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With a new head coach and appearing strapped as the trade deadline looms, the languishing Kings know their season and postseason aspirations are on the line.

With a new head coach and appearing strapped as the trade deadline looms, the languishing Kings know their season and postseason aspirations are on the line.

With a new head coach and appearing strapped as the trade deadline looms, the languishing Kings know their season and postseason aspirations are on the line.

With a new head coach and appearing strapped as the trade deadline looms, the languishing Kings know their season and postseason aspirations are on the line.

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. (AP) — Rob Blake hopes a new voice and approach behind the bench turns around the Los Angeles Kings season. When it comes to what else Blake is looking for after firing Todd McLellan as coach and naming Jim Hiller the interim for the rest of the season, the general manager was […]

Blake says he laments having to dismiss former coach Todd McLellan, but he expresses little if any remorse over the offseason moves that seemed to derail the Kings’ campaign after a sound start and cost McLellan his job.

Bedard was skating and shooting with a little more giddyup on Monday, which is a beautiful thing.

Former Ottawa Senators coach D.J. Smith was hired as an assistant coach by the Los Angeles Kings on Tuesday. General manger Rob Blake said Monday the Kings were looking to hire an assistant coach from outside the organization after Jim Hiller was named interim coach. Hiller was promoted last Friday after Todd McLellan was fired after four-plus seasons as head coach.

Also in this week’s bucket o’ notes, we recall a trade, talk further college stratification and name-drop guess who?

Todd McLellan is out as head coach of the Los Angeles Kings, the franchise announced Friday. Jim Hiller has been named interim head coach for the remainder of…