COACH PLIGHT: I feel betrayed by Vancouver Canucks for letting me go this way

Vancouver Canucks’ General Manager Patrik Allvin announced Tuesday the club had mutually parted ways with Assistant Coach Mike Yeo.

Vancouver Canucks General Manager Patrik Allvin announced today that the club has mutually parted ways with Assistant Coach, Mike Yeo.

The organization would like to thank Mike for all his work the past two seasons.

“The organization would like to thank Mike for all his work the past two seasons,” the team said in a post on social media.

The 50-year-old Yeo was hired by the Canucks as an assistant coach in July 2022 while Bruce Boudreau was the team’s head coach. When Rick Tocchet took over head coaching duties, Yeo continued to serve under him.

Yeo has spent parts of nine seasons as an NHL head coach, spending five seasons with the Minnesota Wild between 2011-12 and 2015-16, making the playoffs three times but failing to get past the second round.

He would then spend three seasons with the St. Louis Blues between 2016-17 and 2018-19, making the playoffs once before being fired early in the 2018-19 season. The team replaced him with Craig Berube, who would lead the club to their first Stanley Cup championship in franchise history.

Yeo would be hired by the Philadelphia Flyers as an assistant coach under Alain Vigneault ahead of the 2019-20 season, then taking over head coaching duties in December 2021 when the club fired Vigneault. He would go 17-36-7 for 41 points in 60 games. He would be fired at the end of the season.

In 2023-24, the Canucks went 50-23-9 with 109 points, first in the Pacific Division and sixth overall in the entire league. They won their first-round series in six games against the Nashville Predators, but lost in seven games to the Edmonton Oilers in Round 2.