{"id":601148,"date":"2026-06-17T23:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601148\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T23:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T23:54:13","slug":"predators-hire-two-time-stanley-cup-champ-langenbrunner-as-special-assistant-to-new-gm-macfarland-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/601148\/","title":{"rendered":"Predators hire two-time Stanley Cup champ Langenbrunner as special assistant to new GM MacFarland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASHVILLE (AP) \u2014 The Nashville Predators hired longtime NHL player and former Boston Bruins executive Jamie Langenbrunner as a special assistant to new general manager Chris MacFarland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Langenbrunner, who scored 243 goals with Dallas, New Jersey and St. Louis during an 18-year career that included a pair of Stanley Cup victories, will focus on professional scouting, collegiate free-agent scouting and recruiting, and special assignments with the Predators.<\/p>\n<p>The 50-year-old Langebrunner spent more than a decade with the Boston Bruins after retiring in 2013. He worked in various capacities with the Bruins, including stints as a development coach and director of player development before becoming assistant general manager in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the U.S. Hockey Hall of Fame, Langenbrunner won the Cup with Dallas in 1999 and New Jersey in 2003. He also served as captain of the silver-medal-winning U.S. Olympic hockey team at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASHVILLE (AP) \u2014 The Nashville Predators hired longtime NHL player and former Boston Bruins executive Jamie Langenbrunner as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5120],"tags":[71,1651,5,62350,66737,4,3494,3492,52362,534,84,3815,5285,5284],"class_list":["post-601148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-louis-blues","tag-blues","tag-chris-macfarland","tag-hockey","tag-jamie-langenbrunner","tag-nashville-predators-jamie-langenbrunner","tag-nhl","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40814-ap-tennessee-sports-only","tag-st-louis","tag-st-louis-blues","tag-stanley-cups","tag-stlouis","tag-stlouisblues"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116768149581790277","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601148","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=601148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}