The Anaheim Geese are hiring three-time Stanley Cup winner Joel Quenneville as their new head coach, a number of retailers reported Thursday.
Quenneville, 66, gained three championships with the Chicago Blackhawks (2010, 2013 and 2015) and ranks No. 2 in NHL historical past with 969 wins for 4 groups over 25 seasons.
He resigned as coach of the Florida Panthers in October 2021 after an impartial investigation got here to gentle about how he and different Blackhawks leaders had dealt with a 2010 sexual assault allegation towards the crew’s video coach, Brad Aldrich. Commissioner Gary Bettman mentioned on the time that the coach must meet with the NHL ought to he search future employment within the league, and the NHL reinstated Quenneville in July 2024.
The Geese fired Greg Cronin final month after he compiled a document of 62-87-15 in two seasons. Anaheim has missed the playoffs in every of the previous seven seasons.
Quenneville was 969-572-150 with 77 ties as head coach of the St. Louis Blues (1996-2004), Colorado Avalanche (2005-08), Blackhawks (2008-18) and Panthers (2019-21). He gained the Jack Adams Award because the league’s coach of the Yr in 1999-2000.
Former Blackhawks prospect Kyle Seashore made assault claims towards Aldrich throughout the 2010 Stanley Cup playoffs. The investigation discovered that Quenneville and Chicago executives determined to defer any actions towards Aldrich till after the Stanley Cup Remaining to keep away from any distractions.
“I need to categorical my sorrow for the ache this younger man, Kyle Seashore, has suffered,” Quenneville mentioned after leaving his job with the Panthers in 2021. “My former crew — the Blackhawks — failed Kyle, and I personal my share of that. I need to replicate on how all this occurred and take the time to coach myself on making certain hockey areas are protected for everybody.”
–Subject Degree Media