{"id":437340,"date":"2023-06-05T14:36:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=437340"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T18:36:03","slug":"anaheim-hires-greg-cronin-as-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/anaheim-hires-greg-cronin-as-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Anaheim hires Greg Cronin as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/anaheim-ducks\/\">Anaheim Ducks<\/a> have appointed experienced NHL assistant and AHL manager Greg Cronin to lead the franchise from the new season.<\/p>\n<p>Anaheim GM Pat Verbeek shared the news today to hire the veteran.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Anaheim Ducks have hired first-time NHL head coach Greg Cronin.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, Cronin held assistant coaching positions with the Leafs and Islanders before taking over as HC of the Colorado Eagles in the AHL. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/KPBF8Odt8v\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/KPBF8Odt8v<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1665760461827067905?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 5, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Greg spent 12 seasons as an NHL assistant with the Canadian franchise <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/toronto-maple-leafs\/\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> and in 2 periods with the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nhl\/team\/new-york-islanders\/\">New York Islanders<\/a>. He also has experience as head coach but in AHL with Colorado Eagles and spent 6 campaigns as a collegiate manager at Northeastern.<\/p>\n<p>The general manager also shared that Cronin\u2019s experience will help him to progress with the young squad that the team has.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Anaheim Ducks have appointed experienced NHL assistant and AHL manager Greg Cronin to lead the franchise from the new season. Anaheim GM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":437341,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16894,17844],"news_category":[16709],"gn_keywords":[18808,19730,6811],"acf":{"announce":"The veteran will be the new manager of the team.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437340"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/437340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437340"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=437340"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=437340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}