Who Will the Predators, Maple Leafs, and Devils Hire as Their General Manager?
On the Monday edition of the 32 Thoughts Podcast, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet updated the general manager searches with the Nashville Predators, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New Jersey Devils.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Kyle Bukauskas: Alright, Nashville and their GM search.”
Elliotte Friedman: “Yeah, let’s go through these quickly. As I mentioned on Saturday night, Tom Fitzgerald has been added to the contender list there. I do believe also that Jeff Kealty, one of their current assistant GMs, did receive an in person interview as well. I believe the Predators have decided they are going to go external.
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And even though Fitzgerald was the captain there a long time ago, he’s been away for a while, so he is considered an external candidate. So I don’t think it’s going to be Kealty, but I heard he did well, and I think, I mean, who knows what the future holds here? But I’m curious to see if he doesn’t get this, if other organizations start calling and asking to talk to him. I already know he got an interview, and did quite well. I just don’t think the Predators want to go internal. I’m also curious to see here, if the Predators take a look at either Kevyn Adams or Brad Treliving.
They want an AGM, or GM that has recently served in the position, and the fact that they’ve gone to Fitzgerald, and I think he is a bit of a unique case, because he was their first captain, and I think he really wanted the opportunity to chase this job. The fact they’ve opened it to him, I do wonder if they talk to the other two guys.
I heard really good things about Bill Scott’s interview, and I wanted to correct a couple of things I’d said that Jamie Langenbrunner interviewed there. Someone had told me that was incorrect, and Scott White definitely spoke to them, but I’m not convinced he actually went in person. He’s from Dallas. So I wanted to mention those things.
Toronto, I think they’re going to have a bunch of interviews this week. As I said on Saturday night, I’m under the impression they are starting the search, looking at one person. And again, I think the key thing to remember here is that we don’t know what the structure of this front office is going to look like yet.
I think they’re going to find a person that they really like and then figure out how it’s all going to look. So I think that it’s possible that more than one person they interview ends up in their front office. But right now, the search is for one individual, and we’ll see where we go.
I also mentioned on Saturday night that we’ve talked about Sunny Mehta before. I think they’re going to ask for permission for more people in Florida, and I suspect one of those people is going to be Gregory Campbell, but we’ll see.
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The other one is New Jersey, and they’re going to start this week. And Sunny Mehta, I think for sure, John Chayka, for sure. I’m curious about Langenbrunner, and we’ll see where else we go there. But I think they’re really going to start this week. And the Devils are not doing a search firm. They are doing this one internally.”
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