It did not take long for former Vancouver Canucks general manager Patrik Allvin to find his next job as an NHL executive.

On Thursday morning, the Seattle Kraken announced they have hired Patrik Allvin as an assistant general manager. In the same announcement, the Kraken hired Pascal Vincent as an assistant coach on Lane Lambert’s bench.

Allvin spent 16 seasons with the Pittsburgh Penguins before joining the Canucks. He began as a European scout, was later promoted to Director of Amateur Scouting, and then worked his way up to Assistant General Manager under Jim Rutherford. During his 16 years in Pittsburgh, Allvin and the Penguins won three Stanley Cups.

Once Rutherford was hired as the Canucks’ President of Hockey Operations, he brought Allvin over to Vancouver, announcing him as the 12th general manager in franchise history and the first Swedish GM in the NHL.

During his four-and-a-half seasons in Vancouver, Allvin made 41 trades. His first was sending a 2022 third-round pick to the Toronto Maple Leafs for defenceman Travis Dermott. One year after being on the job, Allvin made the biggest move of his GM tenure, shipping Canucks captain Bo Horvat to the New York Islanders in exchange for Anthony Beauvillier, Aatu Räty, and a 2023 first-round pick. He later flipped that first-round pick acquired in the Horvat deal to the Detroit Red Wings in exchange for defenceman Filip Hronek.

The 2023-24 season was a big year for Allvin and the Canucks. They bought out Oliver Ekman-Larsson to free up cap space, but also brought in valuable free agents such as Ian Cole, Teddy Blueger, Carson Soucy, and Pius Suter, who helped them finish the season with 50 wins and capture the Pacific Division title. Along the way, Allvin made some significant trades, acquiring Elias Lindholm and Nikita Zadorov from the Calgary Flames in two separate moves.

Since then, the Canucks struggled under his leadership. They failed to make the playoffs in back-to-back seasons, had a locker room feud become the talk around the league, forcing them to trade star centreman JT Miller to the New York Rangers, and less than a calendar year later, were forced to trade their captain and best defenceman in franchise history, Quinn Hughes, to the Minnesota Wild.

The Canucks’ ship tanked in 2025-26, falling to dead last in the NHL standings with just 25 wins. As a result, Allvin was relieved of his duties in Vancouver. Rutherford shared that Allvin was offered a different role in the organization, but has decided to take on a new challenge down the I-5 with the Seattle Kraken.