{"id":556143,"date":"2026-04-19T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556143\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T17:00:17","slug":"report-nick-saban-getting-involved-in-nashville-predators-gm-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/556143\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Nick Saban getting involved in Nashville Predators GM search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Nick Saban Predators\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2RZSYCSWZ5FY7A3GMYHPRK5TBI.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"520\"\/>Predators minority owner Nick Saban has \u201cbeen assisting majority owner Bill Haslam during recent in-person interviews&#8221; for the team\u2019s open GM position. Predators <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Former Alabama football coach and Predators minority owner Nick Saban has \u201cbeen assisting majority owner Bill Haslam during recent in-person interviews&#8221; for the team\u2019s open GM position. Sportsnet\u2019s Elliotte Friedman on his \u201c32 Thoughts: The Podcast\u201d said, \u201cI believe that in this round of in person (interviews), Nick Saban\u2019s played a pretty big role. I think he\u2019s asking questions, I think he\u2019s sizing up the candidates.\u201d Saban <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/16\/saban-buys-minority-stake-in-predators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/16\/saban-buys-minority-stake-in-predators\/\">became a minority owner in December<\/a>. Haslam said that he \u201cwants to make the hire in time for the NHL draft in June, but ideally by sometime in May\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/predators\/2026\/04\/18\/nick-saban-nashville-predators-gm-search-interviews\/89676153007\/?tbref=hp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/predators\/2026\/04\/18\/nick-saban-nashville-predators-gm-search-interviews\/89676153007\/?tbref=hp\">Nashville TENNESSEAN, 4\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Predators minority owner Nick Saban has \u201cbeen assisting majority owner Bill Haslam during recent in-person interviews&#8221; for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[5,5472,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":{"0":"post-556143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nashville-predators","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-nashville","11":"tag-nashville-predators","12":"tag-nashvillepredators","13":"tag-nhl","14":"tag-predators"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116432446155365735","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556143","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=556143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}