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Are director of the Voice of God is Derek Wan. How are you all?
Great? Good day? Good day? Whether it's okay for you,
it'supposed to get nice on Friday. I believe little rain this morning. I'm
okay with it. I'm not complaining. Traffic was good, got here on
time. It's not what you said when you came in. Never mind,
you said Friday is good. Get ready Friday is going to be good.
Well, we should remind people too that we don't. We don't have a
show on Friday. Why is that? Ryan, Like, I'm not really
sure you wanted the day off? Is that it? Well? I mean
I'm still contemplating doing something tomorrow night, which would be really good having Friday
off, But no, we've just decided to take Friday off. Well,
well, sorry, go ahead. I don't think I don't think the teachers
have a better holiday package and us. I think we have a best keep
it, keep it on the on the d l Okay, the teachers were
doubles, we were doing doubles. Well, no, we we bank some
time because of our playoff, overtime show, post game show, some of
which involve overtime. So we we're taking a day off on Friday. Then
day off, Yeah, imagine covering speaking of overtime, covering Panthers Rangers,
three street games of ot now looking late little Yesterday ended quickly and fast,
yeah, but still late into the evening. Yeah. Okay, so I'm
watching those games right, Obviously it's part of my part of my job.
And this isn't early? Is it just me? Is it just me?
But does Oe l look decent, Like I know, when you have to
resurrect trop count for the playoffs. But I know we joked around earlier in
the season with the Oel Norris Trophy watch, but I mean he played like
fifteen sixteen minutes last night, rushing up, helping out on offense. Things
we didn't see here at all. The Caducks have given Florida not one but
lose down fourth. Well, know what you're wrong there? What are you
talking about? The Caducks opted for yes, but the one excuse that was
a bad move, Like they draft him six months later. There they were
in love. The Banning regime was in love with Adam Clenn Denning. And
I'm not sure, but I say you're wrong there. I don't mean to,
you know, knock you or anything. But Chicago gave up on him
after that, after after the conduction, gave up on him, and then
Carolina did too, if I'm not mistaken. On he goes to Florida plus
minus leader in the National Hockey League this past regular season and he's right up
there when it comes to plus minus and in the playoffs he's the real deal.
Well, don't forget when we were joking early on in the year.
But Nora's Trophy. He was filling in when hurt. He's on their top
pay. Yeah, and he's on the second unit power playing. He looks
really, he looks effective. And I know there were health issues in his
final season in Vancouver, but I wouldn't have wouldn't have guessed this good playoff
eck Man Larson. Yeah, he's got pretty good playfuf here. Yeah on
a SAT. Good for you, that's outstanding. But you know, any
other season, if the Knucks hadn't done so well, that would just add
to the frustration. But you know that what's gonna happen. It's so big,
going to raise the stands. Yeah, and so is for Thing,
absolutely, and so is Roberto Alongo. Yeah, well that one you could
accept. Yeah, these guys might do that and oh l of course the
Canucks are paying him not to play here done and even more next year and
even more than you're after. Yeah, but there are other you know,
Troy Statures hurt right now, right, so he's not yeah talking about X
y X Canucks Jimmy VC, although he's like, I don't even know how
he like that was a weird one. He hasn't been playing, but when
he has played, he looks. Okay, he looked and that wasn't the
case here bouncing around, he goes back to the Rangers and and things are
just fun. There's a Vancouver connection all four teams, because I think people
would be happy to see Nuge win in Christiana and Edmonton. And of course,
right, okay, we're talking about yeah, yeah, I know,
I know you can go through the whole. I mean, Dallas, you
got Tom Gallardi, yeah, not playing. Francisco would really love that.
He would actually, yeah, okay, So we want to focus on several
things. Uh, the athletic first of all, let's start there. The
Athletic also known as the Atlantic to people. We'll tell you that Chris Johnson,
friend of the show, has come up with an article projecting projecting the
cost of the NHL's top fifty twenty twenty four uf as. At the top
of the list the overtime goalscorer last night for the Florida Panthers, Sam Reinhardt.
Do we have a graphic for him or just the No, just the
three Caducks and Gensel and Cansel. No, he was Hollyburn, wasn't he
Holly Burn? Which is that's Paul Paul Reinhart. Hollyburn is West Fan.
I'm correcting you all over the place today. Yeah, west Fan. I
thought Hollyburn was North Fan. I'm pretty sure it's West Fan. Hollyburn is
West Vancouver, Okay, but sam urine Hart might be a right on the
border there, ye of north places. Also know places I will never own
a house. I've been you and I've been to Hollyburn and our kids there.
It's it's a it's a beautiful in other world love that. I love
that rink. I love that rink. So Sam rayin hearts this is number
one on the list his projection and it's not just Chris do any projecting.
He talks to people. Yeah, right, agents, GMS, et cetera.
Seven years average annual value of ten point eighty nine Schmill number two,
Jake Gensel, the cannucts have kicked tires on him U seven years nine point
six four five average annual value. And the list goes on. What Okay,
like, nobody's going to read that, are they? This is what
I told you. This is from the article So seven years nine million,
which the projections on the right side. Do you want to read the entire
articles. And by the way, I should mention CJ is going to join
us tomorrow at eleven fifteenth. Okay, well, perfect, perfect, perfect,
alright, get to the Canuck guys, Ryan, Well, Donny,
what's the right of the entire we'll get there. We'll get there in six
hours. Even is due. But when it comes to you can take it
over now here when it comes to no, yes, when when it when
it comes to as you figure out where Hollybird is when it comes to Canucks.
And I mentioned Stephen Stampcos being number three, Rick, let's when it
comes to Knucks start at number four. Then yeah, at least Len Linda
look at this. Uh, he's not going to be cheap. Guys,
Get it up, Get it up, Ryan, seven years. I thought
we were just going to have the one side of this. I couldn't I
couldn't do that. You can't read that, Ryan Jeople, can't read that.
Strong playoffs, salvage, we do, we do. Listen, listen.
Seven years seven point nine. These are projections. How they come to
the projections, Donnie, I don't know. There's models. These new these
analytics guys call it models. Well, they talk to people too. Seven
years not models like models. I'm talking about models like this is a piece
of paper model. Anyways, seven years, seven point nine, they asked
you shell can the Canucks? Yousel can the Canucks? Do the Hey do
you want? I can't believe he just said that. Do you want your
third line center to make seven point nine million dollars in Vancouver? I don't
think Sidney Crawford. Yeah, well seven point nine that's a lot of money.
He's not going to be cheap. Although I did hear today Canucks are
still poking around Lindholm. They're not. You just got to investigate. You
got to talk to the agent and see if there's any common ground. But
they're still, you know, in there poking around. What have they got
on cap space twenty three? Twenty seven million? Yeah, so I mean
I want this guy to chew up that much. Obviously, this won't be
the number. It's just a projection. The team and the agents have different
numbers. They have the real numbers. These men numbers don't matter. It's
well, that's good, we're showing them. Then no, but Donnie,
it's it's it's it's a reporter's projection. But what matters is what the team
thinks he's worth, and the agent thinks he's worth, and then they got
to find calmon ground. Okay, everybody we've talked to when it comes to
Elias Linnholm, we're talking about people like John Garrett first of all, have
said that they believe that Linnholm and the Cannucks aren't a fit given what he
would demand, because he would project as the third line center. Right,
and then you've got you know, Patterson making eleven six and Miller making eight.
It just doesn't it doesn't matter. He only makes sense. You got
to take care of the other areas. He only makes it in the city.
