Anaheim Ducks Organization Ready to Take Flight in 2025-26 Season
As the 2024-25 NHL regular season came to an end, this simultaneously marked the start of some drastic changes for the Anaheim Ducks organization.
These changes were initiated with the announcement of “Honda Center Encore”. This is a new multi-year project and largest investment in Anaheim Ducks history estimated at 1 billion privately funded dollars.
This project will come with changes to the following:
New (5) five-story south entrance
Escalators
New food and beverage concepts and technology
A new all-inclusive club on the club level
Updated premium experiences
Three (3) new parking garages
Four (4) new entry plazas
Honda Center Encore mock-up (Honda Center via Facebook)
Secondly, since the end of the regular season this year, the Ducks have fired head coach Greg Cronin and have recently replaced him with Joel Quenneville, sixty-six (66) year-old former Chicago Blackhawks and Florida Panthers Coach. Quenneville comes into the Ducks organization with a staggering three (3) Stanley Cups achieved with the Blackhawks organization as a coach from 2010, 2013, and 2015.
The Ducks organization owner, Henry Samueli seems to be heavily targeting the playoffs for the upcoming 2025-26 season. Samueli has stated publicly, “we felt that we’ve reached a point where the rebuild is coming to and end, it really is, and it’s time to take a step to becoming a perennial playoff contender and eventually a Stanley Cup contender” (2025).
With this being said, other significant changes are said to be coming to the Ducks organization and how they spend their money to help achieve playoff contention. “If it means signing big-name free agents, go for it. We told him (Quenneville) you will not be constrained by the budget” (Samueli, H. 2025). One of many noteworthy players potentially becoming a free agent this summer is Mitch Marner of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Marner’s current contract with the Leafs expires on July 1, 2025.
With all of these drastic changes coming to the Ducks organization this off-season and into the coming year, will they be able to achieve a playoff spot in the 2025-26 season? Time will tell.
Anaheim Ducks coaching change announcement (Anaheim Ducks via Instagram)
References
Honda Center Facebook (2025). https://www.facebook.com/share/16Jk8mXajg/?mibextid=wwXIfr
Anaheim Ducks Twitter/X (2025). https://x.com/anaheimducks/status/1921248873873318048?s=46&t=BoOLtT1aUmHgr1zslkeD6A
