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I just want Tom Selleck the thickness, Well not Tom, but I
want to whatever you say, Tom, I want his mustache. We just
get a just got a big fake one. Burt Reynolds and Ron Jeremy.
Those are three. They got good mustage. You got one? What are
you talking about? Who's Ron Jeremy? Ron Jeremy is a guy that does
movies like he used to. We'll leave it at that, Moving on,
Canucks and Oilers Game one Wednesday at Rogers Arena, and would you look at
our guest list today? In the next segment, we're going to be joined
by Oilers GM the Pride of Vernon, British Columbia. Former national hockey they
Golten, an old teammate of John Garrett's. As a matter of fact,
Ken holland, Wow, it's gonna be great. Oiler's boss. Also just
after eleven o'clock, Pride of Burnaby, British Columbia. Lifelong Canuck fan Michael
Bubley, who's a friend of the show many times over he is is he
not for me? Donnie the best celebrity Canuck fan out there, There's nobody
comes close to him his passion. When he was at the Nashville game in
round one, they showed up with yep, no no, boblay Boobley wins
Boublay is, but he's got the heart and the passion. You saw in
Nashville at home. He was there and he was he was going nuts.
He had the kids there. He's the best one other big Canuck celebrity fans,
he would be number one. Ryan. Who am I missing here?
Uh? Well lately Kevin James Okay, but actually from being from you were
talking Vancouver guys. Yeah, you know, it's it's kind of weird because
like like the big wigs, like everyone goes I Reynolds. I haven't seen
him with too many Canuck games. No, well he was trying to buy
the Ottawa Senators. Yeah, Ottawa Ties, Yeah, Seth Rogan, same
thing. Like have you seen him in a little game? No? But
I'm saying, like, think of Anderson, think of Vancouver celebrities. Right.
When I think Pam Anderson, you think about a boat, You think
about a boat? No, I think BC Lions. Oh yeah, she's
a big Lions fan. Remember she's discovered at the BBC Lions game. But
she was in Great Cup Parade to she was the Grand Marshal. Yes,
was it five? There's there's a shot of Michael Yeah, and This is
why he's the best. Look at this, the passion with the people,
right in the crowd, not in the suite where you would sit, right
with the fans. Look at this, and he's not even in the Aquilini
fancy seats. No, this is that's it right there. That's why he's
the best celebrity Canucks fan. And it's not. Let's also not forget that
Michael's a co owner of the Vancouver Giants. Big time. Yeah, should
be co owner of the Canucks too. Some would say, why would you
say that? Why not wouldn't you want to Why wouldn't wouldn't you want him
part of ownership? I don't know if him and Francesca or buddies. They
are buddies, because do you know he's not in right, not in his
special seats from Vancouver. Stop their buddies. Last time Michael was on our
show, Francesco tweeted, retweeted our tweet of the interview. So he loves
him, they're buddies. Well, okay, and then we won't we have
to ask Michael when he's on the show just after eleven o'clock today, any
chance he's going to do an anthem in his postseason run. Do we call
it a run at this point? Two rounds? Yeah? Okay, well
he will he do an anthem all due respect for everybody, everybody else and
Donnie, not two anthems anymore, just one. Oh. That's a good
point. That's a good point. And I'll be interesting to find out.
Maybe I don't want to put him on the spot like this, but what
do you think? What do he thinks of this trend of these singers and
both the ones and both anthem singers Canadian and national anthem singers in Abonton and
Vancouver. They do this thing where they you don't like it, They sing
three words and then they let the crowd take it away. What's your problem
with I don't get it. It's one of his biggest pep piece. I
don't know what. I just don't like. Do your job, That's that's
what it is. They do. You know, sing the song. You're
better than anybody else in the building. The singers do it it couse all
the time. Here's my thing with that. What's stopping you from singing?
When the singers singing? Nothing? It just the guy in Boston is is
incredible, Like the new the guy I can't remember his name. His name.
Yeah, we saw the guy in Boston. What about him? Yeah,
right he Jeremy. No, the guy in Boston's good. I agree
with you. Italian name right, yeah, google it right. Boston anyway,
tremendous. You know Jim Cronelson in Chicago, Todd Angel. There you
go, that Boston guy. Yeah, but what about the Chicago guy back
in the eighties. Done, he was good too. And his name is
No, no, no, he's talking about way back before. We're going
way back. Chicago did a lot of things right there, pe and announcer
back in the day when Bobby Homes they had the Chicago did, but they
still have the organ the keyboards. I will say for and you tweeted this
out. I think I'm trying to find I can't find it. You tweet
too much. But uh, the anthems in Nashville were awful. I'm sorry
you even got pushback on that. Well, the only twangy country act was
like little big down everyone else. I'm like, the hell are called music?
Sit? Exactly? The anthem is at Vancouver, even with the holding
up of the microphone. Yeah, we're way better. Yeah, it's not
for it's it's opinion. I just like it when the and and a lot
of it is because you know, Mark Donnelly went from being very popular too
unpopular. He kind of heard of that. Yeah, and there were other
big falling on the ice too. He started as well. Again there are
a lot of issues with him. Let's talk some hockey now, let's go
off Buo Blay and Holland coming up. There's a band, a band named
for you, Boot Blay and Holland. Write it down, Derek Thatcher deamco
h Light Movements, Light Movements at practice. It's another band today. Well,
it's an album name light Movements at practice yesterday. What does that mean?
And there he is with the Light Movements at practice yesterday. Jeff video
for the conduction. I think Jeff coined the phrase light movements. As a
matter of fact, what's the latest Rick? Most of it is of his
work was conditioning a skating in full gear. As you can see, h
Donnie, he's not facing any shots at this stage. He hasn't joined the
Canucks for practice. I still get the feel if this thing goes six or
seven, there's a chance. There's a chance if you goes six. I
said that yesterday. I'll say it again today. I just don't see him
in the early part of this series. If it goes to length, there's
a chance. That's what I've been told yesterday. WHOA hold on a second
here, So you're saying they get to game seven and the kid archer shelvs
has won three games and goes thatcher for game seven. Okay, well,
you you ripped into me for Nathan Rourke, bring them back, bring them
back to Sports is Top. That is the worst connection. If you told
me yesterday, Oh, Nathan Rourke, it's a Sports is Top, You're
not. You're telling me that you have an issue with bringing dep go back.
If he's ready for game seven, you bring him back. If the
if the kiddy to sound like dog, you think Berndan Adams deserves. You're
saying sports has tough decisions. Okay, Okay, I get it now,
that's what I'm saying. Okay, But if unless it depends how the series
went right, that's true. If the Canucks won the first three games and
the Oilers came back to win the next three free, then maybe you start
going in game seven. Yeah, but that's that's an interesting thing. Is
maybe you know something. I don't know. No, I just wouldn't be
the first time. I still believe there's a chance late, but that that's
what it's being reported by yourself and other people out until at least Game five,
right, yeah for sure. Yeah, and not in the early part
of the series. No way, no way, he's any chanced. Nathan
Rourke will start at some point. No, I can't believe. Oh,
well, you can't take Sea Loves out. Come give me a break.
You go with the best guy you got, that's Dempko. But he hasn't
played in a long time and when he did come back after being away for
a long time. But it goes so well health wise. Do we want
to run this Ryan Whitney clip? Why are you against this? I don't
against it. He's just this is kind of what he does like, he's
just a it's fun both him and business or they're not my cup of tea.
Spitting Chicken's is very popular. They're they're they're kind of a rival of
ours. They would well, they would laugh at our show is very good.
It's not. Well, No, they had a head start when it
comes to the podcast. We're nipping at their heels. Let me let me
tell you, barstool has meetings about you know that. Damn donnian Dolly show
man. They are absolutely are you gonna run it or not? No,
let me set it up. Okay, so Nathan work No, Okay,
Rick, that was actually a pretty good point. It wasn't bad. It
was a good. So totally confused me. And yet he was bang on.
