In addition Chris Patrick promoted to Associate GM, and Dick Patrick now Chairman.
[https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/capitals-promote-brian-maclellan-to-president-of-hockey-operations–general-manager/c-345683020?fbclid=IwAR0GlXxGYzXu3dR4exaMpNAZG4IHEh5Ck1WNDq3iBHjz2lO5D33CNwbzAH8](https://www.nhl.com/capitals/news/capitals-promote-brian-maclellan-to-president-of-hockey-operations–general-manager/c-345683020?fbclid=IwAR0GlXxGYzXu3dR4exaMpNAZG4IHEh5Ck1WNDq3iBHjz2lO5D33CNwbzAH8)
by No_Maintenance_9608
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BMP&GM
Good looks all around. Hopefully Chris Patrick gets some more say from this as well.
Pretty interesting to see the Caps explicitly unify the positions of GM and PoHO into a single person when the trend for much of the league has been to split those roles across 2 people. Based on the article’s description of what Chris Patrick’s responsibilities will be, it sure sounds like some of the day-to-day GMing job is going from MacLellan to him:
> In his previous role, Patrick also oversaw the club’s professional scouting staff and worked closely with the Hershey Bears, the Capitals AHL affiliate, who captured the 2023 Calder Cup championship. As associate general manager, Patrick will maintain his prior responsibilities as well as oversee the team’s analytics department, player contract negotiations, hockey operations staff, player personnel and budget and team scheduling issues.
This article has more background on this move https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2023/08/28/brian-maclellan-washington-capitals/
>the Capitals are not only extending MacLellanās contract ā which was due to end after this season ā but are promoting him to president of hockey operations and general manager. The move, which was announced Monday, is for an undisclosed number of years and will allow longtime team president Dick Patrick, 76, to slide into a less active role as the franchiseās chairman. Perhaps more importantly, the club also will promote Patrickās son Chris, 47, to associate general manager, potentially creating a line of succession when MacLellan ultimately retires.
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>At some point, improving the roster wonāt be MacLellanās job anymore. It sounds very much as though it could fall to the younger Patrick, who played at Princeton and worked on Wall Street before McPhee hired him in 2008. MacLellan has been impressed with how Patrick has developed in his role overseeing pro scouting and the clubās top minor league team in Hershey, which won the American Hockey League championship this spring.
So basically Dick Patrick is moving to a less demanding role (I’d love for them to define what “Chairman of the Capitals” actually does), Brian MacLellan is taking a half-step towards eventually turning the GM job over to someone else, and Chris Patrick is the heir apparent for that GM job when the time comes.
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holy w. Bmac gonna cook even harder now