{"id":555377,"date":"2026-04-18T16:39:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:39:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555377\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T16:39:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T16:39:16","slug":"more-details-emerge-about-why-the-vancouver-canucks-fired-patrik-allvin-daily-hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/555377\/","title":{"rendered":"More details emerge about why the Vancouver Canucks fired Patrik Allvin | Daily Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

After the worst Vancouver Canucks season in recent memory, he became the fall guy.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Canucks officially relieved Patrik Allvin from his duties as Vancouver Canucks general manager, after the report initially surfaced from a Swedish publication<\/a> on Thursday night.<\/p>\n

For now, both president Jim Rutherford and head coach Adam Foote remain at the helm.<\/a><\/p>\n

Rutherford himself didn\u2019t reveal much of a reason behind Allvin\u2019s dismissal, other than the fact that he \u201cfelt it was time to make a change.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, The Athletic\u2019s Thomas Drance dug up two reasons<\/a> why the first Swedish general manager in NHL history no longer works for the Canucks.<\/p>\n

While Allvin largely gave Foote the benefit of the doubt when speaking to the media this season, behind the scenes, things reportedly weren\u2019t as rosy.<\/p>\n

Drance reported that a league source told him the relationship between Foote and Allvin eroded as the season progressed. Allvin apparently wanted more playing time for young players in the Canucks lineup, but Foote was slow to adapt.<\/p>\n

While Foote did eventually listen, Allvin\u2019s handling of the situation was viewed as a mark against him, according to Drance\u2019s reporting.<\/p>\n

By season\u2019s end, the Canucks leaders at forward in five-on-five ice time were Evander Kane and Teddy Blueger, two players who may not even be back with the Canucks next season. From the Olympic break onward, Blueger led all Canucks forwards in five-on-five ice time.<\/p>\n

With defenceman Tom Willander, he didn\u2019t see a noticeable bump in his minutes until after Tyler Myers was traded.<\/p>\n

The other strike against Allvin was the more well-known Quinn Hughes trade, something that Rutherford ended up handling.<\/p>\n

The Athletic\u2019s Michael Russo reshared the story following Allvin\u2019s firing on Friday. Russo reported<\/a> that Minnesota Wild general manager Bill Guerin called Allvin to inquire about Hughes, and Allvin informed him to call Rutherford instead.<\/p>\n

You\u2019d have to listen carefully, but there were subtle differences in the way Rutherford described Allvin\u2019s role versus how he wants the new Canucks GM to operate.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was in charge of most of the things,\u201d Rutherford said when asked about Allvin\u2019s role. \u201cMaking the trades, deciding who\u2019s getting called up and down, working with the coach and all those things.\u201d<\/p>\n

The keyword is that Allvin handled \u201cmost\u201d things.<\/p>\n

Except arguably the most important trade in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Rutherford\u2019s answer changed slightly when talking about the new GM of the Canucks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want the new GM to make all hockey decisions,\u201d he declared.<\/p>\n

Based on Rutherford\u2019s path to retirement, that\u2019s probably a prudent choice.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at where I\u2019m at in my life now, I can do whatever I want,\u201d Rutherford said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I feel comfortable that we have a good, strong person in place and maybe even potentially add two people over time, I would feel comfortable making a decision to leave at some point in time.\u201d<\/p>\n

So, the GM is gone. The head coach is left twisting in the wind while a president contemplating retirement leads the search for a new general manager.<\/p>\n

You could argue that life as a Canucks fan has never been more confounding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After the worst Vancouver Canucks season in recent memory, he became the fall guy. On Friday, the Canucks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":475316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[894,5,4,893,27,5313],"class_list":{"0":"post-555377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-vancouver-canucks","8":"tag-canucks","9":"tag-hockey","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-vancouver","12":"tag-vancouver-canucks","13":"tag-vancouvercanucks"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116426700530883424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/475316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}