Los Angeles Kings Add Cup-Winning Experience With New GM Ken Holland
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After five years at the helm of the Edmonton Oilers, Ken Holland is now the new general manager of … More the Los Angeles Kings. (Photo by Dave Sandford/NHLI via Getty Images) NHLI via Getty Images From foe to friend: the Los Angeles Kings have hired Ken Holland as their new general manager. Holland spent five seasons at the helm of the Edmonton Oilers from 2019-24, as the team’s president and general manager. He oversaw the construction of the roster that ended the Kings’ playoff hopes in the first round in 2022, 2023 and 2024 before ceding the reins to Stan Bowman. This year, Holland served as a consultant for the NHL’s hockey operations department and despite a strong regular season and securing home-ice advantage for Round 1, the Kings fell to the Oilers for a fourth-straight year. Los Angeles hasn’t won a playoff series since winning the Stanley Cup in 2014. So when the dust settled, the team and general manager Rob Blake agreed to part ways on May 6. A Hockey Hall of Fame member and former Kings captain, Blake joined the Los Angeles management team in 2013. In 2017, he added the general manager title to his role as vice president of hockey operations. When Holland signed on with the Oilers in 2019, it was widely assumed that his five-year contract would take him to retirement. He was 68 when the deal concluded, and had a long resume that also included 36 years in the Detroit Red Wings organization, where he won four Stanley Cups. But perhaps the way he left the Red Wings should have been a hint that he still isn’t quite ready to sit on the sidelines. When Steve Yzerman signed on as Detroit’s general manager and bumped Holland up to a senior VP…
