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The Canucks’ analytics department is small, but their work is leaned on by all parts of the team’s hockey operations.
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Published Jun 07, 2024 • 2 minute read
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Aiden Fox, head of the Vancouver Canucks’ analytics department. Photo by Vancouver Canucks
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The Vancouver Canucks may not have the NHL’s largest analytics department, but there’s little doubt how hard they work and well-used they are.
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Anyone with a eagle eye on LinkedIn will have noticed recently that Aiden Fox, who’s headed up the NHL team’s analytics group for more than two years, has received a small promotion.
According to a post by Emilie Castonguay, one of the team’s assistant general managers, Fox is now the director of hockey analytics.
He’d served the past two years as senior manager of hockey analytics. The new title is, presumably, tied to a contract renewal for Fox. It’s that time of year for NHL staffers, after all.
In her post, Castonguay congratulated Fox, whose department falls under her umbrella of responsibilities.
“Congratulations on the promotion, Aiden Fox! Working with you is a privilege,” she commented.
Jim Rutherford, the team’s president of hockey operations, acknowledged the promotion on Friday during an interview with Postmedia.
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“He’s very good at what he does. He’s very important to hockey operations,” Rutherford said of Fox, who has worked in analytics for the team since 2016. Before that, he’d worked for five years in the Canucks’ marketing department.
Fox worked under Jonathan Wall, until the latter was fired by ownership in December 2021, just before Rutherford was installed as president. Rutherford was not involved in Wall’s dismissal.
Rutherford inherited a lean front office when he was hired to replace Jim Benning at the top of the Canucks’ hockey operations department. Fox was one of several people that Rutherford leaned on.
Fox has grown in importance ever since, both because the analytics team has shrunk from five to three people and because he’s won over his bosses with the quality of his work.
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“He’s a guy that’s really grown over the last couple of years,” Rutherford explained.
Fox is also obviously a very capable manager. He’s still got Ryan Biech and Miles Hoaken on his staff.
When Rutherford first arrived as the Canucks hockey boss, he said he wanted to make sure his analytics team was going to be a strong one.
He considered looking far and wide to bring some a new face in at the top, but quickly realized he wouldn’t have to.
“I realized here’s a guy right here that’s more than prepared to run an analytics departments,” Rutherford said.
It’s clear he still believes he made the right choice.
pjohnston@postmedia.com
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