EL SEGUNDO, Calif. – Kings general manager Rob Blake won the press conference derby Monday.



(Tyler Toffoli was a close second, for using the word ‘pathetic’ to describe some of their practices this season, but we’ll get back to that later.)



Blake was the final speaker at Kings’ breakup day at Toyota Sports Center, two days after their final regular-season game. He needed to be good and forceful and he was, taking full responsibility for a miserable, backsliding 30th-place season.



“I did a bad job,” he said.



There was more. Plenty more.



“I’m responsible, 100 percent, for the plan,” Blake said. “I’ve got to communicate that plan with the coaching staff and the players. It’s their job to make that execute. They have to be very well-prepared to do that.”



Was Blake able to get that done with his staff, in particular interim coach Willie...