{"id":127790,"date":"2022-04-12T20:12:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T00:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/?p=127790"},"modified":"2022-04-12T21:04:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T01:04:45","slug":"dallas-eakins-extended-by-anaheim-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2022\/04\/12\/dallas-eakins-extended-by-anaheim-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Dallas Eakins Extended By Anaheim Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks have activated the club option on head coach <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/e\/eakinda01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dallas Eakins<\/a><\/strong> on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">OFFICIAL: We have picked up the 2022-23 club option on the contract of Head Coach Dallas Eakins.<\/p>\n<p>More&#8230; \ud83d\udc47 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tfJOAO8OKZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/tfJOAO8OKZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Anaheim Ducks (@AnaheimDucks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AnaheimDucks\/status\/1513994072393871360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">April 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Dallas Eakins Survives Another Year<\/h2>\n<p>Before Tuesday&#8217;s Florida Panthers match, Eakins guided the Ducks to a 29-33-12 record. While being that far below &#8220;NHL .500&#8221; normally wouldn&#8217;t merit an extension, Anaheim is going through a rebuild. Their patience with his results reflects an acceptance of that issue.<\/p>\n<p>It does come as a bit of a surprise, as new general manager <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/v\/verbepa01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pat Verbeek<\/a><\/strong> had an opportunity to clean house, and Eakins could easily have been a casualty. He would have joined long-time Ducks <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/l\/lindhha01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hampus Lindholm<\/a><\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/r\/rakelri01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rickard Rakell<\/a><\/strong>, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/mansojo01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Josh Manson<\/a><\/strong>, moved out as part of the rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, Eakins has a record of 75-96-30 since joining Anaheim. They did, however, get off to a solid start this season. Sitting at 17-10-7 by January 1st, there was some reason to believe that the team could overcome their <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2021\/09\/11\/puck-drop-preview-2021-22-anaheim-ducks\/\" target=\"_self\">predicted finish<\/a>. Unfortunately, they came crashing back to Earth, going 12-23-5 since then.<\/p>\n<p>Still, there are signs of life for the team that hasn&#8217;t made the playoffs since 2017-18 and will miss again this season. Leading scorer <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/t\/terrytr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Troy Terry<\/a><\/strong>, with 32 goals and 58 points, is just 24 years old. The electrifying <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/z\/zegratr01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Trevor Zegras<\/a><\/strong> is just four points back and four years younger. Somewhere along the way, the Ducks and Eakins managed to give life to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/m\/milanso01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonny Milano<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s moribund career. Sophomore defenceman <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/d\/drysdja01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jamie Drysdale<\/a><\/strong> is making his presence felt with 20 minutes of ice time a night.<\/p>\n<p>The team still relies heavily on a fragile <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=gibsojo02,gibsojo01&amp;search=John+Gibson&amp;utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">John Gibson<\/a><\/strong>, but it&#8217;s hard to blame the coach for that. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hockey-reference.com\/players\/s\/stolaan01.html?utm_campaign=Linker&amp;utm_source=direct&amp;utm_medium=linker-\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anthony Stolarz<\/a><\/strong> can make it an uncomfortable conversation by next year, but again that&#8217;s a problem for Verbeek to solve.<\/p>\n<h3>What This Means<\/h3>\n<p>Dallas Eakins will get the beginning of the 2022-23 season to show he can maintain a good run. 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OFFICIAL: We have picked up the 2022-23 club option on the contract of Head Coach Dallas Eakins. 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