Covering the Canucks for Daily Hive since 2019. Also co-host of the Locked On Canucks Podcast alongside Kyle Bhawan.

With the Vancouver Canucks at the bottom of the NHL standings, it&#8217;s fair to wonder about Patrik Allvin&#8217;s job security.
The Canucks current general manager has been at the helm for four years now. During his tenure, the Canucks have made the playoffs once, they&#8217;re on their third head coach, and they&#8217;ve traded away stars like Quinn Hughes and J.T. Miller under his watch.
For argument&#8217;s sake, if the Canucks were going to replace Allvin, Ryan Johnson would surely be a leading candidate.
But will another organization poach him first?
Sportsnet&#8217;s Elliotte Friedman reported on Tuesday during the <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/32-thoughts-the-podcast/id1332150124?i=1000747839233" target="_blank">32 Thoughts podcast</a> that Johnson could be a candidate for the Nashville Predators&#8217; general manager job.
In fairness, Johnson was mentioned on a long list of potential candidates.
“I think you&#8217;re going to see a huge cross-section of contenders, Kyle, from the people who&#8217;ve been in big roles before: Brendan Shanahan, Rob Blake, Mark Bergevin,&#8221; Friedman said.
&#8220;I think the next generation&#8230; People like Ryan Martin, Evan Gold, Jamie Langenbruner, Sonny Metta, Ryan Johnson, Ryan Bonus, Scott White, like, you know, even someone like Brad Paschal.”
It&#8217;s certainly been a slow and gradual rise up the ranks for Johnson.
The 49-year-old is the longest-tenured executive left in the Canucks organization. He&#8217;s been with the team since Mike Gillis was still in charge, starting in player development before working his way up to assistant general manager.
He helped manufacture the Abbotsford Canucks&#8217; Calder Cup-winning squad last season, something that garnered attention from around the NHL.
CHEK&#8217;s Rick Dhaliwal mentioned back in September that Johnson <a href="https://dailyhive.com/vancouver/canucks-could-lose-executive-johnson" target="_blank">was getting interest from around the NHL</a> about being a potential GM candidate.
Of course, there are only 32 of these jobs available. And, like Friedman laid out, Johnson isn&#8217;t the only up-and-coming future general manager.
However, now that he&#8217;s worked his way up from player development to the Canucks&#8217; assistant general manager, the next step really is to become an NHL GM.
The question is, will that be in Vancouver, or elsewhere?
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The Vancouver Canucks aren't doing well in the standings, but one of their executives is slowly rising the ranks.