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The Vancouver Canucks’ entrance workplace continues to evolve.
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Derek Clancey, the primary individual employed by Jim Rutherford as Canucks president of hockey operations in December 2021, is leaving the NHL membership to hitch the Toronto Maple Leafs, the place he shall be assistant basic supervisor, participant personnel.
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Clancey was somebody Rutherford knew nicely from his time with the Pittsburgh Penguins. Clancey headed up professional scouting with the Penguins for a decade earlier than leaving Pittsburgh not lengthy after Rutherford give up as Penguins GM in early 2021.
Clancey landed with the Calgary Flames that summer season as a professional scout, however jumped to Vancouver when Rutherford supplied him a promotion to assistant basic supervisor.
Rutherford noticed him as somebody who could possibly be a trusted voice as he regarded to evaluate the roster he had and take a look at gamers who is perhaps helpful to attempt to herald. Rutherford didn’t inherit a lot of a entrance workplace when he took over — he didn’t even have an assistant basic supervisor holding over from the Jim Benning period — and so Clancey served as a key right-hand man in these early days.
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“Derek has been with me since I began in Pittsburgh and is a terrific hockey man. It is a scenario that works nicely for each the Canucks and Maple Leafs. We’ve plenty of good individuals in our group and whereas we gained’t be including one other Assistant GM at the moment, with the addition of Scott Younger final yr I’m very assured in our group and its capacity to do the job,” Rutherford stated in an announcement on Tuesday.
A crew spokesperson stated the parting was mutual and didn’t come as a shock.
After being employed, Clancey was tasked to supervise the newbie and professional scouting departments, although as soon as Cammi Granato was employed as AGM, she additionally took on a job guiding the crew’s scouts.
It was Clancey’s voice individuals heard within the Canucks’ 2023 draft video, expressing concern that Tom Willander wouldn’t be out there at decide No. 13 and advising GM Patrik Allvin to face pat and choose the younger Swedish blueliner at eleventh general.
It’s not arduous to overlook the truth that the Flames’ GM whereas Clancey was with Calgary was Brad Treliving, who the Leafs employed as their GM in Could. Treliving and Clancey had been ECHL teammates with the Columbus Chill in 1994-95.