How five women became NHL assistant general managers

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One thing all five women who serve in assistant general manager roles around the NHL have in common is none saw this opportunity available to them earlier in life.

"I never expected to be an assistant general manager in my wildest dreams," Meghan Hunter of the Chicago Blackhawks said. "I didn’t necessarily rule it out, but I just didn’t see a path to get there."

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Vancouver Canucks hockey team assistant general manager Emilie Castonguay talks to general manager Patrik Allvin during the first round of the NHL draft in Montreal, Thursday, July 7, 2022. At the start of 2022, there were no women serving as assistant general managers in the NHL. Now there are five.  (Graham Hughes/The Canadian Press via AP, File)

Now, Hunter, New Jersey's Kate Madigan, Vancouver's Émilie Castonguay and Cammi Granato and Toronto's Hayley Wickenheiser have each gotten to this point by taking different paths.

ÉMILIE CASTONGUAY

Castonguay in January became the league’s first woman named AGM since Angela Gorgone in 1996-97 when new Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford named her to the post. She spent more than five years as an agent certified by the NHL Players’ Association, most notably representing 2020 No. 1 pick Alexis Lafrenière.

"It’s a different perspective," she said earlier this month. "It’s different priorities, and it’s a different challenge."

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Vancouver Canucks hockey team assistant general manager Cammi Granato, left, takes part in the first round of the NHL draft in Montreal, Thursday, July 7, 2022. At the start of 2022, there were no women