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Hockey Canada to Replace Women's Team General Manager and Head Coach

A newly formed search committee will name a general manager to rebuild leadership quickly before the November world championship.

Canada’s National Women’s Team general manager Gina Kingsbury, right, speaks to the media as head coach Troy Ryan looks on at Hockey Canada’s National Teams orientation camp in Calgary, Thursday, Aug. 28, 2025. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh
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Canada head coach Troy Ryan talks to his team during a timeout against the United States in the second period of a women's Rivalry Series hockey game Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in St. Paul, Minn. (AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn)

Overview

  • Hockey Canada announced Tuesday that Gina Kingsbury and Troy Ryan will not return to their national-team roles as their contracts expire in June.
  • A search committee chaired by board member Gillian Apps will identify the next general manager, who will in turn hire the next head coach.
  • The Professional Women's Hockey League's rapid expansion has pulled top coaches and GMs into full-time club roles, with recent hires including Meghan Duggan, Manon Rheaume and Dominique DiDia and Troy Ryan moving to the PWHL's San Jose expansion team.
  • Canada faces a compressed timeline because the IIHF moved the world championship to Nov. 6–16 to avoid the PWHL season, requiring Hockey Canada to appoint leadership and begin roster planning sooner than in past cycles.
  • Kingsbury and Ryan leave after a period of major success — Olympic gold in 2022 and world titles in 2021, 2022 and 2024 — but also recent high-profile defeats that prompted debate over roster construction and whether Hockey Canada should shift to a more full-time national-team model.