Will Detroit look inward for its next general manager?
Helene St. James of the Detroit Free Press joined the SiriusXM NHL Network Radio Power Play Segment with Mick Kern on Wednesday and was asked who will replace Steve Yzerman as General Manager.
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Mick Kern: “Helene St. James is taking time with us. We appreciate this from the Detroit Free Press. Steve Yzerman, who is no longer vice president and GM of the Detroit Red Wings, will be a senior advisor to the governor and CEO, Chris Ilitch. Now that the talk is who’s going to take over, and we were kidding, maybe kidding, Hele. Toronto. Mats Sundin, up there, and the Sedins (Daneil and Henrik) over there in Vancouver.
Helene St. James: “Well, their Swedish guy is very happy in Sweden, Nicklas Lidstrom, so I don’t think he’s coming. Shawn Horcoff, one of Steve’s assistant general managers, might be kind of an obvious choice considering he was managing an AHL team and stuff.”
Although for me, if it was going to be him, why wouldn’t you just say that today like that? I think it should. We already have a great hockey GM in Detroit: Manon Rhéaume. He put together a great Detroit PWHL team in three months. So he and Ellen Hughes. He and Ellen Hughes. I tell you.”
Announcer: “Helene. That’s coming at some point. That’s going to happen at some point, and that’s going to shock the waves, and then we’ll see that it’s not that big of a deal. But I, I hope I’ll still be alive when that happens.”
Should Detroit follow the Nashville model and look outside the organization?
Jim Biringer of NHLRumors.com and Full Press NHL joined the SiriusXM NHL Network Radio Power Play Segment and was asked about the Detroit Red Wings: where do they go to replace Steve Yzerman as General Manager?
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Announcer: “Steve Yzerman, he’s not in charge of the Red Wings anymore. What do you think about that, Jim? Who do you think they’re going to be next? Peter was just talking about this. Do you think they stay in the house because you see a lot of that, or at some point, you have to bring in different people? Look at what Toronto just did, and they basically got a blood transfusion?”
Jim Biringer: “I think they should go the Nashville way, to be honest. Get out of the organization. I think you have to bring someone in, and you have to hire the right guy. If it takes a while, that’s how long it takes to hire the right guy.”
Host: “That’s easy to say. Nobody wants to hire the wrong guy, Jimmy.”
Biringer: “No, but if you do your best, and I think if you look at the situation in Nashville, I’m not sure, like Detroit you have that Nick Saban guy inside, but if you have a guy like that who knows how to negotiate. Ask the right questions, know what you want in a successful organization, you can get a guy like Chris McFarland from Colorado, where His Nash from Colorado.
That’s how Detroit agreed to go. As I think Shawn Horcoff would be a good hire. I agree with Helene St. James, I was listening to him from the top of the program, if it was him, it would have been done today.”
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