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NHL Hot Seat Radar: Anaheim Ducks

Welcome to The THN Hot Seat, a new NHL off-season series of THN.com columns. In this feature, we’ll identify one person in each NHL market who is facing big-time pressure heading into the 2022-23 regular season. The person could be a player, a coach, or even a team owner.

Regardless, we’ll start the series alphabetically, looking at the Anaheim Ducks.

DALLAS EAKINS, HEAD COACH

Why?: It’s unfair to pin Anaheim’s struggles in the standings solely on Eakins, who has been the Ducks’ head coach for three years now. The 55-year-old can’t teach offense, the team’s biggest issue since he took over from then-interim bench boss and GM Bob Murray. Clearly, the Ducks have been a franchise in transition for some time, and the retirement of captain and longtime cornerstone center Ryan Getzlaf this past spring signaled the end of an era – as did the appointment of new GM Pat Verbeek.

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