New York Islanders Proceed Their Search, However With Main Caveat
Elliotte Friedman was on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio with Gord Stellick and Scott Laughlin on Wednesday and was requested concerning the New York Islanders and who the names are he’s listening to that would get the job. Friedman said the same old suspects, however added an attention-grabbing nugget concerning the place.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Gord Stellick: “So on the New York Islander facet, we’re listening to a variety of names. Have they whittled it right down to what, two or three?”
Elliotte Friedman: “I don’t know if I might say that Gordy. I believe that they’ve positively obtained interviews scheduled, or are doing interviews with (Marc) Bergevin, (Jarmo) Kekäläinen, I imagine Mathieu Darche, however I’ve heard they’ve additionally been asking about another completely different folks. I believe they’ve requested about, who’re some names that possibly we don’t know, new faces that they need to at the very least speak to. I at all times have a way in these searches, whether or not it’s coaches or GM Gord, that there’s at all times one thing we’re lacking. And, I’ve puzzled on this search if there’s a few of that.
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The one factor I ought to deliver up with the Islanders is that there’s been a variety of rumors about how the brand new job will work. Apparently, nicely, I’ve been advised, and apparently the candidates have been advised, that whoever the brand new particular person goes to run the hockey division the Islanders, whether or not they’re President of Hockey Ops, GM, or some mixture of each, they’ll be reporting on to the bulk proprietor, who Scott Malkin.
So, I simply needed to say that, as a result of there’s been a variety of rumors about how that’s all going to work.”
Buffalo Sabres Need To Add Somebody with Lou Lamoriello’s Resume
On Wednesday, Elliotte Friedman was on Sirius XM NHL Community Radio with Gord Stellick and Scott Laughlin and requested concerning the Buffalo Sabres and Lou Lamoriello. Friedman talked about the Sabres need to add a senior advisor that has an identical resume to Lamoriello.
NHLRumors.com Transcriptions
Scott Laughlin: “Yeah. So the image of Lou Lamoriello at Buffalo Niagara Airport, and he’s strolling round and, oh, by the best way, the Sabers nonetheless could be on the lookout for a senior VP. I assume Eric Staal was added not too long ago, proper, as an assistant to Kevyn Adams, a few guys who received a Cup with the Canes collectively again in 2006. Let me simply ask you this, then. If we’re unsure concerning the image and whether or not Lou was really in Western New York or not, are you of the idea that Terry Pegula is considering that okay, Eric Staal is one factor. Nonetheless, we nonetheless have to get any individual that’s a senior govt to work with and possibly simply even above a man like Kevyn Adams.”
Friedman: “I don’t know if this Lamoriello image is true. Like I mentioned, I didn’t even find out about it till this morning, proper? I assume I’ll look into it in the present day, but it surely’s positively true I reported final week that they have been bringing in Staal and that they’re on the lookout for a senior advisor to Adams, and they’re.
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They’re on the lookout for somebody who would positively match Lamoriello’s standards. Like the factors I heard was somebody who’s been within the chair earlier than, or somebody who’s been round a very long time. And so Lamoriello would match if that’s what Buffalo needed to do.”
NHLRumors.com Word: In response to Darren Dreger on the Buffalo entrance, Lamoriello was updating his Nexus on the airport. Nonetheless, he has reported that the Sabres could be serious about Lamoriello coming in. Would Adams be open to it, and does Lamoriello really need to be a senior advisor?
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It’s attention-grabbing that the brand new President of Hockey Ops or GM would report back to Scott Malkin relating to the New York Islanders. It seems he’s taking cost on the Island. Let’s see the place issues go, because the NHL Draft is arising shortly, and the workforce wants its hockey division in place by then.
So far as the candidates that no person is speaking about, NHLRumors.com has documented who they’re relating to the Islanders GM place.
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