Bill Guerin Wins Most Deflating GM of the Year Award Ever

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Minnesota Wild president of hockey operations Bill Guerin wins NHL GM of the Year
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Bill Guerin is NHL GM of the Year. It’s the first time a general manager of the Minnesota Wild has ever taken home the honor.

Billy earned it too, sending most of the organization’s best prospects to Vancouver, in exchange for superstar defenseman Quinn Hughes. Not only did that trade help power the MN Wild to their first playoff series win in over a decade, but it has set them up to be Stanley Cup contenders for the foreseeable future.

No doubt, it’s an achievement worth celebrating.

However, the circumstances in which the news broke did not lend to a normal reaction, especially for such a historic moment in franchise history. All day Friday, rumors have built up surrounding the likelihood that the MN Wild would finally complete the trade for Dylan Larkin.

Absent of draft picks in the first two rounds of the 2026 NHL Draft, the only news any Wild fan was hoping for tonight was that of a Dylan Larkin blockbuster.

Unique GM of the Year circumstances for Bill Guerin

And that’s what we thought we were about to get when top Minnesota hockey reporter/insider Michael Russo (The Athletic) sent this tweet at 8:03 p.m. CDT.

Less than five minutes later, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman announced Guerin as GM of the Year, making it undoubtedly the most disappointing postseason award announcement in sports history.

Of course, Russo posted his GM of the Year story as Bettman was stepping to the podium, even before the NHL and Wild got their official tweets out.

GM of the Year announcement even got awkward

To make matters worse, there was some sort of confusion that caused the GM of the Year to awkwardly sit behind the commissioner on an enormous screen while Bettman ignored him and moved onto the next pick of the draft.

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