Canucks are reportedly hiring their GM — fans won’t all agree
Pierre Dorion is trending toward landing the Vancouver Canucks GM seat, according to ESPN's Greg Wyshynski, who said Tuesday afternoon he believes Dorion will get the gig.
The report dropped at 3:30 PM through NHL Rumour Report citing Halford and Brough, and it lands on a franchise that just bottomed out of the entire league.
Vancouver finished 32nd overall this season. That's not a typo. Dead last.
The Canucks closed out at 25-49-8 with 58 points and a goal differential of -100, and the home barn was a graveyard at 9-27-5.
So this is the job Dorion may walk into. A team that scored 2.6 goals per game and surrendered 3.9. A coach in Adam Foote already in place. And a fanbase that has watched the wheels come off in real time.
Whoever takes this chair inherits an ugly cap structure too. Elias Pettersson carries an $11.6M hit and posted 51 points with a -30 rating. Brock Boeser came in at -48 across 75 games.
Sens past, Canucks future, and a fanbase already split
Dorion's name still carries baggage from his Ottawa exit, where the league voided a future first-round pick after a contract registration mess in 2023. That history won't disappear when he lands in Vancouver.
But the Canucks aren't recruiting a clean résumé. They're recruiting someone willing to gut a roster that just produced one of the worst seasons in franchise history.
Foote's bench, Dorion's pen. That's the structure being whispered into place. Whether ownership wants a builder or a babysitter is the part nobody has answered yet.
The most telling stat from the season just ended? Vancouver's last regular-season result was a 1-6 loss in Edmonton. That's the room the next GM walks into on day one.
There's also the Pettersson question. The contract is locked in, the production has slipped, and the relationship with management has been picked apart for two seasons. New GM, same elephant in the dressing room.
And nobody in Vancouver has forgotten what a real cap reset costs. Trading one of Pettersson, Boeser, or Filip Hronek would be the kind of opening move that defines a tenure.
Wyshynski didn't say the deal is done. He said it's trending. In hockey hiring cycles, that usually means the interview circuit is closing fast.
If this lands the way it sounds like it will, the Canucks aren't just announcing a name. They're announcing a direction. And that direction will start with phone calls Vancouver fans may not be ready to hear.
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