The Chicago Blackhawks relieved Luke Richardson of his duties and have named Rockford IceHogs head coach Anders Sorensen the NHL membership’s interim head coach.
Mark Eaton, the Blackhawks’ assistant basic supervisor overseeing participant growth, will assume interim head teaching duties in Rockford.
Sorensen was within the midst of his fourth season as head coach of the IceHogs, the place he has compiled a document of 117-89-16-7. He took over the Rockford bench on Nov. 6, 2021, when Derek King was promoted to Chicago.
Sorensen served as an assistant with Rockford from 2019 to 2021, and was beforehand a growth coach for the Blackhawks group.
Previous to working becoming a member of the Blackhawks, the Sodertalje, Sweden, native spent the 2014-15 season as head coach of the Chicago Mission U16 membership and the 2010-11 season as head coach of the Chicago Mission U18 crew. Sorensen was additionally beforehand an assistant coach with Swedish membership Sodertalje SK from 2011-13, earlier than taking on as interim head coach in October 2013.
Eaton joined the Blackhawks entrance workplace in 2014 as a participant growth coach and was named director of participant growth in 2017. The native of Wilmington, Del., Eaton performed 15 skilled seasons as a defenseman, together with 650 video games within the NHL with Philadelphia, Nashville, Pittsburgh and the New York Islanders. He received a Stanley Cup championship with the Penguins in 2009.
Eaton additionally skated in 159 video games within the AHL with the Philadelphia Phantoms, Grand Rapids Griffins and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins. He was an AHL All-Star in 2000.
