Canucks Fire GM After Disastrous Season

0:00It's April 17th. I'm Corey with The Story, and this is NHL News today, your AI Power Team report. Vancouver Connucks just fired their General Manager, Patrick Alvin, on Friday after a brutal season. The team finished dead last in the NHL with a 25-49-8 record and 89 points. They missed the playoffs for the fifth time in six years and the ninth time in 11 seasons overall. Alvin, a 51-year-old exec, got hired on January 26th, 2022 by Jim Rutherford. Before that, he spent 26 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins, rising from director of European scouting to assistant GM under Rutherford. Under Alvin, the Connucks had one bright spot, winning 50 games in the 2023-24 season their first 50-win year since 2011-12. But they got knocked out by the Edmonton Oilers in the Western Conference second round in seven games. The roster flipped big time the last two years. They shipped forward J.T. Miller to the New York Rangers on January 31st, 2025, and traded Norris Trophy

1:07defenseman Quinn Hughes to the Minnesota, wild on December 12th. Injuries wrecked him this year too, sideline and key guys like forwards of Vanderkame, Philip Chidell, and Jonathan Lecker-Rimaki, defenseman Derek Foreboard, and goalie Fatcher-Demko for big chunks of time. Now the Connucks star fresh, hunting for new leadership to turn this around.