Yesterday it was announced that Senators general manager Pierre Dorion garnered enough support from his peers to be named as one of the finalists for the ‘GM of the Year’ award.
According to Postmedia’s Bruce Garrioch, “voting for the award was done by the league GMs, a panel of executives along with print and broadcast media at the end of the second round of the playoffs.”
Given the timeline and the Senators successfully reaching the Eastern Conference Finals for the first time since 2007, it probably shouldn’t be a surprise to see that the three finalists for the award – David Poile, Peter Chiarelli and Dorion – manage teams that went deeper into the postseason than many forecasted.