You were tough decisions, right, and and the great managers, the
great coaches, they're the ones who come up with tough diion decisions. They're
not afraid of them. And the ones who could speak properly too. So
Ryan Whitney are spitting chick let's. It's well documented. He doesn't like Thanks,
No, he doesn't. He doesn't like the Canucks. So he saw
we we have not run the video of the young And when I say young,
how old was this kid? Years old? Okay? The young fan
Scott Road after the Canucks wrapped up their first round series against Nashville and he
got carried away with his language. It was all over Twitter, all over
social media, and we decided not to run it out of respect for his
parents or family. Okay, so but it you know, I don't think
I mean, maybe the only media outlet that didn't run it, okay,
or show that didn't run it. So anyway, I guess Ryan, you
know, former NHL or former oiler is a matter of fact, he saw
the video of the young man on Scott Road and that got him going on
his We got the clip that got him going on his looking ahead to the
Oilers and Canucks, his hatred for Vancouver, the Canucks and their fans.
I'm about to haunt your for the next two weeks. Okay. I cannot
stand the Vancouver Canucks. I've always hated that team. I love Rick Talkt,
I have so much respect for him. I hate their fans and I
cannot wait to beat them. I think, going back to Calgary two years
ago and the opportunity to shave business head and what I had on the line
with an earring coming if they lost, that is nothing compared to the excitement
I have and the hatred I have towards Vancouver because this team's fan base is
so cocky. And when I talk about Toronto being useless and pathetic, you
guys might be worse. You've never done You've never won a thing, You've
never done anything. You went to the finals and blew it you lost to
ninety four. You stink, and now you act like you're this wonderful,
amazing franchise with all these incredible players. You guys have done nothing, And
talk to me about the regular season. Yes, four and zero in the
regular season. Winnipeg dummied Colorado in the regular season. How'd that work out
in the playoffs? Not to mention, three of the four wins against Edmonton
was in the first eleven days of the season, when yes, all of
them were coming at me. Did I quit the team? Yes, I
quit the team. Do I regret it? Yes, I regret it.
Well, I always have to pay the debt of being a quitter in the
first twelve games of the season. Yes, but I hopped back on and
I got my apologies out of the way, and I was open and up
front and honest about how much I picked up. You can't be opening up,
honest and upfront about how much you guys are useless and have never accomplished
a thing. So when you beat us four times in the regular season,
three was with Woodcroft when we stunk, and then you got us again,
it's a whole new ball game. Wow. When he says us I mentioned
that he played for the Oilers. He was talking about the Edmonton Owners and
how early on highly critical he jumped off the bandwagon. Clearly, I gotta
say, you know, when it comes to getting clicks and doing things for
ratings and being entertaining much as conuct fans, you probably hated what you just
heard. Yeah, that's pretty good. That's good. That podcast does it
better than anyone and else in terms of, as you said, getting clicks.
They're very good at that, very good at that. Right. But
you know, when you read a lot of the comments coming back at Ryan
Whitney after what he just said there, he was talking about how the Canucks
have accomplished nothing, and you know, people will refer to his career,
although I will say, and he was a high draft pick. He was
a fifth overrow tie by the Penguins in O two and then he you know,
he moved around a bit. And look, he played a helmele lot
more games than you and I in the NHL combined. I didn't realize he
was a member of and I believe you know somebody who was called as an
emergency backup or regen. He was called into into action late American Olympic team
I didn't. I didn't realize he was on the ice side. He was
on the ice for the winning goal. So there's there's a whole lot there
with Ryan Whitney, and there you go. This just end. We get
around, you know, we hear things, you know, from media circles
all over the place, and people with social media get an idea now of
what's going on. A lot of people don't like Vancouver, a lot of
people don't like the Canucks fan base, a lot a lot of people Twitter,
A lot of people get tired of people who are from Vancouver bragging about
Vancouver, bragging about their team. Right. There are a lot of people
out there like that, and he's one of them. Donny, twenty years
ago, you and I covered Canucks playoff series without Twitter. It was a
different time. It was a different era. It was much cleaner, funner.
There wasn't the chaos now Twitter is, and it gets ugly, it's
toxic. There's a lot of negativity and they gets nasty. It's a whole
new, different world where the fan base is now Edmonton and Vancouver. They're
going to go at it. These fan bases are going to go out it
in Twitter and sometimes it gets out of hand. Yeah, you know what,
I'll go along before that. I remember I was in Alberta in eighty
two when the Canucks made the Stanley Cup Final and I was working in Red
Deer up North Ryan look it up and the hatred for the canc and of
course, keep in mind eighty two is the miracle in Manchester. The Oilers
were supposed to be there in the Stanley Cup Final. But the hatred for
not just the Canucks but anybody from BC or from Vancouver. The people that
I hung out with felt the people of Vancouver just thought they're, you know
what, didn't stink in so many ways, most beautiful city in the world.
And look at our team, the Flying V's, and it goes way
back. And I'm not saying Ryan Whitney would be aware of that sort of
thing, but this just didn't folks. There are a lot of people who
aren't fans of Vancouver, the team, the city a lot. Ninety four
I was in with Task Alberta. I couldn't find anybody to watch the Canucks
game with. They were like hit the road, Jack, They took one
look at your Mustang and they and they ran away. What the only thing
that bugs me. You know this, The Canucks have never won anything actually
correct, yep, Knucks have never won a Stanley Cup. They don't have
that banner, but leaf fans pulled that card on Knuck fans too. And
the Leafs last Cup was in black and white. Yeah, they played this
Cup was in nineteen ninety. Yeah, like, come on with like eventually,
yes, you have the banners, you have the cups in your display
case. But we're getting further and Firs Oilers have done it hell of a
lot more than the Leafs. Oh yeah, and the Leafs last won a
Stanley Cup in the sixties. It's the last time they were a Stanley Cup
final, the last time they played in the Stanley Cup final. The Leafs
have never won I think I got this right, never won a third round
playoffs series. The Leafs have never played a playoff game in junie. Yeah,
there's a lot there. And keep in mind they have what thirteen Stanley
Cup titles in the sixteen league. Yeah, and like we've done a lot,
they've done a lot more. And we're talking about the Knucks eating them
while they're down, by the way, we're kicking them while they're down.
But okay, uh, Michael Bublick coming up by just after eleven o'clock TTMZ
is it just me? Also in that eleven o'clock hour, Big ride the
Twitter guy coming up later this hour and up next GM of the Evonton Owners
Game one Oilers and Canucks to more at Rogers Arena. Ken Holland, thanks
for tuning in, folks, Donnie and delayed the team on check Dottie and
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Canucks Wednesday at Rogers Arena in Vancouver. We're joined now by Ebmonton Oilers,
GM, Ken Holland, Ken, Thanks for doing this, sir, How
are you? Yeah, no problem? Six days between games for your team,
good thing, bad thing. Probably a little bit longer than we like.
But I think once we get to Vancouver and get to the morning state,
you know, the juices start flowing and both teams will be all revved
up and our team will be revved up. So rather have too much rest
than not enough. This time of the year, you always want to take
care of those bumps and bruises. And then you look what Boston did last
night with just one day rest. It was pretty impressive. I guess there's
no perfect formula. Hey, what do you like about the way your team
handled the Kings in five games? Round one can pretty convincing? Uh,
you know, I thought, you know, it was a real pretty even
serious certainly special teams were a story for us. We did a good job
on both ends. You know, the uh power play and the penalty killing
five on five was was pretty even. As you know, as you watch
the playoffs or as I'm watching now, you know, there's less and less
power plays and you can see these scores are and the last thing was five
to one with an empty netter, but lots of lots of low scoring games,
and I think you deeper get into the playoffs, the teams are really
even gets uh. Teams played disciplined and most of the games are decided at
five on five, and certainly special teams are always a story come playoff time.
