VANCOUVER, BC — Editor's note: The video above was published on Nov. 4, 2021.
The Vancouver Canucks have named Hall of Famer Cammi Granato as an assistant general manager, the team announced Thursday.
Granato, 50, moves to the Canucks from the Seattle Kraken, where she has served as a scout since 2019.
“We wish Cammi the best and thank her for her work in helping launch the Kraken,” said Ron Francis, Seattle general manager. “We understand this is the right opportunity for her and her family.”
She is the younger sister of former NHL player Tony Granato and Buffalo Sabres head coach Don Granato, and a graduate of Providence College.
Granato joins a Canucks front office that has been entirely revamped since former general manager Jim Benning and several other staff were fired in early December. Jim Rutherford was named president of hockey operations and has hired former Penguins assistant general manger Patrik Allvin as GM, and former scout Derek Clancey and former player agent Emilie Castonguay as assistant GMs
Granato, a native of Downers Grove, Illinois, captained the U.S. women’s hockey team that beat Canada to win gold at the 1998 Nagano Olympics. She also won silver at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002.
In 2010, Granato and Canadian Angela James became the first women to be inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame.
In an interview with 2 On Your Side's Julianne Pelusi, Cammi recalled a fight between her brothers -- Sabres head coach Don, and the head coach of the University of Wisconsin men's hockey head coach, Tony.
"They were at the top of this that basement stairs, and I could hear my mom yelling like, 'Shut the basement or you guys are gonna fall down the stairs,' " Cammi said.
"I don't know what they're fighting about. They're they're yelling at each other, and the next thing you know they're wrestling. ... Then my mom's trying to get the door shut, and sure enough, boys go flying, rolling down the entire staircase. And they hit the bottom. I think they might have just ended it after that."