Will Detroit look inside for the 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 would replace Steve Yzerman as General Manager.
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Mick Kern: “Helene St. James is taking some time with us. We appreciate it from the Detroit Free Press. Steve Yzerman, no longer the executive vice president and GM of the Detroit Red Wings, he’ll be senior advisor to the governor and CEO, Chris Ilitch. Now that the talk is who’s going to take over, and we were joking off air, Helene, that maybe it’s a Swedish guy because they did it in Toronto. Mats Sundin, up there, and the Sedins (Daneil and Henrik) over in Vancouver. And a team like Detroit, do they keep it in-house, or is it smart to go outside the family to get some fresh perspective on the organization?
Helene St. James: “Well, their Swedish guy is very happy in Sweden, Nicklas Lidstrom, so I don’t think he’s coming over. Shawn Horcoff, one of Steve’s assistant general managers, might be kind of an obvious choice from the standpoint that he was in charge of the AHL team and such.
Although to me, if it was going to be him, why not just name that today as well as such? I think they should. We already have a great hockey GM in Detroit: Manon Rhéaume. She has put together a fantastic Detroit PWHL team in three months. So her and Ellen Hughes. Her and Ellen Hughes. I’m telling you.”
Host: “Helene. That’s coming at some point. That’s going to happen at some point, and that’ll make shockwaves, and then we’ll realize it’s not that big of a deal. But I, I hope I’m 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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Host: “Steve Yzerman, no longer in charge of the Red Wings. What’s your take on that, Jim? Who do you think they’ll go to next? Peter was just talking about this. Do you think they stay in house because you see a lot of that, or at some point, you’ve got to bring in different people? Look at what Toronto just did, and they basically had a blood transfusion with everything, right? What do you think?”
Jim Biringer: “I think they should go the Nashville route, to be honest. Go outside the organization. I think you’ve got to bring in somebody, and you’ve got to hire the right guy. If it takes a while, then that is how long it takes to hire the right person.”
Host: “That’s easy to say. Nobody wants to hire the wrong guy, Jimmy.”
Biringer: “No, but if you do your due diligence, and I think if you look at the Nashville situation, I’m not sure, like Detroit has that Nick Saban guy inside, but if you had a guy like that who knows how to interview. Ask the right questions, know what you’re looking for in a winning organization, you can land a guy like Chris McFarland from Colorado, which was a great hire by Nashville.
That’s the direction Detroit agrees to go in. As much as I think Shawn Horcoff would be a great hire. I agree with Helene St. James, who I was listening to on the off the top of the show, if it was him, it would have been done today.”
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