multi-year? Shouldn't you want some training wheels first?

What is even going on in that Org? This is approaching the early stages of Buffalo/Oilers/Sens failed managerial decision making, except the team on the ice has enough aged hall of fame talent to not let the wheels complete blow off.

I don't have anything against Hiller, maybe he's fine, but I don't see how he's going to fix anything with the way that team is constructed, and why you'd sign so many years with zero empirical evidence to base it off of.

I would argue it's one of the most impressive mismanagement jobs in sports history

Taking a franchise--that you're familiar with for over a decade from the inside as a manager and twice as long as a player!--with two recent championships, a recently built renovated championship infrastructure at all levels, future hall of famers, carte blanche with good prospects and a million picks, and practically limitless AEG assets and have turned it into a black hole team not once but TWICE and get to STILL KEEP GOING

Not a more impressing f***ing off ever made imo, Rob Blake has been sent by the hockey gods to f*** over Kings fans not once but twice in this lifetime and this is the penance for two championships, I guess we should have known that was the deal we were making with the devil, "all the ghosts of the 90s will return to wreak havoc on your future"

 

[PullHard]

They have some big offensive tools on their roster with Byfield, Fiala, Kempe, Clarke and very solid two guys in Kopitar, Danault, Doughty even at their big ages. Moore and Dubois (when he’s on) are also very good players.

I understand that they are likely to let Roy walk this summer but I look at that roster and think they’re really only a goalie and coach away from being a dangerous team. I don’t get why ownership wouldn’t shake up management and get a meaningful coach but I guess they have their view on it and think what they did was something that could work? Idk

 

[ACLEVERNAME]

That's *Interim Head Coach DJ Smith* in 1-3 years.

 

[Osprey]

I like how Hiller and Blake mostly talked during their press conference about being happy with their defense and needing more offense, although they allowed 4.40 goals per game in their series loss to the Oilers and even having the best offense in the entire league in the regular season (3.70 goals per game) still wouldn't have been enough.

 

[BaileyFan]

They have some big offensive tools on their roster with Byfield, Fiala, Kempe, Clarke and very solid two guys in Kopitar, Danault, Doughty even at their big ages. Moore and Dubois (when he’s on) are also very good players.

I understand that they are likely to let Roy walk this summer but I look at that roster and think they’re really only a goalie and coach away from being a dangerous team. I don’t get why ownership wouldn’t shake up management and get a meaningful coach but I guess they have their view on it and think what they did was something that could work? Idk

Then you haven’t looked at the roster hard enough.

 

[Mr Positive]

Imo the 1-3-1 wasn't even the problem. Hiller just had bad strategy in general. His special teams were especially bad vs Edmonton.

 

[Bandit]

why do former nhl players run teams
what do they know about management

They know how they were yelled at by the previous guy. That’s all I’ve got.

They have some big offensive tools on their roster with Byfield, Fiala, Kempe, Clarke and very solid two guys in Kopitar, Danault, Doughty even at their big ages. Moore and Dubois (when he’s on) are also very good players.

I understand that they are likely to let Roy walk this summer but I look at that roster and think they’re really only a goalie and coach away from being a dangerous team. I don’t get why ownership wouldn’t shake up management and get a meaningful coach but I guess they have their view on it and think what they did was something that could work? Idk

Solid tools? Yes.

Offensive? Only to my liver.

 

[joestevens29]

Good for hiller. Gets millions to coach the way his idiot gm wants

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Good for hiller. Gets millions to coach the way his idiot gm wants

seriously, I mean they could have paid me coaching average to just follow the crayoned napkins Luc and Blake are giving orders on