If Petterson or Miller go to the wing, and then he can drop
to the trade six. Yeah, or they're traded or whatever. But I
mean, to pay a third line center that much is just crazy? What
do you laugh at me? Is it just so outrageous? They just signed
both of them to long term deals done, and you want him traded?
Like, give me a break. Although that that conversation has come up because
Peterson had a tough postseason, right, Yep, injury or not had a
tough postseason. He's got that one year of no movement where there's no no
movement clause right then it kicks in. Okay, So other Canucks Nikita is
a door off, right is that next? Right? This is okay?
So they've got him at three years and four million, which is very low,
number thirty seven on the list. Thirty seven, three years, four
million. I believe the Canucks offered to him before the playoffs started, which
was rejected. Don I think was better than this. But anyways, longer
or more money, longer and more money. Dan Milstein's not talking to the
Canucks right now about the door off he reached, rejected their offer before the
playoffs. Jarney. Canucks are trying to clear money or sign other players first
since Milstein rejected their offer. So there's nothing going on with the door off
right now. But those numbers for me are very low in the term listen
to you negotiating, negotiating. I'm telling you what I'm telling you. What
Millstein's told me, and what he's told me is that term the guy's twenty
nine. What else is the agent going to say? You know what,
we think we should go less term less funny. Just so you know,
I sent this to this picture of this Ryan sent it to me. I
sent it to Millsteen. I was able to read it. No, I
got an l O L back. What do you want? I got an
LOL back. That's that's not happening at that. In all seriousness, Rick,
if the Millsteen slashed the door off Cap said hey, we'll come back
for three years. Oh it's not a million, the Canucks would say yes,
right, yeah. Can the Canucks clear there? They're trying to clear
cap space throughout They're trying to make other moves. Can they get back to
Milstein and Nikita? Sure they can, there's lots of time. The third
Canuck on our unreadable list at number forty nine, Dakota Joshua. Dakota Joshua.
This one is again a little low for me. Two years at two
million per so. I want to say this about Dakota. Donny not hearing
the Canucks are close with Joshua sounds like a lot of work to do before
a deal gets done. A lot of models out there showing Joshua could get
over three million on July first. I don't think the Canucks are comfortable going
to three million with them. The fact that Jim Patrick Alvin said after the
season, we can find the next Da Kota Joshua. That tells me.
It says a lot done. So the Canucks might be saying, hey,
look you've had one good year and you want to cut druple your salary.
But the cold, hard facts are this, Dakota did have a great season
and he gave his agent, Rich Evans a lot of ammunition to have a
healthy race. I just don't this is actually the numbers the Canucks yet.
Sure, yeah, the Canucks might be at two years. Caducks would take
that. Caducks would take that, and Harty in fact, I've heard,
you know, the Canucks are in the in the low twos. But I
just I just don't think it's not close right now with to go to josh
Wait, it's not soft hands. Eighteen goals would have had twenty if it
wasn't for the pinky issue, the broken pinky and led the team in hits,
and say good stats in the solid stats in the playoffs. There's a
lot a lot there. Tyler Myers didn't make the top fifty, but a
lot of people just expecting him to come back because it's very clear he wants
to and he's got connections to this part of the world. And I think
you know he's not going to ask for six million, not going to get
six millions. He did, but man, he gets used a lot by
you mentioned it all the time, Boodro Green type. They use him in
key situations and six million per no, but less than that and a reasonable
amount I think people would would accept that. All of this leads to our
Wattling Dog poll question. Visit one of Victoria's favorite pubs where you can enjoy
twenty taps, twenty screens your home for the connection in UFC. Come sit
and stay at the dog today, Rick Ryan get her up the Waddling Dog
pup poll question, which pending UFA will be the most heavily pursued by other
teams. Lindholm leading here no surprise, forty seven percent, but you know
Zadoroff's not far behind him, Don and thirty eight percent, And I agree
with this. The door Off is going to have a lineup of teams done
on July first, and I think that's why Milstein's being patient. He knows
that and already eight hundred and fifty six votes. But I do agree those
are the top two Lindholman Zadoroff, no question. Keep in mind that when
it comes to Toner Myers just getting two percent of the vote, he might
very well be one of the most important with the right answer because he's going
to come cheaper. And that's nothing against Tyler, it's it's just reality at
the stage of his career. Down of all the contracts, the UFA's,
Myers was simply the simplest contract to do because he's going to take a pay
cut. All the others are asking for significant races. Here's the guy wants
to come back to BC. He's got a house and clone I told you
six weeks ago. He told JP, I want to come back in Vancouver.
He's always wanted to come back. He's a simple contract because he's taken
a pay cut. All the other guys want significant races. This was the
easiest contract. And I said last week he'll get done first. He's going
to get done first, I would think, and this is just me when
it comes to priorities for the Canucks. Realistically, you've only got so much
money to spend, I would think. And if I was in charge of
the organization, and some people say I am, If I was in charge
of the organization, I would prioritize re signing Zadoroff and Myers and people wanting
to Linholm's a better hockey player. But the reason I say that, and
Joshua had a great season. But the reason I say that is because when
Rick talk at first got here, and this goes back to Alvin and Rutherford,
they talk so much about their blue line. They talk so much about
and we're Craig Button. The number one problem with the Cannucks is they have
to improve their their blue line. And Rick Tockett went on record, you
know several times, we got to get bigger, we got to get meaner,
and to go away from that, I think it would put it would
and I think that with Lenholm. They expect Patterson to be better next year.
But I think to go away from that would be a big mistake by
the Knucks. And you know, just reading between the lines, I'll bet
Rick tocket And and Alvina Rutherford feel the same way. So the priority for
me, if I was in charge of the organization would be to sign those
two big defensemen who play with an edge and can help you offensively once in
a while. You can't let both Myers and zador Off walk. You can't.
There's too much size. They've got to bring some of that size back.
They'll do it with Myers. That's too much size to both let them
walk. And then if zador Off walks, you go get the kid from
Surrey and if you can, if you can get Da Kota Joshua. I
think most people believe Lindholm's gone, but if you can get Da Quota Joshua
somehow, then so much the better. Oh yeah, you don't want them
to go. Coming up in the show, busy as always TTMC is it
just me? Coming up in the eleven o'clock hour, John Shannon will join
us. Just after eleven o'clock. John did a show back. He's done
the Bob Accowan podcast. This is away from Hockey, but they talked about
Bill Walton, the late great Bill Walton, who left us earlier this week
at the age of seventy one. I want to talk to John about that,
obviously about hockey as well, Big right, the Quider Guy. Later
this hour, JP Barry is going to join us agent for Eleas Petterson Tyler
Myers. His people also represent Quinn Hughes. We'll talk to JP about that.
Very good friend of the show. He's joined us several times. And
up next from Ottawa. Is it Ryan? You'll find out what he's doing
there from TSN Farhand Logy Farhand joins us. Next Donnie Dolly the team on
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far ahead of the Nation's capital. Thanks for doing this, sir.
How are you? What are you doing there? I am here for the
CFC Prospects game. In fact, I think last year I did a hit
with you guys right here, probably from the same chair at the same event.
So it's basically, you know, Canada's version of the All American Game.
