{"id":853597,"date":"2026-08-11T01:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853597\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T01:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T01:28:09","slug":"canucks-hire-former-sharks-blackhawks-staffer-as-director-of-hockey-strategy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/853597\/","title":{"rendered":"Canucks hire former Sharks, Blackhawks staffer as director of hockey strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">VANCOUVER \u2014 The rebuilding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/vancouver-canucks\/23\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> have hired Ryan Stewart as the NHL team\u2019s director of hockey strategy and player evaluation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">General manager <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-johnson\/8481564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/player\/ryan-johnson\/8481564\" target=\"_blank\">Ryan Johnson<\/a> announced the news on Monday, saying in a statement that Stewart \u201cbrings a championship pedigree and a wealth of hockey knowledge to this brand new position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Stewart joins the Canucks following four seasons with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tsn.ca\/nhl\/team-page\/san-jose-sharks\/28\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> where he oversaw the club\u2019s professional staff in North America and Europe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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 class=\"c-paragraph\">Stewart hails from Niagara Falls, Ont., and played hockey professionally before moving into coaching and management, logging 325 games in the ECHL. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published Aug. 10, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VANCOUVER \u2014 The rebuilding Vancouver Canucks have hired Ryan Stewart as the NHL team\u2019s director of hockey strategy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[49,48,448,82],"class_list":["post-853597","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\/853597","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=853597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}