Overview
- General manager Ken Holland announced the change Sunday and added longtime development coach Matt Greene to the bench as an assistant.
- Los Angeles is 24-21-14 (62 points), sitting three points behind the West’s final wild-card spot with 23 games remaining.
- Hiller exits with a 93-58-24 record over 175 games, having reached the playoffs twice without winning a series, with repeated first-round losses to Edmonton.
- The move follows a post-break slump highlighted by a 6-4 loss to Vegas and an 8-1 home defeat to the Oilers that drew “Fire Hiller” chants.
- Context for the slide includes one of the NHL’s lowest scoring rates despite trading for Artemi Panarin, plus injuries to Kevin Fiala (season-ending leg fracture) and Andrei Kuzmenko (meniscus surgery, week-to-week).