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A former Ducks head coach changed addresses yet again Monday and on Wednesday signs pointed to another one of their current defensemen doing the same this summer.<\/p>\n

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Greg Cronin and former Ducks forward V\u00e1clav Prospal were announced as additions to the overhauled St. Louis Blues staff under Jim Montgomery. Additionally, Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman posited during a radio segment that, just a day after John Carlson was reportedly moving on from the Ducks, fellow veteran right defenseman Jacob Trouba will likely join him in the free-agent market.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarlson\u2019s hitting the market, and it sounds like [Jacob] Trouba\u2019s hitting the market too,\u201d Friedman said during a radio segment.<\/p>\n

Not only were Carlson and Trouba leaning toward departures, but team captain Radko Gudas is an unrestricted free agent, leaving the right side of the Ducks\u2019 defense in flux if not disarray.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the addition of Cronin to Montgomery\u2019s crew was a stabilizing element for St. Louis, Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

\u201cStarting the staff out, once we got Greg in place, it really made the other dominoes fall,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cGreg Cronin is an absolute home run, He can manage a lot of work and he can handle a lot of people.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cronin coached the Ducks for the 2023-24 and 2024-25 seasons, catapulting their total in the standings 21 points year-over-year, the biggest improvement in the West. He inherited a roster deep in the throes of a rebuild that was undermanned and underfinanced, with his clubs performing poorly on special teams and often territorially as well.<\/p>\n

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In between his time in Anaheim and his hire in St. Louis, Cronin coached the American Hockey League\u2019s Iowa Wild, a job he took much more to fuel his passion for coaching than for monetary reasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m just grateful for the opportunity to take the lessons I learned in Anaheim and in Iowa and share them to support the players and coaches in St. Louis,\u201d Cronin said via text.<\/p>\n

Montgomery said he sought a coach with teaching skills \u2013 something he said Cronin displayed across nearly 40 years at every level from junior hockey to the NHL \u2013 and \u201ca defensive mindset.\u201d Montgomery had an experienced team in Boston, where he nearly brought Cronin aboard. Though he still has some vets in St. Louis, including former Ducks mainstay Cam Fowler, the roster is trending younger, meaning Cronin\u2019s patience and persistence would be \u201csomething that was invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe started the infancy of the (U.S.) national (development) program that\u2019s had the 16- and 17-year-olds that have gone to become so many great players like (Jack) Eichel, (Auston) Matthews, the Hughes brothers, all three of them went through there. Him and Jeff Jackson started that program, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m talking about, the teaching skills,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThen he spent so many years in the American league as a head coach where he\u2019s developed really good young players and made them valuable players for NHL teams, and as an assistant coach he\u2019s done that,\u201d Montgomery continued. \u201cMost importantly, his experience in Anaheim, having worked with talented young players on a team that was in a complete rebuild and helping them find the habits and details that help players become not only good offensive players but excellent 200-foot players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Though they hadn\u2019t worked together previously, Cronin and Montgomery have a longstanding camaraderie as part of the coaching fraternity. Cronin even coached Montgomery as a player at the University of Maine, much as he had coached his predecessor in Anaheim, Dallas Eakins, as an assistant with the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s worked with everybody, so I know I\u2019m getting someone that really teaches,\u201d Montgomery said.<\/p>\n

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