{"id":84910,"date":"2025-12-07T09:47:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84910\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T09:47:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T09:47:11","slug":"los-angeles-kings-not-mulling-coaching-change-says-gm-ken-holland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/84910\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Kings not mulling coaching change, says GM Ken Holland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the midst of an extended slump, 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> are not considering a coaching change, TSN Hockey Insider Pierre LeBrun reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kings (12-8-7) are third in the Pacific Division entering play on Friday, sparking rumours that third-year head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jim-hiller\/8456597\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/jim-hiller\/8456597\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Hiller<\/a> is on the seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LeBrun reached out to Kings general manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ken-holland\/8447927\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ken-holland\/8447927\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Holland<\/a>, who said that \u201cthere\u2019s zero truth\u201d to reports that the Kings are mulling a change at the top. <\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Reached out to Ken Holland regarding today&#8217;s speculation of a potential coaching change in L.A. and the Kings GM says &#8220;there&#8217;s zero truth&#8221; to that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Pierre LeBrun (@PierreVLeBrun) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PierreVLeBrun\/status\/1997059363778056569?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 5, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Kings dropped a 2-1 decision to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/chicago-blackhawks\/16\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Blackhawks<\/a> on Thursday, marking their third loss in their last four contests and sixth in their last eight games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Offensive production has been the prime concern for the Kings in this extended cold spell. The team has scored two or fewer goals in five of their last six games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">With a four-goal outburst against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/anaheim-ducks\/24\" target=\"_blank\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> at the end of November accounting for a lot of the production, the Kings have scored 16 goals over their last nine contests. Removing that game, the Kings have 12 goals across the other eight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On the season, Los Angeles ranks 29th in scoring league-wide at 2.56 goals per game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Since taking over as bench boss in Los Angeles, Hiller has led the team to the playoffs in both full seasons &#8211; though they have been eliminated in the first round by the <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> both times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Just beyond the quarter point of the season, there is still plenty of time for Hiller and the team to correct course and push toward a third consecutive playoff appearance under Hiller &#8211; and fifth overall.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the midst of an extended slump, the Los Angeles Kings are not considering a coaching change, TSN&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6013,48,52,51,47,50,49,34915],"class_list":["post-84910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-apple-news","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-los-angeles-kings-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-26"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}