Canucks will not use the contract option in Rick Tocchet for 2025-26, but hopes to keep behind the bench in his senior coach Vancouver.
Hockey Operations President Jim Rutherford said on Monday that the organization offered Tocchet a new long -term agreement.
He was eliminated by Edmonton Oiles in the 7th game of the Western Conference semi-finals after winning the Pacific Department in 2023-24. Tocchet won the League’s Jack Adams Award as the coach of 2023-24.
Canucks hired Tocchet in the middle of 2022-23 and developed in his first campaign. They collected 109 points and won the quay of the first season since the 2019-20 season.
However, Vancouver fell to the fifth place this season with a sign of 38-30-14 (90 points).
Canucks lost the star goalkeeper Thatcher Demko for all this season due to injuries, and the organization exchanged Star Forward JT Miller to New York Rangers after a nervous relationship with his forward Elias Petterson.
While Tocchet could be the best candidate for open positions in the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Philadelphia Flyers and Boston Bruins finished the season with temporary coaches.
“We don’t feel right to have someone else who can have your mind here elsewhere,” Rutherford said. He said. He continued: “I can say this about everyone. This is not just about Toc. We believe – and I believe – TAC and Coaching personnel this year this year, such as the coach of the year this year has done a good job.”
Tocchet had previously had head coaching tasks in Tampa Bay (2008-09-2009-10) and Arizona (2017-18-2020-21). In January 2023, he replaced Bruce Boudreau behind Canucks’s counter.
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