Inside the Vancouver Canucks’ GM search: What I’m hearing about 9 candidates

Vancouver Canucks president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford will spend this weekend whittling down a list of candidates to replace Patrik Allvin as the team’s general manager.From what I can gather about the process to this point, the prohibitive front-runner remains Canucks assistant GM Ryan Johnson. Rutherford, however, intends to cast a wide net in search of a hockey operations leader with integrity, communication skills and who has a deep understanding of where the Canucks are positioned in their team-building cycle.Advertisement