The Capitals could have a brand new common supervisor subsequent season for the primary time in a decade. Chris Patrick is being promoted to the function, in addition to senior VP of hockey operations, after serving as an assistant GM for the previous three seasons, studies Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman. He’s changing Brian MacLellan, who stays with the group as their president of hockey operations. The Capitals introduced the transfer shortly thereafter.
The GM/POHO setup is turning into more and more frequent as groups look to present exterior and inner up-and-coming choices an opportunity within the GM function. They’ll function equally to Patrik Allvin (GM) and Jim Rutherford (POHO) with the Canucks, the previous of which completed as a finalist for this yr’s Jim Gregory Normal Supervisor of the Yr Award.
This was the logical subsequent step after the Capitals added the POHO tag to MacLellan’s title final August, together with giving Patrick a small promotion from assistant to affiliate GM. Patrick has been with Washington because the 2009-10 season, first becoming a member of as a professional scout. He was named its director of minor league operations in 2015-16 and was promoted additional as its director of participant personnel for the next season. That’s the place he remained till the AGM promotion in 2021.
Patrick, 48, has racked up fairly the popularity over the previous few seasons, with the AHL’s Hershey Bears falling beneath his purview as AGM. Beneath Patrick, the Bears — already essentially the most profitable franchise in AHL historical past — have gained back-to-back Calder Cups and had 53 wins final season, one wanting the workforce document.
“We’re thrilled to announce Chris’ promotion to common supervisor,” Caps proprietor Ted Leonsis mentioned. “Chris is a devoted and hard-working govt who’s totally ready for this subsequent step in his profession. His imaginative and prescient, intensive expertise, hockey acumen, and participant analysis make him the proper chief to drive our workforce ahead. We’re assured that he’ll thrive on this new function.”
MacLellan, in the meantime, graduates to a job with barely much less day-to-day duty after spending 10 seasons as Washington’s GM. He constructed the workforce’s solely Stanley Cup-winning roster in 2018 and has been with the Caps for over 20 years, first becoming a member of as a scout in 2000-01. The 65-year-old will stay with the one NHL entrance workplace he’s ever identified.
