11:17AM: Montreal Canadiens owner Geoff Molson said on Monday that Jeff Gorton’s deal to become Executive VP or Hockey Operations is “long-term.”
The announcement of Gorton was buried within Montreal’s press release announcing the firing of GM Marc Bergevin. It was below the paragraph indicating that the next GM for Montreal will be bilingual.
The press release also noted that Montreal had “retained the services” of Gorton.
3:28PM: The Montreal Canadiens have “retained the services” of Jeff Gorton to be Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations.
Montreal just fired GM Marc Bergevin as well as assistant GM Trevor Timmins.
Gorton’s role will be to “assure the continuity of the day-to-day hockey operations” while they search for a GM that will be able “to communicate with fans in both French and English.”
11/28/21 | 10:34AM: Darren Dreger says that “all signs indicate” that Jeff Gorton will be leading Hockey Ops for Montreal.
11/27/21 | 8:10PM: Darren Dreger says that Gorton is being targeted for a “very substantial hockey operations position.”
Pierre LeBrun says that Mellanby resigned after conversations first about becoming GM and then President of Hockey Ops and then being told he wasn’t getting the positions. (LeBrun)
7PM: On the NHL Network on Tuesday, former Rangers GM Jeff Gorton said the following about the Rangers:
On The Jeff Marek show earlier today, Elliotte Friedman spoke about the Blackhawks, their open GM position and Jeff Gorton.
Friedman said “The GM candidate who was pointed out to me today that makes a lot of sense was Jeff Gorton. The reason was that he kind of stewarded the Rangers through their kind of fast rebuild and it wasn’t supposed to be as quick as it was, they got some lottery luck and he made some good moves and the other thing is, I don’t know what is going to happen in the future with Kane and Toews, I don’t know where this is going to go, but he’s the guy who dealt with the departure of Henrik Lundqvist, so he’s kind of gone through that. Jeff Gorton worked in a situation in New York where he had John Davidson above him, he’s kind of used to that structure. I do think that Jeff Gorton will be a serious contender there.” (Jeff Marek Show)
Former Rangers GM Jeff Gorton was on the Cam and Strick Podcast and said the following: