The Anaheim Ducks hire the triple winner of the Stanley Cup, Joel Quenneville, like their new head coach, several points of sale reported on Thursday.
Quenneville, 66, won three championships with the Chicago Blackhawks (2010, 2013 and 2015) and ranks N ° 2 in the history of the NHL with 969 victories for four teams in 25 seasons.
He resigned from Florida Panthers coach in October 2021 after an independent investigation was revealed on how he and other Blackhawks leaders had managed an allegation of sexual assault in 2010 against the team’s video coach Brad Aldrich. Commissioner Gary Bettman said at the time that the coach should meet the NHL if he was looking for a future job in the League, and the NHL restored Quenneville in July 2024.
The Ducks dismissed Greg Cronin last month after having compiled a record of 62-87-15 in two seasons. Anaheim has missed the playoffs in each of the last seven seasons.
Quenneville was 969-572-150 with 77 links as a head coach of St. Louis Blues (1996-2004), Colorado Avalanche (2005-08), Blackhawks (2008-18) and Panthers (2019-21). He won the Jack Adams Prize as a coach of the League year in 1999-2000.
The former hopeful of the Blackhawks, Kyle Beach, made complaints against Aldrich during the series of the Stanley 2010 Cup qualifiers. The survey revealed that the leaders of Quenneville and Chicago decided to postpone all the actions against Aldrich to the Stanley Cup final to avoid any distraction.
“I want to express my pain for the pain that this young man, Kyle Beach, suffered,” said Quenneville after leaving his job with the panthers in 2021. “My old team – Blackhawks – failed Kyle, and I have my share of that. I want to think about everyone.”
– field level media
