The Vancouver Canucks are in the market for a new head coach as Rick Tocchet has chosen not to re-sign ahead of the 2025-26 season.
The Vancouver Canucks could have forced Rick Tocchet to return as head coach in the 2025-26 season by exercising their option on his contract. They chose not to do so.
“We will not exercise the team option for him to stay,” said the Canucks’ president of hockey operations Jim Rutherford. “We don’t feel it’s right to have somebody here that may have his mind somewhere else. And I’d say that about anybody.”
While Tocchet expressed his desire to return to Vancouver at the team’s end-of-season media availability, he also said he needed time to breathe and think about his future.
Evidently,…