{"id":468566,"date":"2025-05-13T08:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=468566"},"modified":"2025-05-13T08:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T12:44:16","slug":"report-los-angeles-kings-choose-new-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/13\/report-los-angeles-kings-choose-new-general-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Los Angeles Kings Choose New General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/05\/los-angeles-kings-and-rob-blake-part-ways\/\" target=\"_self\"> Los Angeles Kings<\/a> have reportedly made hired a new general manager. <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/kings-closing-in-on-deal-to-make-ken-holland-gm\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reports are emerging<\/a> the Ken Holland has been hired as the team&#8217;s next GM. News first emerged on Monday afternoon, but details have yet to be finalized. This news came via Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Kings are closing in on Ken Holland as their next GM, per <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FriedgeHNIC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@FriedgeHNIC<\/a>. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/k4N2RdquoU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/k4N2RdquoU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sportsnet (@Sportsnet) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sportsnet\/status\/1922089855103770807?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Ken Holland Hired as New General Manager<\/h2>\n<p>Holland returns to a GM post after a year working in the NHL&#8217;s Operations Department as a consultant. He was general manager of the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/12\/nhl-predictions-playoffs-edition-vegas-golden-knights-vs-edmonton-oilers-game-4\/\" target=\"_self\">Edmonton Oilers,<\/a> but his contract was not renewed. The 69-year-old had been a GM for 27 seasons between the Oilers and <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/04\/21\/nhl-rumours-detroit-red-wings-hope-to-bring-back-forward\/\" target=\"_self\">Detroit Red Wings.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He had won four Stanley Cups and was a winner of 1,145 regular-season games. Holland was also a former goaltender in the NHL with the Hartford Whalers and the Red Wings before taking up a career in management.<\/p>\n<p>The Vernon, British Columbia native now takes over a team that has beaten four times in a row by the team he used to be a GM of. Holland was the Oilers&#8217; general manager for three of those series victories.<\/p>\n<h3>What It Means<\/h3>\n<p>He takes over for Rob Blake, who mutually parted ways on May 5 after the team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2025\/05\/02\/history-repeats-itself-the-edmonton-oilers-defeat-the-los-angeles-kings-for-the-fourth-year-in-a-row\/\" target=\"_self\">fourth consecutive first-round exit<\/a> versus the Oilers. The former Kings blueliner had led the front office for eight seasons. However, Los Angeles didn&#8217;t win a playoff series in his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>News of interest in Holland was first reported by Friedman on the May 5 edition of the 32 Thoughts podcast. He&#8217;ll now try to overcome one of this former teams that has been a thorn in the Kings&#8217; side for a number of seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles will have a projected $23 million in salary cap space in the off-season. However, the team needs to find a way to Vladislav Gavrikov and forward Andrei Kuzmenko. Both of these players are unrestricted free agents.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main photo by: Jim Rassol-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Kings have reportedly made hired a new general manager. Reports are emerging the Ken Holland has been hired as the team&#8217;s next GM. News first emerged on Monday afternoon, but details have yet to be finalized. This news came via Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman. The Kings are closing in on Ken Holland as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":446091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24,4547,34,4548],"tags":[571,5769,1566],"class_list":["post-468566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kings","category-hockey","category-news","category-nhl","tag-ken-holland","tag-los-angeles-kings-news","tag-rob-blake"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468567,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468566\/revisions\/468567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/446091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}