LA Kings Promote Bill Ranford to Director of Goaltending

The LA Kings announced today that Bill Ranford has been promoted to Director of Goaltending after serving the last 17 years with the Kings as goaltending coach.

In his new role, Ranford will oversee all aspects of the organization's goaltending department, including coaching, development, programming and scouting. In addition, Matt Millar has been named North American Goalie Scout and will see him support Ranford and the club's goaltending objectives. The Kings are actively pursuing candidates to fill goaltending coach roles at both the NHL and AHL level.

Since joining the club's coaching staff in July 2006, Ranford and the Kings have captured two Stanley Cups (2012, 2014) while the Kings rewrote nearly every single-season and playoff statistical goaltending record in Kings franchise history. A two-time Stanley Cup Champion as a player (1988, 1990) with the Edmonton Oilers, Ranford won the Conn Smythe Trophy and shares the single-season playoff record for most wins (16) in 1990. Originally selected by the Boston Bruins in the third-round (52nd overall) of the 1985 NHL Entry Draft, Ranford owns a 240-279-76 record in 647 games over 15 seasons with the Oilers, Bruins, Detroit Red Wings, Tampa Bay Lightning and Washington Capitals. Prior to joining the Kings staff, Ranford served as goaltending consultant for the Vancouver Giants of the WHL (2004-06) and the Burnaby Express of the BCHL of which he was a part-owner.

Millar served the last four seasons as goaltending development coach for the Ontario Reign, the AHL affiliate of the LA Kings, after joining in 2019-20. Prior to joining the Kings, Millar served as director of hockey operations and goaltending coach for the Dubuque Fighting Saints of the United States Hockey League (USHL) from 2013-2019. In his six years with the Fighting Saints, the team qualified for the playoffs each season, winning at least one playoff series each year, including an appearance in the Clark Cup Finals in 2016. The El Segundo, Calif. native has also spent time with the Arizona Coyotes, USA Hockey and his alma mater, Bethel University.