{"id":402442,"date":"2026-07-17T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402442\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:41:10","slug":"sharks-hire-jeff-kealty-as-assistant-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/402442\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharks hire Jeff Kealty as Assistant General Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Jose\u00a0Sharks (@SanJoseSharks<\/a>) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0hired\u00a0Jeff Kealty\u00a0as Assistant General Manager. Kealty will\u00a0oversee the team\u2019s professional scouting staff\u00a0and work closely with Grier on all aspects of Hockey Operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff brings a wealth of professional experience to our club, and he will be a valuable addition to our hockey operations staff,\u201d said Grier. \u201cHis knowledge and expertise of the game is represented in his achievement with Team USA, helping the program win a Gold Medal in 2025, along with elevating the Nashville Predators with various high-end player additions over the previous two decades, both in the NHL and in their prospect system. <\/p>\n

I\u2019ve known Jeff since our days together at Boston University, and it\u2019s exciting to be able to work with him again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kealty,\u00a050,\u00a0brings a\u00a0plethora\u00a0of experience at both the amateur and professional level, serving over two decades with the Nashville Predators. He recently\u00a0finished his eighth season as Assistant General Manager\u00a0& Director of Scouting, where he\u00a0was tasked in overseeing\u00a0all of Nashville\u2019s professional and amateur scouting.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kealty and his staff\u00a0were instrumental in\u00a0acquiring\u00a0several high-profile players for the organization, including his efforts to land Filip Forsberg,\u00a0and adding\u00a0players\u00a0such as\u00a0Juuse Saros,\u00a0Colton Sissons,\u00a0and Matthew Wood.\u00a0While in the role,\u00a0the Predators made the playoffs in six of nine seasons, which included\u00a0a Presidents\u2019 Trophy (2018) and back-to-back Central Division titles (2018-19).\u00a0<\/p>\n

In total,\u00a0Kealty\u00a0was in charge of\u00a0the\u00a0previous\u00a018 drafts for Nashville dating back to 2008,\u00a0where he\u00a0selected\u00a0defenseman\u00a0Roman Josi in the second round.\u00a0He originally started with the Predators as an Amateur scout\u00a0(2001-2007), and\u00a0also served as Chief Amateur Scout\u00a0(2007-2017).\u00a0In 2017, the Predators made the Stanley Cup Final for the first time in franchise history with players Kealty helped add to the organization.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Internationally,\u00a0Kealty\u00a0worked with Team USA at both the 2025 and 2026 IIHF Men\u2019s World Championships, serving as General Manager in 2025 and Assistant General Manager in 2026. In 2025, along with Head Coach Ryan Warsofsky, the program made history for USA, winning the team\u2019s first gold medal\u00a0in 92 years.\u00a0The roster he\u00a0hand\u00a0selected was the youngest among the participating countries at the tournament and won nine of the 10 games (7-2-0-1), capping off the championship with a 1-0 win over Team Switzerland.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to his tenure\u00a0with Nashville,\u00a0Kealty\u00a0played four seasons with Boston University from 1994-1998, helping the organization capture the 1995 NCAA National Championship.\u00a0Both Grier and Kealty were teammates for two seasons (1994-95, 1995-96) with the Terriers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was selected in the 1994 NHL Draft (first round, 22nd\u00a0overall) by\u00a0the Quebec\u00a0Nordiques, and\u00a0played two professional seasons for the Milwaukee Admirals, appearing in 71 games and scoring 22 points (eight goals, 14 assists).\u00a0He\u00a0represented\u00a0Team USA in the 1996 World Junior Championship, playing six games and collecting one assist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Jose\u00a0Sharks (@SanJoseSharks) General Manager\u00a0Mike Grier\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0hired\u00a0Jeff Kealty\u00a0as Assistant General Manager. Kealty will\u00a0oversee the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89],"class_list":["post-402442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}