The Hamilton Tiger-Cats have been in discussions with Pierre-Yves Lavergne to become the team's general manager, according to sources.
However, Lavergne will continue to serve in his role as assistant general manager of the Montreal Alouettes, which Danny Macciosia appointed him to in January 2024. He is responsible for managing the team's salary cap and is actively involved in contract negotiations. In terms of talent evaluation, the 36-year-old scouts on both sides of the border, he is involved in player personnel decisions and leads the CFL draft process in Montreal.
Before being named assistant general manager, the Gatineau, Que., native spent two years as the Alouettes' director of national scouting. He began his career in the CFL front office in 2016 with Ottawa as a football operations assistant and earned three promotions during his six years with the Redblacks: assistant player personnel, player personnel coordinator, and assistant director of player personnel.
Lavergne played U Sports soccer as a midfielder at the University of Ottawa and the University of Montreal, where he received a master's degree in management. He won the Vanier Cup with the Carabins in 2014 and accepted a job with the team the following year as a defensive and special teams assistant. That 2015 season, he helped Montreal return to the Vanier Cup, but the team lost to the University of British Columbia Thunderbirds.
After winning the Canadian Collegiate Football Championship, Lavergne began his winning ways in the CFL, appearing in six of the last nine Eastern Finals and reaching the Gray Cup four times. He worked in football operations for the Redblacks when Ottawa won the Gray Cup in 2016 and lost in 2018. The young executive added another Gray Cup title to his resume with the Alouettes in 2023 and helped lead the team to a three-loss title game appearance in 2025.
The Alouettes finished second in the 2025 East Division standings with a 10-8 record and beat the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in the East finals, but lost 112th Gray Cup to Saskatchewan Roughriders. Davis Alexander went 7-0 in the regular season as a starter, although he missed 11 games with a hamstring injury.
Montreal ranked eighth in net offense, first in net defense and third with a plus-eight turnover margin. 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 ranked sixth in attendance with an average attendance of 21,132, down 0.8 percent from the previous year.
