Rob Blake’s summer is just getting started. With a plethora of heavy lifting expected throughout the next few months, his reshaping of LA’s hockey roster is in its infancy. Even so, we can start to whiteboard out an early look of what’s to come. During the process, it can’t be stressed enough just how much […]
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McLellan on Doughty Comments, LA Kings Young Players, and Gabe Vilardi
By now, you’ve probably read Drew Doughty’s exit interview comments, where he talked about his desire for the Kings to make significant offseason moves and where he discussed the time of the Jeff Carter trade as it related to the team’s decline in performance. Earlier today, GM Rob Blake followed up on those thoughts here. […]
Todd McLellan on Kings Priorities, the Coaching Staff, and Player Evaluation
There is a lot to unpack coming out of this morning’s end-of-season exit meetings with GM Rob Blake and coach Todd McLellan. From the latter, we’ve already posted three articles and there are more to come. Let’s now turn attention to LA’s bench boss. Below is the first batch from comments he shared during the […]
Game 56: McLellan Quotes Following Kings Final Game of 2021 Season
For the final time this season, Todd McLellan held a postgame zoom on Thursday night. It came following a rather inconsequential 5-1 loss to the Avs, and here’s what he had to say: On what Drake Rymsha brought to the team when he wasn’t playing games He’s kind of an unsung hero around our group. […]
Game 55: McLellan’s Shortest Postgame Presser of the Season
Every coin has two distinct sides. Tonight’s Kings games in Colorado left two equally divergent options on the table. There was either nothing to say about a 6-0 blowout loss — that had the Avs up 2-0 before the Kings had even recorded a shot on goal — or plenty needed to be said about […]