Nearly a decade after his team lost to the Chicago Blackhawks in the Stanley Cup Final, Peter Chiarelli interviewed with the team for their vacant general manager position.
Chiarelli, who served as general manager of the Boston Bruins from 2006-15, interviewed for the Blackhawks job on Sunday, the team announced.
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Currently serving as VP of hockey operations for the St. Louis Blues, Chiarelli has also served as GM of the Edmonton Oilers since his Boston departure.
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Chiarelli helped build the Bruins' Cup-winning team in 2011, with an epic first offseason on the job in 2006 that including the signings of Zdeno Chara and Marc Savard, drafting of Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic and Phil Kessel and trade for Tuukka Rask. While Boston returned to the Cup Final again in 2013, losing to the Blackhawks in six games, Chiarelli was fired two years later after the Bruins missed the playoffs in 2014-15, their first miss since Chiarelli's first season on the job.
Chiarelli drafted Tyler Seguin and Dougie Hamilton with picks received from the Toronto Maple Leafs in the deal for Kessel in 2009, and did snag David Pastrnak 25th overall in his final year with the team in 2014, but other than that, struggled mightily on the draft board in Boston. Seguin and Hamilton, of course, have made the majority of their contributions elsewhere in the NHL.
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Nevertheless, the Oilers hired him just nine days after the Bruins let him go in 2015. Chiarelli drafted superstar Connor McDavid first overall that season, but guided Edmonton to the playoffs just once in four seasons before he was fired midway through the 2018-19 season.
With the Oilers, Chiarelli traded current Bruin Taylor Hall -- drafted first overall in 2010, one pick ahead of Seguin -- two seasons before he won Hart Trophy as the league's most valuable player.
Chicago is looking for a new fulltime general manager following Stan Bowman's resignation in October due to fallout from the team's handling of sexual assault allegations against the team's video coach, Brad Aldrich, in 2010.