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lovely? Nice day out there? Before we get into what's happening in the
National Hockey League, a couple of things. First of all, Whitecaps lose
last night in Dallas, two ones. The two straight losses for the white
Caps, who had gone unbeaten in eight straight MLS matches before that. They
host Seattle Big Game Saturday at BC Place. Also, you wanted to talk
about the BCHL and the powerhouse been ticked in vs. They wrapped it up
last night. Donny pent Tickton swept al Bernie Valley last night to win the
BC Hockey League title, second straight year, fourth title in the last seven
years. Look at these kids. You won't find anything better on TV today.
Look at this fourteenth franchise championship, Donnie last night the VS. One
four one fifty three oh and one in the regular season, sixteen one of
the playoffs. Just a dominant, dominant team. So they lost five games
all year oh year, Yeah, Donnie all year long. And Scott Niedermayer's
kid, Joe Newendike's kid, Mike Richter's kid all played on this team at
a channel I ch had a chance to watch him earlier this year. Just
a really good team. Where'd you watch them in West coloona And beautiful uniforms,
by the way to take on the Leafs unions, beautiful blue, beautiful
blue. Okay. Also we should mention that this is going to hurt a
bit Canuck fans. Seattle wins four two in the Western Hockey League Final down
in Kent, Washington, beating Winnipeg. So they're up three one, Dylan
Gunther gets the winning goal. He has sixteen goals in the Western Hockey League
playoffs and they can wrap it up on Friday. Of course, Gunther,
we saw what he did for a team Canada at the World Juniors. You
know, the player a lot of people feel would have been available had the
Canucks not made a certain trade. Arizona used the first run pick they got
from the Canucks in the oil trade to take Gunther. We don't know if
the Canucks would have taken Gunther, but what it tells you is the quality
of the player available at nine. Here you go, thank you. Unbelievable
And you know, Western Hockey League success does a necessarily meaning NHL played in
the nh But it hurts a bit for connection, of course, it hurts
among other things NHL. All right, Panthers at Carolina Game one, Eastern
Conference Final tonight in Carolina, Dallas at Vegas game one on Friday. Before
we get into the meat of this, I want to show some footage from
yesterday, guys, if you don't mind. Rod Brenda Moore, head coach
of the Carolina Hurricanes, arguably the best coach in hockey right now. This
is the day before his team plays in the National Hockey League Eastern Conference Final,
opening up the Final four. Here he is yesterday at P and C
Arena. What's without the footage here? It's all stretched out here? What's
going on? Rod? Looks like he's a little wider here, looks like
those we set this up beforehand. I thought it was okay, this looks
like something out of the House of Mirrors. Yeah, the p and right
there you yeah, there you go. Yeah, the wrong death there.
It scared me for a second. I thought we had the wrong footage.
But there he is on the ice with his kids and Max Patcherretti's kid,
you know, doing a little coaching, relaxing. So my point here is
that is this not proof how much? And I know everybody who plays hockey
loves hockey to some extent, but this just shows you how much this guy,
who's considered again by many to be the best coach going, this shows
you how much he loves hockey, loves hockey. I mean, he talked
about coaching minor hockey the other day and he said, you know what,
guys, it's not much different than the NHL. Let's just go out there
teach the kids. Look at this though. I mean, the biggest game
of the year is coming up against Florida today, this is yesterday, and
he's out with a bunch of the kids. Believable. Yeah yeah, again
shows you his love for the game. Campbell, Rivers, Rod Brenda Moore.
So good. All right, let's get rich to the poll question.
It's the Panthers at Carolina tonight again Dallas at Vegas on Friday. Betty nine
dot net poll question, Ryan and I and you are arguing about this question
earlier bet ninety nine dot net poll question. Every game begins at betty nine
dot net. Rick, all right, our bet ninety nine dot net poll
question, how would you describe your interest level in the NHL Conference Finals?
Oh? Boy? Seventy seven percent say low. That's not good. That's
not good at all? Yourself, it's low? Why what do you mean?
Don I mean the team's left don't do anything for me, especially the
Eastern Final the Western Final. I have a bit more uh investment in I
just I think they're better teams. But these guys, I'm not there,
and the weather's playing a factor too. Done. I'm not gonna lie.
