Sedins promoted to bigger roles in Vancouver Canucks front office: report
Will this be the week we find out who will be the next general manager of the Vancouver Canucks?
The team is reportedly close to making a decision, with the finalists being Evan Gold and Ryan Johnson.
But that surely won’t be the only change made to the Canucks’ front office.
Reports indicate that there’ll be an overhaul to the team’s scouting staff, and assistant general managers Emilie Castonguay and Cammi Granato could be on the hot seat.
And then there’s the Sedins.
The Sedins had their jersey numbers retired by the Canucks in 2020 (Bob Frid/USA TODAY Sports)
Henrik and Daniel Sedin have been with the Canucks in off-ice roles since 2021, rejoining the team first as “special advisors” to the general manager. They transitioned into player development roles in 2022.
Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported that the Sedins were offered bigger roles in the organization.
Friedman said on the 32 Thoughts podcast that Monday could be a “big day” in terms of internal decisions being made for the team’s organizational structure.
“I do think the Canucks have asked the Sedins if they want to take more of a role,” Friedman said. “I don’t know what the titles would be in Vancouver if this is accepted. But I do believe that they have talked to the Sedins about taking a larger role, and they were pondering the idea.”
The Sedins have accepted the job offer, per Canucks insider Irfaan Gaffar.
“Daniel and Henrik Sedin were offered larger front office roles with the Vancouver Canucks and accepted over the weekend,” Gaffar said.
Elliotte is right. Daniel and Henrik Sedin were offered larger front office roles with the Vancouver Canucks and accepted over the weekend. The structure of what they are trying to do is starting to take shape.
— Irfaan Gaffar (@irfgaffar) May 11, 2026
“I said this morning on the pod that they’ve been asked, it looks like that’s going to happen, that they’re going to take a bigger role,” Friedman said later on The Fan Hockey Show. “It sounds like they’re preparing for that.”
Just what roles the twins have accepted remains to be seen. Would they jointly take over the role of president of hockey operations, which is being vacated by Jim Rutherford? Or would they instead follow a similar path to Mats Sundin, who was recently named senior executive advisor of hockey operations with the Toronto Maple Leafs?
Have they accepted jobs that report to ownership or the new general manager?
Sounds like we’ll get clarity on that this week.
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