The Pittsburgh Penguins announced Thursday that they’ve removed the interim tag from Kyle Dubas’ role as general manager, signifying they’ll continue with him serving as GM and president of hockey operations for the foreseeable future.
Pittsburgh also announced four other promotions, naming Andy Saucier their director of professional personnel, Erik Heasley their director of minor league and amateur scouting operations, and confirming the promotions of Amanda Kessel and Trevor Daley as special assistants to Dubas.
“At this time, I feel it is best for continuity that I formally continue in both roles as President and General Manager in the hockey operations department,” Dubas said, justifying removing the interim tag from his role. Pittsburgh brought Dubas in solely as the president of hockey operations when they hired him in June and initially aimed to name a separate general manager to work under Dubas later this summer. Dubas left the door open in his statement today on bringing a different general manager in down the line, but no such move will be made before next summer.
Saucier’s promotion is well-deserved, to say the least. He’s been in the Penguins organization for more than a decade, initially joining the AHL’s Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins as a video coach in 2010. After two seasons in the minors, he was promoted to Pittsburgh to serve in the same role, which he held until 2022. Last offseason, Pittsburgh promoted Saucier to hockey operations analyst. He’s now been promoted yet again to a new role under Dubas, which did not previously exist in the organization.
Heasley has also spent the entirety of his management career in the Penguins organization and had served as the GM of Wilkes-Barre/Scranton for parts of the last three seasons. Now, he’ll oversee the entire scouting department as it relates to AHL, ECHL, and junior-league talents.
Daley had spent the past three seasons in a senior advisor role for Pittsburgh, but he and Kessel (whose promotion was previously reported) will now work directly with Dubas in roles similar to what Jason Spezza had previously held when the two worked together last season with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Emperor Penguin Kyle! LOL!
Now that the Pens have removed the interm tag, how about TR remove the Toronto tag from Dubas so articles about him stop appearing in the Leafs feed.
It would appear that you got it fixed
Good. That’s kinda the point of hiring him.
Dubas names Dubas GM
“I’m shocked, shocked, to find that Dubas is going to be both President and GM here”.
What a joke.
This was the plan from the beginning, STOP the the patronizing!!!!!! Personally I believe that Dubas is the right guy to fail in Pittsburgh just as he did in Toronto and in fact he got off to a wonderful start by locking up Jarry longterm.
Yes… obviously this was the plan from the beginning and the joke is Dubas acting like there was an option for anything else… which he continues to do.
What’s patronizing is this load of crap Dubas keeps dishing out.
I think we now know why Shanny booted his ass. He wanted the whole show.
How could he have the whole show if Shanahan was his boss and could fire him?
Having trouble with reading comprehension, puppy dog? The OP obviously means Shanahan is the one who wants the whole show. Is English your first language?