Confirmed with Link: AGM Scott Mellanby resigns

[Fenwick McCorsi]

Renaud confirmed at the intermission the new GM will absolutely be French speaking. Tender and Lapierre saying they think it'll be a younger guy like Darche with guys like Gorton helping.

 

[Chili]

Renaud confirmed at the intermission the new GM will absolutely be French speaking. Tender and Lapierre saying they think it'll be a younger guy like Darche with guys like Gorton helping.

Sounds like Gorton could fill the overseer role that Rick Dudley filled for Marc Bergevin.

 

[dinodebino]

Not sure why his name gets that much attention.

He wasn't doing/saying much on RDS/L'Antichambre, outside of being the biggest Carey Price cheerleader.

He did not fit there. He’s got twice Bergevin’s brain.

 

[Treb]

Remember when Molson said that the next 3-8 years would be amazing lol.

To be fair, last year was the best year we had since 1993.

 

[MarkovsKnee]

Changes are coming.

Mellanby knows what's going on. He knows MB is on his way out. And his entire staff will also be on their way out, too.

Let's f***ing hope so.

 

[Surfer72]

What did Scott mellanby do exactly and will replacing him change things?

 

[OldCraig71]

To be fair, last year was the best year we had since 1993.

Special circumstances though, it was a fun run though but would not have been possible in regular divisional alignment.

 

[Rapala]

I'll need a new Avy soon!

 

[donghabs98]

Burn it all to the ground I say! No stone should be left unturned

 

[SB164]

 

[MasterD]

To be fair, last year was the best year we had since 1993.

No. We sucked all season long, were worse with the new coach than with the previous one, and were 1 game away from being kicked out in the first round. Only a meeting held by the vets (Perry) manches to get the team going for the playoffs. Same that was in a session where we faced bad teams more often...

We got further down the playoffs, true, but in a regular season we wouldn't even have made the playoffs.

Team was much better around 2008-2009...

 

[WeThreeKings]

Very happy they didn't go with an internal.

I am concerned they won't fire Timmins since he has survived so many regime changes already.

 

[jaffy27]

There is a thread already for that info.

Shit is happening and it's about time.

With Gorton as your President or director of whatever, he can hire Darche and work in tandem with him.

Gorton is a very good GM and talent evaluator, it's kind of a way to circumvent your french speaking GM criteria where the actual GM speaks french but the one calling the shots is an anglo.

It has the vibes of Musai Ujiri of the Raptors or Mark Shapiro with the Jays, they running the show without having the GM tag.

 

[jaffy27]

Maybe he is just as disgusted as we are by the product on the ice

funny thing is it's his own product lol

 

[jaffy27]

Renaud says more is coming tonight.

so nothing is happening then lol

 

[jaffy27]

When’s Timmins going to resign?

I'm thinking he goes after the draft.

Le gros menage will be done over the summer, starting with Silver in his Hair, they gonna pay him cash to GTFO

 

[angusyoung]

Special circumstances though, it was a fun run though but would not have been possible in regular divisional alignment.

Who knows ? it's possible but completely unprovable speculation.

 

[Scintillating10]

Renaud confirmed at the intermission the new GM will absolutely be French speaking. Tender and Lapierre saying they think it'll be a younger guy like Darche with guys like Gorton helping.

Tampa wouldn't let Darche go mid season?

 

[WeThreeKings]

Tampa wouldn't let Darche go mid season?

Most teams don't block promotions, the only one we would have a hard time is Martin Madden Jr but he wasn't named interim so they may allow it.

 

[Scintillating10]

Most teams don't block promotions, the only one we would have a hard time is Martin Madden Jr but he wasn't named interim so they may allow it.

Not mid season though

 

[Scintillating10]

Renaud confirmed at the intermission the new GM will absolutely be French speaking. Tender and Lapierre saying they think it'll be a younger guy like Darche with guys like Gorton helping.

French? Is that why Mellanby was rejected as next GM?

 

[WeThreeKings]

Not mid season though

If they're going to make a hire mid season it cam happen. It's early enough, there's no trade deadline looming.

 

[Harry Kakalovich]

Makes sense. He'll have plenty of job offers.

 

[Habricot]

This means though that they have interviewed other candidates that have better fit then him. Looking forward to how this turns arround and if it does.

 

[Adam Michaels]

Mellanby may end up as Benning's replacement in Vancouver. He did work with the Canucks when he began his career in Hockey Ops.

Also, even though he was Assistant GM with the Habs, he lived and worked from St. Louis, where he lives (not uncommon for front office guys to live in different cities. They still travel everywhere).