Right top high school players in the country are here. The game is
on TSN, so I get a chance to broadcast that plus the Red Blacks
game after. So it's a lot of fun to see kind of that next
wave, you know, and we're seeing it right Like the kids that played
in the first version of this game, you know, are were some of
them were drafted into the CFL draft this year, the more will be next
year. So it is pretty cool to kind of watch the whole thing come
full circle. How much better are kids now than they were, say,
ten twenty years ago? Well, they better, They're more prepared now,
right, I mean, you can just see that the coaching that a lot
of these kids get, you know, whether it's at the university level or
or even before they get to university, And you see more Canadian kids make
their way to American prep school systems and get a chance to play at a
higher level before they get to the collegiate level. So you know, it's
unfortunate that that has to happen in some cases, but you know, nonetheless,
so we're one way or the other, we're getting we're getting better players
at the front end collegiately, and that results in players more prepared and in
a better position to succeed when they get out of college. Okay, so
let's talk some CFL here farhand. First of all, well, this is
kind of CFL, but your take on the Lion's ability to land fifty as
the act for their concert kickoff? Ticket sales are going through the roof.
Yeah, you know what, the the real question is what shirt is Rick
gonna wear for the concert? Right? Because you know we we we all,
we all kind of grew up on fitty, so I always, you
know, I got to wear my TSN clothes regard. It's not gonna be
it's not gonna be a Hawaiian shirts, right, It's gonna be something pretty
outlandish after a couple of crown I know, I'm not going, not going.
I'm gonna show up at four o'clock, four o'clock. I'm driving you.
I am driving you there myself. Buddy, you're going to go if
Fran don't try to tell us you grew up on fifty fifth and fitty fitty,
you know, come on, come on, give me a break.
You know what. It's funny that my first memory, not my first,
but my one memory of him, like literally twenty years ago now Stanley Cup
Final and we're going back and forth between Jersey and Anaheim, and I'm there
with Peter maguire and Gordon Miller, and all of a sudden we see this
like rush of people in the terminal, you know, going from gate to
gate, and there's a golf cart and there's a security detail around and one
of the security guards like bumps into Pierre and kind of knocks them down.
And it turns out, he said, is a golf carts going from gate
to gate to get to someplace. And you know, I kind of had
to stand in between Pier and a security guard to make sure that nothing happened
there, because you know, he can get pretty testy in those moments.
So yeah, so fortunately I wasn't part of an international incident because that could
have gone sideways. But I'm here to tell him. I'm here to talk
about it twenty years later and watch him in concert. But you know,
it's pretty cool because when you look at the is it fair to say that
of the three acts that Amar Doman has brought per season for the season opener,
you know, one Republic and Llo Cool j that maybe this is the
most popular. I mean, he just sold Rogers Arena recently, right within
the past year, Like, is it safe to say that the acts continue
to go up and up? It is fair to say that, And it
makes me worry about him, our Doman and what he's got to do next
year to the top this. This, this is pretty big. Hey,
did you expect Jamar Doman? Honestly, Farhan to be this effective as an
owner. You know, Amar and I have a mutual friend that is a
highly successful individual. That friend said, no, no, that friend said
to me, you know, and I trust him impeccably. He said to
me that that Amar will leave this better than he found it. And he
is a builder and it matters to him. Community matters to him, right
So, and that person was surprised. He was actually, you know,
kept in the dark about Doman's interest in purchasing the Lions, but you know,
kind of the things that he touched on about what he's like in the
business community, because I really didn't know him at all until he bought the
team as well, left me with a lot of confidence that this thing was
headed in the right direction. Far Connuct News again another coach LEAs, first
Mike call Its and now Mike Yo. They effectively don't have a penalty killing
or power play coach right now. So that's going to be on the to
do list. But not a lot of people surprise Mike, You'll left.
Yeah, you know, especially when you heard Talkin's comments at the end of
the season at the press conference saying that he expected to keep his coaching staff
intact and it sounds like this was potentially a money issue, right or a
contractual issue of some kind, because it sounds like they clearly wanted him back.
So you know, it makes you wonder, right, I mean,
losing Jeremy Collin and when again they made him a contract offer and they wanted
him back. Now, I do think they could be in a position in
Abbotsford to fall forward, because I think Manny Malhotra could be a really really
good hire there and I think he'll have the respective players and coaches the game
with a lot of detail, and I think he can make a real difference.
And I think Jeremy Collin did a really good job, but I don't
know that there has to be a drop off there in terms of Manny Malhotra.
And I think Manny needed this opportunity, you know, after getting put
back upstairs in Toronto, to get the opportunity to run his own team and
run his own bench and show what he can do that way. And you're
right, Rick as far as the Canuxtra concerned, because Yo was a holdover
from the staff and obviously talking so enough in him to keep him and to
give him a lot of input. So to me, I would hope that
they get somebody that could potentially handle both systems, because remember, Suregey Gonchar
is still kind of a part time guy, right, He's not with the
team full time, So Adam Foot's not enough to do all of that,
so they're gonna have to go get a guy. You know, I don't
know that Daniel and or Henrik want to be doing that, but if they
can find somebody to potentially take on both special teams, that didn't be farther
ahead. A lot of free agent talk today, there's a lists out.
Everyone's talking about signing this guy, sign this guy, sign this guy.
But when it comes to the Canucks, what free agents, who's one and
two on your list of theyve got to get this done. And it's been
nine days since the season ended, no signings. If I was the top
two in my pecking order would be Niketas the door off and Dakota Joshua,
you know. And I know there's a real debate about where phil Ronick should
sit in that, But when I look at what the dollars are are going
to be requiring for similar money, and I think it could have a significant
impact. So I think philronic is a really good player, and obviously he's
helped Quin Hughes, but I think Queen Hughes has helped him more so for
me, just you know, when you see the projections on these sites in
terms of what a contract could look like, I keep seeing a three year
option, and I keep seeing a three year option for phil Ronic at six
point one million. Now, I don't know that that'll happen. I think
it'll be you know, sign the qualifying offer or you know, get a
one year deal done, or it'll be the long term extension. If they
could get that three year deal done, that's the path I would walk down
with Ronick. But in terms of Zadorov, I think he's made a huge
impact on that lineup. Look, you can't pay five million for a third
pair defenseman, So if they could get the term right to get him maybe
potentially a little bit less, i'd certainly go that way. And I think
Dakota Joshua is a rare player and is a player I would bet on that
could play up a level. You know, they kind of did this with
mckaye, right, They got a third line guy and thought he could be
a second line guy and blew up. And they've done that before. But
I think Joshua showed an ability. He's got goal scorers hands. And you
know when we saw that before his wrist injury, it wasn't just the goals
he was scoring, it was the types of goals he was scoring. You
combined that with his physical presence, there's a guy I could immediately see up
in my lineup with a huge, huge ceiling. The transmission here isn't great
from Ottawa? Are you boring Trudeau's laptop? Maybe I've got his iPhone?
You never know? Okay, all right, friend outstanding, We'll talk to
you next week. Save travels. Can you hear me? Thanks guys,
Rick, plan the outfit? Come on, do it, plan the outfit.
I'm going to the game. I'll be up showing up at four.
I'm not going to watch conk get on it. Thanks for a hand.
That Trudeau joke just fell from you talk about them, you know, needing
a power play coach? They got talking. He had the power play down
the stretch done, and how did the power play do in the playoffs five
for thirty six. I think there's time for change. They got to do
something with the power play. It was not good. So the head coach
might be critical of himself, right, I think he would be. He
should be. Who was in charge of the family killing Ryan Well? According
to uh Rick, it was Mike Callington Well probably who was in charge of
Atmosford? You called You called him Mike Yo and Mike call it in too.
We're getting a couple of t Yeah, we're gonna hire me call it
Yeah, of course I know that. And Mike Yo, Yeah, yes,
I do. Right is Mike's brother. They're changing so many coaches right
now. It's true. It is confusing to keep up with all the coaches
that are being let go in Vancouver. It's quite astonishing what's happening to be
to tell you the truth. And Ryan and I never make mistakes, never,
So there's that, Okay. JP Berry is going to join us.