But hold on a second. Like people talk about the weather being a factor.
It is for me when I look back at the Canucks runs. One
of the great things about those runs is that you often watch the games when
the weather is nice outside. It just when when the weather is nice outside
and your team still that's a good that's a good combination. I don't think
it's a big deal. I'm used to that now. The other thing,
are you a hockey found or not? Yeah? These are four yeah,
yeah, so you should be interesting. Yeah. These two teams don't do
anything for me. If it was Boston in Toronto, yeah, I'm in
there. I'm in there. You better believe I'm in there. You can't
change with the times at all. I need a Boston, I need a
Toronto. I need one of those teams in the Eastern Conference. Fire.
You don't want to see what brod Brenda more people don't, you know,
want to watch a coaches a coach. But I'm interested seeing Brent Burns.
I think he's had a great season. Carolina doing what they're doing with all
those injured stars of theirs, that's really really impressive. Maybe the Canucks could
learn a thing or two off the Matthew could Chuck Broscue, what he's up
to on the other side of Vegas with with Jack Keel the Stars. Hay
Skin is one of the best players in the National Hockey League, even with
a cheek that's inflated five hundred times its size thirty two minutes last game for
higher So are you interested or it sounds like series? I'm moor into that
group bands. I'm a hockey fan. Of course I'm interested. My interest
level is high. Ryan, I know you feel diff well. This is
the same person that wasn't so interested in the second round of the playoffs.
I don't remember myself. You said that. I'll dig up the tape.
I'll get my best people on it. By the way, this whole thing.
First of all, Ricky is bang on about the weather. It does
matter. It's the Canucks aren't involved, so I don't care going on team
is not involved. No, Donny, we sit through eight months a year
of rain and now it's a nice stretch of hold on a sets factor.
Good point. You guys, especially you Ryan, Ye go on and on
about how much you hate the heat. So what's the big deal about going
inside and watching a hockey The hate the heat, but I'm just not driven
to watch hockey when the weather is like this, especially Saturdays and Sundays four
o'clove. Are you going to sit there and say it's Saturday, it's beautiful
outside, and you're gonna say, oh, it's four o'clock. Give me
up. This is just in the season doesn't end in March or April anymore.
When when the weather gets better, that to me is a sign of
some important hockey around coming around, and it reminds me of ninety four and
twenty eleven. I don't have a problem with it at all. I've i
unlike you too. I've adjusted. It's not I'm open minded about it.
It's not just you too. When we're almost at four hundred votes. If
Taylor ever retweets this pole question again, I did. I didn't. I
have his kidding. Seventy seven percent of the people are saying low. It's
not just Rick and I. The majority of people are saying Loo and Nord.
I think the other thing comes into play here that I do think so.
I think it's how bad turn in your passport? How bad hockey has
been for the Vancouver Conoxy in this market. Also another another fact, like
how disconnecting fact that you are sad is how much this market right now revolves
around a trade deadline, a draft, free agency, and that's it.
They don't care about anything on the ice because there hasn't been anything on the
hockey or not. I appreciate solid, stolidly playoff hockey. I don't mind
that. I will give you this though, but it's not just hockey.
It's the NFL, uh, the NBA. Maybe not baseball so much because
the draft isn't as big a deal, but the off ice news no matter
how well your team is playing, you know, if it's playing great hockey,
poor hockey, the off ice, use the draft, free agency.
That's coming up, controversies, Yeah, that's coming up in June. I'm
I'm saying that the sports has evolved to the point where off ice news is
almost that's to more entertaining than what's going on, not just on the ice,
but on the plane. And that's how I think a lot of that's
seventy seven percent feel in the pole question today, like they would be fine
to just breeze break past this conference final on Stanley Cup final to get to
the off season. And I think the same thing's happening in Toronto. How
fast did that conversation change from anything the Leafs did this year and the first
round win to everything happening in the off season. It was like that.
It was instant. They're still doing a post game as they're speak and the
other thing that comes into play, and you're not gonna want to hear this.
The NBA the conference finals blow away the NHL conference They do they do?
