The LA Kings worst case scenario has happened heading into the holiday break with back to back loses

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1. Garbage team , garbage effort ,zero resilience,zero fitness

2. What's wrong with the KIngs this year? I looked at their schedule that's coming up. If they can't get points against Columbus and Seattle at home. Good luck against their future opponents. Keeps going like this the playoffs are not in their future.

3. Should have hired DeBoer when the rumors were published a few weeks ago. Now the situation is even more concerning. We need a few big trades from Holland and a new coach, otherwise this season is done. This team can’t get it done with this coach

4. Worst pp , worst pk , worst offense, I love the Kings , and won’t ever flip flop , however I f ing despise this years team . And I’m sorry Eddie the effort was not there . They didn’t crash the net , the kraken were stronger on the feet , won every 50-50 battle , THEY SUCK ! I expected a Herculean effort after how it’s been going , they just went through the motions and tried harder then th3 nigh5 before , they didn’t do enough as usual , HATE THIS TEAM

5. All the O.T games are catching up with the old timers. This team can’t beat bad teams who played the night before. Trade/Bench over rated Byfield. Fire Hiller/GM who made this team older and slower

6. 4-8-4 at Home

7. The two Kings strenghts are their middle six and Kuemper in net. Other than that: Center depth bad. I still say Byfield is a wing not a center. That is easily proven by looking at his aweful FO% and goalie Sv% with him on Ice. Kopi is the only reason center. Defense is another weakness. Drew and Mikey are the only stable pair. Ed and Clarke are okay, but just okay. The worst of the worst is the coachiing. Please let Hiller go and get Andrew Lord in as coach. But yeah, having Foegle, Moore, Armia, and Laffy makes the best middle six winger group in the Show but absolutely no cemter to fully realize them.

8. Luc needs to go and so does Hiller.

9. Who the fck is Carter Hart?

10. Hiller needs to be fire Immediately or else just throw the season away already.

11. After the blooper goal I was like ya that's sums up our season 😅. We can't catch a break to safe our lives. Really wish they would stop leaving their goalies hung out to dry in pp and 2 v 1

12. Eddie you still think Hiller is the right coach. Remember about 3 weeks ago Hiller said the players chose to tune out the coach for the first 2 periods against the flames. That means the players don't want to play this style of hockey. It is the kind of system losing teams play, not winning teams. Time to fire the whole staff. Fir Hiller and Luc as well.

13. Should have fired Hiller and not hired Holland. How's that Ceci and Dumoulin swap for Gav and Spence going? Luc has to go. This franchise has gone nowhere under his watch. This is all so predictable.

14. Danault 100% checked out on the Kings. You could see it every time he hit the ice and coasted. Was it warranted to want to leave LA? Depends on whom you ask. IMO, this team needs to head down the ground-up rebuild road.

15. It's not a scoring slump, this is who they are, a mediocre team at best..

16. All we do is lose lose no matter what…..

17. Look, this team isn't going to win the Stanley Cup this year, why don't we set us up for the future.Tank the rest of the season, allow Kopitar to help another team (not Edmonton!), we would probably get a nice return for the rental, also trade Fiala for a nice return and make this team younger moving into the post Kopitar world. Better to get some returns this season rather than getting nothing once Kopi retires. Everyone should be up for trade except Anderson, Clarke, Laferriere, Byfield, Kempe and maybe Turcotte and Foegele.

18. Fire…

    …Holland? Obviously.
    …Hiller? Probably
    …Luc? Not until we se if the new hires for the other spots are an improvement.

19. What did we expect Kings fans.l? Since Luc's promotion, he fired DS, he fired DL, he hired Blake, he hired Stevens, he hired Willie D, he hired TMac, he hired Hiller, he hired KH…..none of these hires was any good (except maybe TMac). None of these people have made any good decisions. After 10 years of futility, its time to tear it down and start over. Don't keep trying to blow snow up our skirts saying this team is Cup capable. That's a lie. Kings fans have been to the top of the mountain twice. We know what it takes. We are not stupid. Announce a rebuild. Tell us what your 5 year plan is to rebuild our team. Tell us the truth! Let us support a rebuild and watch the team's rebirth. Don't try and distract us with the new uniforms. That was just putting lipstick on a pig. Over the next two off seasons, we are shedding over $30 million in cap space. Let those UFAs go and sign more cheap Veterans to fill out the roster. We are already stuck with Ceci and Dumolin for 4 years. Trade our current players for draft picks and rebuild through the draft for 3 years. When that young talent has developed, use the freed up cap space to sign those FA s who are the icing on the cake. Danualt's remarks in Montreal yesterday tells the whole story of why players want to leave and top line FAs dont want to come to LA.

20. Maybe I'm hopelessly optimistic, but I don't think we have a bad team, just one that isn't moving in the right direction. Imo we have the right amount of youth and veteran leadership that could make an impact. Obviously, our goalie situation is (finally) shored up with Kuemper, with Forsberg as a competent back up. You recall when we had Terry Murray the Kings were just meandering around until we got someone who could take us to the next level in Sutter. I remember Kings fans balking at having Sutter on board and look how that turned out. My point is Hiller's obviously not making the grade so we need some coaching that'll effectively utilize the pieces we already have. This season ain't done yet but we better get moving👑🏒🥅

21. 0 goals 0 pts in the month of December, brrrrrrrrrr not much from a number 2 pick…

22. Fire Hiller

23. Seems like the struggles of the power play in the early season sapped offensive flow and scoring confidence. I still can't believe the coaches stuck with it so long. I don't think it's impossible for them to pull out of this spiral but it's not fun to watch. You can really hear the broadcasters trying to keep the fans engaged. Don't get me wrong, I like him, but even Jimmy, who can easily be pessimistic, is noticeably trying to rally us.

24. Fire Hiller

25. 2 goals or less in 14 of 18….sorry but this season is an absolute failure. Zero development of the young guys and zero winning. Something must change for them to be successful in the postseason.

26. FIRE HILLER FIRE HOLLAND FIRE LUC

27. #FireLuc/Holland/HillerASAP!

28. Wake UP King's Fans!!!! Die hard Kings fan since 1985 and will not renew my season tickets! I thought Blake was the problem ruining the King's organization but it's Luc! Hiller and Luc need to go NOW!!!! Like I said before this Kings organization has become a black hole for prospects and star players! Bring any NHL super star to this Kings organization and he will become average in a blink and that's a fact!!!

29. Christmas break great opportunity for a coaching change.

30. Kuemper is the only reason the Kings arent bottom dwellers yet. They have needed more goals for years now. Kopi should retire now. Byfield moore and ceci need to be replaced. How management cant see this is unbelievable.

31. They fired Dean and hired Blake and promoted Luc to President. All down hill after that. Dean was not given time to correct the Voynov mess and Richards drug issue from head problems.

32. Boycott going to LA kings HOME GAMES… make it known yo AEG that this product is garbage … Luc NEEDS TO BE FIRED!!!!!

33. Luc needs to be fired, ASAP. .this entire "built for the playoffs " luc delusion needs to go away…. 1. Chuck the puck and shoot it at the center of the goalies chest and hope for a rebound is a. Joke offensive strategy.. but if they randomly get the lead. Sit back do the turtle defense, lay flat on the ground and wait to be tied. And eventually lose… FIRE LUC, HILLER,HOLLAND, SUE Rob Blake for damages

34. stop going to games, and just boycott the franchise front office

35. I think the kings and fans hugely over-rated this team….just look at the roster…what do you expect?

36. Philip was soft, just like his comments

37. They suck. Soon to be at the bottom of the division😢