But you know, four feel fortunate to have moved on and looking forward
to the next challenge here. Hey, Ken, nobody saw the Caducks going
this far. A lot of people in this town didn't think they'd make the
playoffs, and here they are in route to what's impressed you about them from
the start of the season till now, Well, obviously they they played great
right out of the bat. We played them twice the first week, and
you know they they stumped pretty good in the opening night and then come into
our rink a few days later and beat us in our rank, and off
they went. They played it, played very very well the entire year.
Obviously, really good at every aspect of the game. They've they've got high
end players, good on special teams, and you know, great job by
the by the coach there, so Rick Tcket. So certainly, you know
when you looked at their personnel, you know with elite defenseman and high end
forwards, great goaltending. I don't I wasn't surprised that they were able to
have the year that they have because they've got a tremendous roster. Hey,
Ken, no one's given the Canucks any chance to beat the Oiders. Everywhere
you look, the orders are a heavily favored to win. Is that sometimes
a problem? The players reading their press clippings? It's easy, And I
mean, what are your thoughts on that no one's giving Vancouver a chance?
You can? Well, you know, I've always said, you know,
you can put the statistics and the press clippings in the garbage when it comes
playoff time. I've been at a long time, and you know, I
had been on the end, winning end and losing end. Ultimately, the
game has decided on the ice. What everybody else thinks doesn't really matter.
It just it's going to be determined on the ice. So I think we
were at one or two points apart after eighty two games. I think it's
two really really good hockey teams, really really well coached hockey teams, and
it's going to be ultimately decided on the ice. And I think I'm expecting
a long and tight series. Can you mentioned Rick Cockett. One thing he
constantly goes on about is how he values players, especially at this time if
here being calm and cool, and that leads me to asking you about Chris
Knoblock, talk about calm and cool? Why was what? Why was he
the right move for your team? And what is he brought to your organization?
Well, we obviously we got off to a tough start. Wh think
we were at two eight and one or two nine and one, and I
had a number of conversations with Jeff Jackson, you know, as we were
two six and one, two seven to one, and obviously we were hoping
we could turn it around. Jay Woodcroft had done it and Dave Manson had
done a tremendous job for us over the previous two years. But ultimately,
as we started to get into a DP poll, we decided that we needed
to make a make a change. Certainly, Jeff deserves a lot of the
credit because Jeff obviously knew a lot about Chris with his you know, with
all the players that Jeff had as an agent that have played for Chris in
junior and being now with with Chris the last six months, six months and
over, you know, seventy games or so very cool, very calm.
You know, he's not a yeller and a streamer, very very composed behind
the bench, very very poised. Obviously, he's had a lot of success
in college hockey and the junior hockey and did a great job for the for
the New York Rangers. Ryan Martin, who's the assistant general manager of the
New York Rangers, was my assistant general manager for for many years in Detroit.
Was was Chris's you know boss, was the general manager of the Hartford
team in the American Hockey League. So obviously I got a real good read
from from Ryan as we were going through it and took me making a decision
about making a change. So he's the team has really responded to him,
and uh he and and Paul Coffee deserves a lot of credit to and working
with our defense and we we buttoned down. We were better in goals against
and you know, from from that point forward, and you know, Chris
and Paul Coffee deserve a lot of credit for for for the season we did
have. And and you know, as we head into this series with Vancouver,
I was just going to ask you about Paul Coffee. Ken because so
many times you'll see examples of players who were just outstanding Hall of famers don't
make the greatest coaches. What's Paul Coffee done for your defenseman, kid?
Well, first off, I would say to you when were two nine and
one. You know, we were a team that had one hundred and eight
points the year before and you going to the second round of the playoffs.
So you know, we felt we had and we had Connor and Leon Connor,
McDavid, Leon, Drichsidele and the primes of their career, most most
of the core of our team in the prime of their career, So you
know, we felt I felt, we felt that we had a good team,
but we had to we had to get going. So when we made
the change, I think, you know, for the defenseman, you've got
a guy standing behind the bench that's one of the greatest defensemen that ever played
the game. And when he's there, you know, giving you information,
they're supporting you, or if you have a badge shift or you've had a
bad game and he and he's putting you back back out. I think it's
really good for the confidence of the of of your defense core. And you
know, he certainly He's a guy that that that really in his career moved
the puck, skated the puck. It was you know, it was it
was about puck movement and and getting the puck going. And certainly that's one
of the things that that he's come in and and really impressed upon our defense,
you know, the transition game, getting the puck, getting the puck
moving, And I just think having a guy that with his credentials behind the
bench and talking to our defense core on a regular basis was was really good
for their you know, for their for their overall confidence and belief. Hey,
Ken, everybody talks about McDavid and dry Seattle, but boy, this
Zach him and fifty fifty four goals regular season, seven more against the Kings,
nineteen hits against the Kings. Boy, this guy is just having a
monster season. Yeah. I mean, certainly when we when we when we
when we signed them, we were we weren't really expecting someone to come in
here and get fifty goals. But he's found tremendous chemistry with Connormy David.
You know, he's a net front on the power play. So you know,
he's he's come in and you know, really fit like a glove with
Connor, and then obviously with the with him and the on the net front,
the growth of bouche on the back end, and you know, added
to nude Leon and and and uh and Connor. You know, a power
play has certainly been an important weapon for us over the last couple of years.
So Zach plays with a lot of will, a lot of determination,
goes to the heart areas over and over again. I think one of his
strengths is his ability to to protect the puck and hang out of the puck
in tight quarters. And he's just the guy that's got a lot of will
and a lot of determination, and he's found chemistry with with the best player
in the world in my opinion, getting to watch Connor every day. So
he goes to the hard areas, he goes to the net and you know,
Connor can Connor can find him, and you know, he just goes
to herd areas over and over again. Come come playoff time, those players
that go to the herd areas over and over and over again usually get get
rewarded because that's what this tournament's all about. His will and determination and winning
fifty to fifty battles and going to hard areas. And before I let you
go, a cain't just so you know, talk at Alvi and Rutherford watch
and listen to our show every single day. Can you tell us what the
key is to containing Connor mcgavid. You know what I I guess I would
just say I'm expecting a great series. Both teams have high octane players.
I just think it's going to be a great series, and there's great players
on both teams and should be fun for the fans, and it's going to
be a long, tough, exciting series. Man, you tap dance around
that one. That was excellent. Ken. We appreciate this all the best.
Thanks guys, look forward to getting in there. You bet. Kent
Holland on his way up to Vancouver, GM of the Edmonton Owners from Vernon.
Absolutely, he's got a great b C Hockey yellow fame. He's in
Bunny there. You can believe. So, yeah, I believe. So
if he's not, he should be, well we'll look it up. A
couple of years ago. I know he got it all right. Our thanks
to Ken Holland. A poll question will deal with it next. He is
in the BC Hockey All confirmation from Ryan Anderson. We should have known that,
all right. Our apologies to the BC Hockey Hall of Fame, which
is located just down the road from Vernon in Penticton. A pole question.
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pop pole question, Ryan, get her up it is do you consider the
owners true Canuck rival? This one's close Over six hundred votes fifty five five
percent say yes, you gotta throw a bubble. No, why it sounds
like it banana during the break It squeezed it up every time. But anyways,
forty five percent no. And we asked this, and I think some
people are texting in well, I know some people are texting and saying,
wait, talking about of course they're their rivals, but where do rivalries really
start? Playoffs? In the playoffs. It blows me away, blown away.
I say that the Canucks and Oilers have only met twice in the playoffs.
That's it. That's it. Nineteen eighty six and nineteen ninety two.
That is astonishing. That is some wild stuff. So the series in ninety
two Oilers and six in eighty and I guess, well, the Conxs had
finished ahead of them in the playoffs, so a bit of an upset.
And that was the remnants. Messier had gone, Ranford was still there,
Gretzky had gone, but the remnants of the Oilers team that won the Stanley
Cup chunk was still there. Yeah, so a good chunk of it was
there. And the Knucks were they weren't quite there yet as a team,
and they got there. If there is the Cup final in ninety four.
