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Great? Couldn't be better? What tonight? Draft lottery? Yesterday Chicago wins
the draft lottery, moving up a couple of spots. So the black Hawks
And can you believe this? If you want to go back to twenty eleven,
I know he would have been only five at the time, but Connor
Badard Knacks fan is going to play for the Chicago Blackhawks. Where rick are
the Blackhawks right now? We know that they received all sorts of season ticket
sales or managed to grab all sorts of season ticket sales in the wake mediate
wake of winning the lottery. Where are they right now? They are twelve
hours post drafting Badard, Donnie. Five point two million dollars in season tickets
last night and this morning sold by the Blackhawks. Donnie will get into Kyle
Beach and everything else, but I do want to say this. Anaheim would
not have sold five point two million in season ticket sales last night if he
went to Anaheim. You know what, and I know it. Chicago was
a huge city. Chicago, Donnie, it's a great hockey town too.
It's a great hockey town. It's one of the best hockey cities in the
USA by a country mile. Done, and Anaheim would not have sold five
point two million last night and season ticket sales, and you know it.
But anyways, that's an incredible number and it just makes you shake your head
thinking what could have happened if that kid came to Vancouver. That would have
been imagined the season tickets. Okay, this is where I'm going with this.
There's all this talk with the Cannach organization. You know, we gotta
win now, right, Yeah, All the signs are there that they care
about making the playoffs, and ultimately everything comes down to business. They want
home dates in the postseason. Yes, Why is that because why? Revenue?
Revenue? Revenue? Right, yeah, the owner loves revenue. Sure,
great, five point two million dollars in season, that's not revenue,
that's revenue. Not bad, that's pretty good business. So here they are
all season long, right there with Chicago, most of the season right there
with Chicago. Right there was San Jose, Anaheim, all the teams that
finished at the bottom. And who ends up winning it the Chicago block Blacks.
They win the lottery. We want. There were seven points between the
Blackhawks and the Canucks. So instead of doing what the Blackhawks are doing that
they decide to push things at the end, play their best players a whole
lot, play damnco rise in the standings. And you know, Ryan,
we can run this video here last night Canucks uh Bill Daily at Spot eleven
flips over the card and lo and behold it's it's the Vancouver Canucks. I
just tweeted out. Yep. Of course, you know, of course it's
the vancous I expected this. I expected nothing less. Yeah, nothing less.
Calvin looking very very heavy. He wasn't wearing the Donny and Dolly bucket
hat. Come on, Patty, he'd been wearing the bucket hat. Maybe
maybe they rise in the standings or probably in the in the lottery, or
maybe they do rise in the in the standings. Who knows it just it
just really frustrating. So look at the situation with the Chicago Blackhawks, and
like Rick says, we're gonna talk about the Kyle Beach situation. Should they
have been in a position to do you can get that rab Connor Badard.
Yeah, we'll talk about that later. But I tweeted this out last night
in the wake of the Blackhawks winning the draft lottery. Look look at their
future right now. So let's go back to last year Blackhawks in twenty twenty
two, they have three first round draft picks, two second round draft picks.
Blackhawks this year in twenty twenty three, at the draft, this is
right now. There could be some trades, but two first rounders, including
Connor Badard, you know they're going to take him, four second rounders,
two third rounders. Blackhawks in both twenty twenty four and twenty twenty five,
two picks in both rounds one and two. And at the end there I
tagged that are they allowed to say rebuild in Chicago? So they have nineteen
picks in the first three rounds the Blackhawks in the next three years. The
Canucks have eight. And I understand that's not all this regime. It goes
back to the Banning era. I get all that, but facts are facts.
The Blackhawks have a focus of rebuilding. The Canucks have a focus of
trying to get into the playoffs weekend. And maybe that's the way to playoff
revenue. I'm not so sure, but I am. We're gonna get to
the poll question in a second. Here. I've said it before in the
show. I'll see it again. Blackhawks will win another Cup before the Canucks
win their first. Here's another one for you, Donnie. The Blackhawks have
forty one million in cap space this summer. If they want to, they
can go out and spend a whack of that this summer, or they can
hang on to it done and they can have another bad year and get another.
Look. They're in a good position, as you've said from day one,
this general manager Kyle Davidson. He came out and said, we're gonna
rebuild. You were bragging about Chicago, bragging about them all year, and
you are bang on, and now look at them. They're set up so
nicely. They had a vision and a plan, so they pick. Okay,
it looks very good right now. It does. What's been the vision
and planned in this city, Well, the slogan in the last eleven years
has been we're two three years away. So when Jim Benning was hired day
one, we can turn this around quickly, two three years away. Then
his next contract with two three years away, then the next contract with two
three years away. That's the slogan in this city for the last eleven years.
We're two three years away. Done. It's particulous. So I'm gonna
play Devil's advocate for a second. You agree with me. I admire what
Chicago is doing right now in terms of rebuilding versus what the Canucks are up
to. Francesco Aquilini will argue this, and so will Tom Gallerti in Dallas,
who was on our show, and he's not so sure rebuild is the
way to go, and obviously Francesco feels the same way. Florida Panthers wildcard
team. Yep. Seattle cracking wildcard team, Yep, that's true. Florida
one win away from a conference final, crack, and a couple of wins
away from a conference final. So maybe that's the way to go. I
don't think it is. Nope. I think this is a strange situation and
anomaly. But they'll argue that. Look, that's happening in the playoffs right
now. Those teams seems weakend. Yeah, to get hot, especially in
the case of Florida, and look where they are at this point. Long
long term though, what the Blackhawks are doing works. Yeah, a vision
and a plan you always want that. But the Panthers were the number one
overall team last year, Donnie, So that's a bit of a different thing.
They just didn't fact is a fact. In fact, there was,
you know, going in the last week of the regular season, there was
a chance they were going to make the playoffs. And and to your point,
Seattle's got a plan. They got a ton of draft picks this summer.
They didn't go out and acquire anyone at the trade deadline. They stuck
with their plan and they do have a plan in Seattle, there's no question,
Donnie, they're gonna build around the young kids. Okay, um Cox,
it came to, by the way, the NHL network yesterday you you
caught the broadcast? He absolutely, and they they they jumped ahead obviously thinks
that had been recorded. Yes, that broadcast had been taped, and they
ran a segment they shouldn't have they shouldn't have, and they talked about how
it was Kevin Weeks screwed up. I think, well, no, it's
not Kevin Weeks is screwed up. It was a production assistant or a producer
or a director who's screwed up the TV. Here. Derek's the Derek's the
TV grew you are. And he would agree with me. Somebody pushed a
wrong button there and maybe somebody's out of a job today. It wasn't Kevin
Weeks. He did it. He did a really trust to TV group,
a really good job. And the broadcast it is what it is. It's
Bill Daily flipping cards and everybody was was glued to their television sets. But
they, uh, they definitely messed up there. Uh Okay, as we
look at Bill Daily flipping over the card or you know, it hit me
here, Bill Daily flipping over the card for the Chicago Blackhawks at number one,
and um, I'll say more about this in a second. As Connorbadard
is going to a big market team. This is the part that had to
her Ducks fans. Not only did they lose out at number one, but
Bill Daly holds up their logo and it's upside down, side down. Do
you think that because I look at the last two, the last two lotteries
that we were really interested in, you know, with supposedly franchise changing players.
That hasn't happened with Alexis Lefrenier with the Rangers. But at the time,
people thought that, yeah, this could could turn things around for the
Rangers. They've been just fine, not necessarily because of his play, but
as he and people joked beforehand, well you probably go to the Rangers.
