The Chicago Blackhawks say they interviewed Jeff Greenberg, who currently serves as the assistant general manager for MLB’s Chicago Cubs, to fill the NHL team’s vacant general manager position, though it is not clear at this time where he ranks among the club’s ever-growing list of candidates.
Greenberg started with the Cubs as a baseball operations intern in 2012 and, after holding roles as director of pro scouting and baseball operations, director of baseball operations, and assistant to the general manager, he assumed the role of assistant general manager in 2020.
Prior to his Cubs tenure, Greenberg, a graduate of Columbia Law School, interned for the Pittsburgh Pirates, Arizona Diamondbacks and Major League Baseball’s Labour Relations Department.
Greenberg is the latest name to emerge on the Blackhawks’ list of prospective general managers, with news of his interview coming one day after Peter Chiarelli, the former general manager of the Boston Bruins who reached two Stanley Cup Finals during his tenure, was announced as someone Chicago had interviewed.
Chicago has also interviewed interim GM Kyle Davidson, Carolina Hurricanes assistant GM Eric Tulsky and former Montreal Canadiens assistant GM Scott Mellanby and said they will provide further updates as more interviews are completed.
Davidson was elevated to the interim job after longtime general manager Stan Bowman resigned in October in the wake of a report by an outside law firm that found the organization mishandled allegations that an assistant coach sexually assaulted a player during the team’s Stanley Cup run in 2010.
The report also played a role in the departure of Al MacIsaac, another of Chicago’s top hockey executives, and the NHL fined the team $2 million for “the organization’s inadequate internal procedures and insufficient and untimely response.”
Former Blackhawks forwards Eddie Olczyk, Marian Hossa and Patrick Sharp are helping the team with its GM search, and CEO Danny Wirtz has said the organization plans to interview candidates “both inside and outside of hockey.”