U.S. Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh is expected to be named the next NHL Players' Association executive director, according to Frank Seravalli of Daily Faceoff.
Walsh is a sitting member of the presidential cabinet, but he will leave his post in the days after Tuesday's State of the Union address from President Joe Biden.
The former mayor of Boston has already addressed the 32-member NHLPA executive board via Zoom and is expected to be unanimously approved, per Seravalli. He needs only 18 votes from the team representatives to secure the new position.
Walsh doesn't have a legal background, but he was a Laborers' Union president in Boston before entering politics.