The NHL will rig it, they want it goes to the Rangers. And
then last night and look, I'm not accusing anybody of anything, but it
looks a little fishy, right he goes to the Chicago Blackhawks. That's good
for the NHL. The Rangers winning that other lottery, good for the National
Hockey League, better for the National Hockey league versus a smaller market. And
Donny, you talk about the Canucks luck, We went through all the bad
luck they've had in their franchise. Look at Chicago, they just lost Cane
and Taves. They're out, and right after they're out incomes Bdard, Like
I just that franchise and well, they've done a lot of losing lately and
their their attendance has gone way down. That's not going to be the case
next year, given you know what's happened with season tales over the last several
hours. But it's been Can you call it a tough go if you're living
in Vancouver For the Chicago Blackhawks, relatively speaking, it's been tough for them,
somewhat of a dark nothing compared to the Canucks, you know, nothing
compared to the Ducks. I really let's get to the bet ninety nine dot
net poll question. We have a lot to get you today. I know
you've got a scoop. You want to talk about Rick. There's there's a
Joe Capp situation. Oh God bless him. Bet ninety nine dot net poll
question. Every game begins, every draft lottery begins at bet ninety nine dot
net and the bet ninety nine dot net poll question, well, the Blackhawks
went a Stanley Cup before the Canucks. Overwhelming seventy nine percent say yes,
Donnie, already a thousand votes. It's happened. And how can you know
your tweet about the draft picks a ton of first and second rounders coming up
here, and then you got badard, which is, you know, you
got a generational player, and it's hard, and you know the Canucks are
middling around, you know, in the in the middle of the race,
and uh, it's not hard to pick. The Blackhawks three first rounders last
year, two second rounders last year. The list goes on. I mentioned
it before, nineteen picks the first three rounds over the next three years.
Canucks have eight picks, oh, in the first three rounds over the next
three years. And maybe things change, Maybe that'd be hard to hard to
catch up to you. Okay, before we get to au, one wanted
to talk about Well, actually, let's let's deal with that right now.
The Canucks get fined fifty thousand dollars for working out their players in what is
for them their off season. They got that right, Yeah, you can't
hold on ice sessions and after the season April seventeenth to twenty third, Donnie,
they did those actions violated the CBA. When that group started working out,
I was told, Hey, a bunch of Canucks are working out.
I don't think this is right. Sounds like a small group of the bottom
half of the roster took part. Dad players like Dakota, Joshua and Jason
or Jack Studnique up, the Sadine Twins were conducting the on ice activities.
You can't run a camp dawn after the season. You can't ask guys to
train, which is in circumvention of the CBA. On the one hand,
what's what's what's the big deal there? You can't have on ice hockey ops
on the ice with the players, that's the big deal. If a group
of players want to get together with one of the skills guys in the lower
main lass, which you see all the time, no issue, no issue.
But the moment you put a hockey guys up, anyone in your hockey
ops on the ice, the CBA is like an unfair advantage situation situation.
It's it's just the laws, they feel the players. Yeah, that's it,
Yeah, that's it. Now I'm gonna say this, Donny, On
the one hand, because I've talked to a ton of people here in the
last twenty four hours, I loved that the organization is trying to improve these
players this offseason. They're getting ahead of the curve and for the first time
in a long time done they're putting emphasis on development after the season, being
in shape after the season. But clubs are not permitted to have rules.
Are rules. Rules are rules, whether you like it or not. You
don't see thirty one other teams getting slapped with a fifty thousand dollars fine.
And by the way, the fine wasn't yesterday, was on the weekend,
and so it's against the rules. You can't do it. The Canucks were
also warned. They were told that if you do it again, but the
next fine will be significantly higher. Here's Patrick Alvine. Was this yesterday,
Ryan? Here's Patrick Alvine talking about that fifty thousand dollars fine. Yeah,
I was. I was surprised by it. Voluntary. We had several players,
uh, they we're gonna they were in discussions for the World Championship.
We had players that going through the rehab sticking around here in Vancouver, and
uh, we had some young players that that couldn't go down to Abbots for
that task for extra help. So we wanted to help the players and hum
very surprised, but they should have known the rules. So the problem is
that the Sedins or whomever whoever was there. It would have been fine if
it was just the players that's right, conducting the sessions themselves, which again
we've seen in the National Hockey League in the summer for years and years and
years. Well, you go out to Clona in the summer with all those
NHL players living up there big time. You know, there's there's there are
pickup games that will blow you away in terms of talent, but there there
isn't any management personnel, coaching personnel there big time. And and Troy Stecher
just told us last week that he's going to be working out with Gallagher out
in Delta. Derek Popkey, he works out a ton of NHL players out
in Richmond. You're allowed to work out with these guys. It's just the
NHL personnel and the coaches involved. And get sticy, here's what's coming up
on the show. Like I say, a lot, a lot to get
to is it just me DTMC Craig Button is going to talk with us just
after eleven o'clock. TSN scouting director what can the Canucks get with pick number
eleven? Will talk to Craig about that among other things. But any men
talked about the NHL Love Plahouse and what happened last night Vegas blowing away Abanton
Big Ride. Twitter guy is coming up. Also. We touched on this
a little bit earlier, but given how they handle the Kyle Beach situation,
should the Blackhawks have been allowed to be in a position to be in the
lottery to win Connor Badart? We're gonna talk about that and more with Ben
Pope from the Chicago Sun Times. He's next. Thanks so much for tuning
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Dog. Chicago Blackhawks winning yesterday's NHL twenty twenty three draft lottery, they're going
to pick Connor Badard, who's from Course Sudden North, Vancouver, joining us
now to talk and he's been on our show a few times to talk about
all that from the Chicago Sun Times. Ben Pulp, Ben, thanks for
doing this, sir. How are you. I'm good, Yeah, thanks
for having me. It's an exciting time to be in Chicago for the first
time in a few years. Have you got your season tickets yet? Yeah,
a lot of people have. I guess the number you're referencing is in
the first hour and a half last night they've sold two point five million a
new new sales and the latest update this morning actually is is up to five
point two million in twelve hours, including one thousand, two hundred full season
plans, So pretty staggering numbers in terms of just the immediate boom of interest
in this team for next season, even though we're still fifty days away from
them actually selecting Benard officially. You touched on it there, but what was
the general reaction among hockey fans in Chicago to the Blackhawks winning that lottery?
Yeah, a ton of excitement. Obviously, this team has not been the
most relevant the past few years. Attendance has declined a bit, even though
it's still been pretty decent, better than expected, but just an enormous surge
of excitement about this. The timing of Bedard's arrival, coming just a few
months after Patrick Kane and Jonathan Taves leave the franchise is just rather unbelievably fortunate.
We were looking at a situation where almost all of the jerseys next season
that you would see around the arena would be for players no longer with the
team, and now there's a new guy to market and a new guy for
fans to watch and follow and to buy his jersey. So just extremely fortunate
for the franchise to to kind of get this this gift, and also obviously
very good for their on ice success and accelerating the rebuild moving forward. So
a lot of excitement everywhere. I know at the Cubs game they're hosting the
Cardinals this week, and apparently they put it up on the video board there
after the lottery and there's a big roar that went on. I think the
White Sox are playing in Kansas City and I heard there was a let's go
Blackhawks chant that broke out in Kansas City. So excitement all over the place
about this and should definitely create a lot of interest throughout the offseason. So,
Ben, when Kyle Davidson said rebuild, so let's stock up the draft
picks. But now this summer you got but Dard, does that change?
Like, now you got a ton of cap space, do you go out
and get some veterans? Does the Philo asophy change at all this summer?
