It's a new era in Hollywood.
The Los Angeles Kings made a major shakeup Monday, firing general manager Dean Lombardi and head coach Darryl Sutter after they failed to qualify for the playoffs for the second time in three seasons.
The dismissals came after Lombardi and Sutter led the Kings to Stanley Cup wins in 2012 and 2014. Assistant GM Rob Blake will replace Lombardi, while the team will begin the search for its next head coach.
"We are all grateful for what Dean and Darryl did for the organization. We are all forever indebted to them," AEG president Dan Beckerman told Helene Elliott of the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday.
Beckerman noted that the change was made in order to move the organization forward.
"This business is about success and we have not met our goals the last three years," Beckerman added. "We need to be competing for championships every year."
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The shakeup also saw Luc Robitaille named as president of hockey operations. He was previously charged with the top job on the business side of the operations.
"We believe this team has the core in place to compete for the Stanley Cup," Robitaille said on Tuesday. "It's about creating an expectation that when you wear the Kings jersey, it represents something special."
Robitaille appeared in 1,077 games with the Kings between 1986 and 2006. He sits second all-time in franchise scoring with 1,154 points, behind only Marcel Dionne.
Whether the organization makes more changes remains unknown, with Blake noting the team has not yet made a decision on assistant coaches John Stevens and Davis Payne.
The team will also have a decision to make on Mike Futa, the vice-president of hockey operations. Futa is seen as a rising executive whose name has circulated open GM spots in recent seasons.
"Mike has been tremendous and we're going to sit with him over the next couple days," Blake said. "I'm going to lean on him."
One change will seemingly come to the team's offensive ranks, as Blake noted, "We don't score. There needs to be some emphasis on how to do that."
Only two Kings skaters finished north of the 20-goal plateau this season - Jeff Carter at 32 and Tanner Pearson with 24 tallies. League wide, Los Angeles finished sixth-worst in goal production, scoring just 201 times over 82 games.
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