{"id":33616,"date":"2026-05-06T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/33616\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T01:37:09","slug":"jim-rutherford-stepping-down-as-vancouver-canucks-president-of-hockey-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/33616\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Rutherford stepping down as Vancouver Canucks’ president of hockey operations"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Vancouver Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford speaks during the NHL hockey team’s end of season news conference, in Vancouver, on Friday, April 17, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Ethan CairnsETHAN CAIRNS\/The Canadian Press<\/p>\n

Jim Rutherford says he will step down from his role as the Vancouver Canucks<\/a>\u2019 president of hockey operations.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He says he will move into an adviser role following next month\u2019s NHL entry draft.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The news comes after the team finished the season last in the standings with a 25-49-8 record.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vancouver fired general manager Patrik Allvin on April 17, the day after the Canucks capped the dismal campaign with a 6-1 loss to the Edmonton Oilers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Rutherford was initially hired as Vancouver\u2019s president of hockey operations and interim general manager on Dec. 9, 2021, four days after then-general manager Jim Benning was fired.<\/p>\n

A member of the Hockey Hall of Fame in the builders\u2019 category, Rutherford previously served as GM for the Pittsburgh Penguins from 2014 to 2021, and led the team to back-to-back Stanley Cups in 2016 and \u201817.<\/p>\n

He was also Carolina\u2019s general manager for 20 years, and helped the Hurricanes win the Cup in 2006.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Vancouver Canucks President of Hockey Operations Jim Rutherford speaks during the NHL hockey…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[164,224,238,214,212,239,17,211,230,231,227,213,210,235,171,234,143,222,249,215,216,229,225,226,219,240,220,244,245,247,242,246,94,243,217,142,233,113,232,241,223,236,237,228,221,95,218,248],"class_list":{"0":"post-33616","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-alberta","9":"tag-arts-news","10":"tag-bc","11":"tag-breaking-news","12":"tag-breaking-news-video","13":"tag-british-columbia","14":"tag-canada","15":"tag-canada-news","16":"tag-canada-sports","17":"tag-canada-sports-news","18":"tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","19":"tag-canadian-breaking-news","20":"tag-canadian-news","21":"tag-economy","22":"tag-education","23":"tag-environment","24":"tag-federal-government","25":"tag-foreign-news","26":"tag-globe-and-mail","27":"tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","28":"tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","29":"tag-government","30":"tag-life-news","31":"tag-lifestyle","32":"tag-local-news","33":"tag-manitoba","34":"tag-national-news","35":"tag-new-brunswick","36":"tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","37":"tag-northwest-territories","38":"tag-nova-scotia","39":"tag-nunavut","40":"tag-ontario","41":"tag-pei","42":"tag-photos","43":"tag-political-news","44":"tag-political-opinion","45":"tag-politics","46":"tag-politics-news","47":"tag-quebec","48":"tag-sports-news","49":"tag-technology","50":"tag-travel","51":"tag-trudeau","52":"tag-us-news","53":"tag-vancouver","54":"tag-world-news","55":"tag-yukon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}