{"id":769309,"date":"2026-06-29T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769309\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T17:43:09","slug":"ray-whitey-joining-peter-laviolettes-coaching-staff-with-kings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/769309\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Whitey joining Peter Laviolette\u2019s coaching staff with Kings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Retired NHL forward Ray Whitney is taking up coaching and set to serve as an assistant for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/los-angeles-kings\/26\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Kings<\/a> under new head coach Peter Laviolette, according to TSN Hockey Insider Darren Dreger. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 54-year-native of Fort Saskatchewan, Alta., retired in 2014 after a 22-year NHL career, highlighted by helping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/carolina-hurricanes\/12\" target=\"_blank\">Carolina Hurricanes<\/a> win the Stanley Cup in 2006. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Whitney played for Laviolette during Carolina\u2019s first Stanley Cup-winning season in 2005-06. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Laviolette, 61, replaced Jim Hiller as Los Angeles\u2019 head coach earlier this month after a mediocre 2025-26 campaign in which the Kings made the playoffs with just 35 wins and 90 points. They were swept in the opening round by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/colorado-avalanche\/21\" target=\"_blank\">Colorado Avalanche<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Selected by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> in the second round of the 1991 NHL Draft, Whitney produced 385 goals and 679 assists over 1,330 career games spent with the Sharks, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/edmonton-oilers\/22\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/florida-panthers\/13\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Panthers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/detroit-red-wings\/17\" target=\"_blank\">Detroit Red Wings<\/a>, Hurricanes, Phoenix Coyotes and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/dallas-stars\/25\" target=\"_blank\">Dallas Stars<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Whitey was a two-time All-Star in his career. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Retired NHL forward Ray Whitney is taking up coaching and set to serve as an assistant for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[712,49,48,104375,448,82],"class_list":["post-769309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-apple-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}