Next agent for Tyler Myers. Lias Peterson is people handle Quinn Hughes as well.
JP Berry next, and we'll deal with the poll question two if we
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just before we get to JP Delaney's Okay, Tyron Langley in box,
we've had a lot of this. This is from Chris and Burke Mountain.
Here's a simple solution. How about a healthy PD to prop up the Canucks
power play. And with that we bring in the man who represents the Lias
Petterson, among others, including Tydler Myers. JP Berry from CAAA Sports.
Thanks for doing this, sir again. How are you? I'm very good.
Thank you guys. Good morning to you. Can't thank you n FGP
Hey, what can you tell us about it? Lias Petterson and how much
his knee was bothering him for so much of the Knucks season, JP,
Yeah, I mean he was as Leah said himself he was battling through something,
but lots of players do. I kind of feel like the whole situation
was a bit of a catch twenty two for him because if he says,
look, it's nothing whatever, then everybody just questions his play and questions his
abilities. And then if he says, I was battling with something, that
opened up a whole other line of questioning. So I thought he was in
a pretty awkward spot. But at the end of the day, he's going
to say he was dealing with something, and you know, obviously it was
bothering him. I think where's his confidence level at JP? Yeah, I
think any player that has, you know, especially a high end player like
that, that has a tough time in the playoffs, it's doesn't help it.
But it's gonna you know, he's gonna have to come back and fight
this for the future. JP. Let's get over to Myers. There's word
this morning that a deal could be close with you and the Canucks on Myers.
Where are contract talks with him? And are you close? JP?
I think the team needs to get together and have a plan. I mean,
they know we want we want to be there. We've had that much
conversation even before the season ended. So it's going to wait for Packrick to
decide what our timing is. I think that I don't think we're first in
line, so I think we have to see what happens here. And you
you, you've stated for quite some time now that Tyler would love to be
back with the Vancouver Canucks. Jap. He's got the house in Kelowna.
He doesn't want to go anywhere, does he. No, he likes the
city, his family likes the city, he likes playing for the Canucks.
He's especially enjoyed the new coaching staff. I know he's spoken really highly about
the coaches and he's probably you know, he feels better than he than he
ever has. So you really like to stay and play, you know,
see if you can finish this up and they have more success. Obviously,
Hey gp uh, he had a great year. He played a ton of
minutes. Uh, And he's had a tough time with the media and Canucks
Twitter over the years, but this year, I mean talk about the improved
play and everyone was pretty impressed with you know, how we played this year.
Yeah, I think, I mean, I think the whole team,
you know, they help each other when they all play well, but I
think it particularly helped Tyler. I know we spent a lot of time with
the coaches on how to play and how to sort of set his game up
for success, and I feel like we saw the results this year. JP
Quinn Hughes captain first year, had a great year that we will be very
surprised, JP if he doesn't win the Norris. Talk about that kid,
his season and the pressures of being a captain in the Canadian city. How
did you think you're faired. I think this was his real, true breakout
year, and I mean we're looking forward to seeing him in Vegas and I
think he will. I do think he's going to win that award, So
I'm excited for him. JP Quinn said he wasn't at the end of the
season interviews. During the end of the season interviews, he said he wasn't
injured, wasn't hurting. Can you understand why, especially hearkening back to the
Nashville series when he was punished left and right? Can you understand why some
people have a hard time believing that? Yeah, I mean, he just
you know, I think I think these players, we have to take the
these value if they if they don't, you know, if he thinks it
wasn't enough to affect his play, then you know the one's going to answer
one way and say, look, I don't want to I don't want to
say anything, and another may say, well, it did affect my play.
But like I said, I really, I really hate it when the
players come out there because everyone wants to answers and it's just a difficult spot
when there there's no clear cut injury. If there's just you know, bruises
and bumps, then maybe that's we have to have a you know, a
difficult different way of asking these questions. I just I found the whole thing
kind of awkward. Yeah, you think it was uncomfortable for you, you
should talk to Philip Heronic. But that's the story for another day. Hey
JP, Back to back to Elias Patterson for a second. There are reports
out here, and what do you make of these reports that that had Elias
saying he was dealing with the knee injury and reports out there saying that that
took the cannucts by surprise. Well, I mean some of the injuries that
these players have, I mean they know about them, with the training staff
but they're not enough to get to the level of being seen by a doctor
every day. So I know that you know he was seen prior to the
playoffs, but I don't think he felt at any time during the playoffs and
it was going to keep him out of the lineup. So it's just a
fine line where he's just being honest that he wasn't one hundred percent, but
he's I don't think he's making any excuses either, so I think we have
to just listen to what he was saying, and you know, you can
tell just by the look on his face that he's disappointed and feels he could
have played better. So I think you will. And JP, can you
put into words the caps going up, how busy you're going to be in
the next couple of months. Yeah, it's already started for us, but
we're kind of we're in that waiting prepared mode where the teams are doing their
home work and we've got a lot of meetings next week in Buffalo with pretty
much every team in the league, and hopefully we can get going, but
generally I don't you don't go into hike gear until the last ten days of
June, so we'll just have to. We'll just have to be ready.
Jip the cap going up? Can you give us a little indication not just
this year, but you know in the you know, in the bubble,
and you know what happened the cap didn't go up and and all that stuff
with COVID, When is it going to go up to maybe ninety ninety ninety
nine, Like do you have a projection on when it could really really go
up high? Well, I think the momentum is setting the stage for it
to go up high, and that's what we're hoping for. We're seeing obviously
in all sports right now, there's a growth with revenues. Now we rely
more in the arena revenues, but I think they're very strong, and our
sponsorship revenues are strong. So we put sort of the debt behind us,
and I think we're going to see some big jumps as long as the product
is as good as it was what we're seeing right now. JP. We
can't thank enough for doing this, Like like we just talked about, we
know you're busy or are gonna get busy, and again thanks for making time.
Thank you very much. Guys. We'll talk to him, you bet,
JP. Barry NHL agent agent for Elias Petterson, Todder Myers and his
people also deal with Quinn. He was interesting what he had to say.
I think he is not the only agent who not a big fan of those
ends of the season interviews when the players may or may not talk about their
injuries. Yeah, and some doing some don't. And you know, like
Ian Cole, like I have to be honest with you, Donnie. He
cut his ankle in Game two in a collision with Evander Kaine. It required
eight to ten stitches. He didn't announce it. You know, I'm you
and I when Quinn Quinny used was getting hammered in that Nashville series. Remember
he got tag team that one game and he got hit sandwich sandwich, and
Donnie, you know he's hurting. It was either shoulder or chest or ribs
or whatever. He didn't say anything, but at least did But I thought,
as JP said, Patterson was being honest. He wasn't making an excuse.
But also the outside noise. Patterson knew what people were saying about him,
the media and everybody else. So you are correct. Some players do
announce injuries, some players don't. But there you go. Yeah, and
for people who say and look, I'm speculating here, That's what I do.
But for people who say, oh, the Caducks didn't know much about
it, I found it interesting that talk it had something to say about the
Yes, he mentioned tendonitis, which Elias Patterson didn't. Ray Ferral made this
one. Did we have Ray on it last week? Last week? And
he talked about how tendonitis obviously something not everybody can relate to unless you play
a lot of sport, depending on what you do, anything you do physically,
if you've ever had it, it's tough. And it really affected Ray
in a negative way during his career. So he had sympathy for Elias Petterson.