Obviously that series in eighty six, Oilers h three. I think that would
have been a pretty good bet. The Owners finished sixty points ahead of the
Canucks that year, and that was you know how, now there's thirty two
teams, sixteen make the playoffs, and there's the thought, hey, you've
got to get more teams in the playoffs. That was the era where people
felt there were too many teams making the playoffs. Sixteen teams made the playoffs
out of twenty one, and of course the Knucks finishing sixty points behind the
Oilers. What the heck were they doing in the playoffs? They were out
in three and the scores were like, there's two five to one games in
that series and a seven to three game as well, all in favor of
the Oilers and Gretzky, Curry, Messy a Men's and then being on the
same together with Coffee and it was just, I mean, a six points
each young a Grant fear. But I want to run this clip. It's
from that series eighty six. You're with me, so in nineteen eighty six,
okay, this is this is a goal by Thomas greteen. Kind of
irrelevant because of the way the series went. We just just talked about it.
It was a complete white polk. But I recently said on this show
that we used to go to the Connection Oilers games, and I think it's
a regret for a lot of people in Vancouver that when Wing Gretzky and company,
one of the great teams of all time in National Hockey League history,
they would scroll into town and there was nobody there. Nobody showed up because
it was going like going to They knew the outcome. There you go.
It was like going on a movie that you knew the ending of what was
the point of what's going on? But you probably should have been there just
to marvel at Gretzky, at Messier and again one of the great teams in
national hockey history. So I say this a week or two ago, and
Ryan maybe you remember this. I don't know, but somebody you know shot
back at me and our Delaney's Okay, taring Langley inbox, what are you
talking about? Those games were sold out every time Gretzky came into town.
I remember that in the eighties. Okay, so this is in the playoffs
nineteen eighty six at the Coliseum, Thomas Graden, what a player he ends
up scoring. Check out the crowd, have a listen, check out the
crowd left. Oh Summon simply dumps it up along the board to center eyes
but canocks at the right group there left now by Danielle. Danielle signing it,
there's no what are there? Those red seats empty? Playoffs? Playoffs?
So whoever wrote that text to me, Yeah, put that in your
pipe and smoke it. There was nobody at those games, and maybe rightfully
so. But if you're a true die hard hockey fan, you might maybe
you check them out once and the score was dying one, but you might
want to. You had a chance to see gretzkyt a regular basis. They
were in town a lot old smite Division rivals. I guess if you want
to call them back in the day and there was nobody there, I could
watch those highlights, Alida Smiel, Gredeen, Fraser. I know Fraser was
gone by then. I think the hockey was faster back there. You know,
I'm kidding. I did go to the owners and the conduction of the
colum Now I think you're one of the people stop Doddy just to watch Kurrie
Anderson Gretzky going up and down the ice, a coffee and then they had
the goalie fear. It was a wonderful, wonderful team to watch. I
don't want to criticize anybody who was around back then, but I think a
lot of people would like to jump in the time the time tunnel and you
know, pay the seven dollars it took to go to games back then and
check out the box save box tickets. It was great to watch. I
don't know how many times I would, you know, be watching from the
press box back in those days, and you know, Gretzky was in his
heyday and I'd be like, what is he doing? He's circling back.
He had a chance to go to you know, drive the net or there's
coffee and that, and he you know, hit him with the pass up
the ice back of the net. Amazing. Okay, we have some information
from Jason Gregor, friend of the show up in Edmonton regarding the oiler's lines
and an injury. Yeah okay, so uh this was this was going to
be a possibility. Adam Henrique, who the owners acquired at the trade deadline,
they coughed up a first round picked on you to get this guy.
He's not skating, unlikely to play. But now it's been confirmed that Adam
Henriq will not be He was playing with McDavid and Hymen. He is not
coming to Vancouver. He's got an ankle injury. So that's a big break
for the canucient Way slice it up. That's top six forward that's out for
the Edmonton Orders for Game one in Vancouver tomorrow night. So Donnie, that's
pretty significant for me that Adam Henrique is not going to play Game one for
the Edmonton Oiders. And you see the lines there, McDavid with Yan mark
Now and Hyman. A lot of people and a lot of people in Edmonton
pushing for the kid Dylan Holloway to move up. He's on the third line.
According to Jason Gregor. Look at that second line. No, I
know, Rick dry Saddle. This is their second line, dry Saddle between
Ryan news At Hopkins from Burnaby and evanner Kate and the Canucks better keeping on
Hymen. Seven goals in the playoffs, He's got more goals. He's got
seven goals, more than any canuckscott points. Okay, he has been an
aitar this year. In fifty four goals in the regular season. His center's
pretty good too. Stop, don you can put five hundred guys with him.
It's that four hundred and ninety nine might not score. You don't know
that. Give him credit to the front of the What are you talking about.
I'm not criticizing, Okay, yeah, okay, I'm saying you might
want to keep an eye on economy, David. Which you might want to
keep an eye on is the penalty box too, and stay out of it?
Okay, but your number one they had nine power play goals against the
Kings. They've got some of the best players in the planet. Stay out
of the penalty. It's tough. You have to be aggressive, but yall
also have to stay out of the penalty box. Okay. So, so,
Donnie, I got a question for you. If Miller goes up against
McDavid, who do you put up against Drice Patterson or or Lindholm. Okay
you're asking that questions like honestly, okay, but hold on Lindholm. You
know six seven weeks ago you would put lind Home up against the game.
Seven weeks ago you would have said Peterson, and Peterson did play against him.
But it's not it's not six or seven weeks ago. Okay, So
you put Lindholm up against him, then Petterson better win his matchup with McLeod.
He's got an opportunity. The Canucks have an opportunity if Petterson is the
third line to win that third line matchup. It's up to them, though,
Donny, it's it's a time for Peterson to show up. And you
know what, Travis Green for your con track with the Ottawa Senators former kind
of head coach as he moves on from the Devils. I talked to Travis
a couple of days ago. He's pretty excited Ottawa. They haven't made the
playoffs in Donny seven straight years, so he's going in. It's not easy.
It's going to be a tough job. He's got a four year deal,
he's got security, he's got time to pull it. No, he's
got time to turn it around. I was trying to say turn, and
I said Poul. But anyways, he's got time to turn it around,
dude, Travis has got timed on to turn it around. It's a four
year deal. I'm gonna leave that alone. It's just so easy, my
god, I was trying to say turn. I said poll. Okay,
look good for Travis Green. You know he got a bit of the rod
deal. Yeah. Really, you got a bit of a raw deal in
that time. You got a bit of a raw deal in Vancouver. Yeah.
Yeah, he had opportunity. He also got stuck with a general manager
that you know every year was going out and you know, spending foolishly on
July first, Eric's and Beagle Roussel and all these guys. You know they
had the most expensive fourth line. Travis, but it's your buddy. Guy's
not my buddy. He's my buddy. But he's not telling you. You
also an Apple opportunity here. You clearly know him well if you know anything
he's doing, you know he's a good guy. He's a good pal of
mine, Travis. I wish him luck in Ottawa. Okay. Michael Bubley
coming up at the top of the do something else? Yeah just quickly,
Uh, a guy that you and I know many arsenal former BACI lines.
I was gonna make that big r Yeah, let's say save it for later.
Okay, save it for the completely you're about a BC Lines guy.
I was the daughter and I know Manny. Anyways, go, do you
know what he's up to Uh, just go, let's go, Michael Bubley,
top of the hour. We're gonna do the we haven't done it.
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and there we go. This courtesy Brian from Sam and Arm. Here's a
photo my wife took of me and my d and d hat near Tucsa in
Arizona, taking a few days ago. That's a Segaro cactus behind me.
Let's go with cactus. I didn't know there were certain types of cactus.
