What's old is new again in Anaheim.
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The Ducks made a splash on Tuesday by announcing the return of Randy Carlyle as the team's head coach. For the 60-year-old it marks the second time he has manned the head coaching position in Anaheim, doing so from 2005-12.
While the rehire might come as a surprise - given his firing after just 24 games in 2012 - it's not first time a team has elected to reintroduce a former coach.
Here are five other coaches that saw teams bring them on for more than one tenure:
Paul Maurice
Winnipeg Jets head coach Paul Maurice currently stands as the Carolina Hurricanes' all-time wins leader.
The 49-year-old coached the club for 13 years, but not all in succession. Maurice joined the franchise in 1995 when it was the Hartford Whalers, remaining with the club after its move to Carolina in 1997.
He would remain with the team until 2004 - helping the team reach the Stanley Cup Final in 2002 - when he was fired after 30 games. After stints in the American Hockey League and two seasons with the Toronto Maple Leafs, he rejoined the Hurricanes for the 2008-09 season.
He would remain until the 2011-12 campaign where - after another slow start - Maurice was canned after going 8-13-4 in 25 games.
Jacques Lemaire
Jacques Lemaire's story with the New Jersey Devils is one of trying to rekindle what was once great.
Lemaire coached five seasons with the Devils from 1993-98, capturing the Stanley Cup during the lockout-shortened 1994-95 season. Lemaire was let go by the Devils after his division-winning club bowed out in the first round in 1998.
After joining the Minnesota Wild for eight years until 2009, he rejoined the Devils for the 2009-10 season. Lemaire would lead the team to a first-place finish in his first year, retiring thereafter. However, just when you thought he was out, they bring him right back in.
Lemaire took over the following season for a struggling John MacLean for the remaining 49 games, where he would go an impressive 29-17-3 before finally calling it a career.
John Tortorella
It might not be well known, but John Tortorella's stint with the New York Rangers from 2008-13 wasn't his first.
John Muckler was fired with just four games remaining in the 1999-00 season as the club failed to make the playoffs for the third straight year.
In firing Muckler, the team named Tortorella interim head coach for the remaining four games. Ron Lowe was hired as the team's head coach the next year and Tortorella joined the Tampa Bay Lightning midway through the season.
He would return to the Rangers in 2009, replacing Tom Renney and we all know how that went.
Punch Imlach
Punch Imlach coached the Toronto Maple Leafs through arguably their most successful seasons in franchise history.
Imlach joined the club at 40 years old for the 1958-59 season and three years later lead the club to its first of three consecutive Stanley Cup victories.
He would collect his fourth Cup - and the franchise's last - in 1967. But after missing the postseason the following year and being swept in the first round after that, his reign with the club was over.
That was until 11 years later when he rejoined the Maple Leafs as the club's new general manager. Imlach would hire Floyd Smith who - after 68 games - was injured in a car accident. Dick Duff served as interim head coach for two games before Imlach took over for the final 10 contests, going 5-5-0.
Michel Therrien
Montreal Canadiens fans know this song and dance all too well.
Michel Therrien enjoyed his first three seasons as a head coach in the league with the Canadiens from 2000-03.
After being let go midway through the 2003 season, he joined the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2005 - Sidney Crosby's rookie year - for four seasons.
After failing to get the team no further than the Eastern Conference Final in 2008, he was fired midway through the 2009 season - the season the club captured its third Stanley Cup.
Therrien was reintroduced as the Canadiens head coach ahead of the 2012-13 lockout-shortened season and it's where he remains... for now.
