Oilers assistant GM Bill Scott to interview for vacant Canucks GM role

Scott has been seen as the favourite to land the Predators job, taking over from Barry Trotz, after it was announced in February he would be stepping down as Nashville’s general manager. Vancouver, meanwhile, fired general manager Patrik Allvin in April.

Hired by the Oilers as the general manager of their AHL affiliate Oklahoma City Barons ahead of the 2010-11 season, Scott held the role solely for four seasons. He was promoted to assistant general manager of the Oilers in 2013-14, and in 2015-16, took on the role of the Bakersfield Condors’ general manager.

The AGM role turned into a director of hockey operations role in 2016-17, maintaining the Condors GM job for two more seasons. He held the hockey operations job through 2021-22, spending each of the last four seasons as an assistant general manager once again.

A convoluted path touching many roles in the organization, Scott has handled many things pertaining to the Oilers’ salary cap.

“As a member of the Oilers hockey management team, Scott’s responsibilities include player and staff contract negotiations, scheduling, salary arbitration, salary cap management and all day to day administrative duties,” his biography on the Oilers website reads. “He is also the club’s liaison to the NHL regarding matters pertaining to the Collective Bargaining Agreement.”

Scott’s well known in Edmonton for his lucky socks — a pair of red socks with maple leafs on them, reading “Good Luck Socks” on the bottom. Scott wore them the night the Oilers won the draft lottery to select Connor McDavid first overall.