Ben, do you think? I think it'll change a little bit. It's
not going to mean that they're no longer in a rebuild. Davidson has been
extremely steadfast and patient and dedicated to this, and I'm sure he's going to
stay in it. But yeah, I think you're a little bit more aggressive
now just getting some supporting cast for Badard. So he's not completely thrown to
the Wolves. Next year probably gonna have Lucas Richel as one of the other
first line players. He's fully ready to graduate to the NHL full time and
is going to form part of that new core with Badard. But yeah,
maybe you're a little bit more aggressive getting a few other veterans to play on
the other side of Bidard and to be on the second line, to move
up if they need to switch up the lines, whether that's bringing back somebody
like Andreas out and to see you or Max Domi, or maybe looking at
one of the bigger free agents out there, even though this is a pretty
weak class. I do think they will do that. But it's not like
they're gonna try to be a playoff team next year. I don't think get
the sense that they're gonna pivot that quickly or that drastically. There's still a
very long term approach to this, and it's not like Bedard is probably gonna
be the superstar he'll eventually become right off the bat anyway, So I think
there's still gonna be fairly patient, but but maybe a little bit more aggressive
than they otherwise would have been. Ben when it was announced the Hawks got
the first overall pick, a lot of negativity on hockey Twitter vote in the
USC in Canada. You can understand why the Kyle Beach incident, but do
you see it. Do you see why there's so much negativity with the Hawks
getting the first overall pick? Yeah? Absolutely, I mean I think it
was pretty obviously even going into the lottery that the most people were first rooting
for their team to win, but but second rooting for the Hawks to not
win, not only because of the sexual assault scandal, but also because they
have had three cups still in the past thirteen years, more than any other
teams. So I get why a lot of hockey fans were not rooting for
this outcome. I think the contrast between that by point two million in new
sales and the two million fine that they received for the sexual assault scandal handling,
I get why people are upset about that contrast too, But it just
the way the ping pong balls fell. I think it's clear that it wasn't
rigged. After watching the video of the actual drawing with with Batman and just
a miraculous stroke of luck and happened happened to go in the Blackhawks favors.
So I get why people are upset, but I think it was nothing really
anyone could do. Was just the way it worked out. They did pay
a fine, they were punished somewhat. But what did the Kyle Beach situation
due to the Blackhawks brand in Chicago band, Yeah, it's certainly dealt it
a hit. I know a lot of a lot of people were turned off
by that pledge not to support the team anymore. I'm I haven't noticed really
as much of a difference as I expected I would in terms of the fan
base. I think maybe some people who left have just kind of tuned it
out and we don't really you know, see them around or hear from them
too much. And then other fans were upset about it. But the fact
that they cleaned house and UM have made positive changes and I'm sort of vowed
to to not let that happen again, and UM the fact that it is
a new regime of kind of excited to UM to just move on. And
so it certainly dealt them a hit, and it's something they're still working to
recover from, to build back that trust, and not only in Chicago but
around the entire hockey world. But Um, they they have made made changes.
They have brought in a number of team psychologists and put new policies in
place for to prevent sexual harassment and just provide more reporting options. Um as
if something was to happen. Um. So there have been changes certainly for
the better from this, but it's it's going to be a stain over their
reputation for a while, nonetheless, Um and deservedly so. So UM yeah
again it's Uh, I get why people are upset about the kind trast between
that and then winning the lottery, but just the way the paying pong vaults
fell Um and Benny confident the Hawks will do a solid job of marketing.
Connor Badardy. Yes, absolutely, that's something they've they've definitely invested a lot
in since Um, since that changed, since Jamie Falter came in this business
president in late twenty twenty. Um, they've invested a lot more in the
sales and marketing departments. Um. They really hadn't had to do that much
of that during the dynasty year and they just the nice product pretty much sold
itself. UM. So now that now that they're in this rebuild, they've
they've had to be a lot more Um. Aggressive and innovative in terms of
marketing and sales and and that sort of thing, and so it's something that
they've improved with UM a lot and have learned a lot, learned how to
get betternors. So I think Bdard will really be kind of, not to
say, a test subject, but UM sort of the the example, the
opportunity to show how much progress they've made in that in that way, and
it shook Tiago is a huge market, a city that loves hockey, and
a city that hasn't had a ton of success across all sports the past few
years. So having someone like that coming in just the way they kind of
have for for justin Fields with the Bears, I think it is going to
make a huge shock wave and really rile up the fan base and get a
lot of support really quickly. Ben, did you just say that Chicago hasn't
had a lot of sports success over the last several years. Do you want
to trade places with Yeah, it's absolutely fair. I think I mean,
almost every city, unless you're like Boston or something, can sort of claim
that at some point. It's just hard to have success when there's thirty the
thirty two teams in every major sport. But when you look at the Bears
finished last in the league this past year. The Cubs have fallen off since
their World Series win. The White Sox are perpetually below five hundred. The
Bowl have not been great lately, lost in the play in round this year.
So none of the teams are right now very good. Um, certainly
you look back in the past decade and maybe things look a little bit better.
But that was more of a sore term statement. Awesome, Ben,
thanks so much for doing this. We'll get you back on appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for having me you bet. Ben Pope, writer Chicago Son
Times. He wasn't making that trade right, Yes, yes, yes yes.
When it comes to the Kyle Beach situation, and man, social media
was crazy last night. You're saying this isn't right, that the Chicago Blackhawks
shouldn't have been in a position to win that lottery to get Connor Badard.
The Kyle Beach situation came to ahead late twenty twenty one. They had three
first round draft picks last year. That's when the NHL should have should have
done something, if at all. The thing is, you can find people
whether this is right or wrong. You can find people pull two million dollars
like they did with the black Obviously, the National Hockeyleague, the Blackhawks can
clean house. They did. The thing here though, is you don't see
people cleaning out their desks. You don't see a member of the Wortz family
writing a check to Gary Bettman. But the visual of them winning that lottery
is tough for a lot of people to take. And a lot of times,
well most times in life, when when you see you see something,
it has the most impact. So I understand why people were pretty pretty upset.
Well, it makes me mad is they tried to cover up the Kyle
Beach, don't They tried to cover it up. Not for six months,
but for years and years and years. They tried to cover it up and
at the end they couldn't do it. So that's that's the real maddening part
of that. Yeah, and they and they were punished, But for a
lot of people, they don't feel that punishment is enough because it affected When
you're talking about a two million dollars fine, that's a financial hit. People
losing their jobs, that's a hit to them personally. I think a lot
of people in the National Luckey League and I totally agree with this. They
wanted to see something on the ice. They wanted to see them get punished
in terms of the makeup of their roster, and you know, at least
one so I can. I can understand why people would be upset. I'm
not sure if last night was the time to do it, probably twenty twenty
two, but I do understand why people are upset. It was also in
comparison to other situations Arizona the pre draft combine first round pick gone the Coyotes,
which seems less agree it is. It's it's less egregious. It doesn't
give a bought up. The Ilia Kovalchuk situation with with the Devils, although
that was rectified, but initially there was going to be the loss of a
first first round draft pick. That didn't happen with the Blackhawks. Okay,
um, let's take a break. I want to talk about the loss.
Picture of him right behind me, the loss of one of the greatest athletes
to grace the city of Vancouver in the province of BC. Joe Capp has
left us at the age of eighty five. We'll talk about that next.
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bet ninety nine dot app pull question, will the Blackhawks went to Stanley Cup
before the Canocks? Overwhelming eighty percent say yes they will, thirteen hundred votes
already. And Donnie, they're just setting it up very nicely in Chicago.
They got the cap space, they got the draft picks, and now they
got badar. Everything's just falling nicely for this organization, which is just unbelievable.
You talk about the dard and what's coming up, and you can go
back to last year though with the three first rounder two this year. Yeah,
and there's four second rounders. There's there's a lot there. I mentioned
the title the total. I'll go through it again. Nineteen picks in the
first three rounds over the next three years, and that doesn't include those for
those three first rounders last year, whether they should have had them or not
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passed away eighty five UM. Tough goal with Alzheimer's. A long battle with
with Alzheimer's for the late great Joe Capp UM. I grew up a Vikings
fan, a Minnesota Vikings fan, in large part because and I was too
young to remember Joe. You know, you hear the name. You watch
a little bit. Maybe I went to a game or two when I was
really really young, But I really got into watching Joe cap when he went
to the National Football League at the age of twenty nine in the mid to
late sixties. He went to the Vikings and the Vikings were coached by Bud
Grant, who was also I also spent some time in the Canadian football They
a lot of people like myself in Vancouver fell in love with the Minnesota they
played at Metropolitan Stadium. The snow and the great pictures and the breath and
all of that. They're great players and a lot of success short term but
a lot of success. They made it to the Super Bowl four, where
they lost to Kansas City. But the thought when I was a kid that
here was this guy that played an Empire Stadium and kicked ass in the Canadian
Football They led the Lions to their first Gray Cup title in nineteen sixty four,
got them there in sixty three. They lost that game to Hamilton,
but they won in sixty four, and all of a sudden, there he
is in the Great National Football League and he's doing some real special things there.