I thought it was just cactus. Like. I didn't know there's like,
you know, this cactus that cactus. I just thought they were all the
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On. He asked Donnie if Donnie remembers Keiki Chance at the Pacific Coliseum in
nineteen sixty nine seventy Cleveland, Keky Mortson, do you remember Key Morrison?
Yeah, Morson and he was known for those chants. Whenever he would score,
people would yell out kik. He used to take off his helmet and
tip his cat to the tip his helmet route after each goal. Really yeah,
how cool is that? Kekey Mortson? Yeah, so that was.
That was pre NHL Canucks. Yeah, WHL Cannocks. Yes, it was.
That was a great league because you had the guys on the way up
and the guys on the way down, and you'd see a player like Andy
Bathgate playing for the Caducks. It was, you know, great with the
Rangers and leaf Saw Hall of Famer and it was a lot of fun.
Nice and the callseum just opened as I go, heavy, old man.
But at least I realized there are other types of all types of cactus cacti.
You did know that I would have guessed that. Yeah, I had
no idea anyway, Well, look at like look at look at any like
lettuce. There's different types of lettuce. Why I brought up lettuce, I'm
not sure. Yeah, yeah, but at least the different types of lettuce
look different, Like I'd imagine if you studied it. You're not a cactus
expert. Let's move on. If you studied cactus, which maybe you want
to think about after today's show, you'd find out that there are several.
I guess I should. If we have a cactus expert in the audience,
please educate us different types of cactus. That would be no educate you because
you're worried about it. You have no idea. I don't care if there's
five hundred guarantee if there's a cactus expert out there, they're unemployed. That's
probably watching. That's a good point, okay. I want to bring up
something that dolleyball Uh teased in the last segment, even though we were talking
all about the about hockey. That is the fact that Manny Arsenal is an
ash retirement from the CFL. The Lions posting earlier today what a run it
was the Lions salute at Manny Show eighty four. On an outstanding career,
the two time CFL All Star is third on the club's all time receiving list
with eight thousand, one hundred and sixty nine yards. I know you guys
like to go back in time with the Lions. Murv Fernandez a bunch of
other names, and I'm not taking anything away from any of the names you
bring up, but in terms of my lifetime with the Lions, he's your
guy. Well him and g Roy are the two most exciting receivers that I've
seen here in a Lions uniform, like and Brian Burnham. There's that'd be
the third guy for me, and you guys, you're right Jason Claremont as
well. Oh yeah, but electrifying receivers that this markets had to me.
It's those three in my time with the Lions, and I couldn't believe this.
You guys reminded me this before the show. He was still playing last
year in the CFL. What did you say, Ricky thirteen years in the
CFL, No eleven in the cf but then he bounced around the NFL as
well. Yeah, yeah, so a just a great career again, eight
and sixty nine yards for the Lions in his time here in BC A two
stints with the Lions, oh nine, ten and then twenty thirteen to twenty
eighteen. He finished his time off with the Elks last season. And by
the way, when we're talking Lions, we should remind everyone tomorrow rookie camp
begins in Kamloops for the BC Lions. So the training camp gets underway tomorrow,
the Vets get going. I believe it's Saturday in Camloops and stay tuned
to the BC Lions. I can't say this enough. The Lions social media
count, the Lions website is and no knocking anyone because everyone does a good
job here, but they are the best in the market when it comes to
their content with their players. And so Matt Baker and Nick and everybody with
the Lions will be doing an amazing job covering training camp. And I know
we're in hockey mode and it's the playoffs and everything, but the Lions are
about to get going here and those guys do a hell of a job.
So check out their stuff on the line sort of training camp in the Spain
of Canada. Yeah, and we still don't know who the Lion's kickoff concert
is going to be. We're still waiting on that. Well, get gone,
Get going, one Republic l cool Jay and now twenty twenty four we
need to find out. Still I'm gonna guess probably not men without hats again,
it's probably not likely. Okay, that's it for me. Coming up
next we are going to be joined by Burnaby. Is it North Burnaby?
It's North Burnaby, right, I think it's I think he went to Cariboo.
So where's that. It's on the way to New West. So is
that north or south? We'll last Mike Okay, he's from Burnaby. I
just don't want to make anybody mad. His family, which I'm familiar with.
We're North Burnaby, pe Okay, North Burnaby extended North Okay North.
We would talk with Michael Bubley coming up next on this show. It's Donny
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Michael Buble joins us. Now, how are you, sir? Really good
guys, good morning, good morning. Uh let's get this straight. Now,
what part of Burnaby are you from? What part do you call call
home? Not necessarily now, but where you grew up? I'd say North
Burnaby is where kind of Bainbridge Low Heat area. That's where I grew up.
Nice beautiful. Okay, well that's the right answer, by the way,
Michael, Just so you know, hey, I know you go to
games, but you know it's playoff time, and what's what's the man cave
set up? Like in the in the Boublet household. Oh, the man
cave game is pretty strong, actually it is. It is a family into
it, Michael. You've got young kids, and you know, yeah,
my boys, My boys are my good luck. The kids are my good
luck. We all we literally will watch the games. We've got a little
net set up so that we take turns playing goal and then uh and then
we've always got these mini sticks in our hands the whole game. If you
saw a steed, we're all standing at the TV with mini sticks in our
hands. I can guarantee you're not the only Kanuck fan who does that or
kannak fans who do that. So what kind of emotions are you going through
right now? Michael? Has been a while since there's been a mean,
there was the twenty twenty bubble, but that doesn't count. What kind of
emotions are you going through right now during these playoffs? I am so happy.
It is so like, Look, I love the playoffs. I love
it. Even when the Canucks are out, I still love the playoffs and
what a time to be alive. It's it's all. And the fact is
I see this as basically the experience these guys are getting. I mean,
we're playing with house money. I know that people have sort of said that
before. The Oilers are expected to two of the best players on the planet
Earth, and there's this expectation that they'll dominate. It's four games and over,
and I love I love coming in as the perceived underdog, because the
truth is, if you really ask me, I don't think we are the
underdog. I think this could be a really good series. I think we're
a deep four line team if we're rolling, and uh, you know,
we've got seven good Goaltenders's funny. I watched, you know, all the
games with them. I really like Edmonton. They're really fun. Obviously a
fun team to watch with somebody like Connor and Leon and Booshart all these guys.
I noticed though that they stick them on for the first ten, twelve
minutes and they're dominant. But if they don't score in those you know,
first twelve minutes, the games become a lot more difficult for them to win,
and so I hope that happens. Look at you going first names with
Connor and Leon. You know those guys have you met I met? I
met Connor. I really like Connor is a cool dude, and I met
him really humble guy. You know. I it's like, I don't want
to sound like that fan, but the guys that I really want to get
to know and become friends with other referees because I feel like like if anything
could ever help a small market Canadian team, that might that might be a
voice because I did not love at all and I haven't for a long time
what I've seen, and I don't know what it is, but I'd love
to have a home game where you get some calls like you're the home team.
I got news for you. Edmonton is also a small market Canadian team.
They're probably say saying the same thing. Hey, what do you like
about this edition of the Canucks? Michael Oh, I love the depth,
I really did. I loved it. It's not an online team, obviously.
You know, you want Lias to feel better or play whatever it is,
to be more confident and and move that line along. But I really
love, you know, the old Brian Burke truculence thing. You know,
I just I just think it's so cool watching really watching four lines that role
that are in North South, hard on the pock, hard on the foe
check. I love It's funny because for years I used to watch teams with
the big D with those big D defense is nice. Wow, wouldn't that
be so cool to have a D like that where they could crush guys and
wear guys down over seven games? And uh, it's so much fun to
have it to see it and go, wow, this is well, that's
something. This is fun to watch. And I love just seeing the story
of you know, you lose thatcher and it's heartbreaking and the smith comes in
and you go, oh, this is gonna be okay, and then he
gets hurt and Sea Loves comes in and the whole city says, well,
you know, we don't expect much, and then the kid gets a shout
out to win. It's awesome. What players other than Sea Loves Michael have
really caught your eye in that first round? What guys did you say?
