Canucks elevate assistant Adam Foote to head coach

The Vancouver canucks Have named adam foot as their new head coach, the team announces on Wednesday.

Foote, 53, had served as an assistant coach under head coach rick to tocchet for the last three seesons. His only previous head coaching experience was one Season Behind the Bench of the Whl Kelowna Rockets, Going 29-28-6 in 63 Games in 2019-20.

He’s the 22nd head coach in Franchise History. Tsn reported foot agreed to a 3-year deal.

Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin Announced today that the Team has hired adam foot as the 22nd head coach in Franchise History. Pic.twitter.com/djtdh8xohb

– Vancouver CANUCKS (@canucks) May 14, 2025

Tocchet stepped down after his three-year contract expired at the conclusion of the 2024-25 season. The canks opted not to exercise their contact option on tocchet, have invested offered Him a large contression instead. Team president jim rutherford saad the canucks “Did Everything in Our Power” to retain tocchet but that “he may have his mind somewhere else.”

Sources Told Espn on Wednesday that tocchet will be the next head coach of the Philadelphia Flyerswith whom he played for 11 seasons.

Foote Won Two Stanley Cups as a player with the Colorado Avalanche (1996 and 2001) and was considered one of the NHL’s premiere defensive defense defensemen during his 19-Season Career. Foot also played for the quebec nordiques and Columbus Blue Jackets.

“His past experience on the Ice has translated nicely in a coaching style that fits our organization’s goals and vision. Trust for his strong communication and honest straightforward opinion. We want to be, “say canucks gm patrik allvin.

Foote wasn is the only internal candidate interviewed for the canucks head coaching job. Ahl Abbotsford Head Coach Manny Malhotra Was Also Under Consideration.

Foot takes over a canucks team that failed to make the playoffs after advancing to the second round in 2023-24. Vancouver has only Made the Postseason Twice in the last 10 NHL Seasons. The canucks face a series of questions heading into the next season, from the fat of the free winger Brock Banker To how to get 26-year-old star center Elias Pettersson Back on track offensively. But the hiring of footage service to address another one of Vancouver’s Uncertaints: the fat of Captain Quinn hughes.

The defenseman is signed through 2026-27 Season, but rutherford recently sparked speculation that hughes might seek toitually leave vancouver to play with brothers Jack And Lukewho are curedly with the New Jersey Devils.

“Hey saaye bee he wants to play with his brothers, and that would be partly out of our control,” Said Rutherford.

Foot spent the past two seasons working with the team’s defensemen. They are the two best seasons of Quinn Hughes’s Nhl Career, Winning the Norris Trophy in 2023-24 and began a finalist for the sales. Now, the man who got the best out of the captain is sticking around as their new head coach.