Yeah. Absolutely, And I think Patterson was battling some and if he
goes home now Don in the summer, you know, just has a really
good summer, gets stronger, better, the whole nine yards, comes back,
no knee injury next year and start fresh and go from there. Okay,
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tonight sporting Kansas City on the road tonight the Caps are in Kansas City.
I don't know how they'll survive because some players of the MLS find it just
too damn hard to travel. Travel yeah that fast and play a game just
so hard. So five thirty tonight white Caps. They're looking to get their
breaking this UH drought they're in right now, six straight where they have not
won a game three and three, including Saturday's performance against a UH handicapped interer
Miami under manned. Yeah, three guys, their three biggest names not showing
up and playing in the game. Uh So five thirty and hear about that?
You didn't hear anything about it? By the way, I should mention
UH inter Miami's in action tonight, and hey, well and behold, the
rest is over. Line up in line up like the rest is done,
you know. But hey, the Cope America's coming up. We're concerned about
that too. A bunch of maloney. Uh. The white Caps, by
the way, this might be what the doctor ordered. Caps seventh in the
MLS standings in the Western Conference, Sporting cases in the bottom of the conference.
They're fourteenth. So you know, here's here's your I know it's short
turnaround. You played on Saturday all that, but and you do have any
international break coming up here because of that Copa America tournament. So you want
to let's try and get the positive vibes back with the white Caps five point
thirty tonight and catch that cat. Sure your little speech there will help.
Rick's gonna be excited about this. Catch that game on Apple TV tonight for
wires cables. Yeah, well why would I watch that when uh Dallas ed?
Yes, and I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about the Oilers in one second,
because you should focus on the local team. Sure, yeah, the
local team that screwed fifty one thousand people on Saturday gone. Uh. The
other the other thing when it comes to BC place at the Lions it's hard
to do. Okay, so I want to mention this. Look at this.
This is from the Roal Report on Twitter. Okay, the Ral Report.
This guy's good, This guy's I like this guy. Rixs a lot
of big stuff from this guy. Stop it. So they're well, the
Lions well over forty thousand. Now for the home opener coming up in three
weeks time, they sold seventeen thousand. What is this showing me here?
Well, that's the seat man at the top, and I'll get the tops,
the white part. What's the gray part? The top is the big
thing they saw and it's only grown since that time. Since don't I don't
get it? Where where's the tickets? Avait? Derek? Can you go
off my computer for a second. I'm going to show you the updated seat
map, and as I've done this a million times, I'll explain to you
too. The blue dots are available seats. If it's there, you got
that hard. If it's gray, it means they're not. Now you can't
grael the difference between the blue and gray here. Come on, what about
the white part? It means it's sold. It's gone. It's only one
second. The left side of the screen the upper deck left side of the
screen. Those are not on sale yet. Okay, they've only put on
sale. Very confusing, confusing, it's too confusing. Right, three quarters
of the upper bowl is what's on sale. And I should say, by
the way they advertise the Lions to twenty five bucks gets you into the game
the cheapest, it's actually twenty dollars if you just want to get into the
hill kids. So adult ticket, standard adult ticket is twenty dollars in twenty
five cents right now on Ticketmaster. If you want to go to that Lions
game, the home opener, Lion's Brainer Saturday June the fifteenth, four o'clock
start, and you also get to see fifty cent or as Barnand called him,
fitty fifty cent. So what Farhan said, what he grew up with
fifty cent? No? No, he said fitty fitty whatever. Well,
Faran's much younger than you, guys. He is younger than No, he's
around Rick's age. I believe fifty was big, so early two thousands,
I guess. So, look, he's thirty. Is that you're growing up
well with Farhand? Maybe he was Greg, I mean, I would say
I grew up with him like I remember in the club being huge. Well
you're not, no, that was that was in twenty thousand and one,
two in there something like that. Look, this guy has sold seventeen thousand
tickets. You Mom and Dado nine hours would not let you listen. They
didn't know all the music. I was an extrated version of that song.
I don't know all the music I was listening to. And by the way,
nine or teniers actually block you from listening to music. Speaking of music,
because Little Ryan back in the day used Napster, lime Wire, Oh
there's illegal programs to download music. Well, there's a great documentary coming out
produced by eminem and Lebron James on Napster. I saw the trailer for it
last night. Looks outstanding. Anyway, Rick, what were you gonna say
about tickets? I got to give this fifty cents guy credit. Canucks have
sold seventeenth or no story Lines canucksin sol that's how impressive this show was.
Fifty cents. Guys got me rattled. I went out, Mike Calton,
you know what, it's been a long day. This weather's getting to me.
Lines have sold seventeen thousand tickets in thirty hours because she was sweet.
Yes, I know that that's pretty impressive. I'm not a big fifty six
guy, but this guy I got a give credit over forty thousand sold.
It's right of the three acts. This is the biggest name graphically. You've
had a hard morning. Oh God, those boards at the top of the
show with a hockey with the NHL players and then then that map. Yea,
even though I told you about them before the show, you green lit
them. All Yeah, sure, okay, let's go. Let's go to
Alberta, Let's go to Edmonton, Let's go to Darnell nurse. Tonight is
game number four or the Stars. A lot of heat on Darnell is the
philip Heronic of Edmonton. Two points in the playoffs twelve, the plus minus
is horrible and six years at nine point was a nine point two five.
So this contract is a massive problem. He met with the media this morning.
The entire scrum lasted one minute. I'm gonna play the back thirty seconds
for you to show the mood Darnell was in this morning talking to the media
in Edmonton. I was talking about just you don't necessarily whant you're back in,
about how the team has kind of responded to elimination games last series down
to wonder, Van, what would you say about the team doing that when
it is a difficult stretch. We're good with her back against the wall.
Obviously any team can play well at this time of year when when Dallas has
a push like they did in the second period. What is this some of
the keys to stopping it? You know, over a little senior than the
other year. Play hard? Thanks, guys, have you there? So?
Then he ends his own scrump where's Jim matheson to asking why are you
being so pissy? Why? He so some people are freaking up on this.
I think he yawned. Princippe's Derek running with it if you can't run
it with the thirty eight second mark, watch thirty first question here is Principay
is asking it. I've got the sound down, Derek, so you can
run it if you want. Uh. Princeippey's asking the first question, and
and right here towards the back end of that question, he looks down.
He's trying to kind of, you know whatever, let's get this home with
it right here coming up here, you're gonna see it's very slight, it's
very slight, but I think you're gonna see Wait, that's a little yawn.
That's a yawn. So now love this stuff. Let me show this.
I love the Heronic stuff last week. I love that. Let me
show this tweet. Funny, Let me show this tweet. This is from
cha R. Nurse has been heavily under fire the past few days. Some
of it faire, some of them little much. But it's part of UH
being heavily counted on and highly paid. This response is out of character for
him. Now here's the second part. Usually well spoken and willing with the
media, interesting on a game day is floating that a scratch is coming for
Darnel Nurse at all? He is interesting on a game day, game day,
and he's being terse like maybe because he's out in the lineup tonight.
Oh no, he's not out of the line up. You're gonna set a
guy making well we'll see later today, not that deep. Und No,
they're talking about bringing Broberg and Stature has gotta have surgery. He's not ready,
so that's an issue too. So Heronic last week now this Canadian Markets
and Brian Brooks says it when you have a big contract and are underperforming.
The worst place to be is a Canadian eleven point six. Well, then
don't underperform. But how about not giving the stupid contract in the first place.
