NASHVILLE — On the day he accepted the job as general manager of the Nashville Predators, David Poile called his dad. I decided to go home to Washington and that’s when Jack Diller (the Predators’ first president) called me again.”“I’m going to get offered another job,” Poile told Diller. A quiet, conservative, don’t-notice-me kind of executive, Poile began his general managing career with a blockbuster deal. I know how hard this is.”Poile began work on building the franchise in 1997, one year before the Preds’ first season. Has he ever regretted turning down the Leafs, even having lived through so much franchise and ownership instability?

Source: National Post June 02, 2017 14:48 UTC