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Shane Doan and Adam Foote are suddenly part of the same Canucks offseason story.<\/p>\n
Vancouver’s front-office search just took a sharper turn.<\/p>\n
According to Elliotte Friedman, the Canucks asked the Maple Leafs for permission to speak to Doan. That puts a respected name from Toronto’s hockey department into a search that already felt wide open.<\/p>\n
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That matters because this is not some random add to a long list.<\/p>\n
Doan has been with the Leafs since June 2023, and Friedman reported he earned strong reviews inside the organization for how he handled things when Toronto’s season went sideways.<\/p>\n
One detail stands out more than the rest.<\/p>\n
Friedman noted that Doan was willing to admit his own mistakes and explain how he would fix them. In a Canucks organization that just went through public front-office chaos, that kind of trait is going to carry weight.<\/p>\n
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It also tells you Vancouver may not be looking only for the usual executive r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>\n
The Canucks are clearly searching for voices they believe can steady the room upstairs as much as they can shape hockey decisions.<\/p>\n
And Doan brings that kind of credibility fast.<\/p>\n
–<\/a>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCanucks sought permission to pursue key Leafs figure according to Friedman<\/p>\n The role is still unclear, and Friedman made that plain. He wrote that Doan has never expressed a desire to be a full-time GM, but could definitely be part of a group.<\/p>\n That line matters.<\/p>\n Because it suggests Vancouver may be building something broader than one simple hire. The club may be looking for a structure with more than one strong voice around Foote and the next hockey-ops setup.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Doan would fit that kind of model.<\/p>\n He played 1,540 NHL games from 1995 to 2017, and that kind of career gives him instant standing in any room he walks into.<\/p>\n For the Canucks, that could be useful right now.<\/p>\n This franchise does not only need a title on an office door. It needs adults in the room, and it needs them fast.<\/p>\n The timing makes this even more interesting because Vancouver is already tied to other names, including Kevyn Adams. Adding Doan suggests the team is still exploring different types of candidates and different shapes for the next front office.<\/p>\n So this is not a hiring yet.<\/p>\n But it is a real signal.<\/p>\n The Canucks are not only looking inward, and they are not only chasing conventional GM profiles. By reaching out on Shane Doan, Vancouver just showed it is thinking bigger about how it wants to rebuild trust after a season that wrecked too much of it.<\/p>\n Should the Canucks bring Shane Doan into their hockey operations group?<\/p>\n Also read on Vancouver Hockey Daily :
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