Todd McLellan is the new man behind the Los Angeles Kings bench. He has plenty of challenges ahead of him to bring the Kings out of the Pacific basement.
By Adam Proteau, Featurd
Bottoming out as they did last season – when they finished the year dead-last in the Pacific Division with a 31-42-9 record – the L.A. Kings exposed themselves as an older, slower, less-effective-at-both-ends-of-the-ice group that required a new voice running their dressing room. Thus far this summer, Kings GM Rob Blake directly addressed the new voice issue, hiring longtime Sharks bench boss Todd McLellan as Los Angeles’ coach – and McLellan’s challenge is to make sense of L.