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Blackhawks Exec Front-runner for Winnipeg GM Job
by Alanah McGinley on 06/03/11 at 07:19 PM ET
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From Tim Campbell at Winnipeg Free Press:
A front-runner has emerged to be the general manager of Winnipeg’s new NHL team.
Chicago Blackhawks assistant GM and senior director of hockey operations Kevin Cheveldayoff is hot on the radar of Canada’s seventh NHL franchise.
After a Thursday meeting with True North chairman Mark Chipman and hockey senior vice-president Craig Heisinger at the NHL’s scouting combine, current Atlanta Thrashers GM Rick Dudley does not appear to be a slam-dunk to move with the club to Winnipeg. Nobody at True North will talk about it and there are strong rumblings here that Dudley will either be re-assigned or dismissed, that True North wants to go in another direction with its own people.
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*h/t to Elliotte Friedman
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I would be very happy to see Tim Cheveldae’s Russian cousin, Kevin, get the Winnipeg gig.
Pozdravleniya, Cousin Kevin!
Posted by Ajax19 on 06/03/11 at 07:41 PM ET