How do you know they haven't played yet? Way, what do you
mean there's been two there's been NHL Conference finals yet. I can, for
one, the star power on papers there that the NHL does not have.
And that's the NBA is n could do. But it sorry right, the
NBA is lucked out that way that that's been the final four. He make
a good point about it. It rains for a make good. It makes
a good point. It rains for eight months of the city. And finally
you want to golf. You want to go to the lake, Donnie,
You want to sit on your deck with a nice cool, you know,
drink. We don't want to wash the car. Wash the car. You
can wash the car while the water restricts don't get me in trouble. I
did wash it yesterday. Anyways, there's a ton of stuff to do yourself
for the car. After eight months of reign in the city, you take
an advantage of the sun. So I thought you were talking about the point
he made about the NBA. No, I don't care about the NBA.
Bobby and Vancouver Good morning, guys, all agree one with Donnie Weather a
factor. Please. It's the best four teams left and if you're a hockey
fan, you will be tuning in. Just because the cities aren't big and
flat flashy doesn't factor into how good the teams are. People are talking like
it's gonna be boring. These series will be great. We'll see if that's
true. But yeah, well, how do you compare them at this point
when they haven't played yet? You know, I can't they go lebronze,
They're great whatever. Diving the other night, I guess you like Jimmy Butler
has been unbelievable. Thirty five points they went game one, Yola, Denver,
come on, there's no doubt about it. If hockey hasn't started yet.
And I don't say blah though about the markets like Dallas for every reason,
I know there's talent there. Dallas is blah in my opinion. Right,
let me go back to last year. Not a hockey fan, Donny
Rangers and Lightning. I was into that last year Rangers jumped out to nothing.
Seriously, Madison Square, I love watching games open different. Doesn't have
to be the Bruins, the Canocks, the League Connocks doesn't count. It
doesn't have to be these traditional hockey It makes a difference, makes a difference
not to me, it does to me. This is Bettman's dream because he
hammers the fact the NHL has parody like no other league. And here you
go, well, these four teams that proves it again. Open up your
mind's a bit here. And I think when you when you talk about these
non traditional hockey markets and you see uh players, young players who are from
those non traditional hockey markets making their range of the National Hockey League, Austin
Matthews being one example, t J. Thompson another, as I'm working in
Arizona. Okay, well no, but my my my point is hockey is
better because the markets have been opened up. You know, there are more
people playing hockey in these non traditional markets. It makes the product better.
You have to think long term. Okay, I'm gonna find you. I
don't get me wrong. I love the NBA playoffs, but anything American.
You guys love, right, and watch your NBA playoffs and turning your passport
time I'm going Saturday. Yeah, there you go, perfect, perfect.
Maybe. Now do you agree with us though, that this season goes on
way too long. People have been saying that for a long time, and
there's validity to it. It's you're beating a dead horse. It's not going
to too much revenue with an eighty two game schedule. It's not gonna.
It's not gonna change. Keep in mind that not that long ago there was
an eighty four game schedule. That's right. Never I don't but yeah,
yeah, I don't get that. The neutral site games, Yeah, I
don't understand why. I'm I'm with anybody who wants to make that argument.
I'm with them. The seasons, not just the NHL, but the NBA
certainly makes baseball, and the importance of each game during the regular season is
nil and are almost almost nil. So I all agree with you there,
that's it's never gonna. It's one of the factors as to why the NFL
is so massive. Yeah, every game is so important, right, and
there's a build up to exact game exactly. But what are you gonna do?
What if hockey decided, you know, you went back in time.
Here's a couple of things that I think would happened. Go ahead, well
there's one. I know you're gonna say, the four on four. I
think hockey would be a four and four game if the if you went back
on time, maybe even three on three. What about like what about games
being played in larger venues where you create more revenue and a shortest schedule,
shortt schedule, right? I don't think so, only because and I disagree
with it, but you hear. But the Americans talking about it just said
you prefer the NFL schedule short of schedule. Every game is more important.
But you're gonna say, like, how's the how's the environment when you're watching
a hockey game from row thirty? But yes, there's fewer games, so
each game is more special, like like the National Football League that happened.
