Tigers GM Jeff Greenberg pulls out of Red Wings search
Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported September 7 that Detroit's baseball GM is no longer a candidate to run the Red Wings.
Jeff Greenberg is staying in baseball. The Detroit Tigers general manager has withdrawn his name from consideration for the Red Wings' vacant hockey operations job, Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman reported September 7.
Greenberg, 40, has spent three seasons as Tigers GM under president of baseball operations Scott Harris, and he is not a stranger to the sport he was being courted for: he worked the 2022-23 season as an assistant general manager with the Chicago Blackhawks. The cross-sport link made sense on paper too, since the Tigers and Red Wings share an owner in the Ilitch family.
The Red Wings opening dates to July, when Steve Yzerman stepped down after seven seasons in charge, none of which ended in a playoff berth. Detroit's post-season drought now stretches a decade.
Whoever takes the job inherits an immediate problem. Then-captain Dylan Larkin requested a trade early in the off-season. On September 11, the Red Wings said they would begin the season without a captain, while Larkin said he would attend training camp and discuss the team's direction with new leadership.
Greenberg's own summer has been rough on the other side of the parking lot. The Tigers slid out of the American League post-season picture after trading ace Tarik Skubal to the Los Angeles Dodgers at the deadline, which is a fair amount of work still on his desk in Detroit.
