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Pierre Dorion ‘a strong possibility’ for Canucks’ GM job: reports
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Tyson Cole
May 5, 2026, 12:36 EDT
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When everybody went to sleep last night, they were excited to wake up and finally find out the Vancouver Canucks‘ fate at tonight’s NHL Draft Lottery. But a handful of reports that came in seemed to distract the fan base from how tonight could change the franchise.
In an article posted by The Athletic’s Thomas Drance, he further confirms TSN’s Darren Dreger’s reporting of Pierre Dorion with an in-person interview, adding that he is, in fact, a strong possibility for the role:
“Vancouver Canucks fans should be taking the prospect of former Senators general manager Pierre Dorion emerging as the next Canucks GM very seriously.
“The veteran executive was interviewed in person for the job, according to a report from TSN’s Darren Dreger. That’s a telling indication of Dorion’s standing in this ongoing search, and two sources confirmed to The Athletic that Dorion’s candidacy isn’t just a matter of the Canucks doing due diligence.
“That Dorion could legitimately succeed Patrik Allvin as Vancouver’s general manager is, as one league source put it to The Athletic on Monday, ‘a strong possibility.'”
Greg Wyshynski further commented on the topic when he did his weekly hit on Halford & Brough on Sportsnet 650:
“I think he’s going to get the job. I’ve heard that it’s trending that way. He came into the fray very late, and when you do that, that tells me that they probably feel like he’s a quality candidate. It’s like I said this morning on the old Twitter machine, if you look back at what he did in Ottawa – and Drance I thought did a really good job chronicling all of it – he’s kind of the General Manager that puts Vancouver in this spot, rather than the one that gets them out of it, right?
“Trading Mark Stone, trading Erik Karlsson, not getting enough back, like doing all of these things: making bad draft choices, making bad decisions, trading Mika Zibanejad for a broken-down Derrick Brassard, on and on and on and on. It’s kind of inexplicable that someone with that level of record would get another shot at this. But he might get another shot at this.”
After these reports, fans were outraged at the idea of this online.
Donnie & Dhali’s Rick Dhaliwal and CanucksArmy’s Irfaan Gaffar came in and poured cold water on the situation, noting that while Dorion remains a strong candidate, no decisions have been made yet in their process.
The Canucks cast out a wide net for Patrik Allvin’s successor. There have been various names linked to this job search, but only Patrick Burke, Ray Whitney, and Ryan Martin have been told they’re out of the running for the gig, per Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman.
That leaves Dorion, Shane Doan, Jeff Tambellini, Brad Pascal, Ryan Johnson, Evan Gold, Brett Peterson, and Jamie Langenbrunner remaining in the process. It has been reported that the Canucks are looking for a candidate with GM experience at the NHL level. And of that group, Dorion is the only one who fits that criteria.
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