That was that was something else. So a lot of people in my
neighborhood anyway, and including myself, became Vikings fans. I just I just
loved them. Wouldn't wouldn't miss them. Uh, wouldn't miss them for anything.
Lions. Uh, they've tweeted it out. His number twenty two Jersey
retired by Lions. Donny, and don't forget as much as you loved him
his playing days. He was the president in the gym in nineteen ninety,
hired by Murray Pessim that was Pesim's first year's owner of the BC Lions.
And you know Pezzi well. Joe Cap convinced Doug Flutiel and Mark Gaston.
I think he was involved with bringing here that one didn't go as well.
That didn't go as well, but he brought him over from the New York
Giants. He got Dug Flutie signed eleven games in and Pezim fired up.
But uh, you know what, Joe Cap, when you look at all
the great BC Lions, he's right up there, Donnie, right up there,
is one of the best all times. And when he was hired.
He came back to BC in the early nineties, and I always remember his
first press conference. Joe was German on his dad's side, Mexican on his
mom's, so he out holds his first press conference for the media. You
know what he was doing, well, you know how he usually have a
press meal, you know, back in the day press he was making salsa
for everybody. Oh like cutting up tomatoes and cilantro and garlic, and it
was it was a character. He was a character. And look, things
didn't go all that well. I remember they hired Larry Kuharaka as a head
coach. But Joe Cap did get Doug Flute. He convinced Doug Flute,
yes he did, to join the BC Alliance. And on Doug flute.
He went from there, arguably the greatest CFL player of all time. I
want to run this. Uh, there's there's a couple of clips here,
but this goes back to his days with the Minnesota Vikings and the NFL.
NFL Films did such a great job of documenting their their product. This is
a piece voiced by the great John Facinda, NFL Films, the Sable family.
What a great job they did of piecing this sort of stuff together.
The editing way ahead of its time. But this is just a snippet of
a piece that NFL Films did on Joe Cap. And we'll come back after
this, guys, But just a snippet of a piece NFL Films did on
Joe Cap in his heyday with the Minnesota Vikings. He was unorthodox, he
was reckless as a quarterback, but really successful. Chap. A quarterback in
professional football is paid to win. I'm only going out there and doing my
job with the tools that I have, and if people don't think it's pretty,
that suits me just fine. As long as we win. Pro football
is more than a game to Joe Cap. It is a demanding test for
his stubborn will to win and a proving ground for his unique in an age
of classic passers. He is the rock and roll of quarterbacks. His passes
flow like balloons, and sometimes he throws them with more hope than a essay
wouldn't camp pass he runs for. One of the writers in Minneapolis said,
I looked like Dad Wood Bumpstead trying to catch a bus. And that's how
I feel sometimes I'm trying to catch a bus. Something else more than nuver
eleven for the Vikings, number twenty two for the BC Alliance. They mentioned
something there, but his unorthodox style. Sometimes he just throw a ball just
hoping someone would catch it. Modern day quarterback that he has been compared to
the most as Brett Farve, who kind of did the same thing. Yeah,
there'd be you know, there was his target, targeted receiver covered by
three guys. Brett would throw it in there and just hope for the best.
Joe Capp was kind of like that, and again short term, but
he had a lot of success and got to the and the Vikings were awful
before Joe got there, but he had success with the Viking, got them
to that Super Bowl for the first Super Bowl Downey in nineteen sixty nine,
I could watch those films and the old days that you just set up all
day long. Yeah. Absolutely, time for a break. Okay, let's
let's do this again. I should mention this too when it comes to Joe
Cap, the only quarterback to lead his team into a Rose Bowl that was
with Cali, also went on to coach the California Gold Embarrasses, Alma Mater,
Rose Bowl, Gray Cup, and Super Bowl. He was something special.
Little more Joe Cap with the Vikings. As we go to break and
get ready for big ride. The Twitter guy, the buyer on the horizon
is Joe Cap, burning with the rage to win. His post game of
nineteen sixty nine, Cap passed for seven touchdowns and led the Vikings to a
smashing victory over the NFL champion Baltimore Colts. Joe Camp had just tied a
Natural Football League record by passing for seven touchdowns in a single game. If
Joe could keep throwing like this, the Vikings could end up in that title
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get to Big Ryan, people are already coming up with trade ideas for the
Canucks if they want to get Connor, Bdard, Pederson, and Demko to
Chicago for Bdard and a twenty twenty four first rounder, with Sweetener a seventh
round traditional pick in twenty twenty six. I don't think that makes any sense.
The person is losing their mind. L ol. Hello signed, by
the way, that's uh. I don't know if you could offer the Blockhawks
enough anything. I just like, like legitimately, I mean, I don't.
Yeah, the people though, you know, the five point two million
dollars, the people who watch it up for a season tickets probably wouldn't be
that happy. Yeah in Chicago, I don't. I don't see it.
I didn't see it. Not a chance. But hey, they want all
those game regulation is fun. I have no problem with it at all.
It's ridiculous, but it's fun. They won all those games in March though.
That's all that matters. The plan is working under Rick Tuckett. Their
fifty thousand dollars A light lighter, lighter of the wallet. There's that.
Okay, let's go to Colorado, guys. First of all, here the
Colorado Avalanche announcing today Gabe Landscog has undergone or will undergo. How this just
sounds awful? A cartilage transplant in his right knee on May the tenth.
The surgery is going to be performed at the University Medical Center in Chicago.
The thirty year old forward is expected to miss the entire upcoming twenty twenty three
twenty twenty four season after missing this season. After missing this season, Landiskog
will turn thirty one in November, so he'll be coming back as he almost
approaches his thirty second birthday. He just got off a zoom call with Colorado
Media saying that he is not contemplating retirement at all. He expects to be
back. He hopes to be back all those sorts of things. We already
had one person in the inbox say, we'll call ru our avalanche contact the
Canucks for JT. Miller. Yeah, but there's a lot of people that
put those two puzzle pieces together before this injuried with Atlandiscock. They've had interest
in Miller in the past, so it would not be well post Cadre right.
Yeah, yeah, so, I mean, I guess that could be
a possibility, but they could go after God like Bertuzzi, you know this
summer as well. Yeah, there's a lot of guys that can go after
Yeah, I don't think that's the issue here. What's the issue that's all
cartledge? Well, okay, I'm as you know, I'm not a doctor.
I play which two of us? Yeah, but are we talking about
this is just such an obvious question, like a cartlage from a cadaver,
like where where it's the transplant coming? I don't know if maybe you move
it within your body. Again, you're not a doctor, like you know,
like you know, like you do, I'd be like, I'm assuming
you'd be some kind of like graph that they're doing right. And apparently what
we have doctors in our viewing and listening audience that us Yeah, Landiscog said
he already talked to you. I believe it's Lonzo Ball who had he dealt
with the same situation and he's been out for fourteen months and they're talking about
Lonzo Ball's career potentially because of it. And Mark Methought actually former senator who's
now working in Ottawa in media. He said that he had a similar procedure
done and he never felt the same afterwards on skates. Never felt okay,
never, never the turning, everything about it never felt right right, And
so that's what you worry about here, and not to mention that's a long
time away from hockey to jump back in and expect to be even a fraction
of the player. But he's Mary Eli Landiscog is in a great occupy.
He is. He is a damn good player, and they missed him.
