Speculation: LA hiring Jim Hiller?

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[All The Kings Men]

Because professional sports franchises are vast and complex institutions with multiple departments and moving pieces that all have to coordinate and collaborate even on something as seemingly simple and innocuous as a a press release or a tweet.

EDIT: Also I have no idea if it's even true so as unlikely as it may be... there's always that possibility

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

Adjusted thread title.

I can't imagine it falls thru but thus far I havent' seen official confirmation so most of the discussion has been confined to the 'season' thread

but if rumors are true, I love it as I mentioned elsewhere.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Jim Hiller does address the toughness issue as well.

 

[kingsfan]

The last time we had Jim Hiller it cost us Paul Coffey just to get rid of him. No thanks...

 

[Sybil227]

Does he have any hockey experience?

 

[HookKing]

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Does he have any hockey experience?

This guy does -- played goalie:

 

[kingsfan]

This guy does -- played goalie:

Looks like Auston Matthews if life had him stay in the desert and chase UFO's.

 

[kilowatt]

If true, this could be the biggest signing of the offseason. Improving our special teams last season to even league-average levels, with everything else remaining roughly the same, would have put us into near-elite territory. Add an elite winger and more prospect growth into the mix and we might actually win a playoff round soon.

 

[King'sPawn]

Now reported by LAKI

 

[theMajor]

holy shit, we got our PP specialist! only took a decade+

 

[Schrute farms]

"will work primarily with forwards and PP" -- oh yeah!

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[kilowatt]

I like that this wasn’t an internal promotion and hope he plays no favorites. We have the pieces to construct a great power play, we’ve just never done it.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Another nice wrinkle to Hiller's experience is that he is used to having all left-handed shots on his PP units, which is what Detroit iced when he was running their PP. The Kings are in a similar situation, but at least the point shots have some right-handed options with Doughty and Durzi (and possibly Walker).

 

[Choralone]

Sweet sassy molassy!

 

[Token]

Why do I get a feeling I’m being sold an undercoating and extended warranty?

 

[FrozenKing18]

Outstanding!

Hopefully now I can start watching our powerplays instead of getting up for a bathroom break or getting my food ready.

 

[Lt Dan]

I hate to pee on everyone's cheerios, but my friend who is Islander fan said he was beyond horrible as their PP coach

 

[FeartheFur]

Well. Can it be worse then last years PP?

 

[Lt Dan]

Well. Can it be worse then last years PP?

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

I hate to pee on everyone's cheerios, but my friend who is Islander fan said he was beyond horrible as their PP coach

well

He was hired in Summer 2019....in 2019, the Isles PP was 29th.
in 2020...the Isles PP was 24th.
in 2021...the isles PP was 20th.
in 2022...the Isles PP was 12th.

pretty good considering their all-around GF fell under ours.

 

[Raccoon Jesus]

To add--

his one season in Detroit, the Wings PP was 2nd after finishing the previous season in 18th

That season, Toronto was 26th...then Hiller arrived
2016--29th
2017--2nd
2018--2nd
2019--8th

The guy has succeeded with high-talent and medium-talent teams...what a f***ing hire.

 

[Lt Dan]

If our PP still sucks, I am going to start calling him Jim Hitler, then that will eventually evolve to me calling him Adolph

 

[cyclones22]

If we see different personnel out there, then we know it's truly Hiller's powerplay. If we see the same ol' 5 out there, minus Dustin Brown, then TMc is influencing it. Brown had 3 PP points last season and played 2:05 minutes per game on it. Iafallo was just a little better with 40 seconds more TOI per game. IA should not be on the powerplay. He's not a shooter or a passer and that's what you need on the unit.

 

[cyclones22]

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