Gina Kingsbury, Troy Ryan won't return to lead Canadian women's hockey team

The Canadian women's hockey team will have a new general manager and head coach leading the team into the next Olympic cycle.

GM Gina Kingsbury and head coach Troy Ryan won't return to their roles, Hockey Canada announced on Tuesday. Both were on contracts set to expire this year.

“Gina and Troy were instrumental to tremendous success with our women’s team in their respective roles and we are grateful for the time and effort that was given to Canada’s national women's team,” Hockey Canada's senior vice president of high performance and hockey operations, Scott Salmond, said in a statement.

“Moving forward, Hockey Canada is looking to bring in the best available candidate for the general manager position with the National Women’s Team who will focus on implementing the strategy and vision of the program heading into the 2026-27 season and our next quad.”

A search committee appointed by Hockey Canada will identify the next general manager of the women's team, and that person will hire the next head coach.

The search committee will be chaired by Hockey Canada board member and three-time Olympic gold medallist, Gillian Apps. It will also include two other former members of the Canadian women's hockey team: Olympic gold medallist and former captain, Cassie Campbell-Pascall, and Thérèse Brisson, a 2002 Olympic gold medallist who is the CEO of Alpine Canada.

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They'll be joined by Salmond, Misha Donskov, who is Hockey Canada's senior vice president of hockey operations, Own the Podium's high-performance advisor, Cara Thibault, and Brad Treliving, the former Toronto Maple Leafs GM who is a member of the management group for the Canadian men's team.

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