NHL.com 30 in 30: Inside Look at the Ducks

By Abbey Mastracco NHL.com Correspondent

NHL.com is providing in-depth roster, prospect and fantasy analysis for each of its 30 teams throughout August. Today, the Anaheim Ducks.

The Ducks are hopeful coach Randy Carlyle can re-create some of the magic from his first stint as their coach.

Carlyle, who won the Stanley Cup with the Ducks in 2007 and is their all-time winningest coach (230-155-49), was hired on June 14, more than six weeks after Bruce Boudreau was fired.

A new coach typically brings big changes, but it’s not so much change that Ducks general manager Bob Murray wants to see, but rather accountability. He’s hoping that Carlyle, a highly respected coach, can inspire that in Anaheim’s leadership core, which showed little of it when the Nashville Predators eliminated the Ducks in the Western Conference First Round of the 2016 Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Following the firing of Boudreau, Murray issued a stern warning to the Ducks’ leaders, saying they needed to take responsibility for poor play in a disappointing season that ended with a fourth straight Game 7 loss at home.

“He will hold people in the organization accountable,” Murray said after he hired Carlyle. “And that’s just not on the ice during games; he’ll do it in practice, he’ll do it in the weight room, he’ll hold everybody accountable.”

The Ducks know the window for winning the Stanley Cup with aging players …

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