I think Jack Eichel was contemplating something similar as well. Yeah, right,
but cartlet's transfer the things they can do with medicine these days, transplate,
Well yeah, but usually you know you think of organs, right, not
cartilage. Car No, I totally. I don't know. It's, like
I say, it just sounds absolutely awful. We'll look into it. We'll
get our best medical people. I'm surprised Derek hasn't chimed in on this.
We'll get our best medical people on it and members of our audience. So
welcome to Chila and find out exactly what it consists of. Derek, I
googled it. It's here, but it's too many complicated words. So I'm
gonna screw Where does the cartilage come from? Okay, it's just right here.
Okay, no beer with me, because I gotta screw here. We
go. Okay, a cartilage trans or cartilage cell or conjured all right.
Transplant is a new surgical procedure in which cartilage damage is repaired using cartilage cells
from the patient's own body. Okay, took a body? No, no,
because you're just cartilage is a word that sounds like, I don't know,
painful, like there's a lot going on with it is up there.
Yeah, you know what I mean. So cells from his own body,
and that's how they do it. You're welcome. You probably couldn't pull that
off. You couldn't have googled that, like really, right, I well,
you weren't saying anything, but I googled it. The Google is a
great thing and you found it, So there you go. Yeah. Um,
let me bring up one of the thing very quickly. Not to do
with the card of the transplant at all. It's involving the National Football League.
This is yet again another event where only the NFL can do this sort
of thing. They've announced that Thursday, made the eleventh. This Thursday,
they were released their regular season schedule on NFL Network and the amount of eyeballs
this will get. Even though the NFL is one of those weird leagues where
you know the opponents, you just don't know the schedule, right because it
rotates three yeah, year after year year. So the Seahawks against division,
right, and then you play within your own division. Yes, so the
Seahawks already technically know who they're going to be playing. You. Just who
are they? Um, scheduled against the division this year? I believe what's
the what's the division with? I always get the divisions all mixed up with
Kansas City? Is it the AFC? Is is it actually the North?
It's the North? I'm pretty sure it's no. I don't think it is
anyway. Um, they they're gonna take on oh here, here you go
at home this year. They're taking on the Cardinals, the Rams, the
Niners of course, the Eagles, the Commanders, which is still an awful
name. It's growing on me. Stop it, it's bad, the Browns,
the Steelers, and the Panthers. So the Chiefs are not involved.
However, the West, what are we talking about? The Yeah? Yeah,
the FC West, So Characters, Raiders, Chiefs. Yeah, I
can't believe it. Didn't get that, But they're not playing the FC West.
Uh they are. They are visiting Joey Burrow though, in the Bengals
in Cincinnati, that's among their way opponent, that's the North. The interesting
thing about this schedule release is there's gonna be more rematches. There's still Central
and anyway, okay, anyway, who did you say Central? I think
he said Central? I said North? You said North? Okay? Is
there ANFC North? I can't believe that. Will you just score to the
NFL the standings for crying all while I was gonna say though that there This
regular season will feature the most amount of playoff rematches in NFL history. That
are some wild just based on how all the divisions. I cannot do the
rest of the show because I forgot that the Chiefs were in the AFC.
I'm out. You guys will have to handle things. And the reason I
hate myself for that is because people forget the Seahawks were in that division.
Yes, when they first entered the National Football Lake. That doesn't make the
big games against the Raiders at Kingdom, Yeah, you wouldn't remember. I
don't. I don't. I have very few memories of the Kingdom, even
though I wear the shirt on the show. And I think there's something to
this. By the way, David Cedar just wrote in I'm out, I
was once told the NFL schedule is created by someone in Vernon. Any truth
to that. I think it is. I think the NFL schedule maker is
from British Columbia. I need to double check that, but in Vernon.
I remember hearing that before that the NFL schedule maker is from BC and his
last day is McGill cutty and have been doing him for like a million years.
Let me get get him on the show. Hold on a second.
The Canucks have the worst schedule in the every year. The guy in Vernon
doing the NFL schedule, can you help the NHL and the Canucks with their
schedule? Come on, I think he's busy. I'm trying to see.
I'll get right on it. Uh yeah, yeah, here it is here.
I'm going to Global news article. What's his name? What's Rick Stone
Stone? Optimal Planning Solutions. It's a it's an office in Vancouver. So
whether or not this person actually lives in Vernon, I don't know. So
Rich Stone, Rick Stone from Optimal Stories of Kellum Alpha Lake, I belive
solutions he has. That company helps put together game schedules for the likes of
the NFL and the m WOW. So there you go. Put that in
your pipe and smoking. Tell them to do the Canucks schedule. Put that
in your pipe and schedule it coming up next ts n's directors scouting Craig Button,
who will the Canucks getting eleven? Will there be a good player at
number eleven? We'll ask Craig that next. Nobody knews more about this sort
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ds and Scotting director Craig Butten. I would imagine he's a little bit busy
these days, but he normally joins us on a Tuesday. Looks like he's
going to join us on a Wednesday. No, we got him. No,
I don't have him yet, but I will have him. So the
Canucks stay. As we talked about earlier, Chicago wins the NHL draft lottery
yesterday. They're gonna pick Connor Badard. This just did. But the Canucks
stay at number eleven in the NHL draft lottery. A lottery's been around since
what nineteen twenty five? The Canucks have never ever moved up. Vancouver Canucks,
keeping the tradition alive. They've picked once at eleven. Who was it?
Uh? What year eighty two? I think Tiger Williams. Tiger Williams.
H No, the tough guy. You'd be, tough guy? Are
you staying? Tough guy? They picked up? No, I'm saying beginning
of the initials Tiger Williams reaction to the pick they made. Do you remember,
No, I don't remember Mike's Small. Come on, Gary Lupell,
no help me? Eight Michelle Petite, of course, Michelle number twenty four.
Yeah, and remember Tiger Williams after his A. Here we have a
new draft pick. A new new player's name is Mike Small. Michelle pet
Tiger was having having some fun and Michelle pettit solid National Hockey League defenseman,
played close to well between eight hundred and nine hundred games. Bounced around Donny
ten teams. He's well star one of those Brent Ashton, Mike Sillinger types.
All those guys played with the Canucks at one time. JJ Daniel he
bounced around too, Rod Donny. Yes, another infamous draft pick, but
it was Michelle Petti at number eleven. Now, in case you think now
I don't have the poor examples here, In case you think the Canucks can't
get anybody of any quality at number eleven, keep in mind that there's a
reason on Zakopitar, where's the number eleven? For the Lake? He was
picked eleventh. So was Jerome ac Ginlaw. Oh wasn't picked by the Calgary
Flames. He was picked by the Dallas Stars. And Copatar went in the
Jill Bear Breuley draft. I remember that he was. I remember that that
was also the Sidney Crosby draft, big time Ottawa picked first first overall um
and that was the Luke Bardon draft who was picked Kent and once and Kopatar
ended up picking and being picked eleventh, and a lot of people thought,
well, he doesn't play in a very competitive league in Slovenia. He dropped,
but everything worked out stud Coopatar and certainly the Los Angeles Kings. We
have Craig. Now we're joined now by better Late than ever Ts and Scotting
director Craig Button. How are you, sir, oh? I am good,
don And you know Coopatar played in Sweden. You know he was from
Slovenia, but he played in Sweden and it wasn't like he was this player
that wasn't uh, that wasn't being watched, it wasn't being challenged competitively.
He played in the World Championships leading into his draft years, and he acquitted
himself very very well. I said this often, Donnie and Rick. If
you want to find a way not to draft the player, you can pick
any number of reasons. Wait, you know, passonality didn't meet competition.
High school player. I don't know if I've shared this with you previously.
