{"id":619461,"date":"2026-04-21T19:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619461\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:31:08","slug":"report-canucks-get-permission-to-interview-kevyn-adams-for-gm-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/619461\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Canucks get permission to interview Kevyn Adams for GM job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/hockey\/nhl\/teams\/vancouver-canucks\/\" class=\"sn-team-post-link\" target=\"_self\" data-team=\"vancouver-canucks\" data-league=\"nhl\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> search for a new general manager, a new name surfaced on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, who was fired by the Sabres in mid-December, required permission to interview because he still had time left on his contract with Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>He served as the Sabres&#8217; GM for five-and-a-half seasons before being replaced by Jarmo Kek\u00e4l\u00e4inen.<\/p>\n<p>On the day Adams was dismissed, the Sabres were 14-14-4 and tied for last place in the Eastern Conference. After his departure, they went 36-9-5, winning the Atlantic Division and ending a 14-season playoff drought. <\/p>\n<p>Adams, 51, is a former NHL forward who played for six different teams over a decade. A first-round draft pick in 1993, he won a Stanley Cup with the Carolina Hurricanes in 2006 before retiring in 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the Vancouver Canucks search for a new general manager, a new name surfaced on Tuesday. Adams, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-619461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}