Now with new GM, Sharks commence searching for a mentor. 1 title quickly popped up

SAN JOSE – With Mike Grier established to be officially named the Sharks’ new typical manager Tuesday, speculation immediately started as to who he would employ to be the team’s next head mentor.

It did not consider lengthy for David Quinn’s name to be stated.

Grier, 47, is predicted to be formally released as the Sharks’ basic supervisor on Tuesday early morning at SAP Heart, as he turns into the very first African-American GM in NHL historical past. Just one of his greatest choices will be analyzing a substitution for Bob Boughner, who on Friday was abruptly fired as the Sharks’ coach, more than two months following the stop of the common time.

“We just came to the conclusion that, among every little thing else, we just want this fresh new start out moving ahead with a common manager and a head mentor,” Sharks interim GM Joe Will reported last week. “That will also produce the opportunity for the typical supervisor to discover their head mentor and partner up with them moving ahead.”

Sportnet’s Elliotte Friedman mentioned in his podcast Tuesday that Grier and Quinn, 55, have connections to just about every other, as each performed at Boston College under famous previous Terriers mentor Jack Parker.

Grier was at BU from 1993 to 1996 in advance of he began a 14-12 months NHL actively playing career. Quinn played there from 1984 to 1987 and had two five-yr stints coaching the workforce, to start with as an affiliate coach beneath Parker from 2004 to 2009, and then as Parker’s substitute as the Terriers’ head coach from 2013 to 2018.

Quinn remaining BU in 2018 to develop into the mentor of the New York Rangers, who ended up about to enter a self-explained rebuild. The Rangers obtained some lottery luck, while, landing the No. 2 decide in 2019 to draft ahead Kaapo Kakko, and the No. 1 variety in 2020, when they selected center Alexis Lafreniere.

Quinn’s Rangers went 96-87-25 around 3 several years, creating the qualification spherical of the 2020 postseason. Quinn was fired in Might 2021 by new normal supervisor Chris Drury.

It is unclear how extended the Sharks’ coaching look for may possibly acquire. Will mentioned the Sharks’ new best hockey government would have the autonomy to employ the next mentor.

“They’re searching for teaching. They are looking for tradition and accountability, and they are searching for somebody to manage and improve the functionality of this group to get the ideal out of the gamers and the property that they are supplied,” Will stated about what attributes the new GM will be searching for in a new mentor.