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Doug Jarvis

Age: 61

Ties to Canucks: He was an assistant coach with the Boston Bruins when they won the 2011 Stanley Cup.

Notes: Jarvis was added to Claude Julien’s staff in 2010 as an assistant coach. He had a history of running some successful power plays with the Montreal Canadiens and in 2014 started sharing that responsibility in Boston with Joe Sacco.

Boston’s man-advantage unit has had some mixed results in the past six years, but finished in the top ten this season.

Jarvis has spent 24 seasons as an assistant coach in the NHL and two years as a head coach in the AHL.

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Keith Acton

Age: 57

Ties to Canucks: He coached Travis Green 2001-03.

Notes: He has been an assistant coach in the NHL going back to 1994-95, and joined Dallas Eakins’s Edmonton staff in 2013. He was let go after two seasons. He was an associate coach with Eakins, and has had a role guiding power plays in the past, although he did not specifically oversee Edmonton’s special teams unit.

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Nolan Baumgartner

Age: 40

Ties to Canucks: Has spend the past three seasons as an assistant coach with the Utica Comets after spending a huge chunk of his playing career in the Canucks system.

Notes: Baumgarnter is on the coaching fast track and would have been a candidate to replace Travis Green as the Comets head coach if Green took an NHL this offseason.

Maybe he’s not an obvious fit on the current Canucks staff, which already includes a former defenceman in Doug Lidster. But Baumgartner is bright and not that far removed from his playing career, which would definitely help him relate with the Canucks youngest players.

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Dave Lowry

Age: 51

Ties to Canucks: The former winger played for Vancouver for two years.

Notes: He was the head coach Canada’s 2016 world junior hockey championships team. Team Canada lost in the quarter-finals. Lowry has been the head coach of the Victoria Royals for four seasons, and in two of them he won the Western Hockey League coach of the year award.

He spent three years as an assistant on Brent Sutter’s Calgary Flames staff and has 11 years coaching experience between the NHL and the WHL.

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