{"id":853496,"date":"2026-08-10T23:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T23:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T23:28:10","slug":"canucks-hire-former-sharks-blackhawks-staffer-as-director-of-hockey-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853496\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks hire former Sharks, Blackhawks staffer as director of hockey strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The rebuilding <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=\"nofollow noopener\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have hired Ryan Stewart as the NHL team\u2019s director of hockey strategy and player evaluation.<\/p>\n<p>General manager Ryan Johnson announced the news on Monday, saying in a statement that Stewart &#8220;brings a championship pedigree and a wealth of hockey knowledge to this brand new position.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stewart joins the Canucks following four seasons with the San Jose Sharks where he oversaw the club&#8217;s professional staff in North America and Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He previously spent parts of 16 seasons with the Blackhawks, serving in a variety of roles from assistant general manager to director of professional scouting and amateur scout to assistant coach, and won Stanley Cups with Chicago in 2013 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart hails from Niagara Falls, Ont., and played hockey professionally before moving into coaching and management, logging 325 games in the ECHL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Canucks have also hired Adam Sergerie as a pro scout, bringing him to Vancouver from the Western Hockey League where he spent the 2025-26 campaign as director of scouting for the Penticton Vees.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rebuilding Vancouver Canucks have hired Ryan Stewart as the NHL team\u2019s director of hockey strategy and player&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":718789,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-853496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853496","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=853496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/718789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}