Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Canucks General Manager Ryan Johnson announced today that Head Coach Adam Foote and Assistant Coaches Scott Young, Kevin Dean and Brett McLean have been relieved of their duties. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to thank Adam, Scott, Kevin, and Brett for all the work they did for us this season,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cIt was a challenging year on several fronts and truthfully, Adam and his staff were\u00a0dealt\u00a0a very difficult\u00a0hand. That said, as we head into a rebuild, our group feels new coaching voices are needed to chart the path forward. Establishing the proper environment and culture is a vital first step in creating a solid and authentic connection throughout the entire organization. At the start of next season, our coaches will need to do a lot of\u00a0work\u00a0with our players, to instill in them the traits and habits they will rely on moving forward. The process to bring in\u00a0a new staff\u00a0begins\u00a0immediately.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Adam Foote was named the 22nd Head Coach in Vancouver Canucks history\u00a0on May 14, 2025.\u00a0He had\u00a0previously served as the team\u2019s Assistant Coach, having been hired on January 22, 2023, through the conclusion of the 2024.25 season.\u00a0Prior to joining the Canucks organization,\u202fFoote was the Head Coach of the Kelowna Rockets\u202ffrom 2018 to 2020, posting a record of\u202f28-29-8-4 across two seasons.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Scott Young\u00a0moved into the role of Assistant Coach on June 5, 2025, after spending the past three seasons serving\u00a0as Director of Player Personnel for the Vancouver Canucks. Prior to his tenure with the organization, he spent five years as Director of Player Development for the Pittsburgh Penguins.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Kevin Dean was hired as an Assistant Coach\u00a0on June 5, 2025.\u00a0He\u00a0previously served as an Assistant Coach with the Chicago Blackhawks, where he spent\u00a0three seasons\u00a0working with the team\u2019s\u00a0defencemen.\u00a0The Madison, WI native has spent 19 seasons coaching professional hockey.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brett McLean was hired by the Vancouver Canucks on\u00a0June 5. Prior to joining the organization,\u00a0he\u00a0spent\u00a02023 to 2025 as the Head Coach of the Minnesota Wild\u2019s AHL affiliate, the Iowa Wild.\u00a0Before\u00a0his time in Iowa,\u00a0he\u00a0worked as an Assistant Coach with the Minnesota Wild\u00a0for three seasons (2020-23).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver, BC – Vancouver Canucks General Manager Ryan Johnson announced today that Head Coach Adam Foote and Assistant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680388,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-680387","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\/680387","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=680387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}