Don No one puts a team to the No one puts a gun to
these team's head, and say where team to the teams? Who was gonna
give Who was gonna give Darnell Nurse nine point five million? Nobody? So
you so you're saying that the Canucks are to blame for Heronic, like Rutherford
and LV, I'm not saying that Heronic look pissed he got into it with
a reporter or friend. You know, I feel like that, you know
how I feel. It's a Canadian market. It gets to these guys,
don It gets to these guys. And if you look at his face and
his body language, which was horrible, it gets to these guys. But
you know, Ryan Rashaug did make the point that he's normally not like that.
Like. To be honest, we don't know much about Heronic, No
I believe is he like that all? We don't really know. But I
can only hope that he's like that all the time. I was told I
think he met with the media four times this year. But Rick, to
your point, where does this all begin with the root of all of this?
What that guy's playing. So he can be pissed that he's going to
answer these questions, he can be pissed at the market's ripping them all that
it ultimately comes down to a guy making a whole bunch of money for a
lot of time that's doing diddly And maybe maybe he's hurt. Maybe we find
out at the end of this he's got a torn a c olt or something
and he's super banged up. I'm not sure I go against that in that
I don't. I don't know he's not doing this on purpose. I find
that really entertaining. It's way more entertaining than we got to get bucks in
Deep and fortunate. Of course, No, of course, play a two
hundred foot game last week was great about popcorn. I watched it on a
real I don't think je was all that great, But okay, I felt
bad for Jpeb's been around line that he knows there's value in that interview for
him, I will say. By the mcconnor McDavid jumped to nurses defense today.
He was asked by specter about the entire thing going on, and he
McDavid's answer about Nurse was almost longer the nurses entire scrum this story. And
you know what, I can see why Darnelle Nurse would get upset with Gene
Principe because Jean's not a very nice guy. Like let me just set the
record, Strak maybe the nicest guy in the show. Okay, Anyway,
it was interesting and it's gonna get it. Look at the oilers they are.
I mean, it's only two to one, right, but I would
say backs have been against the wall here at the possible idea. They go
down three to one, and you've got three of the next two of the
next three games back in Dallas. So what I know, we saw what
happened against the Canucks. The Stars are not the Canucks. Coming up next,
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and Mary and Mad. Yeah. Of course, what I think, mod
I think the Arthur. But we'll move on from that. What show was
that? The show was called, Oh it wasn't All in the Family spinoff.
John Shannon knows all about that. NHL analyst co host of the Bob
McCowen podcast. John, Thanks for doing this, sir. I can tell
by your reaction there you remember mod I remember mod I Just usually about this
time I'm giving Rick a hard time about something. But the name of the
show was Mad. Yes, I'll tell you what I gotta I gotta command
Ryan. Ryan is now the king of conspiracy theories. He's the best.
When when you're suggesting that Darnell Nurse is not gonna play tonight, that is
that is the ultimate Ryan. Good for you? Yeah? Yeah? Do
you enjoy I do? Okay? Do you enjoy cranky athlete interviews because they're
they're away from the norm. Well, here's the thing. I think that,
first of all, they're human too, uh And secondly, I like
athletes the actually want to have good questions. You know, Alexander mcgilney,
who you guys knew well from his time in Vancouver and in Toronto and New
Jersey, loved smart questions. I love smart questions. And you know,
there's lots of times where the athletes challenge everybody to just I'm prepared to answer,
but give me a good question and I will answer it. And let's
face it, game day in the Stanley Cup playoffs, you're trying to get
a SoundBite. Yeah, you're trying to get a sound bite. And Donnie,
you've been in enough scrums and so have you rick that you just want
the guy to talk. You don't really care what he says. You just
wanted to talk. And Darnelle wasn't going to play that game today. The
strange part is if you ask a bad question, sometimes you get a cranky
response and it ends up being a great clip for the rest of the day
and everybody else in the media, well that was Phil Kessel was famous for
those two right, yeah, oh yeah'll be ten hey John yesterday at Florida
over the Rangers three to two. Series tied it too, but let's focus
on the team that lost. What is Alexei Lafrenier showing people in these playoffs
well that he was worth being the first overall pick, albeit during COVID,
and it teaches you you have to be patient with players. You know,
just because you're the first overall pick and at eighteen years old you get into
the National Hockey League doesn't mean you're going to be the be all and the
end all. And the Rangers for the first three years of his career were
very patient and understood that. And now it's it's paying dividends and they're going
to have to do the same thing now with Capo Cackle, who has not
been as near as influential as they thought he was going to be. You
guys remember him from the World Junior in Vegas, and CaCO is still learning
on that or rather on that learning curve that Lafregne is and they have two
really good players there. They just have to be patient with them. New
York and the Panthers are even. But the Rangers have been outshot and out
attempted by a large margin. Should they consider themselves lucky to be tied it
too? Here's the thing for me, and I haven't heard it mentioned very
often, but you know, during the regular season and even during the Carolina
series, the driving forces other than Vincent Trochek, where Mika Zavanajad and Chris
Krider. Well, I don't think Crider and Javantajev have any points in this
series yet. And I think that when you consider that their power play had
not been very good until scoring last night, and Zavanajad and Crider have not
been effective offensively. To be too too, I think is a bonus for
the Rangers, you know, And perhaps Crider will wake up now and perhaps
Zavantajad will become more effective. And if that's the case on home ice at
MSG, the Rangers I would expect would go up three too. Hey,
John Owners Dallas, let's get back to them. Obviously, I must win.
You do not want to go to Dallas down three to one. What
are the owners got to do better here tonight? Well, you know,
they can't panic in their own zone. I mean, offensively is not an
issue. They've scored enough, they've had enough opportunities in the Dallas defensive zone.
But you know, and this is the big problem that Darnell is facing
and the rest of the defense is facing, and quite frankly, the whole
team is facing, is they get into panic in their own zone at key
times. And after that first period, that great first period in Game three,
they just melted and panic set in and they weren't able to clear the
zone properly. Simple stuff, Simple stuff, Rick, You know, gy
smart players like Derek Ryan's a smart player. But if you watch a couple
of times Derek Ryan can't get the puck out of his own zone because he's
trying too hard and doing things. You know, chipping it out is not
a bad thing in the playoffs, and I think that that's something that the
coaching staff will probably be emphatic about it. Adding Corey Perry I think adds
a little bit more grit for the club. And we'll have to see whether
it's fogel or McLeod going in because they don't want to lose all the speed.
