{"id":715935,"date":"2026-06-20T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715935\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:08:08","slug":"mammoth-to-hire-adam-foote-as-an-assistant-coach-pro-hockey-rumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/715935\/","title":{"rendered":"Mammoth To Hire Adam Foote As An Assistant Coach \u2013 Pro Hockey Rumors"},"content":{"rendered":"

After being let go as head coach of the Canucks following their front office shakeup, Adam Foote won\u2019t be out of a job for long.\u00a0 CHEK\u2019s Rick Dhaliwal reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that Foote has signed on to join the Mammoth\u2019s staff as an assistant coach.<\/p>\n

Foote spent parts of four seasons behind the bench in Vancouver.\u00a0 He originally came onboard as an assistant midway through the 2022-23 season on Rick Tocchet\u2019s staff, then moved up to the head coaching role last offseason when Tocchet and the team couldn\u2019t work out a new deal.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s fair to say that Foote\u2019s first stint as an NHL head coach didn\u2019t go very well.\u00a0 The team was hoping to get back into the playoff mix but instead, the Canucks played to a record of just 25-49-8, finishing dead last.\u00a0 Quinn Hughes<\/a> was moved midseason while the team appears to be positioning itself toward entering at least some sort of rebuild but will be doing so with a fresh voice behind the bench with Manny Malhotra taking over as head coach next season.<\/p>\n

When he was an assistant in Vancouver, Foote was in charge of Vancouver\u2019s defense and penalty kill with both of those areas improving when he took over.\u00a0 He\u2019ll likely have a similar role with the Mammoth but will be starting out with a group that allowed the tenth-fewest goals and the fifth-fewest shots on goal this season.\u00a0 Utah\u2019s shorthanded success rate was a little below average, however, so they\u2019ll be hoping Foote will be able to help that unit improve.<\/p>\n

As for who Foote will be replacing (or if he\u2019ll be replacing someone), that remains unclear.\u00a0 The Fourth Period reports<\/a> that Blaine Forsythe\u2019s contract will expire at the end of the month and will not be renewed.\u00a0 However, Brogan Houston of The Deseret News reports (Twitter link<\/a>) that Forsythe has been extended.\u00a0 Forsythe has spent the last three seasons in that role with the organization after being in that role for 14 years in Washington.\u00a0 It\u2019s possible that Foote ultimately serves as an addition to an expanded staff rather than as a direct replacement for someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After being let go as head coach of the Canucks following their front office shakeup, Adam Foote won\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[308552,385,99,4829],"class_list":["post-715935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-adam-foote","tag-nhl","tag-sports","tag-utah-mammoth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}