The land of Red Wings fandom has been in a panic since Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff claimed that the Red Wings haven’t interviewed a single candidate for GM/president of hockey operations as of yet while Duff appeared on the NHL Network.
Today, the Winged Wheel Podcast’s Ryan Hana contradicted Duff’s report with different information:
Multiple sources confirm that the Detroit Red Wings' GM/PoHO process is indeed already underway, with interviews having already taken place and continuing today. #LGRW
— Ryan Hana (@RyanHanaWWP) August 20, 2026
Despite Detroit sports radio’s desire to insist that the sky is falling over the Red Wings’ organization, and Wings fans’ panic about the front office situation, it makes absolutely no sense to assume that the Wings haven’t interviewed anyone because we haven’t heard about interviews taking place yet.
We don’t hear a whole hell of a lot about what takes place in the organization’s front office, period, and assuming the worst simply because “it’s quiet” is simply an inaccurate, pessimistic guess.
