{"id":1521,"date":"2026-05-26T19:06:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:06:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:06:28","slug":"pwhl-expansion-upends-the-job-market-for-coaches-and-gms-as-hockey-canada-starts-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"PWHL expansion upends the job market for coaches and GMs as Hockey Canada starts search"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Hockey Canada announced Tuesday that general manager Gina Kingsbury will not return after eight years overseeing the national women\u2019s team, meaning the organization now has to find a new GM along with a new coach in a job market that has changed dramatically with the growth of the Professional Women\u2019s Hockey League.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1519\">What Lenovo looks for when hiring workers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury is the GM of the PWHL\u2019s Toronto Sceptres while former coach Troy Ryan was recently hired as coach and GM of the PWHL expansion team in San Jose. His six-year run with Canada ended with Olympic silver in what was the team\u2019s eighth consecutive loss to the archrival U.S. <\/p>\n<p>Hockey Canada\u2019s contracts with Kingsbury and Ryan were to expire next month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m good with the transition. I\u2019m ready for it,\u201d Kingsbury said. \u201cIt\u2019s time for someone to look at the landscape that has shifted in women\u2019s hockey and set out their own vision on what that could look like for the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PWHL has altered the women\u2019s hockey landscape in its first three seasons. The International Ice Hockey Federation shifted the world championship from April to November starting this year to avoid conflict with the PWHL season. By expanding by four teams to a 12-team league next season, the league also has churned the market for coaches and GMs.<\/p>\n<p>The PWHL expansion team in Hamilton, Ontario, hired former U.S. team captain Meghan Duggan as GM, former Canadian goaltender Manon Rheaume is Detroit\u2019s GM and former player agent Dominique DiDia is the new GM in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve done quite a bit of analysis, but the sands continue to shift underneath our feet,\u201d Hockey Canada chief executive Katherine Henderson told The Canadian Press. \u201cI\u2019m thrilled that there\u2019s four new (PWHL) teams. I\u2019m also saying now there\u2019s four new competitors for a full-time job. I may want to go after some of those people. We\u2019re going to have to up our game a little bit and say \u2018come and work with Hockey Canada.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1518\">The Latest: Iran deal progress is murky after US military says it carried out \u2018self-defense\u2019 strikes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2026 Olympics was the first in the PWHL era. Canada\u2019s women didn\u2019t spend five to six months together training and playing games as they had for previous Games.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan and Kingsbury were the first to hold top leadership roles with both a PWHL team and the Canadian women\u2019s team simultaneously. A hybrid of Hockey Canada staff and NHL general managers and coaches has traditionally led Canada\u2019s men into world championships and Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe now need to live in a world probably closer to how we put together our men\u2019s senior teams,\u201d Henderson said.<\/p>\n<p>Kingsbury said she also believes that model works for the women\u2019s team with a dedicated person at Hockey Canada directing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSomeone needs to be at the helm of women\u2019s hockey at Hockey Canada from a high-performance perspective,\u201d Kingsbury said. \u201cI do think there is a place for PWHL GMs to be a part of teams and the Olympic team and world championship teams and help select players. There\u2019s an opportunity for coaches I think certainly to be from the PWHL.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/raleighmovingnews.com\/?p=1516\">Several people suffer burn, inhalation injuries when tank implodes at Washington pulp and paper mill<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP women\u2019s hockey: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/womens-hockey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CALGARY, Alberta (AP) \u2014 Hockey Canada announced Tuesday that general manager Gina Kingsbury will not&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1520,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PWHL expansion upends the job market for coaches and GMs as Hockey Canada starts search - 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