{"id":907181,"date":"2026-09-23T23:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907181\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T23:58:11","slug":"former-montreal-canadiens-liverpool-owner-george-gillett-jr-dead-at-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/907181\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Montreal Canadiens, Liverpool owner George Gillett Jr. dead at 87"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Gillett Jr. has died at the age of 87.<\/p>\n

The Vail, CO resident previously owned the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> and co-owned Liverpool. He also held ownership stakes in the Miami Dolphins and Harlem Globetrotters, as well as controlling interest of NASCAR team Evernham Motorsports.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn behalf of the entire Canadiens organization, I would like to extend my deepest condolences to George\u2019s family,\u201d Canadiens owner Geoff Molson said in a statement. \u201cGeorge immersed himself in the Montreal community and was appreciated by everyone in the organization. We sincerely appreciate his contributions to the Montreal Canadiens<\/a> during his time as owner.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Racine, WI, Gillett purchased the Habs and Molson Centre in 2001 and held controlling interest until 2009 when he sold to Molson.<\/p>\n

In 2007, Gillett and Tom Hicks, the former owner of the Texas Rangers and Dallas Stars<\/a>, purchased the Reds. Their partnership was short-lived with a falling out between the pair and significant financial troubles marking their tenure. The team was sold to the company that would become Fenway Sports Group in 2010.<\/p>\n

Gillett also owned Vail Associates ski resorts, buying it in the mid-1980s and turning the company into one of the premier winter sports companies in the world.<\/p>\n

Gillett had been diagnosed with Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Gillett Jr. has died at the age of 87. The Vail, CO resident previously owned the Montreal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[712,43,82326,78846,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-907181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-apple-news","tag-headlines","tag-liverpool-sports-soccer-team-team-statscom-6140","tag-montreal-canadiens-sports-hockey-team-team-nhl-api-8","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907181","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=907181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}