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Iowa Wild Hires Former Anaheim Ducks Head Coach
DES MOINES, IOWA, JUN 23 – Greg Cronin, with 38 years of coaching experience and a .584 AHL winning percentage, replaces Brett McLean to lead the Iowa Wild after a disappointing 2024-25 season.
- Greg Cronin was named head coach of the Iowa Wild on June 23, 2025, replacing Brett McLean at the Wells Fargo Arena in Des Moines.
- Cronin was fired by the Anaheim Ducks in April 2025 after two seasons due to management electing to replace him with Joel Quenneville.
- Cronin brings nearly 40 years of coaching experience, including NHL assistant roles with the Islanders and Maple Leafs and head coaching in the AHL and NCAA.
- Matt Hendricks, the general manager of Iowa, expressed enthusiasm about having Greg lead the team, praising his detailed methods and deep knowledge of hockey.
- Cronin’s hiring suggests Iowa aims to improve after a 27-37-6-2 record in 2024-25 that caused them to miss the playoffs, continuing their development as Minnesota's AHL affiliate since 2013.
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Wild hire former Ducks HC Cronin to coach their AHL affiliate
(St. Paul, MN) — The Minnesota Wild are adding a seasoned coach to their organization. The team hired Greg Cronin to be the head coach of the AHL’s Iowa Wild next season. Cronin spent the last two seasons as the coach of the Anaheim Ducks. He led Anaheim to a 35-37-10 record last year. Cronin had a pair of stints as an assistant coach for the New York Islanders from 1998-2003 and 2014-18. Additionally, he was an assistant with the Toronto Maple …
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Greg Cronin named new Iowa Wild head coach
In terms of culture shock, Greg Cronin is in for a doozy, going from the sunshine, beaches and traffic of Southern California to the relatively quiet winter weather and flat landscape of Des Moines, Iowa. But on the hockey rink, the new head coach of the Iowa Wild — Minnesota’s top minor league team — should feel right at home. On Monday, the Wild made it official, naming Cronin, 62, their new head coach after he was dismissed from his NHL job r…
Greg Cronin Named Iowa Wild Head Coach
SAINT PAUL, Minn. \- Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin and Iowa Wild General Manager Matt Hendricks today announced the hiring of Greg Cronin as the Head Coach of the Iowa Wild, the team’s primary affiliate in the American Hockey League (AHL). "We are thrilled
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