{"id":382125,"date":"2026-01-01T20:25:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382125\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T20:25:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T20:25:04","slug":"should-canadas-olympic-team-be-run-by-a-non-nhl-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/382125\/","title":{"rendered":"Should Canada\u2019s Olympic team be run by a non-NHL general manager?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hockey Canada announced its men\u2019s roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics<\/a> on Wednesday. While most people are in favor of the players that have been picked to don the red and white in Milan in February, some are curious to see what the team would look like if an \u201coutsider\u201d were in charge.<\/p>\n

For the past few years, St. Louis Blues<\/a> general manager Doug Armstrong has been the GM of the senior men\u2019s national team. It has made sense, since he was the GM of the Canadian team that won the World Cup of Hockey in 2016. It certainly can provide some tedious days trying to run an NHL team, while also ensuring that a national team is set up for success as well.<\/p>\n

While Canada has used other people to be the GMs of national teams for other events, it hasn\u2019t had a person, who wasn\u2019t also a GM of an NHL team, since Wayne Gretzky tried running it back with Team Canada at the 2006 Olympics in Turin (and we all know how bad that went). <\/p>\n

On Wednesday\u2019s edition of Daily Faceoff LIVE<\/a>, Jason Gregor joined Tyler Yaremchuk to discuss whether Canada should have a non-NHL GM in charge.<\/p>\n

Tyler Yaremchuk: Are we ever going to get to a point where maybe Hockey Canada goes the route of what they do in international soccer, which is the people who run these programs, especially if we\u2019re going to get into the rhythm where there\u2019s best-on-best hockey every two years, hopefully with a World Cup of Hockey and Olympics in two years and continuing on like that \u2013 do we maybe need to get to a point where Hockey Canada just appoints a few people who have nothing to do with an NHL organization? If it wasn\u2019t Doug Armstrong running this thing, if it was a non-partial third party, someone who just works for Hockey Canada and only Hockey Canada, maybe some decisions are a little bit different with this team?<\/p>\n

Jason Gregor: Do you need a full-time guy? Where are you paying them? Where\u2019s the money coming from to be a full-time thing? Personally, I think it would be a waste of money, right? There\u2019s lots of other places they can put their money. They sure as hell don\u2019t need a full-time general manager. They\u2019re pretty top-heavy as it is in Hockey Canada. \u2026 Let\u2019s be honest here. We could put most people who watched the game would get the top 12 or 15 guys without much conversation. Then you come to the rest. And it\u2019s really, you know, it\u2019s depth and it\u2019s opinion. And would it ultimately matter? I don\u2019t know. When was the last time a depth guy scored a massive goal for Canada? \u2026 I don\u2019t know if we need a full-time GM for something like this.<\/p>\n

You can watch the full segment and entire episode here\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hockey Canada announced its men\u2019s roster for the 2026 Winter Olympics on Wednesday. While most people are in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382126,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-382125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}