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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats had discussions with Pier-Yves Lavergne regarding the team’s general manager position, per sources.
However, Lavergne will continue in his role as the Montreal Alouettes’ assistant general manager, to which Danny Maciocia promoted him in January 2024. He’s responsible for managing the team’s salary cap and is heavily involved with contract negotiations. From a talent evaluation standpoint, the 36-year-old scouts on both sides of the border, he’s involved in player personnel decisions, and leads Montreal’s CFL Draft process.
Prior to being named assistant GM, the Gatineau, Que., native spent two years as the Alouettes’ director of national scouting. He started his CFL front office career in 2016 with Ottawa as a football operations assistant and earned three promotions during his six years with the Redblacks: player personnel assistant, coordinator of player personnel, along with assistant director of player personnel.
Lavergne played U Sports football as a linebacker for the University of Ottawa and Université de Montréal, where he earned a master’s degree in management. In 2014, he won a Vanier Cup with the Carabins, then accepted a job as a defence and special teams assistant with the team the following year. That 2015 season, he helped Montreal return to the Vanier Cup, but the team lost to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.
After earning a Canadian university football championship, Lavergne took his winning ways into the CFL, appearing in six of the last nine East Finals and advancing four times to the Grey Cup. He was part of the Redblacks football operations department when Ottawa won the 2016 Grey Cup and lost in 2018. The young executive put another Grey Cup title on his resumé with the Alouettes in 2023 and helped the team appear in the three-down league title game in 2025.
The Alouettes finished second in the East Division standings in 2025 with a 10-8 record and beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East Final but lost the 112th Grey Cup to the Saskatchewan Roughriders. Davis Alexander went 7-0 as a starter during the regular-season, though he missed 11 games due to a hamstring injury.
Montreal ranked eighth in net offence, first in net defence, and third with a plus-eight turnover differential. The team’s leading rusher was Stevie Scott III with 418 yards, the leading receiver was Tyler Snead with 1,129 yards, and the leading tackler was Darnell Sankey with 103 tackles. The Als finished sixth in attendance with average crowds of 21,132, which was a 0.8 percent decrease from the previous year.
