As the Stanley Cup playoffs progress, the first round may begin to end, and everyone is also paying attention to the NHL coaching carousel. There are already several vacancies, and there are more possibilities. When the Pittsburgh Penguin let go of Mike Sullivan and Rick Tocchet left Canucks, we've seen a new name. He jumped to the list including David Carle and Joel Quenneville.
Speaking of Carl and Quinnerville, both men are associated with the work of Anaheim Ducks. We know Carle has two years left for the contract at the University of Denver. That doesn't mean he's not interested in another NHL job. Believe that he will stay in Denver. However, he will be very suitable for the young Anaheim Ducks, not someone like Quenneville.
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Recall that Ducks GM Pat Verbeek thinks his team is the playoff team next season. We will see this. After a 21-point jump in the rankings, he let go of Greg Cronin. According to Jimmy Murphy of RG Media, the duck provides jobs for Quenneville if he wants. But, do players want such a coach because they don't like hard-nosed Cronin?
How long does Quenneville coach after she comes back? It felt more like a move that the Buffalo Saber would do. Well, when they brought back Lindy Ruff, they did. Since the NHL is a parody league, why not follow the best team? As the Tampa Bay Chargers and Jon Cooper saw, the best teams allow their coaches to grow with their players.
As Dan Rosen of NHL.com told Scott Laughlin and Gord Stellick on the Sirius XM NHL network broadcast, he thought David Carle to Anaheim Ducks made the most sense.
“I look more like Anaheim, right? I mean, Anaheim is an amazing job for me. It's a young team, there are (Ryan) Strome and (Alex) Strome, Radko Gudas and many people. They have young players, and they're developing too.
They performed well, better this year than last year. So, listening, and even surprised me, they changed the coach’s change, but I don’t think Greg Cronin will last too long. And I think if they are ready to take the next step, for me, it's like his (cronin) job to take them to where they are and now, it brings another guy with this team to take the next step. This is where it should be.
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I looked at that and I thought, wow, if you were a coach, like a young coach, you were looking for growth. You can grow with the team. When Jon Cooper came in with Tampa Bay that few years ago, it reminded me a lot of him, right? I know he's already in the AHL with them, he's come to Guy Boucher, but he's the young coach. His first NHL job was a young team who wanted to grow together. He brought all those guys he had with him in Norfolk and they came and they grew up together. And you see where you are now, right?
To me, that's something Anaheim might have a chance to be. And if you look at someone like me, that's the right job. It was a perfect job for him. ”
But Trevor Zegras, Mason McTavish, Lukas Dostal, Troy Terry, Leo Carlsson, Cutter Gauthier, Olen Zellweger, Drew Helleson and Pavel Mintyukov all make sense. Along with Jacob Trouba, Gudas, Frank Vatrano and Strome, it's a nice young core. It's a good team and needs the right people to grow with them for years.
David Carle is healthier. But, does he want that to jump to the NHL? If he does, this is a great place for him to log in. But Carl has always believed that he wanted to get into the right situation where he could win. Carle said that after coaching the United States to win back-to-back World Youth Gold Medal.
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But the Anaheim duck is here. Probably not next year, but it may be within two or three years. That's why young coaches make more sense than older men like Anaheim's Joel Quenneville.
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