It's just it's just a fact. Nineteen eighty eight, Mike mcdono was the
first overall pick. Lyndon goes to at eight as Jeremy Roenick high school player
Kathy drafting high school players. At nine was Rod Brenda Moore Campy drafting Tier
two players from Notre Dame, Saskatchewan. At number ten was Team of Silani
Who, oh my god, why would you draft a finished player? And
you can go back and look at who went you know, Lindon went too,
And you can go back and look at three, four, five,
five, six, seven. It's all of the biases and you can you
can run with any bias you want to work, to work a case against
drafting a player. That's what happens with cop. You know, the only
people said to me, I'll let somebody else take a chance on the first
Slovenium. Are you watching hockey players? Are you're watching like players with flags
on them? Yeah? Wow, um, I'm in Boulder rev. Also
taken at eleven, Jeff Carter gave Valardi. The list goes on Brian Bryan
Rawlston as well. So, in speaking to the depth of this draft,
what can the Canucks get at number eleven? Is there enough quality there that
they could get a solid National Hockey League player at eleven? Oh? I
don't think there's any question. I think it's the position that you gotta look
at hard I think there's three really good defensemen that fit the bill for the
for the Vancouver Canucks. There you've heard me say this. They have they
have a terrific goaltender, they have terriffic forwards, they have one number one
defenseman. And if they don't start getting some better defenseman into the group and
you get better defenseman by draft interview. Yeah, if you want to flip
a coin and you want to say, hey, in the further fourth round,
we get a guy that we think can be a top three, go
ahead. But the record shows that you need to be drafting players that you
want to play in your in your top three defenseman and I think there's you
know, there's a Swite, the Austrian defenseman Ryan Babers, the two Sweetish
defenseman Axel standing Pelican Tommy b Lander, and I think the two Swedish defenseman,
they're the two best defenseman in the draft. Ryan Backer is good,
but that's I mean. I think that that the Vancouver can Acts have to
put a stake in the ground. And to me, I know everybody evaluates
players differently, but that's why there's three there, and Ryan Backer might not
be there when they pick eleven but I don't see any other defenseman, any
other defenseman after those three that to me projects as a top three defenseman in
the NHL, not one. Now does that mean that somebody won't emerge potentially
down the road. No, I'm not that definitely, But at this point
in time is what you're dealing with. I don't see anybody that projects after
those three as the top three defense Okay, Craig, I know you talked
about this yesterday on or this person yesterday on TSM, But tell us a
little bit more about Axel Sandean Pelica. Who are you just talking about?
Well, how about if I just tell you that he reminds me of Savory
Zooboff, and I don't throw zaiy Zuboff as a comparable out lightly stage Zooboff
controlled the game. He didn't do it with flash and dash. He didn't
do it with this overwhelming power in his game. He did it with his
brain. He did it with magnificent puck skills. And to me, when
I watched Sandine Pellica, he led Swedish defenseman at the World Junior Tournament in
timeline ice per game he was seventeen years old. The coach tells you that
I'm watching him over the course of the last eighteen months, sixteen eighteen months,
and all I see is massive progression. I turned to Brian Mudrick during
the semi final, I said, hey, when this kid makes a mistake,
let me know, like he doesn't make mistakes anywhere. He doesn't overwhelm
you with this highlight type real plays. All he does is perform. And
all he does is get the puck to the right places at the right times
in the defensive zone and the nukes zone and the offensive zone. And Sergey
Zubov controlled the game, controlled the game start to finish, And to me,
when I watch Axel, Sandy and Pellico play, that's what I seen
him. I think he's the best defenseman in the draft. My final list
is going to come out. He will be in my top five players.
That's what now. I'm not saying that I have all the answers, but
that's how I assess this guy, and I think he's that good. Craig,
the Canucks were fined fifty thousand dollars by the NHL for holding on I
sessions with players in the offseason. Happened about three weeks ago. What are
your thoughts on that? I mean, is this a case of where they
should have known not to do this? Absolutely, they should have known not
to do it. I mean, the rules with respect to the cbair on
place, and you know if you're going to violate them, you're going to
pay a penalty. And you know, it's not like we can look at
fifty thousand dollars. The fifty thousand dollars fine is there to meet out a
form of punishment. And obviously it wasn't considered severe or the penalty would have
been higher and greater. But teams and Lou Labrolla reminded me of this when
I was a manager. Go right, you can look at the CBA.
You can say that other people you know, might have missed something with with
respect to informing you or whatever. He As a manager, you have to
know the rules and when the rules are not adhered to, that's on you.
So that's on the Vancouver Canucks. End the story. Yeah, Craig,
I hate to read the papers in Toronto. If the leafs go out
and forced rate, I think Marner, Matthews, to Varius and Kneelander they're
going to get a ton of heat. What's your read on them so far?
The fabulous four no goals in the first three games of the series with
Florida. So rick uh, you know we say that against Florida, right,
Like, why don't we rewind the clock a little bit. Yeah,
let's go back to twenty twenty. Let's go back to Game five versus the
Columbus Blue Jackets in the Bubble ZIP not a nothing. Twenty twenty one,
Game seven versus the Montreal Canadianes. That was after they were up three games
to one and they went to game seven ZIP matt and nothing. Game six
and seven last year versus the Tampa Bay Lightning clinching and scenarios ZIP not a
nothing. And now you get to game three after Blues the first two games
at home, ZIP not a nothing. Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. Maybe
that not. Maybe there's a pattern here. There's a pattern here of them
not being able to deliver what it matters the most. Now, those other
like Game six last year versus Tampa Bay, that was that was a game
that wasn't clinching, that didn't take you out. But you start to look
at the pattern here of these players not producing what matters the most. I'm
not so sure it's just a one off anymore. And that's something that's going
to have to be evaluated hard if the leaves go out here in this series
versus Florida. Why is that, Craig, Why are those players not come
through and clutch moments? Is of the makeup of the team. Is there
something about the way they play? What is it? You know? Those
are all I think that you know, you could say any number of those
things. It could be all of them, It could be one of them.
I think that they're really good players. And one of the things I
believe in is really good players will be able to produce. It's hard.
You've got opponent now in Florida that's pushing you hard and making sure that they're
going to provide every bit of resistance to what you're trying to do in your
best efforts. And so that being said, I think that players have to
learn it. Sometimes we want players to learn it quicker. Sometimes there's a
it takes a little bit of time, and you know, we can go
back and look at other players. You know, Steve Eisman a great,
great player. You know, he was in his fourteenth year in the league
when he won and there was questions could he deliver Alexandro Vetchkin. Would you
ever win with Alexander Ovechkin? And those questions abounded, And that's just the
nature of being a star player of superstar player, and maybe we want those
answers sooner. Maybe we want to see evidence of that sooner. When I
say we, I'm talking about the fan and media. But sometimes maybe there's
a timeline for them, and maybe the experiences that they're going through we'll serve
them sometimes. I do believe this give them a choice of having Austin Matthews
and Mitch Marner on my team or not. I want them on my team.
I'll take my chances with them, just like I'd take my chances with
Steve Eisman back in the day, and I take my chances with Alexander Vetchkin.
I'll take my chances, and they won. I heard the same things
about Joe Thornton and Patrick Martle. I take my chances with Joe Thornton and
Patrick Martle because they're so brilliant. It doesn't mean that they're gonna ultimately find
a way, but I think that they're good enough. And you know,
I think that if they do go out, given that they hadn't won a
playoff series since two thousand and four. Given that the Boston Bruins went out,
I think now it comes back to Okay, how do we look at
this team team and what can we do to make it stronger so that we
can achieve this success we all want, much like the Detroit Red Wings did
after losing in the Stanley Cup Final in ninety ninety five, great record in
ninety six, they made some additions, they added some players, they made
some changes with players out of their organization, and then they became a Stanley
Cup juggernaut with three Stanley Cups between ninety seven and two thousand and two.
Outstanding Craig. It took a while we got you on the air and it
was worth it. Thank you so much, my friend. Thanks have a
great day, you bet Craig Button. Obviously some technical difficulties there pause,
and it took a while to get them all on the air again. It
was it was all worth it. We're gonna update the poll question. Talk
a little bit more about Joe cap Next, Donnie Dolly the team on check.
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I want I gonna tell you what I was doing. I gonna tell
you that the boys had this cranked up in the car back in the day,
to the roof, to the roof, Ryan, turn it off.
