IRVINE, Calif. – Finally filling out their roles behind the bench alongside new head coach Joel Quenneville, the Anaheim Ducks announced the signing of assistant coaches Jay Woodcroft, Ryan McGill and Andrew Brewer on Tuesday.

Tim Army (assistant), Peter Budaj (goaltending) and Austin Violette (video coordinator) carry over from previous seasons. Dave Manson and Michael Babcock join Matt McIlvane ’s staff as assistants in AHL San Diego.

Woodcroft will run Anaheim’s power play for Quenneville, after initially being one of the candidates interviewed for the Ducks’ head coaching position in the spring.

Woodcroft’s signing could not be made official until his previous deal as the Edmonton Oilers head coach expired on July 1.

“What I liked about (Woodcroft in the head coach interview was) how he teaches progressions,” Ducks general manager Pat Verbeek said at Great Park Ice on Tuesday. “Whether it’s the breakouts, whether it’s the plays that get made in the zone to create chances. I really loved that part about his coaching and his presentation. That was really good from my standpoint, it was really good to know.”

Anaheim’s power play was dead last in the NHL last season at 11.8%, have been a bottom-three unit in three of the last five seasons and are second-to-last in the league over the last five seasons combined.

As an assistant coach for Todd McLellan, the San Jose Sharks posted the league’s second-best power play from 2008-2015, producing at a 21.4% clip. When McLellan was let go from San Jose, Woodcroft followed him to Edmonton, again as an assistant. Over three seasons as an Oilers assistant, their power play was middle of the pack at 18.8%.

Woodcroft then went down to the AHL in 2018 as the head coach of the Oilers farm team in Bakersfield, before Woodcroft was named interim head coach of the Oilers late in 2022.

Woodcroft was only the top man in Edmonton from February 2022 to November 2023, but in his one full season as the Oilers head coach, Edmonton’s power play was the league’s best at 32.4%, albeit with the help of some guys named Connor McDavid and Leon Draisaitl.

Woodcroft was last behind the bench as an assistant for Team Canada at the 2024 IIHF World Championships.

McGill will run the penalty kill in Anaheim after doing the same with the New Jersey Devils for the last three seasons. This season, the Devils’ iced the second-best penalty kill in the league with an 82.7% kill rate after finishing 10th the year before and fourth the year prior to that.

Anaheim was 29th in the league on the penalty kill last season and last in the league over the previous three-year stretch.

“If we get anywhere close to (McGill’s previous success), I’ll be ecstatic,” Verbeek said. “We really focused on quality coaching. I feel very fortunate that we got the guys that we got. Mixed in with Joel, I think we’ve got an outstanding staff.”

Brewer rounds out Quenneville’s staff with a background as a more tech-savvy hockey coach.

Brewer was a video coach for Quenneville in Florida after five seasons as an assistant coach with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He was most recently an assistant coach for AHL Utica in 2022-23.

On the San Diego staff, Babcock and Manson have familial Anaheim Ducks connections. Michael Babcock is the son of former Mighty Ducks head coach Mike Babcock, and Dave Manson is the father of former Ducks defenseman Josh Manson.