Canucks give Sedins bigger front-office roles in surprising move
Daniel and Henrik Sedin are climbing the org chart in Vancouver, and the Canucks are about to look very different upstairs.
The twins have accepted expanded front-office roles, per Canucks insider Irfaan Gaffar, with Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman confirming the conversations late last week.
This morning, Friedman flagged Monday as a potentially "big day" for internal decisions, and the Sedins moving up is the first domino.
What the actual titles will be remains unclear. The framing from Friedman was deliberately vague. Vancouver hasn't announced anything formal yet.
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The brothers joined the front office in 2021 as special advisors, then slid into player development work in 2022. This is a real promotion, not a ceremonial bump.
Context matters here. The Canucks just finished 32nd overall at 25-49-8, with 58 points and a -100 goal differential. Adam Foote inherited a mess.
Rutherford's exit opens the door to a full reshape
Jim Rutherford is vacating the president of hockey operations role, and the GM search is reportedly down to Evan Gold and Ryan Johnson.
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So where do the Sedins land? Joint president of hockey ops? Or something closer to the senior advisor path Mats Sundin just took in Toronto?
That distinction matters more than it sounds. One version puts the twins above the next GM. The other tucks them beside ownership as influence without authority.
Reports also suggest assistant GMs Emilie Castonguay and Cammi Granato could be on the hot seat, and the scouting department is in line for an overhaul.
A home record of 9-27-5 will do that to an organization. Rogers Arena turned into a confession booth this winter.
Vancouver gave up 316 goals. They scored 216. That's the math of a franchise that needs more than a fresh nameplate on the door.
The Sedins carry brand equity no front-office hire can match in this market. Pairing that with two unproven GM finalists is a deliberate choice by ownership.
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It's also a bet. Hockey icons don't automatically translate into sharp cap managers or shrewd trade-deadline operators. Ask anyone who watched Steve Yzerman's first two years in Tampa.
The question now is whether the Sedins are being handed real decision-making power, or being used as a familiar face on a rebuild that's about to get uncomfortable.
Clarity is supposed to come this week. Until then, the most recognizable jerseys in franchise history are sitting at the center of the biggest restructure since 2014.
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YESTERDAY
MAY 10, 2026
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| Cutter Gauthier | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Mitch Marner | - | 3 | 3 | |
| Alex Newhook | 2 | - | 2 | |
| Cole Caufield | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Rasmus Dahlin | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Alexander Killorn | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Beckett Sennecke | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Tage Thompson | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Jack Eichel | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Jake Evans | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Lane Hutson | - | 2 | 2 | |
| Zachary Bolduc | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Kirby Dach | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Pavel Dorofeyev | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Mikael Granlund | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Tomas Hertl | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Brett Howden | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Ian Moore | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Juraj Slafkovsky | 1 | - | 1 | |
| Alexandre Carrier | - | 1 | 1 | |
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