Holy smokes? They had a great series. You know, it's funny guys
that I really loved all year, and I thought, God, I hope
they can come through. Guys like Connor Garland, guys like Tyler Myers.
Man, we're a tough fan base, you know. We make some real
knee jerk kind of reactions on guys and you know, get rid of this
guy, get rid of that guy. And I'm guilty of but myself sitting
with my buddies, and I was just talking to my friends yesterday and saying,
I think my favorite thing about what's happened this year isn't the winning or
going beyond the expectations that we had. It's watching the value that we've gained
in many of these players who you know, listen in the few sure,
if we have to make some trades, if you have to make moves,
oh my god. It has just added so much value to what you can
do with trades or contracts and things like that. So I you know,
and I don't even you know. You look at like Dakota Joshua. He
had a great game one. I can't wait to see what, you know,
what he can bring. You were at one of the home games against
Nashville. They showed you on the screen. Everyone's going nuts. There's Michael.
What was the atmosphere like for you? I mean, we were sitting
here watching the games from this studio, but you were right there. How
was the atmosphere? Yeah, you know, it's funny because obviously, you
know, I'm friends with a bunch of great people in the organization, and
so they offered tickets and I, you know, come up to the suite
or come up here, and I didn't want to watch from a suite.
I didn't. I said, I love you guys, I don't want anything.
I want to get my own tickets. And I just wanted to go
sit with I just wanted to go sit with my people. And I brought
my two sons and I wanted them to experience with my grandfather and my dad
had had let me experience as a young kid in those runs. And it
was awesome. It was awesome. It was so cool, it was electric.
And looking at my boys and knowing that they're unlocking these core memories.
It's core memories. You know, they're gonna remember this forever, no matter
what happens, and watching them way to towels and seeing there how proud they
were, and hearing them sing the anthem and the flag's going over and they're
you know, they're righting, not in a not in some box. And
even though I missed the private toilets, I really love a good private but
man, that was like, it was just it's just so cool. It's
just so cool. You just keep hoping, you know, just a couple
of bounces here there, give us another series. It must be tough for
Michael Bublea to go into a public washroom and a hockey game. No,
I love comparing Harry, so you like the rest of us. Yeah,
yeah, the rest of us. Oh god, it's funny man, Yeah,
no, it's you know, I don't want anything. Listen, life
is weird enough that I don't want it to be weird for my kids.
I want them to have a rake as regular as they can be. And
I think the way that my personality is, I love. I love people
like I people are always cool, like you know, no one ever.
Yeah, they make the odd joke or things, but I just you know,
I have fun. Like I was behind me high five and guys and
guys were screaming. I remember going to an l A. Kings game once
and it was against Calgary and so I'm sitting there in the stands and and
all of a sudden, they baby, baby, you set your flamer.
And I was and I didn't want to turn around because I was like,
I could hear the persons in it. And uh, finally, you know,
after like the you know, ten minutes of age flamer. Yeah,
I turned around and it was the guys from South Park just screaming at me.
No, no, I know. It was amazing. I met I
met them, Trey and I met them after in the little area, and
I was I was so excited that they were making funny with that the voice,
yeah, the Cardon voice, and yeah, man, it's yeah,
it's a great it's a great life for stuff like that happens. It's one
of those things where you try to explain it to people and it's like,
can you believe that's that's my life? You mentioned Eleis Patterson, Michael,
he's struggling right now. Can you relate? You go through periods where you
know your career, where things aren't perfect when you when you're on stage,
and and how do you get out of that? Yeah? You and you
and I've talked about this before on tex and stuff, and I think it
is as well. I think anyone who's been in sports, anyone who's coached
or played, realizes that confidence is everything. It's everything. It changes your
whole existence out there. And you know, Elias, it's funny because you
know, I think for people that know him, he looks like this kind
of real Swedish cool, you know, not cold, but you know he's
got that kind of those steely eyes. And everyone calls him the alien or
whatever. But I think what I know because of our friendship is that I
see a guy who wants this worse than you can ever imagine, a guy
who cares deeply about his his teammates, loves the city, He's a winner,
he wants to win. And so I think sometimes you hold the stick
a little tighter. You you just want it, You just want to you
want to dominate, and sometimes you know it, you put more on yourself
than you should. And I think that, you know, I just love
talking to him about stuff, you know, like our conversations are not about
playing hard or this. I just when we talk it's like he'll, dude,
he'll remind me if I have a big, a big thing coming up
and I'm nervous about it, and I'm saying, yeah, like, oh
my god. He'll say to me, dude, you're you're dude, you
don't worry. You've got this. You've done this a lot. And I
did the same thing with him or with other guys I talked to, and
with him it's like I said, man, you've got You've done it all.
Man, you have nothing to prove. You know, you have a
you know you've you've done great things. Can you go out there and be
a kid again? Right? Can you go out to be a kid and
just have fun and play hard. It's funny because I saw the last game.
I thought he was great. I really did. I thought he was
pretty solid. Obviously that that with the winning goal, he makes a massive
play where he jumps his man, throws it over to Brock. Brock,
you know, obviously gets that great little backhand or out there to suit her,
and but that none of that happens without that extra jump of Eli,
without without him pushing on the play. And it was he'd done that a
few times that game, and uh, I can't wait, dude, Yeah,
I can't wait one more. Finally, other guys you were talking about
eleas Linnholm loved that, like you know, we're all bitching about that trade,
and wow, my god, dude, he's you know, we won
the trade without a doubt. We won the trade, And I like,
who's I think Kusk is a lovely, great player and all that, but
you traded him for that. You know, he wins you or comes close
to win you a couple of games, winning huge face offs. That's why
you have him. Okay, Uh, career wise, what's next for you?
And okay, well, okay, you can get into that, but
career wise, what's next? And what's next? Does it include maybe singing
the anthem at Rogers Arena? No, No, that one is one thing
that's not going to happen. Uh, you know, don't we make it
to the Cup? I would consider thinking about it. I got a single
i'm working on. Did you guys hear me singing? Before I came on?
I was waiting for the for you guys come on, holding down the
street, smoking in though, sitting on Jim and Juice. Okay, I
got my mind, all my money and my money on my mind. That's
something I'm working on. Yeah, I love it. I think it's been
done. Oh you're talking about cover though? I think I'm talking about like
a whole new career. You know what, it's funny. Some people who
may you in the washroom and Rogers Rena said you were singing that it all
fits. Oh man, man, I got right in my head. Can
yeah, yes, what's it like for you guys? Like and because it's
funny? I watched the first thing I do literally, yeah, when the
game ends, is I go and I check you out? Okay, guys,
I mean it's YouTube or whatever, but I go, I watch the
show and I love I just love seeing you. I love seeing cheats coming
on the show. Yeah, I uh so what's it like for you guys?
Is it like make any fun? What's extra work? Which is fine?
Long hours, long hours, but yeah, no, you know what,
it's been so long. And look, Rick and I will criticize that
we're fans. We're fans and are some of the best memories of our lives
eighty two, ninety four and twenty eleven. And if this comes close to
it highlight of our lives, no question about it. It's already been special.
But yeah, yeah, how can you not look forward to it if
somebody has been around for like, yeah, yeah, man, it's so
cool to see ourk city going nuts and seeing the restaurants and the patios packed.
I could use less of those stupid fan videos. And you guys know
probably the ones that we're talking about. Yeah, uh yeah, they make
us look so trashy. And it's such an all percentage. And I know,
I know, get control, get control of it. Oh, thank
govern knows how to control itself. We know that. Hey, we gotta
get roll. We gotta get rolling. Here we go on and on.
All right, my friend, you bet I'll be watching guys tonight. Good
to hear we've got one viewer. Thanks, Michael, appreciated all the best,
with with everything, all right, Michael Buble. If they get back
to the Cup final, maybe we'll see him all due respect to everybody.
