Jim Rutherford\u2019s time as Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations is coming to an end.<\/p>\n
In a press conference held after the NHL Draft Lottery<\/a>, the 77-year-old executive told reporters at Rogers Arena that he\u2019ll step down from his current role after next month\u2019s draft, which is being held in Buffalo June 26 and 27. He\u2019ll remain with the team as an advisor and alternate governor after that.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m going to get away from the day-to-day operations,\u201d Rutherford said. \u201cI\u2019m going to stay with the team as an advisor and an alternate governor\u2026 We\u2019re going to put together a really good staff here going forward. This is something that I\u2019ve thought about for a couple of years. It\u2019s time for me to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ll help with the transition and with the new people in different positions, and things like that. But, I\u2019ll still be part of the organization. When somebody wants to bounce something off me, I\u2019m happy to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n Hired Dec. 9, 2021<\/a>, Rutherford stayed in his job longer than he expected.<\/p>\n The three-time Stanley Cup winner likely expected more success in Vancouver. Instead, the Canucks made the playoffs just once under his watch.<\/p>\n It seems it\u2019ll be up to the new general manager to steer the direction of the franchise going forward. Rutherford said that over 15 candidates were interviewed for the job, but the list is now down to five.<\/p>\n You might also like:These Canucks GM candidates have had in-person interviews<\/a>Vancouver Canucks lose the 2026 NHL draft lottery<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jim Rutherford\u2019s time as Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations is coming to an end. In a press…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-651264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651264","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=651264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}