Michael Andlauer (born 1966) is a Canadian businessman and

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club owner. He is the founder of businesses ATS Healthcare, Accuristix, Bulldog Capital Partners and Andlauer Healthcare Group. He is the

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of Andlauer Healthcare Group. He is the owner of the

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(NHL) team, which includes its minor league

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team the

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(AHL), and the Brantford Bulldogs

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(OHL) team. He was formerly a minority owner of the

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NHL team.

Life and career

Andlauer was born in France and grew up in

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, Quebec, Canada in the neighbourhood of Notre-Dame-de-Grace. Andlauer attended

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, but dropped out to take a job at

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. In 1991, Andlauer, by now the head of McCain's trucking operations, left the company to launch the Andlauer Transportation Services trucking company, delivering pharmaceutical products. In 2003, Andlauer became part-owner of the

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(AHL) team, the minor-league affiliate of the

. He became the majority owner of the team in the following year, and sold the team to the Canadiens in 2015. The Canadiens subsequently relocated the team, and it is now the

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. At the same time, he bought the

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junior team and moved them to

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, renaming them the Hamilton Bulldogs. In 2009, Andlauer became a part-owner of the Canadiens, the

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and Gillett Entertainment Group as part of

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's group of investors which purchased the team that year. He would later become the team's alternate governor to the NHL's Board of Governors. From 2022 through June 2023, Andlauer was one of several prospective purchasers of the

, put up for sale after the death of its owner,

Eugene Melnyk Eugene Melnyk (May 27, 1959 – March 28, 2022) was a Canadian businessman, philanthropist, and owner, governor, and chairman of the National Hockey League (NHL)'s Ottawa Senators and the AHL's Belleville Senators. He was the founder, chairman, ...

. In June 2023, it was announced that Andlauer and his group of investors had signed a purchase agreement to buy the club at a reported price of million. Andlauer became majority owner along with his partners, Eugene Melnyk's daughters, and a group of Canadian businessmen on September 21, 2023.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andlauer, Michael Businesspeople from Montreal Canadian sports businesspeople French emigrants to Quebec Living people York University alumni 1966 births