Minnesota Wild General Manager Candidates

by nathaneide on Apr 16, 2009 10:03 PM CDT Comment 6 comments

Well now. That's finally over. Now begins the process of hiring a GM first, then allowing that GM to hire "his guy" for the coaching job.

We might as well evaluate potential general manager candidates in addition to coaching candidates. It also helps, because it will likely remove our need to analyze Mario Tremblay and Kevin Constantine, as I'm thinking the new GM will want to clean house (hopefully this means dumping Tom Lynn and Chris Snow also).

So, without further ado, here are the general manager candidates we will look at over the next few days:

Stan Bowman (assistant GM - Chicago Blackhawks)
David Poile (current GM - Nashville Predators)
Paul Fenton (assistant GM - Nashville Predators)
Tom Lynn (assistant GM - Minnesota Wild)
Chuck Fletcher (assistant GM - Pittsburgh Penguins)
Jay Feaster (former GM - Tampa Bay Lightning)
Pat Quinn (former GM - Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks)
Doug MacLean (former GM - Columbus Blue Jackets)
Rick Dudley (assistant GM - Chicago Blackhawks)
Neil Smith (former GM - New York Rangers)

Who else do you think has a reasonable shot at this job?

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David McNab

Former assistant GM of the Anahiem Ducks and current VP of Hockey Operations. Info Link @ Ducks.nhl.com. He is a former Badger and his wife is from the Twin Cities area.

by redheadzeb on Apr 16, 2009 10:35 PM CDT reply actions

Gretzky for GM

Liepold should talk to Gretsky. His son plays here in MN, and he would enjoy the atmosphere better than in Phonix where the ice melts and the coyotes dont have a chance!

by freddy5 on Apr 17, 2009 12:26 AM CDT reply actions

No way.

Gretzky is a whiner. No w

http://www.hockeywilderness.com

by BReynolds on Apr 18, 2009 7:23 PM CDT up reply actions

Gretzke is intriguing

because of the name, but I am not so sure he would make a great GM. Pheonix hasn’t done a lot with him there for years. I could be wrong though.

I do want someone with a strong scouting background. we need some one who will revamp our scouting department so we can start drafting impact guys again. like we used to in the early days of the team, ie before 2003.

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by the Real Thor on Apr 17, 2009 6:40 AM CDT reply actions

Poile no, Fenton maybe

The Tennessean clarified yesterday that in the purchase agreement from the Predators sale, Craig Leipold agreed not to offer Poile a job with any other NHL team. So he’s out, but assistant GM Paul Fenton would presumably make a good candidate.

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by Dirk Hoag on Apr 17, 2009 8:43 AM CDT reply actions