Mike Grier becomes NHL’s first black GM : NPR
Mike Grier has been named the normal manager of the San Jose Sharks, earning him the 1st Black GM in Countrywide Hockey League background.
“I am particularly very pleased and grateful to be specified the opportunity to be the normal supervisor of the San Jose Sharks,” the 47-year-outdated hockey veteran said in a assertion. “Together with my employees, I appear forward to the challenge of setting up a quick, aggressive, and hardworking crew that Sharks enthusiasts will delight in looking at and be very pleased of.”
Grier has been an NHL hockey participant, scout, mentor and executive. He put in 14 seasons in the league as a leading defensive forwards and chief. Prior to the Sharks GM placement, he was the New York Rangers’ hockey operations adviser.
In 1996, he turned the 1st African American born and qualified in the U.S. to play in the NHL, in accordance to NHL.com. The NHL didn’t keep track of highly developed figures till the 2005-06 year, but Grier ranks 10th amid all NHL forwards in blocked pictures (315) and 33rd in hits (705).
Grier is not the to start with typical supervisor in his family, and arrives from a line of sporting activities executives. His father, Bobby, serves as a consultant with the Miami Dolphins and is a very long-time govt in the Countrywide Soccer League. Grier’s brother, Chris, has been the Dolphins’ GM because 2016, and earlier worked in scouting with the New England Patriots.
“Mike’s prosperous job on the ice speaks for by itself, but what amazed me the most were his management characteristics and his overpowering wish to get,” Sharks proprietor Hasso Plattner reported.