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[FiveHoleTickler]

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Ducks Announce Hockey Operations Updates | Anaheim Ducks

The Ducks have promoted Rick Paterson to General Manager of the San Diego Gulls, Anaheim’s primary development affiliate in the American Hockey League (AHL), and Mike Stapleton to Assistant General Manager of the Ducks. In addition, Assistant General Manager Rob DiMaio has left the club due to...

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[CrazyDuck4u]

Newel Brown.. You will not be missed.. Now bring in someone who can turn this PP and PK around..

 

[KelVarnsen]

Bye bye Brown. Seemed like a nice guy but clueless PP coach. Hopefully this helps the special teams.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Who was Gulls GM before?

 

[Goose of Reason]

Who was Gulls GM before?

I think it was Rob DiMaio who was announced as leaving for personal reasons

 

[Static]

Who was Gulls GM before?

DiMaio

 

[duxfan1101]

DiMaio and Brown gone are big Ws.

 

[Static]

It's not ever great to cheer for people losing their jobs, but we need new assistants. Hope they land on their feet.

 

[S.S. Giggy]

Who was Gulls GM before?

Rob DiMaio

Disregard. Doublepost

 

[Static]

I question how much leeway the AHL GM really has. How much is he handcuffed by verbeek?

I do remember there being some basic availability issues in San Diego though, like they weren't prepared well enough for things. That's a problem.

 

[ohcomeonref]

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Just made our biggest off-season acquisition. Addition by subtraction

Goodbye Stool Brown!

 

[anezthes]

How much is he handcuffed by verbeek?

50 shades of Pat.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

I question how much leeway the AHL GM really has. How much is he handcuffed by verbeek?

I do remember there being some basic availability issues in San Diego though, like they weren't prepared well enough for things. That's a problem.

Well he wasn't fired, so who knows whether the problem really registered as such.

 

[Static]

Well he wasn't fired, so who knows whether the problem really registered as such.

Considering we had the same issues in Anaheim, maybe not much.

 

[The Midnight Burrito]

Considering we had the same issues in Anaheim, maybe not much.

Really, it's a problem of coveragehip.

 

[Gliff]

Hate to see people lose their jobs, but I'm excited for the Ducks.

How many teams have 3 assist GMs?

 

[Static]

So what PP genius are we bringing in now. Ken hitchcock? Derryl Sutter part 2? Who would piss us off the most, I have money on him.

 

[KelVarnsen]

So Thompson is staying as an assistant?

 

[Static]

So what PP genius are we bringing in now. Ken hitchcock? Derryl Sutter part 2? Who would piss us off the most, I have money on him.

Oh, Carlyle. Duh.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Newel Brown.. You will not be missed.. Now bring in someone who can turn this PP and PK around..

We moved on from PP coach Brown and dev coach Johnson. PK coach Thompson remains.

2022-23
Game Set	Games	PPG	PPO	PP Eff	.	PK GA	TSH	PK Eff
Total	82	36	229	15.7%		78	280	72.1%
1 to 25	25	12	72	16.7%		31	89	65.2%
26 to 49	24	11	64	17.2%		17	81	79.0%
50 to 61	12	5	36	13.9%		10	44	77.3%
62 to 82	21	8	57	14.0%		20	66	69.7%

2023-24
Game Set	Games	PPG	PPO	PP Eff	.	PK GA	TSH	PK Eff
Total	82	42	235	17.9%		91	330	72.4%
1 to 25	25	18	81	22.2%		22	110	80.0%
26 to 49	24	10	71	14.1%		22	91	75.8%
50 to 62	13	8	35	22.9%		16	47	66.0%
63 to 82	20	6	48	12.5%		31	82	62.2%
Check	82​	42​	235​	17.9%		91​	330​	72.4%

Brown was inconsistent last year, but Thompson's PK unit just kept on deteriorating from the start. Compare the PK splits with Stother's last year and the fact he didn't have quality defenders, Stothers' group did improve throughout the season until the TDL. I'm not surprised Thompson stayed b/c it was his first season with Anaheim and he's got ties with Cronin due to their history with the NYI. Still, that's decaying over the season is very worrisome.

 

[JAHV]

Well he wasn't fired, so who knows whether the problem really registered as such.

Yeah, although that could also be the Ducks allowing him to save face by leaving for personal reasons rather than being fired. As you indicate later, there just isn't enough information for us to know.

 

[SoCal Dreaming]

So we can stop arguing... New assistant will be Eakins.

 

[Hockey Duckie]

Yeah, although that could also be the Ducks allowing him to save face by leaving for personal reasons rather than being fired. As you indicate later, there just isn't enough information for us to know.

We kept Thompson this off-season and he had a terrible season, but he's a Verbeek pick.

As for 2022 hires, DiMaio and Craig Johnson where hired then by Verbeek. DiMaio was hired as Ducks' assistant GM and Gulls GM, as per hockey rumors reporting. Johnson was hired as an assistant coach at the NHL level, replacing Geoff Ward's departure. DiMaio left for personal reasons and Johnson's contract wasn't renewed.

Asst coach Ward came from the Murray era and spearheaded the PP unit with Brown. Ward was the offensive genius out of the duo, but Ward left for personal reasons after the 2021-22 season. Verbeek kept Brown for an additional two seasons.

Ward did end up coaching the next season in the NL-A (Swiss league) in early Nov. He's been coaching there for the past two seasons.

I believe DiMaio left the org just like Ward left the org b/c I don't see a lot of negative factors since Verbeek is happy with the kid's development in the AHL.

 

[Zegs2sendhelp]

Bye brown...