Penguins Call 12:30pm Press Conference

The Pittsburgh Penguins have called a press conference for 12:30pm to announce the hiring of Ray Shero as the new General Manager of the team. Shero has spent the past 8 seasons as the assistant General Manager in Nashville. He also spent the 7 years prior to that as an assistant in Ottawa.

Shero brings much experience to the table as a General Manager, and also broke into professional hockey as a player agent. His chief duties in Nashville were to oversee minor league operations, negotiate contracts, working with the scouting department and preparing salary arbitration cases.