{"id":347746,"date":"2026-06-05T07:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347746\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T07:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T07:56:15","slug":"former-sharks-forward-manny-malhotra-named-head-coach-of-the-vancouver-canucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/347746\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Sharks Forward Manny Malhotra Named Head Coach of the Vancouver Canucks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday morning, the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/vancouver\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vancouver Canucks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Vancouver Canucks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vancouver Canucks<\/a> officially introduced former <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/san-jose\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:San Jose Sharks;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;San Jose Sharks&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Sharks<\/a> forward <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/players\/1757\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Manny Malhotra;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Manny Malhotra&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Manny Malhotra<\/a> as their 23rd head coach in franchise history after he was hired earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Malhotra was originally an assistant coach for the Canucks from 2017 until 2020 when he became an assistant for the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nhl\/teams\/toronto\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Toronto Maple Leafs;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Toronto Maple Leafs&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Toronto Maple Leafs<\/a>. He rejoined the Canucks organization for the 2024-25 season as the head coach of their American Hockey League affiliate, the Abbottsford Canucks. After two seasons at that post, he earned a promotion to the NHL when the Canucks opted to move on from Adam Foote after a single season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Malhotra being named head coach was the second major promotion within the Canucks organization this offseason, as the Abbottsford Canucks&#8217; general manager last season, Ryan Johnson, was promoted to the general manager role for the NHL club after Patrik Allvin departed the organization.<\/p>\n<p>As a player. Malhotra spent one season with the San Jose Sharks during the 2009-10 campaign. In 71 games in teal, he scored 14 goals and totaled 33 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Thursday morning, the Vancouver Canucks officially introduced former San Jose Sharks forward Manny Malhotra as their 23rd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[142489,142490,29213,13247,142488,88,90,89,98,2992,20226],"class_list":["post-347746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-abbottsford-canucks","tag-adam-foote","tag-assistant-coach","tag-head-coach","tag-manny-malhotra","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-sharks","tag-toronto-maple-leafs","tag-vancouver-canucks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}