{"id":754977,"date":"2026-06-23T03:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754977\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T03:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T03:44:08","slug":"is-michael-dyck-about-to-return-to-the-vancouver-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/754977\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Michael Dyck about to return to the Vancouver Giants?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>              Is Michael Dyck about to return to the Vancouver Giants?<\/p>\n<p class=\"pubStamp\">Published 7:00 pm Monday, June 22, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Is Michael Dyck returning to the Vancouver Giants?<\/p>\n<p>There are unconfirmed reports speculating the Langley-based team is about to announce Dyck will be coming back in a dual capacity as their general manager and head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Langley Advance Times has reached out to the Giants for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Dyck was Giants <a href=\"https:\/\/langleyadvancetimes.com\/2018\/06\/28\/vancouver-giants-name-michael-dyck-as-new-head-coach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">head coach for five seasons between 2018 and 2023<\/a>, and during his first season with the G-Men he led them to overtime in Game 7 of the WHL Championship Series against Prince Albert.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s currently assistant coach with Toronto Marlies, the AHL affiliate of Toronto Maple Leafs and the 2026 American Hockey League Calder Cup Champions<\/p>\n<p>Giants have been without a coach or GM since then-coach Parker Burgess and then-GM Hnat Domenichelli stepped down after after the Giants finished the 2025-26 regular season at the bottom of the WHL western conference, and out of the playoffs with 25 wins in 68 games.<\/p>\n<p>Giants Majority Owner Ron Toigo called it \u201ca difficult season.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/langleyadvancetimes.com\/2026\/04\/14\/vancouver-giants-coach-goes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Vancouver Giants coach goes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/langleyadvancetimes.com\/2026\/04\/14\/giants-gm-steps-down-after-very-difficult-year-for-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Giants GM steps down after \u2018very difficult year\u2019 for team<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Domenichelli was the fourth general manager in franchise history, named to his job last summer on the same day Parker Burgess became the 10th head coach.<\/p>\n<p>Domenichelli is still with the team in a player personnel capacity.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the team announced its preseason schedule for the 2026-27 Western Hockey League season, starting south of the border with a pair of games in Everett on Sept. 4 and 6 for the Silvertips preseason tournament with U.S. Division teams. <\/p>\n<p>Then, Vancouver will host Victoria Royals for back-to-back games on Sept. 12 and 13, the last one taking place at Langley Events Centre at 2 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is Michael Dyck about to return to the Vancouver Giants? Published 7:00 pm Monday, June 22, 2026 Is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":754978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194299],"tags":[49,48,87674],"class_list":["post-754977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-surrey","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-surrey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754977","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=754977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/754977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/754978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=754977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=754977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=754977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}