{"id":627439,"date":"2026-07-21T01:09:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/627439\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T01:09:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T01:09:43","slug":"ilitch-eyes-analytics-in-detroit-red-wings-front-office-overhaul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/627439\/","title":{"rendered":"Ilitch eyes analytics in Detroit Red Wings front-office overhaul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-franchises \">Red Wings owner Christopher Ilitch will \u201clikely look to his baseball team\u201d &#8212; the Tigers &#8212; for inspiration, as he \u201cheads up the search to reshape\u201d the team\u2019s front office, according to Helene St. James of the DETROIT FREE PRESS. When Ilitch revamped the Tigers in 2022, he chose Scott Harris as president of baseball operations, who was \u201cviewed as an analytics guy\u201d with an MBA from Columbia University. Ilitch is \u201cbig on analytics, as he pushed\u201d former Red Wings GM Steve Yzerman to \u201clean into the field.\u201d The Red Wings said in a statement that \u201cinternal candidates would be considered.\u201d But St. James pointed out that the \u201codds overwhelmingly favor an external one.\u201d St. James wrote former NHLer Brendan Shanahan \u201cmakes sense on multiple levels.\u201d He is an \u201cexperienced president of hockey operations,\u201d played for the Red Wings from 1996-2006 and brings \u201cinstant name recognition and should excite a fan base that\u2019s endured 10 straight years of missing the playoffs.\u201d It could \u201cmake sense to have someone with Shanahan\u2019s cachet as the top man, with another hire serving as general manager\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/red-wings\/2026\/07\/18\/detroit-red-wings-gm-search-analytics-brendan-shanahan\/90960166007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DETROIT FREE PRESS, 7\/19<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Red Wings owner Christopher Ilitch will \u201clikely look to his baseball team\u201d &#8212; the Tigers &#8212; for inspiration,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627440,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5101],"tags":[599,93,5137,5,4,3358,5138],"class_list":["post-627439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroit","tag-detroit-red-wings","tag-detroitredwings","tag-hockey","tag-nhl","tag-red-wings","tag-redwings"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116955300757576828","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627439","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=627439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}