Oilers hire Stan Bowman as GM & EVP of Hockey Ops

[TrufleShufle]

I don't want to come off too mean and I know I'll get flak for this, but IMO, this was not a smart move.

 

[GordonGraham]

Good hire, teams should stop caring about social media pressure and do what they want they are a private business and dont own explications to anyone

 

[Dolemite]

As a long time oilers fan, my jaw dropped in shock.

I did not have this on my 2024 Bingo card at all.

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Pathetic.

Old boys club reigns supreme.

 

[Artemi Panarin]

Stay classy, Edmonton.

 

[Kranix]

Oilers fans should hope he's just another bald puppet of the president, in the vein of Alvin and Hughes.
Why would they want a guy who gives Chiarelli a run for worst GM ever

 

[Scandale du Jour]

Good hire, teams should stop caring about social media pressure and do what they want they are a private business and dont own explications to anyone

Let's forget about the public pressure for a minute... it is still a terrible hire.

Guy had no control over his team, so couldn't provide a safe working environment and THEN covered up the entire thing. That's not someone you want managing anything. Gross incompetence and zero morals.

 

[hawksrule]

Panarin, Danault, Daley, Hjalmarsson, Toews and Kane contracts, Jones trade and contract.

Am I missing any other bangers?

We were involved in three Saad trades and lost all three.

And Seabrook contract.

 

[FriendlyGhost92]

Sooooo... The Oilers fired Holland and hired Holland 2.0.

LMAOOOOOO

 

[K Fleur]

Good hire, teams should stop caring about social media pressure and do what they want they are a private business and dont own explications to anyone

I mean Bowman sucks with or without “social media pressure”

“Social media pressure” is an interesting way to say “criticism for covering up sexual assault”

 

[Sdrawkcab321]

I’m not surprised he got a job but I am surprised he got that job. I thought if he was to come back it would be in a lesser role then work his way up to gm.

 

[Voight]

Yeah a guy taking a picture during a consensual act and sharing it is definitely the same as enabling and writing a recommendation for a rapist to a new job where he does it again.

Average Edmontonian. Enjoy your 4 hour drive to the 4th best mountain town in Alberta.

That never happened.

After leaving his employment with the Blackhawks, Aldrich went on to work and volunteer at USA Hockey, the University of Notre Dame, Miami University of Ohio, and Houghton High School. None of the witnesses we interviewed recalled anyone at the Blackhawks providing a written or verbal reference for Aldrich to his future employers. When interviewed, Aldrich stated that he did not list any Blackhawks employees as references on job applications, nor did he ask anyone from the Blackhawks to vouch for him or make any calls on his behalf. USA Hockey reported to us that they identified no records reflecting a reference provided for Aldrich by the Blackhawks. We gathered records from Miami University regarding Aldrich’s employment and found no evidence of references, whether written or oral, provided by the Blackhawks. Miami University published an investigative report on September 24, 2021, which stated that Aldrich did not provide references on his resume when he applied to Miami, that the then-head coach of Miami University’s hockey team received Aldrich’s name from the coach’s collegiate hockey connections, and that the head coach and others spoke to the University of Notre Dame about Aldrich and received favorable information. The Miami investigative report does not describe any references provided by the Blackhawks. The University of Notre Dame declined to share information or records with us, other than to confirm Aldrich’s dates of employment at the university.

Houghton High School reported to us that they identified no records reflecting a reference provided for Aldrich by the Blackhawks. The head hockey coach at Houghton High School told us that Aldrich did not formally apply for volunteer hockey coaching positions in 2010 and 2012. The head coach explained that Aldrich’s uncle, who was the assistant coach in 2010, had told the head coach that Aldrich was not working and asked if the team could help Aldrich. In 2012, the team re-hired Aldrich as a volunteer based on his work as a volunteer in 2010. The head coach said that he did not contact the Blackhawks about Aldrich at any time.

 

[The Great Mighty Poo]

Role in Beach stuff aside, he did well until he didn't. So I guess we'll see which way it goes.

Aside from diddling a 13 year old, Felipe Vasquez was a good closing pitcher.

 

[Voight]

Say it how it is.

Beach got raped 14 years ago.
Bowman Enabled the Rapist to go to another place of work and he then raped a 16 year old.

3 years of no NHL is no punishment.

Except this never happened....

 

[BlueSeal]

Sooooo... The Oilers fired Holland and hired Holland 2.0.

LMAOOOOOO

Please don't insult Holland like that. Being an idiot is far different than being scum. I can hate Holland's intelligence and still respect him as a person.

 

[Tynbomb]

Disgusting.

 

[Voight]

my point is that the backlash to hiring a guy who covered up sexual abuse of a player + gave the perpetrator a job recommendation that allowed him to go on to assault minors should be far greater than the backlash that the jackets got last year for hiring babcock, which was deafening at the time.

Bowman never gave a job reference / recommendation, I dont understand why people think this happened.

 

[Kranix]

Please don't insult Holland like that. Being an idiot is far different than being scum. I can hate Holland's intelligence and still respect him as a person.

Bowman has proven to be both though. He was the dumbest GM in hockey

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

Free McDavid

 

[EpochLink]

Pathetic.

Old boys club reigns supreme.

If his daddy wasn’t an NHL legend and if his last name was not ‘Bowman’, his trash ass wouldn’t sniff the NHL.

 

[Three On Zero]

Pathetic.

Old boys club reigns supreme.

Katz really seems to have 2 narratives

1. Hire people who have worked with McDavid
2. Hire people’s he’s looked up to/been around

 

[DFAC]

Disgusting

 

[SirPaste]

Bowman never gave a job reference / recommendation, I dont understand why people think this happened.

Because it was reported as fact and then when new information came to light the people that reported it didn't see any reason to run any kind of retraction/correction.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

Except this never happened....

But...it did, in a sense. Even if they didn't write a letter of recommendation.

They didn't say anything about it, brushed it under a rug. He got a job working with kids and sexually assaulted them. They enabled him by doing nothing about it.

 

[Artemi Panarin]

I have never seen HFBoards so united before.

We were pretty united about the final and it looks like we rooted for the right team.