Oilers name Stan Bowman GM after ban lifted

The Oilers hired Stan Bowman as the team's GM and VP/Hockey Operations just over three weeks after the NHL lifted its ban on the former Blackhawks GM. Bowman was banned -- along with longtime coach Joel Quenneville and Blackhawks exec Brad Aldridge -- for more than two years in the fallout of the Blackhawks sexual assault scandal. He had been Blackhawks GM from 2009-21, during which time the team won three Stanley Cups and a Presidents' Trophy. Bowman had spent the entirety of his 20-year front-office career in Chicago (CP, 7/24).