after his retirement from hockey, he was hired by the canucks as the director of public and media relations and remained with the franchise until july 2008. in 1997, he would be promoted to senior vice president of hockey operations. in 1998 his position would change again, this time to the vice president of player personnel. in this position he would oversee player development and professional player scouting, until eventually being named assistant general manager to dave nonis and to mike gillis after nonis was fired by the canucks on april 14, 2008.