Let's get this stunned. Now. Well, the black Hawks went a Stanley
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in a small town back then, you West, we were a small town
within a big town. Queensboro small town. New West was small small town
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Went too many small towns there. Speaking of small town, there's a
lot of people upset with NHL Network yesterday up now. But but Dard's hometown,
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said linn Valley NHL Network, he's focusing on John Mill. We all know
it's North fan. Dard's bios said hometown. They're trying too hard, trying
to be too specific North fans. Lynn Valley is an area in a city,
right, yes, okay, Like what if they put his address up?
Speaking of there was a report he was playing road hockey last night.
Yeah, I heard that post draft lottery with the kids after getting draft after
the Chicago An outs. That would have been just mind blowing. Would you
do that? If why not? Would you think he's going all out?
He's still like running around your kid. You could step on a rock,
Okay, he could step off a curve like well, back in the day,
I remember the Canucks getting upset with Peter ned They're playing summer ball Hockey's
right, I remember that. Well, it's funny because but Dard said that's
a little different. I get that. But Dard said in his interview on
NHL Network that he's a big inline guy. Yeah, and then he'll be
doing it again this year. And Ken Johnson. We had somebody in the
inbox seeing that. Ken Johnson's apparently ended that as wall like that. It's
wind of that. I don't know if they they're training fine, but playing
the game. See, the problem is when Nedved was doing his thing,
it was in the Tri City area. He was he was he was doing
this Poco. The problem there is you're gonna get some idiot. I took
out Peter I did his career. That's the and plus just you could get
injured just in the course of play without an idiot going after you. But
you know, we've all played in those types of leagues and well there's some
beauties there. Speaking of beauties like that, I'm surprised that that can happen.
Playing back in the neighborhood with kids, I'm surprised the Beauty League is
allowed in Minnesota, right, best are like all those guys in that area.
But there there's some respect there, Yeah, I know, but it's
still I'm just surprised that teams don't they beyond the ice. They beyond the
ice anyway. Yeah, and it's it's a tradition. I guess I haven't
heard a lot of injury reports out of the Beauty League, but hey,
look at even the pregame soccers. There's injury. I know, right lakes.
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card over the day today is Merok, how's his health? He's actually a
player apparently wearing the bubble today at practice and he will be in the lineup
tonight. So he took the puck in the face there, Yeah, goddamn
painful, and word is he would have played. He would have come back
and played, but the game was out of hand at that point, so
they decided to h to rest him. Had that change the game completely?
He's on the ace thirty minutes a game. I remember seeing him play live.
I'm like, wow, what what? What a player? And there
might be a Jared McCanns sighting tonight for the Seattle Cracking as well. Do
they need them? They're scoring? Yeah, No, that's a that's a
good point. You had some information about a local hockey player, not Connor
bad art Oh Maple Ridge native former Brad Hunt. Stop rick is the name
of the game. Brad Hunt, I got the call to go to h
I play for Canada at the upcoming World Hockey Championships which start next week.
So good on Brad Hunt. You got the call yesterday. His dad a
proud former resident north Burnaby and Midreddo. Midreddo was Flames alumni Ridge Meadows,
rich Ridge, Rich rich What you put it around? No? What did
I say? I said, Rich Meadows said Midge Reddos, Well, Midge,
where the hell is Midge Midreddos? Listen? She was the woman who
put her hands in pall mall off. I believe or that was Madge.
Apologies to Ridge Meadows. Listen. Midje Retto's small town Midge reddo was is
right beside? Really small? Anyways, Former Derek, you know what I'm
gonna say, It's got to be Reddos band name name? Good? Where's
our band name? Update? We gotta do that, Okay, I wanted
to talk speaking of small towns or smaller towns. Uh. The WHL season
is over for the Cameloops Blazers. They lose Game six of their Western Conference
WHL final. WHL Western Conference Final. Now you gotta meet Meal mixed up
here. So they lose to Seattle four games to two, lose four two
last night. Calms is still going to the Memorial Cup, which they're hosting.
Seattle now goes on to play Winnipeg in the Western Hockey League Championships.
Here. Yes, so the Blazers got a couple of weeks off, Donnie.
It's better they did get out in this round than a post a round
one, and then the weight would have been tremendous. There's that also Seattle
Winnipeg. Oh boy, there's a lot of travel there. And Winnipeg is
going from their small rank, Donnie, to the big one where the Jets
play, so that place will be packed. They'll be liking that. Two
best tee. I have to say two best teams in the dub Seattle was
in the final last year and they're gonna go Tota Tooy. It's gonna be
one hell of a Western Ocay League Final starts Friday and Saturday in Winnipeg.
Let's deal with Joe Cap again again. If you're just tuning in folks,
of course, the big news Connor Badard is going to the Chicago Blackhawks.
They win the NHL Draft lottery yesterday. Canucks stay shockingly at number eleven.
But Joe Cap late great quarterback, PC Lions Minnesota of Vikings col so many
accomplishments, but for a lot of people, especially younger people, their memory,
their number one memory of Joe Cappo will come back after this clip,
Derek. Their number one memory of Joe Cap comes from twenty eleven and a
confrontation right here with an arch rival, Angelo Mosca, formerly of the Hamilton
tiger Cats. And the history here it goes back to nineteen sixty three,
Angelo Mosca, a terror of a defensive lineman for the Hamilton tiger Cats.
Willie Fleming start running back for the BC Lions Moscow. Willie's out of bounce
gets hit by Angelo Moscat Willie camp play. He just wasn't the same the
rest of the game. I can't rera if he was knocked out, but
anyway that helped Hamilton win. The game was a cheap shot and Joe just
could not let it go. So this is from twenty eleven. They were
supposed to be ambassadors for the CFL. In a way, it kind of
worked, but not the way the CFL intended. Away we go, Derek,
there you go. Now, the CFL got a lot of public relations,
a lot of airtime all over the all, certainly all over North America.
Never Angela Mosca was on Doctor Phil after that. You know, I
think the subject of the day was, you know, don't hold a grudge
for years and years and years. I at first I thought it was fake,
fake, That's what Joe cap One of the things that he did.
On top of play fall, he was an actor actor the Longest Yard episodes
of The Six Million Dollar Man, so he was an actor. Angela Mosca
and the off season used to be a pro wrestler, so in a way
he was. He was an actor as well. But looking at that,
it looked it looked pretty real. Seefel got a lot of attention being for
that. What a character Joe Cap was as he leaves us at the age
of eighty five. Again, I'll say it, God Bless him. DTMZ
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up this weekend road trip to play with Joe Garcia and friend Jeff's brother Tiger
Woods. He's facing an accusation of sexual harassment by his extra friend, Erica
Herman. Documents filed Friday in Florida accused Tiger of pursuing a sexual relationship with
Herman when she was working at his Florida restaurant, and then allegedly forcing her
to sign a non disclosure agreement in order to keep her job. He's forty
seven, she's thirty eight. The docs describe a scheme in which Herman claims
Woods tricked her into leaving his home, telling her to pack up her bags
for a weekend trip to the Bahamas. Honey, we're gonna have a great
time. She got to the airport, Tiger's lawyer met her and allegedly informed
her no, she was locked out of the house and would not see the
golfer again. The house is worth fifty four million dollars. She is also
suing the trust that owns Tiger's house for thirty million dollars. Thirty million dollars,
saying he verbally promised in twenty seventeen that she could live there for at
least eleven years, but kicked her kicked I don't know why, I'm laughing,
but kicked her out after five hearing is scheduled for today. Maybe we'll
get an update before the end of the show. Yeah, maybe thirty million
dollars. She's suing for thirty But I don't get that, I do,
he said, He said the part that I'm saying, I don't get.
Why would he say you can live there? I don't know. It's such
a random number, like a tiger. You you, amongst all people on
the planet, should know how relationships go. Yeah, they don't. All
last eleven years. That's that's strange. I have a hard time believing that.
