Dallas Stars GM Jim Nill won the Jim Gregory General Supervisor of the Year Honor in 2022-23 and 2023-24. No GM has actually ever before won the honor 3 times.
DALLAS– For the 3rd period straight, Dallas Stars General Supervisor Jim Nill has actually been called a finalist for the NHL’s Jim Gregory General Supervisor of the Year Honor.
Nill has actually currently won the honor two times– in each of the previous 2 periods. His election as a finalist for the honor in the 2024-25 period notes his 5th all-time election for the honor, which is a NHL document. Nill, that has actually worked as destiny’ GM given that 2013, formerly completed in 3rd area for the honor in both 2019-20 and 2015-16.
Th NHL very first started recognizing the “organization’s most exceptional basic supervisor” at the end of the 2009-10 period. The honor was later on relabelled in 2019-20 in honor of Jim Gregory, the 2007 Hockey Hall of Popularity conscript that operated in the NHL for 4 years as the Toronto Maple Leafs’ basic supervisor and an organization exec.
Nill’s 2025 period is highlighted by his profession due date transfer to trade for previous Colorado Avalanche and Carolina Hurricanes star ahead Mikko Rantanen and promptly authorize him to a long-lasting agreement. Rantanen has actually gotten on a tear given that signing up with destiny, and leads all playoff markers with 20 factors (9 objectives and 11 helps) over 14 video games played– consisting of the first-ever back-to-back video games with a hat method in a solitary duration.
Nill likewise included ahead Mikael Granlund and defenseman Cody Ceci from San Jose in very early February. Granlund as well has actually assisted push the goal-scoring for destiny this postseason, having actually grabbed his very first profession playoff hat method in Video game 4 of destiny’ collection win versus the Winnipeg Jets.
Follower faves Jake Oettinger and Wyatt Johnson, both young participants of destiny’ core, likewise obtained secured right into lasting offers on Nill’s watch this period.
Joining Nill as a finalist for this year’s honor are Kevin Cheveldayoff of the Winnipeg Jets and Expense Zito of the Florida Panthers. The finalists were exposed in an organization news shared on Friday early morning.
Nill and previous New york city Islanders GM Lou Lamoriello, that won the honor in for the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 periods, are the only GMs to have actually won the Jim Gregory prize in back-to-back periods. Nill and Lamoriello are likewise the only GMs to win the honor greater than when. No GM has actually ever before made the title 3 times, not to mention 3 times in a row, as Nill has the opportunity to do this period.
The honor victor will certainly be called throughout an event held by the organization in June complying with the final thought of the Stanley Mug Final. The details day and place for this year’s event has actually not yet been introduced.
