{"id":512862,"date":"2026-03-20T08:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/512862\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:18:22","slug":"predators-have-interviewed-marc-bergevin-brett-peterson-for-gm-position-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/512862\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators Have Interviewed Marc Bergevin, Brett Peterson For GM Position \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Predators have a general manager vacancy \u2013 well, kind of. While incumbent Barry Trotz announced his resignation from the role<\/a> over six weeks ago, he will be staying on until a replacement is named. That gives Nashville plenty of runway and the rare opportunity to embark on a lengthy search process while the season is still ongoing.<\/p>\n

Nashville is casting an incredibly wide net as a result, Elliotte Friedman of Sportsnet<\/a> writes, but a few names of interest are starting to leak out. Sabres associate GM Marc Bergevin<\/a> and Panthers assistant GM\u00a0Brett Peterson have both been part of the initial interview process, Friedman reports.<\/p>\n

Bergevin was previously the GM of the Canadiens from 2012 to 2021. He hasn\u2019t held the top exec role since, but has been through multiple interviews, including the Blue Jackets\u2019 vacancy in 2024<\/a> and the Islanders\u2019 vacancy last offseason<\/a>. Just because he\u2019s come up short in those talks doesn\u2019t mean he\u2019s been unemployed for the past five years. Almost immediately after his dismissal from Montreal in November 2021, the Kings brought him in as a senior advisor to former GM\u00a0Rob Blake<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The 60-year-old remained in L.A. through last summer\u2019s GM change to Ken Holland<\/a>. That arrangement only lasted a couple of months into the season. Shortly before Christmas, he left the Kings to accept an offer from Buffalo GM Jarmo Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen<\/a>\u00a0to serve as his top assistant as part of the Sabres\u2019 front office turnover.<\/p>\n

During Bergevin\u2019s stint in Montreal, he twice finished as the runner-up for the General Manager of the Year award (2014, 2021). The Habs made the playoffs six times in Bergevin\u2019s nine full seasons at the helm, including trips to the Eastern Conference Final in 2014 and the Stanley Cup Final in 2021. He also served as GM of Montreal\u2019s AHL affiliates, a role typically held by an associate\/assistant GM.<\/p>\n

The veteran of nearly 1,200 NHL games as a player would certainly be an experience-oriented hire after Nashville\u2019s decision to hire a respected coach but inexperienced executive in Trotz has yielded mixed results. Before his time in Montreal, Bergevin also climbed the ladder in the Blackhawks organization from scout to assistant GM from 2005 to 2012. Excluding the lockout-nixed 2004-05 campaign, Bergevin has been involved in every NHL campaign since 1984 as either a player, coach, or executive.<\/p>\n

Peterson is more of the up-and-comer archetype, but it\u2019s hard to argue with the brief experience he\u2019s already accumulated. He\u2019s spent all of his time in the NHL as an AGM in Florida under Bill Zito, first hired in 2020. He\u2019s been part of the franchise\u2019s three straight Stanley Cup Final trips and has been entrusted with more responsibility on the international stage, where he was just announced as the general manager for the United States\u2019 World Championship team for the second time in three years. The 44-year-old was an assistant GM for the USA squad that won gold at the 2025 World Championship, ending a 65-year drought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Predators have a general manager vacancy \u2013 well, kind of. While incumbent Barry Trotz announced his resignation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59000,5,4955,231,4],"class_list":["post-512862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-nhl","tag-brett-peterson","tag-hockey","tag-marc-bergevin","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116260523811690324","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512862","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=512862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}