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There has been lots of speculation that Allvin, the Canucks’ GM for four years, would be dismissed at the end of this season after the team missed the playoffs for the third time in four seasons
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Published Apr 17, 2026  • 3 minute read
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Canucks General manager Patrik Allvin in January 2024 Photo by Jason Payne /PNGArticle content
Patrik Allvin is out as general manager of the Vancouver Canucks, according to a report in Swedish media.
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According to Aftonbladet’s veteran reporter Thomas Ros, Allvin is set to be dismissed by the Canucks. Ros made the report Friday morning in Sweden, Thursday evening in Vancouver.
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Allvin and his boss, president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford, have been asked for comment.
It is not known if Allvin made the trip to Edmonton with the Canucks for Thursday evening’s game against the Oilers, which Vancouver lost 6-1.
Allvin was hired in January 2022 by Rutherford. The first Swedish general manager in NHL history, Allvin had previously worked for Rutherford in Pittsburgh: he’d been the team’s chief scout and then an assistant general manager.
Under Allvin’s direction, the team came close to qualifying for the playoffs in both 2022 and 2023 before finally breaking through and making the second round of the playoffs in 2023-24, losing in seven games to the Edmonton Oilers.
But the previous seasons have been major steps backwards; the team was shattered midway through the 2024-25 season when a split between J.T. Miller and Elias Pettersson proved irreparable and Miller was eventually traded away.
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The team was already struggling when Miller was moved and although Allvin added a useful centre in Filip Chytil from the Rangers, then flipped the first-round pick he got in the trade to Pittsburgh to get defenceman Marcus Pettersson, the Canucks just never found any consistency down the stretch and missed the playoffs.
Head coach Rick Tocchet turned down a contract offer after the season and left the organization, a stunning blow for Allvin and Rutherford, who had hired Tocchet halfway through the 2022-23 season. He was the coach they had wanted since the summer of 2022 and he proved his worth in the 2023-24 season, winning the Jack Adams trophy.
That summer the roster turned over quite a bit, with veteran defencemen Ian Cole and Nikita Zadorov moving on, as well as veteran centreman Elias Lindholm, whom Allvin had traded a boatload of prospects and picks for. He brought in Jake DeBrusk, Derek Forbort, Danton Heinen, Kiefer Sherwood, Daniel Sprong and Vincent Desharnais in the summer of 2024, but the season turned into a disaster and rather than taking a step forward, the team blew apart, missing the playoffs.
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Further, Tocchet obviously saw nothing but further instability coming down the track — Quinn Hughes’ future was already in doubt by the time Tocchet left and also the coach surely worried about who he might end up working for if the 2025-26 season went no better. He’d have a long-term contract in his pocket had he stayed, relative security compared to others in the organization, but he’d have been worried that Allvin would take the blame if the team stumbled again.
Even with the internal concerns about Hughes’ long-term plan, Allvin attempted to refresh his team last summer, bringing in Evander Kane. He also resigned veterans Thatcher Demko, Conor Garland and Brock Boeser to long-term deals.
To replace Tocchet, Allvin and Rutherford selected Tocchet’s former assistant Adam Foote. Foote’s high-level coaching experience was limited, but he had impressed as Tocchet’s lead assistant over the previous 2.5 seasons. His familiarity with the Canucks’ roster, especially his relationship with Hughes, were sold as the primary reasons for his hire, though some observers claimed he was also hired because his salary was kind to the budget.
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Foote’s season never really got started and after early season injuries to Forbort, Chytil and Teddy Blueger, the team began to really struggle and Foote had few answers. Hughes’s departure in a trade in December essentially ended the Canucks’ dreams, which were already very faded, of making the playoffs.
Notably, Rutherford took the lead in negotiations over a Hughes trade, a potential sign of a lack of trust in Allvin’s ability to make significant deals workout in Vancouver’s favour. But Allvin is understood to have remained the lead negotiator in other trades: he ended up moving out veterans David Kampf, Tyler Myers and Garland before the trade deadline, continuing efforts to reshape his squad in a post-Hughes, post-Miller era.
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