- Frank Seravalli reports Ryan Johnson will be named Canucks GM on Thursday
- Rick Dhaliwal: Henrik and Daniel Sedin will be introduced as co-presidents
- Read below for full details on the new Vancouver front office structure
Vancouver finally has a new GM.
The Canucks will formally introduce Ryan Johnson as the 13th general manager in franchise history on Thursday afternoon, according to Frank Seravalli of Victory+. Rick Dhaliwal of CHEK added that the 1 p.m. news conference will also confirm Henrik and Daniel Sedin as co-presidents.
Johnson takes over a chair that opened up in April when the team fired Patrik Allvin after a 25-49-8 finish that left Vancouver dead last in the NHL by 14 points. Jim Rutherford then stepped aside as president of hockey operations, clearing space for the Sedins to take on a bigger piece of the front office.
Continuity is part of the appeal. Johnson played alongside Henrik and Daniel during his last two NHL seasons in 2008-09 and 2009-10, then returned to Vancouver as a development coach in 2013.
Promotions followed. Johnson became GM of the AHL affiliate in 2017, ran Abbotsford as its first-ever GM when the team relocated in 2021, and was bumped to Vancouver assistant GM under Allvin in 2023.
Abbotsford won the Calder Cup last season under his watch, and his pipeline has pumped names like Elias Pettersson, Aatu Räty, Max Sasson, and Linus Karlsson onto Vancouver’s NHL roster. He posted a 191-134-31 record across five seasons running the AHL club.
Here’s Dhaliwal breaking down what the new Sedin-Johnson front office looks like:
His promotion caps a search that interviewed more than 15 candidates and at one point came down to Johnson and Bruins assistant GM Evan Gold. Seravalli reported earlier this week that the Sedins had been “fervent backers” of Johnson, and word on Tuesday was that Gold had overplayed his hand in his final meetings.
Daniel and Henrik accepted expanded front office roles over the weekend. Elliotte Friedman has since floated that they could end up sitting above Johnson on the org chart rather than next to him. Vancouver picks third overall at the 2026 NHL Draft, with the combine just weeks away.
