{"id":37928,"date":"2026-05-09T00:43:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/37928\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T00:43:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T00:43:25","slug":"latest-on-vancouver-canucks-gm-search-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/37928\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest On Vancouver Canucks GM Search \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

It appears that the Vancouver Canucks are down to their two finalists for the next General Manager of the organization. According to Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK TV<\/a>, Vancouver has begun to tell prospective candidates that they are no longer under consideration, and the team is down to Ryan Johnson<\/a> and Evan Gold<\/a> as the finalists.<\/p>\n

Johnson, 49, is an obvious choice to take over the Canucks front office, especially considering that the team denied<\/a> the Nashville Predators permission to interview him. Even if they didn\u2019t consider him a candidate, Vancouver can refuse any team\u2019s interest in their staff, as is their right, but it likely would have lowered their credibility around the league if they denied Nashville and didn\u2019t give Johnson a fair shot.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not to say the Canucks ultimately have to promote Johnson, but he has been with the team for more than a decade and has dramatically improved the state of their AHL affiliate. After his playing career ended following the 2010-11 campaign, Johnson was hired by the Canucks as a development coach in 2013-14. He served in that role for two years before being promoted to the Assistant Director of Player Development in 2015-16.<\/p>\n

Since the 2017-18 campaign, Johnson has served as the General Manager of their AHL affiliate and the Assistant General Manager of Vancouver.\u00a0 He spearheaded the transition from the Utica Comets to the Abbotsford Canucks for the 2021-22 campaign and oversaw the team that won the Calder Cup last season.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Gold would be an outside hire if the Canucks landed on him. Gold has served as the General Manager of the AHL\u2019s Providence Bruins and the Assistant General Manager of the Boston Bruins for several years, being considered more analytical than Johnson. Before that, he served in the legal affairs team in Boston for the Hockey Operations department after obtaining his law degree from the University of Toronto. Unlike Johnson, Gold doesn\u2019t have any professional or even semi-professional playing experience to speak of.<\/p>\n

Regardless, today\u2019s update from Dhaliwal shows how much things can change. Only a few days ago, reports indicated<\/a> that the Canucks had settled on Pierre Dorion<\/a> as the team\u2019s next General Manager, only to have today\u2019s news indicate he\u2019s no longer under consideration. Considering the lengthy duration of the process and Dhaliwal\u2019s assertion that finalists have been selected, a definitive hiring decision is expected within the next few days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It appears that the Vancouver Canucks are down to their two finalists for the next General Manager of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[6842,11159,95,1239],"class_list":{"0":"post-37928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver","8":"tag-evan-gold","9":"tag-ryan-johnson-executive","10":"tag-vancouver","11":"tag-vancouver-canucks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37928","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=37928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}