It didn’t take too long for Trent Mann to find his next organization. The Penguins announced today that they’ve named Mann as a Player Development and Scouting Advisor.
Mann had been with Ottawa since 2011 in a few different roles including their Director of Amateur Scouting for the past six seasons. The Sens certainly had some strong draft picks during that stretch including Brady Tkachuk, Tim Stutzle, Jake Sanderson, and Shane Pinto although it hasn’t been a perfect stretch with Tyler Boucher’s stock dropping lately while Lassi Thomson, a former first-rounder himself, is going on waivers later today. Mann, who also served as assistant GM for the Sens last season, was relieved of his duties in mid-July.
Now, he joins a Pittsburgh front office that has undergone some significant restructuring under Kyle Dubas. While he’ll hold an advisory role for the time being, with a dozen seasons under his belt in the scouting ranks, it stands to reason that he should assume a bigger role with the club before too long.
The hire also adds a small new wrinkle to the cross-state rivalry between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia as Mann’s son, defenseman Matteo Mann, was drafted by the Flyers in the seventh round back in June.