{"id":394085,"date":"2026-01-06T19:19:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/394085\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T19:19:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T19:19:10","slug":"columbus-blue-jackets-add-former-toronto-maple-leafs-executive-laurence-gilman-to-front-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/394085\/","title":{"rendered":"Columbus Blue Jackets add former Toronto Maple Leafs executive Laurence Gilman to front office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a> have named Laurence Gilman vice president of hockey operations, the team announced Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He will assist Waddell in all aspects of hockey operations, according to the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gilman most recently spent six seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/toronto-maple-leafs\/10\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a> organization from 2018 to 2024. He\u2019s also worked for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/winnipeg-jets\/52\" target=\"_blank\">Winnipeg Jets<\/a>\/Arizona Coyotes franchise and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI have known Laurence for many years, and I am very excited to welcome him to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/columbus-blue-jackets\/29\" target=\"_blank\">Columbus Blue Jackets<\/a>,\u201d said Blue Jackets team president Don Waddell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bluejackets\/news\/blue-jackets-laurence-gilman-vice-president-hockey-operations?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=tw&amp;utm_campaign=release&amp;utm_content=gilman\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/bluejackets\/news\/blue-jackets-laurence-gilman-vice-president-hockey-operations?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=tw&amp;utm_campaign=release&amp;utm_content=gilman\">in a news release<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe is extremely knowledgeable about all facets of team and league operations, and his experience and personality will be a great addition to our hockey operations staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m very excited to join the Blue Jackets and want to thank Don for the opportunity,\u201d said Gilman in the same release. \u201cColumbus is a terrific market with great fans, and I look forward to working with everyone there and doing everything I can to help this team have success on the ice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Blue Jackets head into play Tuesday 18-16-7 with 43 points in 41 games this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Columbus Blue Jackets have named Laurence Gilman vice president of hockey operations, the team announced Tuesday morning.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[4759,32986,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-394085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-columbus-blue-jackets-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-29","10":"tag-hockey","11":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115849774282486927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}