But from her point of view, thirty million. I'll give it a
shot. Maybe I'll get half of that. After what he's been through,
he's got to shign document after document, give your head. I don't NDA's
and all that stuff. That's the way it's sure you should run your life.
Otherwise, you know. The New York Times number one best seller is
exactly about exactly personal life exactly in a year. And I mean there's already
been that one unauthorized documentary right about about him on HBO, which is good,
by the way. Yeah, but it's more of the scandalous side than
anything else. But yeah, I just he just seems to can't can't get
out of his own way. He's always He's not the first person. I
know, I know this sort of thing, but it's just like, you
know, he's just somebody's scoring. They're up, say, I know,
but it's like one step, let's give it a shot. Shot, you
do the same thing. So what do you Yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah. Birthdays. Yeah, it's May ninth. We have seven birthdays.
The line has said it. Five Sweaty is not confident in you guys.
The line has said it, five sweaty, sweating, sweat Yes, sweaty.
McDougall's leather kilt, said Casino in Mahone Bay, Nova, Scotia.
He needs a towel, Rick, Maybe you can help him out with that
Sweaty. I get it. Okay, we're good. Seven birthdays. Rocket
Roll Red Wings all time leader in assists. He's now the team's GM.
Steve Eisman Craig Button just talked about him. Our apologies, by the way,
for the technical difficulties during the Craig Button interview. Derek's folk form a
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in Vancouver for his impersonation of Kevin b n Fiddler six four defenceman from Red
Deer Minnesota North Stars captain when they made it to their to the nineteen ninety
one Stanley Cup Final. His son, Jared plays for the Chicago Blackhawks m
t MT Jared defenseman. Yes, but the first name is Mike No Martin
Mark, Yeah, Mike, I I got to nort I've got there's a
cream for that. Nord Easton Blues left winger enforcer of the nineties. Born
in Prince George recorded over one hundred minutes in eight of his ten NHL seasons.
Think Chubby Checker, Oh Chase, No, Tony Twisty Twist the Chase
by Jay Checkers. How would you know Tony twist h Chubby Checkers the twist
twist on the twist? Great song, Let's do the Chase? Singer songwriter
from Jersey, the piano Man, Billy Joel Baseball Hall of fame, a
right fielder who played twenty MLB seasons between eighty two and oh one, all
with the Podres. He won eight and albat Tony Gwyn There's no way you
just got I'm doodling. I'm doing focus, focus man. I love the
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The Podres were so good back then. Actress who played Murphy Brown in the
CBS TV series of the same name, Murphy Candice Bergen Murphy Brown, Murphy
Murphy Brown. Who was I thinking of you figuring to Murfury Brown. Remember
her name is Kandice Bergen. Yeah, that's it. Her dad was a
famous ventriloquist, I believe. Really, yeah, facts, you don't Why
is that in your head? I don't know. You can look it up.
Run a clip. Okay, we're good. Yeah? Is it just
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Thank you, Sirry Ryan the Big Wheel. Sorry. Ryan is a regular
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boy there um dumpster Dan. Is it just me? But a real team
player would have put a five thirty five on rich back this morning? Yeah,
you asked? Ysked Ryan to I because I brought a five three five
to work today because the back. I asked Ryan, could you you know?
And Ryan said, Noel if it was the other way around, A
big ask. No, it's not a big ass because I told him put
it on a paper towel. It doesn't matter. No, No, I
didn't ask you to use your hand. I asked you to use a paper
towel just a little bit and go what's what's what's attached to the paper towel?
Roun No, his hand, Yeah, but his hand won't touch the
cream. Well, okay, let's let's get back to this. Asked I
would do it if let's go back to the star of the conversation. Thanks
for that, but I'm going volteran over rub a five three. I'd like
to smell it. Gets in there, does good work. Yeah, you've
been trying to your shoulders, been hurt of you for fifteen months. Now
try something different. Soon as you had fifty, everything goes south. And
I'll tell you I'm keeping a five three to five alive these days. It's
going off to the well. This room stunt. You must have put on
half a bottle. I put less, this more. I put on more
than I should have, and I just I give it to the old rub.
But about the shack product, I see high, see high. Yeah,
Oh yeah, that's good too. Don't get that in parts of your
bodies that you shouldn't get it, okay, because that's happened. Every voltraine
is good, not vulterine, vulterin valterin that. Ye're gonna give it a
shot or go back in a time time. I'll try some absorbing Junior.
No one cares, all right, is it just me? Verban Junior?
He's a pain. Ruby. I remember Sorbeane Junior. I remember that now
or whatever. She came in that little thing that you can look it up.
It has the little thing at the top and you the ball got the
ball at the end there and it was good orb absorbing junior. It was
so good. And it had the little thing at the little ball at the
end. Yeah, you really liked that thing. It was good. It
was the first result. It was innovative, right, get it up.
The first result said it was a veterinarian product. So whatever works. Absorbing
junior. This was good. It was just new. Remember the top there.
That's the only way. Now. I don't use any creams. I
need the just the thing a little too much like like that, like that
you roll on, I need the roll on. But this was good.
Donnie's memory is so good. I remember this. I remember the multi purpose
by the way. Yeah, I bet they got to bring that thing at
the tip back guy that that was good. It worked. It was a
little sponge thing and just rolled it on your back. It was good.
See Voltaire and you can get the role on, can you? Yeah?
Right with that new west neck? Is it just me? Or should be
Dard pull an Eli Manning and say he won't play for Chicago as no true
Canucks fan could wear a Blackhawks jersey. We've seen Eric Lindross refused to play
for Litternis. People forget you know Mary Lemiue eighty four. He didn't want
to did he didn't put on a paint, was drizzy, It seemed to
recall didn't want to play for Pittsburgh. That all change and the rest is
history. We had Connor Bedard on our show, Donnie. He flat out
said, I'm not doing that. His agent has said that did. There's
just no way it's happening. Is it just me? The NHL couldn't be
happier, But Dard's gonna go to Chicago rather than Nanaheim. Trevor and Ladner
say again, Uh, the NHL couldn't be happier, but Dard's gonna go
to Chicago rather Nahem. Trevor, I was pulling for Anaheim. I wasn't
well, well, look okay, I'm a Vancouver right Pacific Division Anaheim or
San Jose. That wouldn't have worked out well for the Canocks. But they
had that nice gathering there. They looked like they were really into it.
I mean, Chicago has had a lot of recent success. There's the Kyle
Beach in a situation, and then all those all that great young talent in
Anahem. I think it would have been a good fit. Very quickly,
don and Sickamoose. Is it just me remember that when Joe Capp went to
Minnesota, Jim Young went from Minnesota to BC. Minnesota had itself a Canadian
receiver by the name of Jim Young went on to become one of the great
BC Lions in that swap. Very good, don Let's take a break.
We'll wrap up the show on the poll question. Next, Donny and Donnie
the team on check. Jim and Parks will letting us know that absorbing Junior
has a sponge, not a rolling ball, and apparently it's good for insects,
insects bites as well. We're coming up to that season. And then
down from Clover to Delaney's. Okay, Arn Langley inbox, reminding us about
Tiger Bambia. My dad I used to use that all the time. Everybody
used Tiger a quick one, and Nick used everything. Apparently, Nick from
Victoria, Absorbing Junior was originally made for horses. M Yeah, then moved
over to you said that, didn't you. Yeah, all sorts of livestock.
Yeah, you'd often see mules absorbing junior using Junior. Okay, bet
ninety nine dot yet poll question. Yeah, here we go our betse Yeah,
our bet ninety nine dot Net poll question, will the black Hawks want
to stand on the Cup before the Canucks? Seventy nine percent overwhelming say absolutely,
unequivocally yes. And you look at the numbers that the black with the
three first round draft picks last year, a couple this year, including h
Connor Badard, and you can see why the poll results are what they are.
And Donny, they got something the Vancouver hasn't had for ye years and
years and years and years. Cap space forty one million business All right.
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