Blackhawks hire Cubs’ Jeff Greenberg as new associate general manager

Throughout the Blackhawks’ typical supervisor research, previous Cubs government Jeff Greenberg emerged as a shock finalist but ultimately dropped out to Kyle Davidson.

Significantly less than two months later on, nonetheless, Greenberg joined the Hawks. He was hired Thursday as associate GM.

Greenberg and Norm Maciver, who was employed away from the Kraken previous month to also serve as an affiliate GM, will guidance Davidson as the three-man leadership crew heading the Hawks’ front office.

“[Jeff] achieved out to congratulate me following I was named basic supervisor, and we related quickly more than our parallel paths, shared love for hockey and eyesight for this sport’s long term,” Davidson reported in a assertion. “I’m psyched for our supporters to see what he, alongside Norm, can bring as key voices at the desk — a table that will carry on to grow with other leaders we will incorporate to the crew.”

Greenberg, 36, put in the past 11 a long time with the Cubs, climbing by way of the ranks to lately serving as assistant GM. He mainly operated guiding the scenes but performed an instrumental function in producing the talent analysis and facts processing units that assisted propel the Cubs to their 2016 Globe Sequence title.

He’ll provide a related function with the Hawks, bringing solutions from baseball that have not been widely carried out in hockey up to this stage.

The Hawks say he’ll work along with all aspects of the hockey functions department — together with scouting, development, analytics and coaching at equally the NHL and minor-league degrees — to modernize and improve their programs and determination-making procedures.

“What I have learned about the Blackhawks is they’re serious about making use of this rebuilding period of time to not only set this franchise up to be the greatest in hockey, but the very best in all of sporting activities relocating forward,” Greenberg said in a assertion. “There couldn’t be a additional remarkable time to get in on the ground floor of this journey and go after each individual attainable option to place this group back on the route to successful hockey.”

A Penn alum, Greenberg also holds a law degree from Columbia and labored for the Pirates, Diamondbacks and MLB league place of work right before joining the Cubs. He also holds some hockey ties: he played hockey whilst growing up in Pittsburgh and his father, Chuck, as soon as practically purchased the Hurricanes.

But he’s unquestionably an unconventional, outside the house-the-box employ for the Hawks and in common for the NHL, which is notorious for recycling the exact same executives from 1 team to the upcoming.

That was most likely aspect of the attraction for Davidson, who took flak when he nabbed Maciver — a longtime Hawks executive up until eventually early 2021 — after promising to deliver in new voices and perspectives. He’d claimed earlier this month that long run choosing decisions would reflect that want for freshness Greenberg is possible just the suggestion of the iceberg, with lots of more front-place of work additions anticipated this offseason.

For the Cubs, meanwhile, Greenberg’s departure — he officially begins with the Hawks on May perhaps 9 — leaves a major gap in their front-office leadership.

Beneath baseball operations president Jed Hoyer and freshly hired GM Carter Hawkins, Greenberg worked together with Ehsan Bokhari and Craig Breslow as the a few assistant GMs.

“Jeff has done so much to make the Cubs a far better corporation around the final 10 seasons with his impressive mix of intelligence, do the job ethic, leadership and integrity,” Hoyer stated in a statement. “He was critically involved in forward-on the lookout conclusions as we constructed the core of a environment champion.

“As the Blackhawks look to make their up coming championship crew, Jeff is an excellent employ the service of. Whilst I am sad to get rid of these a terrific employee and friend, I am thrilled that his upcoming good results will carry on to gain the town of Chicago.”