Maybe we'll see him doing anthem. Wouldn't that be something? Game one it
Stanley Cup Finals. Michael Bubley. Okay, a break and then we'll update
the poll question next. Dottie Delay the team with Jack, Dollie and Dolly.
The team is supported by Abelauctions dot C A close in your business you
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the Wattling Dog pop poll question. Do you consider that the Oider is the
true Canuck rival? Fifty five percent yes, forty five percent say no.
Eight hundred and fifty two votes already and so there you go. Yeah again.
I'll remind people well that I find it hard to believe just twice in
the playoffs these teams have met and not since the ninety two they've met the
Flames seven times, seven times in the playoffs. You think, given the
fact they've been in the same division for so long, same conference for so
long. I know the playoff formats have changed, that it would have been
more than than more than twice. In the old Smite division they play,
Yeah, when they play eighty times each or something like that, like eighty
two times they played to each other, but just twice in the playoffs business.
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to ask you what was in front of the laptop yesterday? How about today?
What about today? Run today? In front of the laptop? Yet?
What was the anniversary with the eighty two team yesterday? Rick? It
was something they advanced to the Stanley Cup final for thirty two years ago.
Yesterday the eighty two team advanced to the finals elimited Chicago. Was a big
day for me and Donnie, the six two win in Chicago at the Chicago
Stadium. And Ryan didn't want to do it and wanted nothing to do with
it. Who is the goaltender, Richard Burdur? Who's the puck in front
of your laptop? Richard Burder? There you go, so that's the that's
the puck again? I love who's the puck? Well, what's the puck?
I guess not who is not a person? A lot of people ask
what the puck happens on this show a lot of the time. Ah,
yes, get it, King rich You're officially a dad with that one.
King Richard Berduur signed puck. That's the box of the NHL Sticker Collection twenty
four and rso no from tops and on the left. Just to make kduck
fans angry, I decided to pick the Connor McDavid card. Why the superstar
Connor McDavid upper deck card. One of the keys to these series will be
if the Canucks can contain Connor McDavid. I'm going out on a limb with
that one. Are we breaking in ABC News right now? We should be.
Are we do the draft lottery? Yeah? Man? Is this gone
under the radar in Vancouver because, like I don't know, for the last
five hundred seasons, it's been November we start doing the draft lottery simulator because
it's obvious the Canucks are going to be part of the draft lottery because the
seasons went so poorly. Not this time around, we haven't even mentioned it.
The draft lottery goes today. Rick. In years past, our first
three years of the show. That's all we did. We got you,
we got ready for this big day. It's a the game show that used
to sweep the nation. The NHL Draft Lottery simulator courtesy the folks at Tankathon.
Yeah, we've changed our vehicle. I used to use another website that
no longer with us. Yeah. Now now it's the Tankathon. That website
tanked, not Tankathon though. San Jose with the best odds of hit number
one overall at twenty five point five percent, followed by Chicago, Anaheim,
Columbus, Montreal. The list goes on. You want to do the honors,
I'll go first. Uh do you want me to go? Sure?
All right? I want to say hi to all the Canucks season ticket holders
and fans gathered at the Tap and Barrel in South Surrey. Hey stop stop
this couple of blocks from my house. I love it. I was here
a couple of weeks ago with my good pell Bob on one hundred and fifty
second Street. So let's take a look. Bob, Bob, he's from
Grand Prix. You go, yeah, Bob and Renee my biggest fans.
You go from three to one, though, Rick, that's I know how
to do. Yeah, I'm not going to flow it up, all right.
With the third overall pick the ana I'm ducks. There you go,
number two the Chicago Blackhawks. And with the first overall pick the San josey
shar, have you done the have you done that? Lotter? Right there?
I just pushed me by reset? That's the order they are in hives
one, Anaheim third, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I did it right,
I reset it. I got a you have to hit sim lottery,
not reset. Oh okay, hold on, let me see that was right?
Okay. So now and with the third overall pick, back to tap
of barrel we go. Let's go to the tap of barrel. Let's sell
the connect fans out there and season ticket holders on one hundred and fifty second
Street. With the third overall pick, San Jose, Columbus moves up from
two spots, Donny, two spots in the number two and moving up to
the Stree Street. Yeah, three is San Jose. They moved too down.
So anyways, Anaheim is your holder of the first overall pick. They
moved two spots up. Interesting, and I don't look at them. This
thing is not gonna here you go. This is a wow. This is
his worst Radio Ever, n TV Everything podcast. Okay, a special hello
to all of our season ticket holders. Gathered at Fairway's Restaurant at the Westwood
Plateau Golf in Coquitlam. Look incredible servers waitresses there. Uh. The third
pick goes to moving down two spots and this will be This will upset Rick,
celebrity, father of Macklin, celebrity. He's gone on record. Rick
is saying he wouldn't mind if the Sharks won the lottery because he wants Macquelin
to be working where he works in the Bay Area. The Golden State Warriors,
Santo moves out to third pick, second pick, moving up nine spots,
The Canucks expansion cousins, the Sabers, the Buffalo. Now, if
you don't speak French, that's the Buffalo Sabers. Buffalo Sabers moving up seven
spots, picking number one down the road, down the I five the Kraken
with the number one pick, Blackhawks, if you're interested, because people just
assume they're gonna win the lotter, eight down to fourth. Oh God,
that was right. But to say hello to all of our sponsors and season
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My favorite is now mine. Okay, drafting in the third position after
picking first last year the Chicago Blackhawks. So no, Macklin and car team
up. Drafting second overall, down one position the San Jose Sharks, and
first overall will be that selection will be made by the Columbus Blue Jacks.
O. They will be drafting back then Sanabrini to help out Johnny Gudrou Yeah,
Patrick Lning. The San Jose Sharks won nineteen games this year, nineteen.
Remember the Canucks dropped ten on the Oh I remember the Oiler's loss to
them. That might have been the worst NHL game I've ever seen. Oh
yeah, that it moves up there. And in terms of lopside of competitions,
what you said to yourself that team doesn't belong on the last I think
the kind of turn thiker. Of course, they just fired their head coach
David Quinn. But no, to your point though, that's what I bring
up when people talk about further expansion. Are there actually players for these extra
That's the issue right now is if they try more like you're gonna watered it
down, because you're right, Donnie, that lineup and that was like not
I don't think there's like significant injuries to Santa. That was their lineup.
Yeah, remember no disrespietment with Kyle Burrow, Like, I know what we're
gonna get now that the ladies. Okay, Tarrian Langley in box, I'm
talking about how that was the worst game I've ever seen, And there'll be
people saying, well, Donnie, that's what I rebuilt would look like.
Yeah, oh well hey yeah, I don't know if it would look that
bad like that that one game at least, because look, Chicago's in rebuild
clearly too. I don't think they lost by ten to anyone. I could
be wrong, yeah, Long's yeah, oh yeah, but they have said
a ration of injuries and the sad a ton of guys out right. Yeah,
we're way over, are we? Yeah we gotta go. We're good,
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all with the Canucks. He helped Vancouver get to the eighty two Stanley
Cup Final. He wore the number twenty six with Vancouver. W do the
lottery assimulator again well more than number twenty sixty initials. L M. Lars
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to play football again. I want to say it's an East sixty. I
think it was like a piece. Yeah, but it's really gruesome, really
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back. This is after it healed and he came back to play. It's
something else. They absolutely thought he was losing his like, oh this family.
Yeah. Singer born in Mississippi, raised in California. She scored in
Again This Is for Rick. She scored a number one hit and a Grammy
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There you go. Johnny Unanitis is a great name. Johnny Unitas is somebody
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Mcgos at the other day? Really? That Christmas Story? Anybody have you
seen that show? I've never seen it with the little kid Derek helped me
out here. Yeah, the toy shoot your eye out? Yeah yeah,
yeah, you've never seen it. I've never seen it all. Do you
watch of these superhero movies, the Marvel movie Christmas? Haven't you not seen
Home Alone or something? Yeah? I saw Home Alone? Yeah, okay,
yeah, see, okay, that's a Christmas classic versus a Christmas story.
