Randy Carlyle either shook hands with or hugged the first 10 people he encountered on his first day back at work at the Honda Center -- beginning with the guy handling security at the door -- he because they were each friends or co-workers he’d known for years.
That’s what happens when your coaching career takes you full circle.
Roughly 11 years and seven weeks ago Carlyle was hired by then-GM Brian Burke to coach the Anaheim Ducks.
To plot Carlyle’s coaching path since then on a chart would involves lots of steep lines upward along with the odd sharp line downward.