{"id":477427,"date":"2024-02-02T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T02:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477427"},"modified":"2024-02-02T22:49:58","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T02:49:58","slug":"kings-dismiss-mclellan-appoint-hiller-interim-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/kings-dismiss-mclellan-appoint-hiller-interim-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Kings dismiss McLellan, appoint Hiller interim head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Kings fired Todd McLellan and hired Jim Hiller as interim head coach for the remainder of the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Los Angeles Kings have relieved Todd McLellan of his duties and named Jim Hiller interim head coach for the remainder of the season. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fkThL4xJkj\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/fkThL4xJkj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1753458325990064630?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 2, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The change comes as the team went 3-7-5 in the past month and has dropped to the 1<sup>st<\/sup> wild-card place in the West.<\/p>\n<p>At the beginning of the campaign, the Kings won 11 straight matches away from home to begin the season, a National Hockey League record.<\/p>\n<p>This was Todd\u2019s 5<sup>th<\/sup> campaign with the franchise. McLellan led the Kings to the postseason the previous 2 campaigns, but his team was eliminated in the 1st round both times by the Edmonton Oilers.<\/p>\n<p>In the past campaign, Los Angeles finished with a 47-25-10 record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate McLellan for his hard work and dedication to the team,\u201d shared Kings GM Rob Blake.<\/p>\n<p>The general manager added that Todd helped the organization move forward and made a positive impact during his time with the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Kings fired Todd McLellan and hired Jim Hiller as interim head coach for the remainder of the campaign. The Los Angeles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477428,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16851,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[17845,22620,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The NHL franchise from Los Angeles fired its manager.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477427"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477427"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477430,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477427\/revisions\/477430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477427"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477427"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}