On Monday, MLive’s Ansar Khan suggested that the Red Wings should simply hire interim GM Shawn Horcoff full-time to get their search process done and over with as training camp and the preseason are rapidly approaching.
This morning, Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff suggests the same thing:
At this juncture, that might be the wisest course of action. The Wings could even give it to Horcoff on an interim basis for one year, and then begin the search for a GM anew next offseason.
If the Wings were planning on putting someone new in charge this close to the season, wouldn’t they have done it by now? Then again, if Horcoff were their first choice, wouldn’t he have been appointed by now?
In their summer of discontent, the Red Wings have managed to alienate their captain, remove a franchise icon as GM, and then not come up with a plan to replace him.
And now, time has just about run out.
Even if it is the default option, going with Horcoff might be their only option.
Continued at length…To me, the team’s got a couple more weeks before not having a GM hurts, and I’d like to see them get the “right guy.” But that’s just me.
