Islanders hiring Mathieu Darche as new GM with massive to-do list awaiting him
NY Post
The Islanders have their man.
After a search that dragged on over a month, the Islanders finally found their new general manager Friday, hiring Mathieu Darche as general manager and executive vice president, entrusting him with all aspects of the club’s hockey operations.
“Mathieu is the perfect choice to lead our hockey operations,” Islanders operating partner John Collins, who led the GM search, said in a press release. “He will be given every resource available to put the Islanders first in class on the ice with our business initiatives and in the community. Mathieu has served as a key member of the Tampa Bay Lightning and has a diverse background in top-level business models.
“He is a proven winner and is committed, as is our ownership group, to building a group that will be highly competitive next season and beyond.”
Darche had been Tampa’s director of hockey operations since 2019 and an assistant general manager since 2022.
His job with the Lightning primarily focused on salary cap management, budgeting and player contracts at first but expanded to touch other areas of hockey operations.
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