{"id":530019,"date":"2026-03-29T22:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530019\/"},"modified":"2026-03-29T22:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-29T22:06:14","slug":"oilers-assistant-gm-bill-scott-interviews-for-vacant-predators-gm-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/530019\/","title":{"rendered":"Oilers assistant GM Bill Scott interviews for vacant Predators GM job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/stas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Edmonton Oilers<\/a> assistant general manager Bill Scott, known best for his <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/news\/oilers-must-have-lost-bill-scotts-lucky-socks-fall-to-10th-overall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lucky socks<\/a>, has interviewed with the Nashville Predators for their vacant general manager\u2019s job,\u00a0<a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/nhl\/article\/32-thoughts-goaltender-interference-two-plays-two-outcomes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sportsnet\u2019s<\/a> Elliotte Friedman reported.<\/p>\n<p>Scott joined the Oilers organization as the general manager of their AHL affiliate, the Oklahoma City Barons, for the 2010-11 season, spending four years there. He was bumped up the ranks to the Oilers assistant general manager job. Over the last dozen years, he\u2019s held that role, the director of hockey operations role for the Oilers, as well as the general manager job for the AHL\u2019s Bakersfield Condors from 2015-17.<\/p>\n<p>According to Friedman, while the Predators haven\u2019t held any in-person interviews with external candidates, they are shrinking their list of candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Nashville is shrinking its list of GM contenders. I don\u2019t believe any external candidate has interviewed in-person. Not sure of the timeline, but that\u2019s going to change in the near future. In addition to the already reported names, others who have been spoken to include St. Louis Vice-President of Hockey Operations <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/oilersnation.com\/news\/former-edmonton-oilers-ken-holland-peter-chiarelli-among-candidates-new-york-islanders\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Chiarelli<\/a> and an intriguing fresh name, Edmonton assistant GM Bill Scott. It\u2019s a wide net and we\u2019re still figuring out who else is involved.<\/p>\n<p>The Oilers owe something towards Scott\u2019s lucky socks, which CEO Bob Nicholson gave to Scott ahead of the 2015 NHL draft lottery. They were red socks with white Canadian flags on them, and on the bottom, said \u201cGood Luck Socks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turns out they worked, as the Oilers would win the draft lottery and the chance to draft Connor McDavid first overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a member of the Oilers hockey management team, Scott\u2019s responsibilities include player and staff contract negotiations, scheduling, salary arbitration, salary cap management and all day to day administrative duties,\u201d his biography reads on the <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nhl.com\/oilers\/team\/bill-scott\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Oilers website<\/a>. \u201cHe is also the club\u2019s liaison to the NHL regarding matters pertaining to the Collective Bargaining Agreement.\u201dZach Laing is Oilersnation\u2019s managing editor, and The Nation Network\u2019s news director. He also makes up one-half of the <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@DFOFantasy\/streams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Daily Faceoff DFS Hockey Report<\/a>. He can be followed on X at <a class=\"text-accent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/zjlaing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">@zjlaing<\/a>, or reached by email at zach.laing@bettercollective.com.ARTICLE PRESENTED BY bet365<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Oilers assistant general manager Bill Scott, known best for his lucky socks, has interviewed with the Nashville&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":530020,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5125],"tags":[198,146,5300,5,4,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-530019","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edmonton-oilers","8":"tag-edmonton","9":"tag-edmonton-oilers","10":"tag-edmontonoilers","11":"tag-hockey","12":"tag-nhl","13":"tag-oilers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116314740106000872","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530019","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=530019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/530019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/530020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=530019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=530019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=530019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}