I take Home Alone all day and I will see this Christmas story.
You haven't seen it, I know, but still I'm okay take home alone
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me is the submission of the year. Donnie. I don't care what anyone
says. Is it just me? But you guys always amazed me about how
little you know about anything else other than hockey, CFL and eighties rock.
There are over one thousand types of cactus. Have you ever been Arizona?
Brian Import mood Brian Import Moody absolutely ripped and carved the three of us,
but he says he still watches and listens. I have been Arizona, Donny
but I never got to go to the desert or the mountains or the hills
or whatever they are out there. I was stuck in a hotel, going
to a rink and back at a tournament. So, Brian, I have
been to Arizona, but I never got to go out and look at the
thousand types of cactus they have. My family went on a trip to Arizona.
We did go for some hikes. It's one of my favorite trips.
Yeah, and I'm not known is it beautiful there in the Phoenix area,
but we saw it was in March. We saw like spring training Penguins and
Canucks versus the Coyotes. But you didn't see any cats in basketball too,
didn't he any cactus? Or Brian in Port Moody wouldn't ripping us. Well,
we're learning that, or at least Ryan's learning that there are several types
of cactus. Go. I'm a little bit ah okay, look at this.
Uh is it just me? Uh? Donnie with telling the anthem singer
to do his job? Is so Bill Belichick new s Nick, I'm not
getting that you were telling the national anthem singer don't put the mic out to
the fan, saying you were telling, just do your job. Sounds like
Bill Belichick if you watch the Tom Brady roast, That's what he was all
came the Patriots, do your job, do your job well. By the
way, speaking of doing your job, is Lias Petterson going to be playing?
Oh to night? Report from if we got the tweet here? By
any chances Ryan A report from Brendon Bachelor at Canucks practice. They're practicing at
Rogers Arena Eleas Petterson is not on the ice for practice and is under the
weather according to the team. Again, that's from our friend from Sports at
six fifty play by play man extraordinaire Brendan Bachelor. Okay, so Tyler Myers
miss Game two of Nashville with the flu. Uh So, Patterson, what
you like about that tweet? He's under the weathers there there's no mention of
an injury, so he should be okay for tomorrow still, though the speculation
that he may be suffered from some sort of undisclosed injury. And Luke Schen
missed Game five in Vancouver with the flu as well, so it's obviously going
around. Is it just me from Ron or was Little and Big Ricky a
closet Oilers fan. You a big Oilers fan. In reality, he watched
them. I watched them win forced down the Cups in the nineteen eighties.
It was disgusting, it was it was brutal. You admired them, but
I don't mighty jealous too some people as well, Sure you are, I
mean they were and they had the city of champions. Yeskimos won five Great
Cups in row. Was ridiculous. The whole eighties was Edmonton winning Great Cups
and is Downley Cups. It was ridiculous, Darnie Kook and Langley. Is
it just me? But well, listen to everyone suggests how easily the Oilers
are going to walk through the Canucks. You would think the seventy six,
seventy seven Montreal Canadians were coming to town. I think that addition of the
Canadians lost only eight or nine games. Oh yeah, yes all season.
That was a great take Guiel of Flair and Lamaire and the big three on
defense, Ken Dryden. And you know it's funny like today, our friend
Ray Ferraro taking a lot of heat. I mean Ray lives in Vancouver from
Vancouver hockey fans because he picked the Oilers in six, So did a lot
of other people at ESPN. Twenty three of their twenty four hockey staffers had
the Oilers. Have the Oilers winning that series? Hey, conos, you
know what? Tell you who? Connux loved that, talked about that,
put it up on the dressing and Ray Ferraro was in ann win situation.
Please, folks, Ray can't win either way he picks. But yes he
can. I didn't understan and the people, Okay, but if the dream
his ESPN guys are picking the Oilers, he's going to be the one guy
to pick the Canucks just because like, no, no, but I'm saying
I don't understand what people are getting on him. He's at that far of
a reachon He's a knowledgeable obviously a knowledgeable hockey analyst. That's his opinion looking
at the series, just because what he lives here, he has to pick
the cans You guys, his wife works for the organized wife works for the
Caducks. But if if he picks the Canucks and the rest of his workforce
is picking the Oilers, right, you know, come on, I just
thought I was. I just wasn't surprised, Like no, because most hockey
people again, We've talked about it, most sports books, most analysts,
most everybody that are knowledgeable about the game. Look and they they give the
edge to the Oilers. If you have for the people who say that,
and God, God bless him, they've every passionate fans, passionate on hockey
fans. You know, if you had your you know, house on the
line, like and we're realistic, absolutely, what would you what would you
exactly? What would you call? What would your call be? Yeah?
I think most people would call the oilers? What are you hoping for?
Something different? Of course, the GM and the Oilers came on our show
today and is expecting a long series? You know what tight series? Close
on six games could be considered long. Yeah, that's true. What else
we gotta go? Okay, we'll take a break. We'll try to fit
in some more. Is it just me on the other side? Some business?
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yes, forty six percent say no, almost a thousand votes. And the
news from canuck Land practicing at Roger's Arena, Eleas Petterson not at practice Canucks
telling us that he is ill now and so Nile's im on is between Hoglander
and McKay at practice today. But we will monitor and we will know what
the game day skate tomorrow at Patterson's. Generally, if he's out and looks
like Adam Henriek will not be taking part in this series for the oilers,
the whole series or Game one. You tell me, I got Game one
tomorrow. He's got an ankle injury. So that's he is out on their
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Brown from Courtney sent us a note about his nephew Darren, who's about to
undergo a surgery and visit to the Ronald McDonald house that's coming up soon.
He's a massive Knucks fan and a massive Brock Besser fan, and Brown is
a fan of our show. And so good luck to Tharren with everything ahead
for him. All the best, yeah, absolutely, all the best.
Okay, we got a photo. Okay, where we're going? Okay,
radio, Look at this. This is Margaret Dubay, our biggest fan,
Donnie her son Jeff. We met at the Lions game in the summer last
summer. And Margaret, this is right after the Knucks beating Ashfield eliminated the
Predators. She got her Donnie and Dolly a hat, right, a bucket
hat on right away, Margaret, thank you very much. There you go.
She's got one of the new Knuck flying skaters as well, looking good
looking, very good looking for the whole bit. Where are we going now?
Right? Golf course? The golf course? Yeah, okay. After
Jess failing short of three peating at the thirty plus Division one Champs at eight
rinks, the millionaires were able to put on a brave face as well as
some D and D merch for the annual Millie's Golf Tournament. A good time
had by all. That's from Vancouver, Charney. Look at that? What
course was that again? I don't think he said no. They just they
they they lost their division title at eight ranks and then they thought they'd win
at the golf course. And so that's Vancouver Charney looking good, boys looking
good, very good. What a beautiful picture. Thanks so much. What
else you want to go to Parksville? Uh? Rich? Rich? Yeah,
let's go to Richard. Good guy, Rich here, I love Rich
Look at this. This is my goal right here to get that thickness.
Look at this mustache, Johnnie. That's the goal for you and me to
look like rich with that thickness. That's right there. That's every guy's mustache
dream right there, Rich, Okay, mustache dream. Just watching the show
a bublay, keep it up. And Ryan, there's more than one cock.
Just give you a head a shake. That's from Rich in Parksville.
Well, we didn't come up with any type of cactus either, other than
there's a thousand dollars who ripped us from Port Moody. I forgot Oh my
goodness, we got ripped. Yeah, rightfully so okay, don't forget playoff
post game after Game one tomorrow at Rogers Rain And of course we'll be back
here at ten am tomorrow. I'll be out of Ryan, Derek Rick,
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