• The team named Chet Soda as general manager, possibly on an interim basis, and confirmed him as board chair

• Soda was named to lead a three-man hiring committee that also included Robert Osborne and Wayne Valley

• Soda said that Green Bay Packers assistant coach Phil Bengtson was under consideration for the assistant general manager’s position

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