The Vancouver Canucks promoted Ryan Johnson to general manager and named Daniel and Henrik Sedin co-presidents of hockey operations, the team announced Thursday.
Johnson has been with the organization since 2013-14, first as a development coach and most recently as the club’s assistant general manager over the last two seasons, the team said. He succeeds Patrik Allvin, who was fired in April after four seasons during which the Canucks finished with the NHL’s worst record, the report says.
The identical Sedin twins, who spent their entire NHL careers with Vancouver, joined the hockey operations department in June 2021 and will replace Jim Rutherford, the report says. Rutherford is stepping down from his role after the NHL Draft in June but will remain with the Canucks as an adviser and alternate governor; the report lists his age as 77.
The promotion of Johnson alongside the Sedins is described in the report as an effort to use their institutional experience to help the club recover from a difficult 18 months and a longer stretch of inconsistent results. The report reviews recent organizational changes: Rick Tocchet was hired and led the team to a deep playoff run in his first full season in 2023-24, but the following 2024-25 campaign was hampered by injuries and inconsistency, and featured public friction between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson. Miller was traded to the New York Rangers in January 2025 while Pettersson, who signed an eight-year contract worth $92.8 million in March 2024, remained with the club, per the report.
The report also recounts subsequent moves under new coaching and management, including the departure of Tocchet to Philadelphia, the promotion of Adam Foote, the trade of captain Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota Wild in exchange for Zeev Buium, Liam Ohgren, Marco Rossi and a 2026 first-round pick, and several other roster departures. Vancouver finished the season with the NHL’s worst record, the report says, and will hold the third overall pick in the upcoming draft while carrying two first-round selections and five picks in the first three rounds. The report adds that Vancouver is projected to have $21.16 in salary cap space this offseason, according to PuckPedia.