But at the same time, I think that they just need some veteran
input for a guy like Corey Perry to play and be a factor, just
to calm things down a little bit in the defensive zone. John, what
is surprise you? We're kicking this around yesterday, but Ruther for making a
big trade this summer. Look they got We don't know what this team's gonna
look like if they got a ton of UFAs and RFAs, very important RFAs
as well. If they don't get a bulk of these guys back, we
can't even predict what it's going to be like here next year. Do you
think there could be a big trade here? You see one written in this
summer. I think this could be a trade summer across the league. Rick,
You know, there are teams that have already spent the increase in salary
cap to eighty seven and a half. There are teams that don't have first
round picks, and last I check, I don't think the Canucks are well
they don't got a second either. Well, and so I again, lots
of people have thought that this draft wasn't as deep as other drafts, So
that's one of the reasons why the picks were traded off. But I think
by the time we get to the sphere in Vegas next month, we're going
to see a lot of activity across the league teams. Readjusting you know the
discussion in Carolina with the change from Don Waldell to Eric Tulsky. You have
to wonder what kind of influence that will have. There is going to be
a lot of movement I think this summer, not just free agency, but
on the trade market for that simple reason, everybody's adjusting to the new salary
cap. John, before I let you go, let's switch from hockey to
basketball if you don't mind. I know you brought up the subject on the
Obama McCowan podcast. But what did Bill Walton, the late great Bill Walton
who left us earlier this week, what did he do for basketball both on
the court and as a broadcaster. Well, I'll tell you what. Arguably
the greatest college basketball player ever ever. I remember he only played three years
of college basketball, not four, because he when you were a freshman,
when he was a freshman, you didn't play on the varsity team. But
he was so good and was the last exclamation mark in my mind on John
Wooden's UCLA Bruins. The other thing that he did even in that time was
he spoke out. He had an opinion, he was against the Vietnam War,
He tried to fight racism. He did so many things as a twenty
one and twenty two and a twenty three year old that were truly amazing,
and that didn't change when he became a broadcaster. I think that he lived
life to the fullest, but who was always outspoken and always was trying to
fight for the underdog, and so here when we lose a guy like that
at the age of seventy one, which is far too early, you reflect
on what difference he made. And the other thing, Donnie is like we
liked him as a player at our age, and then there are three more
generations of basketball fans that love Bill Walton for his eccentricities and how much fun
he made the game, and that's so important. Sometimes we take ourselves far
too seriously in this business, and Walton certainly didn't and had fun for it,
and I think the viewers and the fans were better for it. Well
said, as always, thanks for this, John, We'll talk to you
next week. Appreciate it. I'm gonna the conspiracy theory guy. Let's see
what else he can do the rest of the day. So yeah, yeah,
I think he's on the cheech and chalk stuff. Yeah, it is
Vancouver. We'll see if we'll see if Darnell draws in tonight. Well,
Darnell won't be talking to Ryan. I know that for anybody else apparently.
Thanks John cheers and he's a bang on about Chris Crider and because you it's
been that was tough. I've done that before. Number ninety three for the
Rangers, zero points for both players. Yeah, but they're up against Barkoff's
line and Donnie. The Barkoffs line is not giving them any sure, but
that's not anything they got to pick it up though. You're right, Okay,
we have an open segment we're gonna talk about. I know you just
love that moment. Ryan. This is like the greatest moment of your life.
All right, I promise it will never happen again. We'll talk Mike
Yell. Update the poll question next donning the team, I check Donnie and
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Athletic Friend of the Show has written an article projecting the cost of the NHL's
top fifty twenty twenty four UFAs. YEA and three of the four conuck Key
UFAs are on the list that leads to our poll Quurt Ryan, get her
up our Waddling Dog pop pole question, which, pending at Knuck UFA,
will be the most heavily pursued by other teams. No surprise here. Forty
seven percent say lind to Holm, but not far behind is nikkids it or
off thirty eight percent, thirty nine percent. Already over twelve hundred votes.
It's hopping, it's popping. It's not stopping so many people. It's just
assuming that Lindholm is gonna end up where another Lindholm ended up and that's Boston,
Massachusetts, the Bruins who lost their top two centers. Not the Celtics
lost their top two centers last summer, so but had a pretty I'm sure
they're disappointed around done. They went around too, they had a great over
one hundred points again, you know, and I'll say what I said earlier
in the show, I think that priority for the Canucks will be, like
realistically speaking, like if they're going to get lind Holme, you know,
five years for one million per you probably signed him, it's not going to
happen. The priority, I would think realistically would be to keep zador Off
and Myers. Myers isn't going to cost you six million dollars a year like
he has that that price tag. No matter what anybody says, including JP
Berry who's on our show, it's going to go down. And zador Off
the projection for him, what was the projection for him, by the way,
four million, three years, four which which is probably low. It
is low. But again I would think that prior already would be to keep
intact that big, tough, kind of mean defense that can help you a
bit offensively that Rick Hackett wanted, you know, going back to the end
of last regular season, not this past regular season, the regular season before
that. They clearly wanted something like that. They got it. Why break
it up? That would be That would be again we're talking realistically. It'd
be great to keep Joshua, great to keep Lindholme, but I would think
that would be the priority. Donnie Sis matters and the Canucks cannot let Myers
and the door off both go. That's too much size to walk out.
The door one will be resigned. The easy one is Myers. He's the
only guy out of all their free agents, Donnie, that's willing to do
He is going to take a pick cut. Yeah. The rest of these
guys are all got their hand out for significant raises. That's why Myers will
be the first signing, because he's the only guy that's not asking for a
huge raise. He's gonna get done the price of success. Okay, Mike
Yo, We try on this earlier. Mike Yo has, a Kinnuck assistant,
has left the Canucks. He was in charge of the last two years
of the team's penalty killing, which improved a bit this year, ended up
seventeenth ranked in the National Hockey League. I believe sixth out of the sixteen
teams that made the playoffs at this point. He was offered a one year
deal to stick around, but off he goes. So, like Jeremy Carlton,
a former NHL head coach leaving the Canucks organization, a rick, do
they have a replacement in mind? I would imagine they do. And b
where's Mike Yo headed? First of all, this is the second coach,
as you mentioned Don, that has rejected a contract offer from the Canucks in
the last week and has left the organization. Certainly no one saw this coming.
First Jeremy Carlton in Obsford, a coach by the way they raved about,
and now Mike Yo, who joined the team in Bruce Boudreau's final season,
was offered a one year deal. That's not exactly a ringing endorsement.
Hey did a great job, come back for one year. Don You do
know what? Coaches are no different than players. They want more money to
they want term on their contracts. They want to climb the ladder of success,
just like the players. The coaches are no different. If you put
if you put a one year offer in front of somebody, probably gonna get
rejected. Don. And you know what, h so anyways, he was
in charge of the PK. They don't have anyone in charge of the power
play, so now talks in charge of the power play. I told you
this, don They got to get somebody in charge. The power play was
five for thirty six in the playoffs. Done. What about the Sedines.
They're doing such a wonderful job in the atmosphere, don I can't see them
leaving at the atmosphere job unless maybe they say, hey, a part of
your duties, yeah, it with skill development is also the Canucks power play.
I like that they have Sergey Gonchar as a part time assistant coach because
I think players, well, we know this, we know this. Just
at any any occupation, you get tired of the same voice again and and
again. And if Gunshart can only make it, if Cerate can only make
it once in a while, I think that's okay. Yeah, I don't,
I don't, I don't. I don't mind that I would maybe maybe
the same thing could happen with the Sedines and the power play. They weren't
they helped out with the powerplay this year? Did they know? They did?
There were times when the Canucks had seven to eight coaches on the ice
of practice. I like it. Yeah, you know what, So I'm
a little surprised if Callington Leaving didn't see that, Now Mike Yo Leaving didn't
see that, what's going on behind the scenes? Both rejected contracts. So
you've you, you and I have rejected contracts over the years. What's the
number one reason why you reject a contract? Donny money? You know?
So, why why are the Canucks giving these guys uh lower offers and and
making it easy for them to reject it? The one thing that I find
surprising about this, well, first of all, there's a there's a lot
there. They had success, and the organization as a whole had success.
Carlton goes yoga. But how many times were you watching games over the last
couple of years and Rick Tackett always was talking with Mike Yo on the bench?
