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 acknowledged the standard 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 number of names. Have they whittled it right down to what, two or three?”
Elliotte Friedman: “I don’t know if I’d say that Gordy. I feel that they’ve positively obtained interviews scheduled, or are doing interviews with (Marc) Bergevin, (Jarmo) Kekäläinen, I consider Mathieu Darche, however I’ve heard they’ve additionally been asking about another totally different individuals. I feel they’ve requested about, who’re some names that perhaps we don’t know, new faces that they wish to a minimum of discuss to. I all the time have a way in these searches, whether or not it’s coaches or GM Gord, that there’s all the time one thing we’re lacking. And, I’ve questioned 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 number of rumors about how the brand new job will work. Apparently, properly, I’ve been instructed, and apparently the candidates have been instructed, that whoever the brand new individual 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 wished to say that, as a result of there’s been a number 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 wish to add a senior advisor that has the same 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 is perhaps searching for a senior VP. I suppose Eric Staal was added not too long ago, proper, as an assistant to Kevyn Adams, a few guys who gained 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. Nevertheless, we nonetheless have to get any person that’s a senior govt to work with and perhaps 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 suppose I’ll look into it right this moment, nevertheless it’s positively true I reported final week that they had been bringing in Staal and that they’re searching for a senior advisor to Adams, and they’re.
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They’re searching 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 wished to do.”
NHLRumors.com Word: In line with Darren Dreger on the Buffalo entrance, Lamoriello was updating his Nexus on the airport. Nevertheless, he has reported that the Sabres could be occupied with Lamoriello coming in. Would Adams be open to it, and does Lamoriello really wish 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 takes cost on the Island. Let’s see the place issues go, because the NHL Draft is arising shortly, and the staff wants its hockey division in place by then.
So far as the candidates that no one is speaking about, NHLRumors.com has documented who they’re in terms of the Islanders GM place.
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