The Penguins have filled a front-office vacancy. GM Kyle Dubas brought in Brandon Pridham as a hockey operations consultant, according to multiple reports Tuesday, adding an experienced executive with a familiar background.
Pridham spent 12 years as an assistant GM in Toronto before a change this spring brought John Chayka into the Maple Leafs’ front office. The move reunites him with Dubas, Toronto’s former GM. It also fills the gap created a week earlier, when the Penguins lost Vukie Mpofu to Nashville. Mpofu was known as Pittsburgh’s salary cap specialist and had a hand in several areas of the operation, and Pridham, 52, is expected to absorb many if not all of those responsibilities.
Pridham’s résumé runs deeper than his Toronto stint. Before joining the Maple Leafs, he was the NHL’s senior director of central registry and central scouting. His arrival continues a pattern for Dubas, who has steadily pulled former Toronto staffers to Pittsburgh, among them assistant GM Jason Spezza and vice president of player personnel Wes Clark.
