Who is on the Ducks radar for their search for coaching? – Orange County Register

While the best NHL teams continue the Stanley Cup, the Ducks, who have the third longest drought in the playoff in professional hockey, are in a different quest, one for a new head coach.

Last month, they dismissed Greg Cronin with a year remaining in his agreement, despite his presidency of the highest improvement from one year to the other in the West and the second most important peak in NHL last season.

With the director general Pat Verbeek who goes beyond his unseat promise of a great season from summer 2024 to 2025 and the OC entertainment complex of atmosphere will take shape, the Ducks will probably seek a renowned coach, among other aggressive investments.

Here is an overview of certain potential candidates for the Ducks, who have one of the seven current vacant posts for training in the NHL after a high -level rental was made this week when the Double Champion of the Stanley Cup, Mike Sullivan, went to the New York Rangers.

Joel Quenneville

Quenneville, 66, could be considered the favorite, with Pierre Lebrun of athletics, pointing that Quenneville had been interviewed once and had been set for a second meeting. At one point, Jimmy Murphy of the sick podcast shared that the work had been offered in Quenneville, although research persists in the middle of a fans reaction concerning Quenneville.

His references behind the bench are essentially impeccable, having won three Stanley cups guiding Chicago and fourth with Colorado as an assistant in addition to winning the second victories of any owner of the bench in the history of the NHL. However, his actions, or his absence, in response to a sexual assault scandal in 2010, finally prohibited him as well as two leaders of Blackhawks – Stan Bowman and Al Macissac – to seek a job in the NHL for almost three years. Since his reintegration, Bowman has become the director general of Edmonton’s Oilers, and now the teams have expressed their interest in Quenneville, to the chagrin of certain fans of Ducks, their dissatisfaction being strong enough to be presented on the podcast influences 32 Thoughts.

David Carle

Carle, 35, is considered the hottest coaching product outside the NHL, having had a huge success at the University of Denver. He has links with the former UD, Troy Terry, as well as another Ducks striker, Cutter Gauthier, through the American national team. He guided the United States to gold at the two junior world championships, but what he built in Denver was even more remarkable.

In seven seasons as a chief coach, Carle was four Frozen Fours and won the national championship twice, everything that has been in six opportunities since in 2020, the tournament was completely canceled due to the pandemic. He said that he would need an absolutely ideal situation to leave Denver, although he has at least listened to the locations of potential contenders. Despite the opposite end of age and spectra of Quenneville’s experience, Carle could be considered an even more coveted candidate.

Another university coach who could emerge like a black horse for the Ducks concert could be Pat Ferschweiler, who has just won a national title with western Michigan – where the Ducks striker Sam Colangelo and Prospect Tim Washe have registered – and has tangential links with Verbeek.

Jay Woodcroft

Lebrun reported that Woodcroft joined Carle and Quenneville among the candidates interviewed by the Ducks. Woodcroft had been closely attached to the former Kings coach Todd McLellan, after working with him in Detroit, San Jose and Edmonton, finally becoming head coach of the Oilers.

Woodcroft seemed to be rooted with Edmonton after guiding the oilers to the conference final in 2022 and the second round in 2023, but his mandate quickly overthrew the course and saw it at the start of the 2023-24 campaign. He hasn’t trained since, but it could change soon.

Another competitive candidate who has been unemployed for weeks rather than years would be Peter Laviolette, who reached the Stanley Cup final with Philadelphia and Nashville after winning a championship with Carolina. Likewise, the recently released Rick Tocchet, which had been with Vancouver, could be on the Ducks radar.

Gerard Gallant

Gallant excelled with a young group in Florida and with a bunch of parasites during the emerging stages of the Vegas Goldni Knights franchise, including their inaugural campaign which brought them to the Stanley Cup final. He was then succeeded by Laviolette in New York after the 2022-23 season. In addition to its history with emerging teams, Gallant is from the Verbeek era and has a similar meaning to the old.

The less eminent candidates with links with Verbeek could also be a possibility, including the former delegate of Detroit Red Wings, Jeff Blashill, the assistant of Tampa Bay Jeff Halpern and the Washington Capitals Assistant, Kirk Muller, who played with Verbeek in the New Jersey and Dallas.