{"id":589328,"date":"2026-06-02T12:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589328\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T12:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T12:00:16","slug":"vancouver-canucks-hire-manny-malhotra-as-head-coach-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/589328\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver Canucks hire Manny Malhotra as head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"

June 2 (UPI) — The Vancouver Canucks hired Manny Malhotra<\/a> as their head coach.<\/p>\n

General manager Ryan Johnson<\/a> announced the hire late Monday. Malhotra spent the last two seasons as head coach of the Abbotsford Canucks.\n<\/p>\n

“Manny and I have been in the battle together before, so I know firsthand what a good teacher, leader, and quality person he is,” Johnson said in a news release. “Connection, consistency and putting in place the proper foundation will be key for our group moving forward. Manny is a great coach who has the right skillset and mentality to help players develop and get better each day.<\/p>\n

“We both believe that pressure is a privilege, and learning to become a good pro takes patience, dedication, and a ‘be better than yesterday’ mindset. He loves the game and getting to know what makes his players tick and I am very confident Manny will help us ice a competitive and hard-working team that our fans will be proud of moving forward.”<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The Canucks fired former coach Adam Foote<\/a> in May. Foote led the Canucks to a 25-49-8 record in one season. He replaced RIck Tocchet, who resigned after coaching the Canucks to a 108-65-27 record from 2022-23 through 2024-25.<\/p>\n

Malhotra led the Abbotsford Canucks to a 72-61-6-5 record over his two seasons as coach. They won the franchise’s first Calder Cup in 2024-25.<\/p>\n

The Canucks made the playoffs just twice since 2014-15. They lost in the second round in each of those appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June 2 (UPI) — The Vancouver Canucks hired Manny Malhotra as their head coach. General manager Ryan Johnson…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5128],"tags":[3528,894,5,2820,4,14074,893,27,5313],"class_list":["post-589328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver-canucks","tag-adam-foote","tag-canucks","tag-hockey","tag-manny-malhotra","tag-nhl","tag-ryan-johnson","tag-vancouver","tag-vancouver-canucks","tag-vancouvercanucks"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116680407358846916","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589328","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=589328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}