{"id":607537,"date":"2026-04-16T07:54:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607537\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T07:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T07:54:12","slug":"canucks-ownership-still-weighing-all-their-options-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/607537\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks ownership \u2018still weighing all their options\u2019: report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Could Jim Rutherford\u2019s time as President of Hockey Operations for the Vancouver Canucks<\/a> soon be over? How about Patrik Allvin as GM? Adam Foote as head coach? All options are on the table, it would seem.<\/p>\n

As the Canucks\u2019 disappointing regular season comes to a close, the team is shifting into offseason mode. And this summer will likely be a turbulent one, with major decisions to be made about the organization\u2019s future.<\/p>\n

First up will be deciding who stays and who goes, and right now it looks like no one is necessarily safe. On Wednesday\u2019s edition of Canucks Central, Sportsnet\u2019s Satiar Shah concurred with reporting from Nick Kypreos<\/a> this week, that no one in Vancouver\u2019s front office quite knows what their future holds.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe assumption has been that Rutherford\u2019s going to be back, but I think (Nick) Kypreos nailed it, that nobody\u2019s been assured anything yet,\u201d Shah said. \u201cThe longer it takes for that assurance to be given, the possibility of everything changing remains on the table. The idea of everything happening in terms of cleaning house top to bottom, I think that possibility exists. And maybe that possibility is stronger than we may have assumed a few days ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

It was previously believed that Rutherford would be safe from this offseason\u2019s exodus, but that\u2019s looking less certain by the day. Given how far the team has fallen over the past two seasons, it\u2019s not unreasonable to think he could end up taking some of the heat.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m sure with how things have gone for Rutherford, there has been some confidence lost if you\u2019re ownership,\u201d Shah said. \u201cThere would have to be, right? It doesn\u2019t matter if you still believe in the person or not. If you had to guess, would you assume that ownership would have the same level of confidence in everything Rutherford does today, as they would two years ago?\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the past few weeks, there have been conflicting reports about the future of the Canucks\u2019 brass. In late March, Kypreos reported that Allvin \u201cdoesn\u2019t expect to survive past this year.<\/a>\u201d Days later, TSN\u2019s Darren Dreger reported that Vancouver wasn\u2019t planning any changes<\/a> at the GM position. Given the wide range of speculation, it\u2019s starting to feel like the only certainty is that nothing is decided for sure.<\/p>\n

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