{"id":314319,"date":"2026-04-06T15:23:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:53:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=314319"},"modified":"2026-04-06T15:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T09:53:21","slug":"the-nashville-predators-gm-search-and-kade-orourke-in-search-of-exceptional-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/06\/the-nashville-predators-gm-search-and-kade-orourke-in-search-of-exceptional-status\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nashville Predators GM Search, and Kade O’Rourke In search of Exceptional Status"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Nashville Predators have began some in-person GM interviews<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sportsnet<\/strong><\/a>: Elliotte Friedman, on the Nashville Predators and where their GM search sits. They were denied permission to talk to Carolina Hurricanes GM Eric Tulsky, to did get permission to talk to one in every of their assistants.<\/p>\n

** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n

Ron MacLean: \u201cAll right. Nashville?\u201d<\/p>\n

Friedman: \u201cYeah, so Nashville, you realize, they\u2019re doing their search straight away. They’ve a gap, they usually\u2019re progressing into it. And the Hurricanes wouldn’t speak about this after I asked about it .<\/p>\n

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But I\u2019m under the understanding, it\u2019s form of funny timing, because Keith Pelley mentioned Eric Tulsky\u2019s name. But during their search, Nashville asked for permission to talk to Carolina\u2019s GM, they usually were denied again. The Hurricanes wouldn’t discuss it. And there\u2019s one other thing I also asked them about they wouldn\u2019t discuss. I\u2019ll get that to a second.<\/p>\n

But I do think the Predators interviewed some people in person this week. I believe among the many folks that might have been it, Brett Peterson, who\u2019s an assistant GM in Florida. Scott White, potentially, who\u2019s an assistant GM in Dallas, and Bill Scott mentioned, he\u2019s an assistant GM in Edmonton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But there\u2019s one other name I believe visited there, and it hadn\u2019t been reported before, so far as I can tell. And that\u2019s Darren York from the Carolina Hurricanes. He\u2019s the GM of the Chicago Wolves. He\u2019s been there 17 years. I understand he had an in-person visit. We\u2019ll see where Nashville goes from here.<\/p>\n

A pure-bred American player in search of exceptional status into the OHL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Sportsnet<\/strong><\/a>: Elliotte Friedman, on Texas-born Kade O\u2019Rourke applying for exceptional status within the OHL.<\/p>\n

** NHLRumors.com transcription<\/em><\/p>\n

Ron MacLean: \u201cAnd at last, Elliotte, the OHL Cup.<\/p>\n

Friedman: \u201cYes, so the ultimate was won today. Detroit HoneyBaked won it. They beat the Toronto Junior Canadians in the ultimate. But there have been a number of people there watching one particular Toronto Junior Canadians player, a Texas-born Kade O\u2019Rourke, and this was the goal he scored within the semi-final that everyone was talking about.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s moved to Toronto 4 years ago. It\u2019s just an attractive goal, 15 years old. Plays for the Toronto Junior Canadians and Hockey Canada doesn\u2019t confirm these things, but he has applied for exceptional status within the OHL next 12 months.<\/p>\n

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Various people Ron, who I spoke to this week, said there\u2019s absolute confidence he\u2019s ready. The OHL draft is on June twelfth, so that they have time.<\/p>\n

However the one thing that\u2019s interesting about that is that no pure-bred American player has ever gotten exceptional status before. Sean Day was a dual citizen. He got it. But no pure-bred American ever has, I believe the OHL badly wants this guy within the league.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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