Vancouver, B.C. \u2013 Vancouver Canucks General Manager\u00a0Ryan Johnson\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0named\u00a0Richard Seeley\u00a0General Manager of the Abbotsford Canucks and Assistant General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cRich is someone I have admired and respected for a long time, after watching him run the Kings AHL team in Ontario,\u201d said Johnson. \u201cBesides knowing the game of hockey inside and out, he is a great communicator, goes to work every day with an open mind and sets his players up for success by creating an environment that tries to eliminate any excuse that would stop them from making progress. Rich understands our values and vision, and I believe his mindset and mentality will fit in nicely with what we are trying to establish with our organization in both Abbotsford and Vancouver.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seeley spent the past\u00a0eight\u00a0seasons as the General Manager of the Ontario Reign (AHL). Last year was a historic season for the Reign who captured the Pacific Division regular season title, finishing with a franchise-best 47-20-3-2 record and 99 points. In addition to setting records in regular season wins (47) and points (99), Ontario recorded franchise-highs in winning percentage (0.688), home wins (26) and longest point streak (11 games). \u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to\u00a0joining\u00a0the Reign,\u00a0Seeley\u00a0spent three years\u00a0as Head Coach and Director of Hockey Operations\u00a0of the ECHL’s Manchester Monarchs.\u00a0With Manchester,\u00a0he\u00a0compiled a record of\u00a0117-73-26\u00a0and qualified for the Kelly Cup Playoffs in his three seasons. Seeley’s Monarchs went 3-3 in the postseason, including a run to the Eastern Conference Finals in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Seeley was originally selected by the LA Kings in the sixth round of the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. The Powell River, BC native, appeared in 340 games in the Kings system and served as captain of the AHL’s Manchester Monarchs during the 2003.04 and 2005.06 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vancouver, B.C. \u2013 Vancouver Canucks General Manager\u00a0Ryan Johnson\u00a0announced today that the club has\u00a0named\u00a0Richard Seeley\u00a0General Manager of the Abbotsford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730938,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-730937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730937","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=730937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}