Kings Make Coaching Change in Effort to Salvage Season

The team fires McLellan after winning only three games since late December. An ex-assistant, Jim Hiller, will take the helm.
Kings Make Coaching Change in Effort to Salvage Season
Head coach Todd McLellan of the Los Angeles Kings speaks during a press conference in Melbourne, Australia, on Sept. 24, 2023. Josh Chadwick/Getty Images
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Unless you’re the charmingly eccentric Emmett “Doc” Brown in the 1985 theatrical smash “Back to the Future,” capable of constructing a working time machine, harnessing the power of a lightning strike from yesteryear probably isn’t going to happen.

The struggling Los Angeles Kings decided to take a shot against those astronomical odds anyway, hoping that a midseason coaching change will conjure the same kind of magic as in 2012, when the National Hockey League club won the first of two Stanley Cup championships in a span of three seasons.

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Dan Wood is a community sports reporter based in Orange County, California. He has covered sports professionally for some 43 years, spending nearly three decades in the newspaper industry and 14 years in radio. He is an avid music fan, with a strong lean toward country and classic rock.
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