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Evaluating every new head coach in the 2018-19 NHL season

On Sunday, Anaheim Ducks general manager Bob Murray fired his coach Randy Carlyle and replaced him with someone he knew quite well: Himself, jumping behind the bench for the first time in his career so he could feel the heat of this dumpster fire.

"I didn't feel it was right to bring anybody in at this point in time," Murray explained. "I had to be here.