It didn’t take long for former Vancouver Canucks head coach Adam Foote to find his next job behind an NHL bench.

According to Donnie & Dhali’s Rick Dhaliwal, Foote has signed to be an assistant coach on recently-extended Andre Tourigny’s bench with the Utah Mammoth.

Dhaliwal reported earlier this week that the Mammoth were “trying to get a deal done” with Foote.

Foote originally joined the Canucks’ bench as an assistant on Rick Tocchet’s coaching staff midway through the 2022-23 season after the Canucks relieved Bruce Boudreau of his coaching duties. Foote was responsible for the Canucks’ defence and penalty kill, both of which took demonstrable steps forward that season and the next, when the Canucks surprised the hockey world by winning the Pacific Division and coming within one win from advancing to the Western Conference Final.

The following season was a significant step back for the Canucks, who failed to qualify for the playoffs and saw traded JT Miller to the New York Rangers following a years long off-ice rift with Elias Pettersson reached a boiling point. To top it all off, the year ended with Rick Tocchet leaving town to take a job with the Philadelphia Flyers. The Canucks promoted Foote to head coach following Tocchet’s departure, but the 2025-26 Canucks were a disaster to the point that it cost Foote his job after just one season as bench boss.

While Foote seemed out of his element as a head coach, nobody complained about him while he was an assistant coach. In fact, it was quite the opposite. Canucks defencemen constantly raved about the work Foote was doing with them, and the on-ice results backed that praise up.

With Foote being hired by Utah, the Canucks will save some money for the next two seasons, as the Canucks will only need to pay for whatever part of Foote’s contract isn’t covered by what he’s being paid to coach in Utah. We broke that down earlier this week and you can read that by clicking here!