{"id":492558,"date":"2025-05-05T14:25:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=492558"},"modified":"2025-05-05T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T18:25:43","slug":"la-kings-dismiss-general-manager-blake-after-another-1st-round-exit","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/la-kings-dismiss-general-manager-blake-after-another-1st-round-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Kings dismiss general manager Blake after another 1st-round exit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Kings decided to part ways with Rob Blake, the organization\u2019s GM and vice president of hockey operations, after a 4<sup>th<\/sup> consecutive 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason elimination.<\/p>\n<p>Rob didn\u2019t have a deal beyond the 2024-25 campaign. The position of coach Jim Hiller, who has 2 years left on his deal after the former general manager elevated him to head coach in the current campaign, will be decided by the next GM.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rob Blake\u2019s time with the Los Angeles Kings is at an end.<\/p>\n<p>The 55-year-old Hockey Hall of Famer had been in the team\u2019s front office since 2013 and had been promoted to GM and vice-president in 2017. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9ch7EuuT5S\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/9ch7EuuT5S<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1919429301457281259?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 5, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Rob (55) was elevated to the Kings general manager position on April 2017 after being an assistant GM under Dean Lombardi beginning in 2013-14, the last time Los Angeles triumphed with the Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n<p>In 8 campaigns as general manager, Blake\u2019s selections made the Stanley Cup postseason 5 times. However, the Kings lost in the 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round each time, as the Knights beated them in 2018 and then the Oilers eliminated them for 4 consecutive playoffs, including in Game 6 on the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The LA Kings decided to part ways with Rob Blake, the organization\u2019s GM and vice president of hockey operations, after a 4th consecutive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492559,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16851,17844,23476],"news_category":[16709,16715],"gn_keywords":[17845,23477,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The Kings will not bring back the GM after the disappointing playoffs.","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\/492558"}],"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=492558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492560,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/492558\/revisions\/492560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492558"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=492558"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=492558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}