Blackhawks down to three GM candidates
With the completion of the search for a general manager, the Blackhawks made it clear yesterday with a statement on Twitter that a new GM will be hired soon if not in the next few weeks.
According to Elliote Friedman's "32 thoughts" podcast, Kyle Davidson, Mathieu Darche, and Jeff Greenberg are the final three candidates for the Blackhawks GM role. No Eric Tulsky, but also no Peter Chiarelli.
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Here is a brief summary of all three remaining candidates:
In his current role with Tampa Bay, Darche assists in all aspects of player personnel decisions, analytics, player development, contract preparation and negotiation, budgeting, scheduling and cap tracking, according to the team's bio page. He was also in the running for the GM positions in Montreal and Vancouver.
Davidson was hired by the Blackhawks as a hockey operations intern in 2010 and worked his way up to assistant GM of hockey administration before taking over as the interim GM in October. He hasn't had much time to show us what he's capable of as general manager but it's definitely not shocking hearing he's one of the finalists.
This is by a far the most surprising one, Jeff Greenberg. He currently works for the Chicago Cubs. He started in 2012 working with the organization and worked his way up to assistant general manager. He has a small hockey background and most surprisingly, his dad helped Mario Lemieux purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins.
