{"id":70559,"date":"2020-03-04T10:36:11","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T15:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/?p=70559"},"modified":"2020-12-26T16:30:41","modified_gmt":"2020-12-26T21:30:41","slug":"ottawa-senators-dismiss-jim-little-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/2020\/03\/04\/ottawa-senators-dismiss-jim-little-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ottawa Senators Dismiss Jim Little as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/nhl-teams\/senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ottawa Senators<\/a> have dismissed Chief Executive Office Jim Little on Wednesday. News of the dismissal came via a team statement<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING | The Ottawa Senators have fired their new CEO for &quot;conduct inconsistent with the core values of the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ulnP3moCrP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/t.co\/ulnP3moCrP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hockeynight\/status\/1235220682314854406?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 4, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h2>Jim Little Out as Senators CEO<\/h2>\n<p>Little was only on the job for 54 days before being let go by the team. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/senators-dismiss-ceo-jim-little-less-two-months-hiring\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The statement read<\/a> \u201cthe decision was made as a result of conduct inconsistent with the core values of the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League.\u201d It is effective immediately. The Senators have not released details of incidents or circumstances leading to their decision.<\/p>\n<p>The Senators said they&#8217;ve already begun the search for Little&#8217;s replacement. Senior staff are taking care of his duties in the meantime.<\/p>\n<p>Little came over from Shaw Communications to help the club with the business side of the Senators. His duties included marketing and community engagement. Little also worked as an executive with Royal Bank, Bell Canada, and Bombardier.<\/p>\n<h2>What it Means<\/h2>\n<p>It&#8217;s another black eye for an organization that&#8217;s had plenty of them the last few years. Ownership issues, players constantly being moved and trouble finding a new arena has haunted the franchise for the last few seasons. This is just another issue to add onto the pile of pain.<\/p>\n<p>Many celebrated the hiring at first because of his business background and owner Eugene Melnyk <a href=\"https:\/\/montrealgazette.com\/news\/canada\/ottawa-senators-suddenly-fire-ceo-jim-little-just-two-months-after-his-celebrated-hiring\/wcm\/a299b850-2764-4bd6-a89a-c59f8ccf0de1\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">praised Little by saying<\/a> he was \u201cpart of our long-term strategy to redevelop and rebuild,\u201d and that he will be \u201cushering in a new era for our club and fans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Much like a lot of the team&#8217;s plans, Ottawa will have to go back to square one to find a new CEO. The Senators are last in NHL attendance this season, averaging just over 11,700 fans per home game, according to numbers compiled by ESPN. These were the numbers that were announced prior to Little&#8217;s hiring in January.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lastwordonhockey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2020\/03\/What-the-Ottawa-Senators-logo-and-jerseys-might-look-like-in-2019-780x405-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ottawa Senators have dismissed Chief Executive Office Jim Little on Wednesday. News of the dismissal came via a team statement BREAKING | The Ottawa Senators have fired their new CEO for &quot;conduct inconsistent with the core values of the Ottawa Senators and the National Hockey League&quot; https:\/\/t.co\/ulnP3moCrP &mdash; Hockey Night in Canada (@hockeynight) March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2352,"featured_media":70565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,34],"tags":[1416,5738,4666,2569,955,70],"class_list":["post-70559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-senators","category-news","tag-eugene-melnyk","tag-hockey-news","tag-jim-little","tag-news","tag-nhl-news","tag-ottawa-senators"],"modified_by":"Dan Mount, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2352"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/hockey\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}