Yeah, curcial stages, yep of you know, pretty much every game
and at the end of games or near the end of games when they were
up one or down one, whatever the case may be, a close game,
it was Mike Yo during a timeout usually who would talk strategy with the
whiteboard to the players. It seems like Rick Tackett called on him called on
him a lot. Do you know about the relationship between those two. Well,
first of all, he wasn't a talk at higher right, No,
I'm just talking about what I saw and what you saw is correct. But
if you go back to Mike Yo ending up in Vancouver, it was that
summer when the management complained about structure with Boudreau no structure. It was management
who hired Mike Yo and said to Boudreau, here's your assistant coach. It
wasn't Boudreau hiring Mike Yo. The feeling of was management saying here's a guy
that's gonna help you with structure. Then Tacket game came and then he got
rid of King. Remember he got rid of King, but he kept Yo
because he liked him. And which makes all this more surprising is why did
Mike you leave? Yeah, especially and especially in the wake of success.
But we don't know. Maybe Jeremy Carlton has a job waiting for him somewhere
that we haven't earned about yet. You know that you said he interviewed for
the San jose A job. Maybe Mike Yo same thing. These guys are
former head coaches. Oh yeah, Mike Yo, he's a two times he's
been a head coach twice. Yeah, Minnesota, say three times if you
include Philadelphia on an interim basis. There you go. He's not gonna have
a problem getting another job. And he wouldn't have said no and walked away
with that press coffee in history if he didn't have something. Okay, but
good Ryan, you have some business. That's right. Look at this.
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the Canucks, you know, bring back. Why don't they do a game
with the V. Well, I'm going to say this to not only not
only just do a game with the Flying V, but I want to see
them sell the black Flying V like this. We've seen the yellow Flying V
being sold. We've seen this yellow Flying V in warm up once. Yeah,
warm up, that's it, right, yeah, but I want to
see this. Why can't they shot this out for a game Jersey? I
don't know. I love something to do with money. Yeah, you know
what I've always thought, Why don't they do more creative I have no idea
what you've all lost? Why don't they do more creative things for the preseason,
Like here's Flying V's for the for a preseason game? Right? People
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Montreal comes to town. This is pile Ember. Peter and Delta used to
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but it's in the neighborhood. It's up the hill. Make a line in
the neighborhood would be in the neighborhood Holliburn. You go up Taylor Away and
I can't come. I've been to holly bron We you and I've been there.
It's a beautiful, uh beautiful place. It depends on your definition of
near. I guess right, we'll come. It's in the neighborhood. Wolcoe
was part of Woolworth's, the Woolworth's chain. What we've also never heard of.
This is the lowest moment in what really is? What is Wilco?
I don't know. Peter in Delta shop there, Harriet, what variety story.
Let's go to break look it up in the break, Okay, we
will. They had a malt shop there, American based discount retail chain.
There you go. We'll go tatim and never shot up there. You've got
your dollar stories. Oh yeah, I'm not like you. I'm not Silver
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look at the famous staircase is very much from the movie. You could tell
oh yeah, oh yeah, it just looks different with the without the Christmas
stuff in there. Show great show, great, great movie. I've seen
it one hundred times. Christmas classic. And by the way, it's one
of the rare occasions where number two equal, if not better to number one.
What like? Then't know where you're going with that? Reinforced and they
also they don't they don't have the same people. Yeah so they but one
and two very strong. Danielster and Joe Pesci great great as villains, bumbling
bumbling villains. But the premise of you know, our kids missing and oh
yeah we really I haven't noticed. It was a big hit on. You
can make movies sometimes with stuff that's not overly believed. It's a big,
big reach. Yeah, that never happens in a movie. Where is it
on the list of great Christmas? It's in the top five. Give me,
I guarant Christmas Story for Christmases, Christmas Vacation all we'll get us three.
Top five. I'm sure I can. Els al alpsa Elsa, the
Great Rick just looked at a list here. ELF's in there. Did you
say white Christmas? No white Christmas too? Yeah? I know, ba
Bat Santa? How's the list going there? Bat Santa was good? It
was good. I go, I'll go tops top ten. E W Entertainment
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Okay. Number five mine mine is based on fat Number five is The
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the Jim Carrey version. Underwriting on this top five number people hate that show.
I love it. Number four, alf number three, Charlie Brown,
Christmas number two, Christmas Story number one, It's a Wonderful life. Okay.
If Christmas Vacation isn't in there, I've got a problem with that.
Home Alone is number eleven on the list. I didn't make the top ten.
Okay, Christmas vacations eighteen. Okay, you see that, you lose
all credibility and for Christmases nothing. I don't think it's on here the Tom
Hanks one, the cartoon thing there. Oh that's horrid with the train.
Yeah, oh, Pullar Express, Pullar Express. It was good, freaky
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His signature song thanks for the Memory. No. One hundred miles are over
one hundred k to the east of Vancouver is the city of where First Blood
was filmed. Ho, there you go. What is the exact Derek?
What's the kilometory? You said one hundred kilometers? Well, and I said
one hundred miles. Why are you saying miles? Canada? Now I am
remembering this. No, why are you talking about miles? Because there's a
very good reason for it. I'm much older than you, and I grew
up with miles and feet and yards, et cetera. But what is it
now? And it was always one hundred miles to home? What is it
now? I don't know, Derek. Have you got that kilometers? What's
kilometers to Hope? Okay, Well, we'll wait on that as we move
on. English musicians singer and songwriter. He and his brother Liam were in
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to Hope. Okay, one hundred and fifty two yeah, bingo. But
when I grew up was always kind of cool. Exactly one hundred miles miles?
Wow, mister Canada, before you know it? And I tried to
correct myself. Yeah, it's still okay. Where are you going this weekend?
By the way, Well, I'm going to Bellingham? Yeah really,
and you and I might be going to Seattle for Pearl Jam tomorrow night as
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What happened to Ryan? What happened to Anita the Act? Huh?
People want to know? Can look into that. Maybe contact JP Barry one
of your agent friends and get back to me. All right, what do
we do now? Is it just me? Okay, look at this,
Is it just me? The Canucks could have saved a ton of money if
they would have waited to the end of the season like Pete wanted and then
made the deal. They brought it upon themselves. P Surrey Troy Patterson did
not want to sign when the Canucks signed him. He wanted to sign after
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bang on Chris and the hoof. Is it just me? But I know
iuned into Donnie and Dolly in May to hear about Christmas movies. Thanks guys
in line with that. Sorry, but is it just me? But isn't
that house the McAllister house? Is it from Home Alone? Also in planes,
trains and automobile on the side of the pillow scene, it was great,
Yeah, you can relate. No, but I wasn't aware of that.
I had heard that story. Yeah, planes, trains and automobiles.
That house also used. Oh it was used in there too, in Home
Alone. What do you got? Uh? Rick saying all of Chris Johnson's
projections for the canucksy UFA's is not a surprise. Rick being a good agent
for the agents being Milstein and Evans best friend has to come with the perks.
That's for mister Bates from Richmond. Well, mister Bates and Richmond,
I'm not best I am not best friends with Milstein and Evans. Uh.
I have a professional don and you know this a professional relationship with the agents.
I'm not that there's the agents are bad. They're not best friends.
Come on, I think they are. No, they're not. Bob on
Bowen is just me. I get that Doman wants to bring in the younger
crowd, but maybe it's time to switch things up and try some music attracting
more of the older crowd that used to go to Empire. Oh yeah,
so some of the bands that you I talk about bto all the time,
def Leppard, you know, Quiet right with Brian Adams, Lover Boy,
all this stuff. Why can't they bring in someone like that Rolling Stones,
which are coming when Yeah, yeah, we gotta break It's not gonna comment
on Mars A band selection or act selection. I think it's going well with
fifty cent tickets are going like hotcakes. He's killing fifty I gotta give Hi
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