Inside Pat Verbeek’s Playbook: Is the Future of the Anaheim Ducks Being Quietly Engineered?
Similar to what happened in Seattle last season with Dave Hakstol, the timing of the firing was odd. The Anaheim Ducks made a 21-point jump in the standings. Normally, a coach does not get fired after that kind of jump. However, it seems from Verbeek’s comments following the firing that a new voice was needed, and they wanted to change things up.
“I went through this process, as I always do, and I started to look at things. When we probably went out of the playoff picture, I started to really start to look at things closer, and obviously there were some concerns,” Verbeek said to the media. “And then as I got closer to the end of the season, all the assessments, is kind of when I really decided to make the change and decided that it was the right time to take this team in a different direction and with a different voice.”
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