With the Montreal Canadiens’ season spiraling toward disaster, the first of many expected changes began to fall. According Andy Strickland and confirmed by Michael Russo, assistant general manager Scott Mellanby has resigned from his post.
Mellanby had been a member of the Canadiens organization since shortly after Marc Bergevin took over in 2012. He started as director of player development, and was promoted to assistant GM a few years later in 2014. It was expected that the Canadiens would eventually make some changes after such a poor start in 2021-22, and Mellanby appears to be the first of those changes.