If Joe Sakic and the Colorado Avalanche are searching for a new general manager, they\u2019re certainly keeping that information close to the vest. Sakic spoke at the season-ending press conference last week and didn\u2019t reveal any information about a new GM coming in.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s still something that could happen later. But right now, it really doesn\u2019t feel like there is much of a search. Sakic is their guy. And he reiterated, multiple times, his excitement for taking on a role he hadn\u2019t held in four years. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s business as usual from our end. We\u2019re going to try, as a staff, to make this team as good as possible so we can try and be a contender again,\u201d Sakic said. We had a lot of reflections, a lot of internal conversations, players, staff, and management. It\u2019s going to be great going forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sakic knows the team he and former GM Chris MacFarland built together is still a special squad. It\u2019s just a matter of figuring out what went wrong against the Vegas Golden Knights and trying to find a fix for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe all feel that we left something on the table, but you wake up the next day, and you look to try and get better. We got a great group,\u201d he said. \u201cYes, we had a tough last week of hockey, but we still, from September on, we won the President\u2019s Trophy. We had the most points in franchise history. We played really well against L.A., really well against Minnesota. We played against a team that, just for that time, played better than we did.\u201d<\/p>\n
He continued: \u201cNo excuses, but we\u2019ll be ready for next year. It\u2019s disappointing. It stings, but we got a great hockey team here, and this team was built for a two-to three-year run. We still got most of the guys coming back, and their expectations, our expectations, I know the fans\u2019 expectations, is to try and win a Cup. And we\u2019re hopefully going to accomplish that next year, but it really was, overall, an incredibly fun year.\u201d<\/p>\n
MacFarland departed the organization a week after Colorado was swept by Vegas. He joined the Nashville Predators, carrying the title of President of Hockey Operations and General Manager. It\u2019s the same two titles Sakic holds with the Avalanche, for now. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If Joe Sakic and the Colorado Avalanche are searching for a new general manager, they\u2019re certainly keeping that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599321,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5119],"tags":[144,5,4444,2409,231,5281,4,2410],"class_list":["post-599320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nashville-predators","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-hockey","tag-joe-sakic","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-predators","tag-nashvillepredators","tag-nhl","tag-predators"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116754748770483281","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599320","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=599320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}