Hockey Hall of Famer Doug Wilson will join the Pittsburgh Penguins front office as a senior advisor of hockey operations.

The Pittsburgh Penguins are still bolstering their front office staff as the 2023-24 season creeps into view.

It was announced by president and general manager Kyle Dubas that the Penguins have hired Hall of Famer Doug Wilson as a senior advisor of hockey operations.

Wilson will aid the hockey operations staff with his expertise in all facets of the team, including personnel decisions.

For nearly two decades from 2003 to 2022, Wilson was the general manager of the San Jose Sharks, and helped build the team that faced the Penguins in the 2016 Stanley Cup Final.

Before working in front offices, Wilson built his Hall of Fame career as a defenseman who put up 827 points in 1,024 games between the Chicago Blackhawks and Sharks.

Wilson won the Norris Trophy as the NHL’s best defenseman in 1982 and was the first captain in Sharks history.

“Doug brings over 40 years of NHL experience to our program. Over 16 years from his Hall-of-Fame playing career and over 25 seasons building consistent contending teams as the leader of the San Jose Sharks hockey operations department,” Dubas said. “Doug will serve as a source of both experience and wisdom to our entire hockey operations department. His ability to maintain high standards of performance and professionalism over two decades with Sharks is the type of consistency we all aspire to these positions.”

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Wilson was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 2020.

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