Confirmed with Link: Trotz to become GM

[Scoresberg]

Woah.. big news..

David Poile Announces Retirement as Predators President of Hockey Ops/GM

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[BigFatCat999]

annnnnd my underware is brown. Holy shit

 

[jumb0]

Woah baby

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Thank you Mr Poile for your unbelievable success and effort to make hockey work in Tennessee.

 

[Predsanddead24]

Somehow this is both shocking and unsurprising at the same time.

 

[Scoresberg]

Odd timing but I'm all for it.

Mad respect to Poile for all that he's done for the city and the organization.

 

[wmupreds]

Poile, for his faults, was an incredible and steady hand at GM here.

 

[PredsV82]

Thank you David Poile.
Cup Final
Presidents Cup
3 division titles
Never had a truly bad team, even in year 1.
And most importantly, kept us in Nashville, with a competitive team, all those years he had a shoestring budget.

Really wish we could have given him the Cup that would have been a fitting capstone for such an illustrious career.

Man literally gave an eye for this team.


Thank you David, have a long, healthy and happy retirement.

 

[maplepred]

Wow!!
I love this move!!
Oh man!!
Talk about passing the torch!!

Congrats on a great career and for all you have done for us since 1998 David. Pat on the back my friend.

Congrats Barry and welcome back!! Cannot wait to see what you can do with the team. Please fire Hynes first off hahaha

Exciting times!!

 

[BigFatCat999]

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Congrats to Poile on retirement, congrats to Trotz earning a GM position.

 

[Roman Yoshi]

Hate to be gleeful about someone losing their gig but good riddance Hynes.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

It's very weird timing to spit that out for a tight-lipped organization. But in a way, we all kind of knew it when Trotz moved back here.

I don't entirely have faith in him, just from his conservative coaching style. Although he was a very good coach. But I assume there is more going on in that ample cranium than we necessarily saw from his duties behind the bench. So let's see where that goes. A fresh outlook was definitely something a lot of people wanted.


I sure hope he, as one of the all-time great coaches in the NHL, can see through the Hynes facade, at least. This to me would be the greatest immediate positive outcome of the GM change.

 

[PredsV82]

f*** yeah!!!

 

[SI90]

Congrats to Barry. If you want Lambert he’s yours!!!

 

[BigFatCat999]

You have to assume Trotz is GMing and building the roster?

also Trotz wanted to GM and coach....Is he?

 

[cool beans]

Hate to be gleeful about someone losing their gig but good riddance Hynes.

Agreed.

But this is way better news than any trade deadline deals we could have hoped for.

Let the kids play out the rest of the year, see what we have, and then let Trotz call up Jared smithson, Joel ward, maybe Greg zanon and get this new team rolling

Damn I’m stoked

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

I wonder if Poile saw all the crap coming at him with the deadline and just said, f**k it, I'm tired of this. He built his team, he tweaked it, it still went to crap, every GM in the league came and offered him crap to fix it, so he just decided to put The Plan that was already in place on a little fast forward. He didn't want to be the guy who fired Hynes and tore things apart on the way out.

 

[NoNecksCurse]

Wow. My username has come full circle.

 

[PredsV82]

I'm guessing this has been in the works all year. Would explain why Trotz didnt take the Winnipeg job.

Guessing ownership went ahead and forced things because Poile was unwilling to fire Hynes.

 

[herzausstein]

Squeeeeeeeeeee


Sorry too much joy.

Bring up taylor then we can have a rookie nhl coach and rookie nhl gm.

 

[LCPreds]

Trotz as GM is not really what I was hoping for with a Poile departure. But I do like Trotz and hope he does a great job.

 

[Porter Stoutheart]

Squeeeeeeeeeee


Sorry too much joy.

Bring up taylor then we can have a rookie nhl coach and rookie nhl gm.

I don't think Trotz and Taylor have any history, though? So it may be an end to the Taylor dream.

 

[PredsV82]

Hate to be gleeful about someone losing their gig but good riddance Hynes.

In the same vein would like to believe this means Brian Poile will be moving on... will be interesting to see if he keeps Kealty and Nichol

 

[Scoresberg]

Squeeeeeeeeeee


Sorry too much joy.

Bring up taylor then we can have a rookie nhl coach and rookie nhl gm.

Should add that Gallagher said in the comments the change will most likely come in the summer.

I think that supports Taylor’s argument.