I'm just saying, I wonder if you know you could jump into the time
tunnel in a way you go, Well, wasn't sure you're gonna build a
new stadium or something. Remember ye the mayor said I'm building a former mayor.
Yeah. Anyways, Doug McKell Yeah, Doug mckellecs foot. We know
the foot. We're gonna update on that. Um okay, A lot going
on in the show. Yeah, we have to bring I want to get
if we have time, run what Ken Holland had to say yesterday at his
press conference. He's going to come back for the final year of contract.
Really passionate and just if I may say so, devastated. He used the
word seven hundred times of this press conference. There's an element of humor to
it, so I want to run that as well. We're gonna have a
bubble helmet conversation at all. I've been trying to get this in Campbell.
I've been trying to get this in for a long time. Maybe we'll save
it for next week or the week after. There's a lot going on.
Ed Jovanovski is going to join us in the next hour. Again a DTMZ
Is it just me? But Ed Jeovanowski is going to join us in the
next hour. He's hanging out down in Florida. He's an analyst for the
Panthers and they of course play a game one against Carolina. Former Canuck,
former Coyote's gotten some things to say about Arizona, the Arizona situation. John
Shannon joins us just after eleven o'clock. Big Ride, the Twitter guy coming
up next, probably coming up in this hour. Up next though, from
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Thursdays, farhand Looji, thank you for doing this, sir. How are
you? I'm good boys? How you doing good? Good? Just before
um we talk about SFU and the NHL and all that farand I'm gonna ask
you to get out your crystal ball. Who do you think is gonna win?
The Great Cup this year. Stop it, stop it for the third
week in a row. Are you gonna Are you gonna ask you about Verdon
Adams too? And make sure hey why not Nathan Lurk start with Nathan Rourke.
Yeah, I'm looking forward to go to Jacksonville to watch him at training
camp. That'll be fine. Oh really when you go, you're you're going
to see him. Yeah, either either training camp or he Camp one or
two. We just haven't decided to which one, but yeah, we'll be
there. I would imagine probably the first few days of training camp at the
end of July. So looking forward to that. Realistic expectations for him in
Jacksonville behind Trevor Lawrence. I know we've asked you that before, but yeah,
it's been a while. We've let that, we've let that breathe a
little bit, right, Yes, so you know that. I know he's
made a good impression down there from people I've talked to. But at the
end of the day, they did bring back CJ. A. Bethorton,
So he's gonna be He's gonna have his work cut out for him to compete
for the backup job, right, and so will he be able to get
to a point where he can be on the roster for some games this year.
We'll see, but I think that's the goal for him, and certainly
he's he's done his part, but it's gonna be tough for me. I
want to see what he looks like in preseason and in their combined practices because
in preseason you're going to see very little of Trevor Lawrence and Nathan work is
going to get a big, big body of work. So I think just
seeing how he performs, and I have no reason to believe he's not going
to perform at a high level. Right now, he's about to get married,
and then he's going to be back here in Vancouver for a little bit
to work with Rob Williams and see his family and get some training done before
getting back down to Jackson Goal. So we will see him here a little
bit locally, But you know, for me, the preseason is everything because
that's when he's going to get a chance to make a real big impression.
Meanwhile, the Lions training camp going on in cam Loops, how would you
describe a Rick Campbell training camp? Well, I think you know, Rick
has evolved as a head coach over the years. Right, he was you
know, very very no nonsense when he was in Ottawa and earlier when he
was the first to head coach. But now I'm not going to say he's
loosey goosey or you know, the second coming of Davon Claybrooks or anything like
that. I think he's still got some of that in him. But then
when you get to a point where you've established yourself and you feel really good
in your own skin, I think you allow your personality to shine a bit.
So he's tried to make it fun at the same time. You know,
you saw the Javan Ktoy moment with the field goal where if he makes
it, you know, this group does twenty points hips. If not,
this group does it. There's a bit of that, right, And I
think he's found himself becoming more adaptable like all of these as it had coming
out of COVID, and it had some some smaller issues as it relates to
air quality, so they were able to get you know, they got inside
yesterday, you know, So there's all that kind of stuff. But um,
you know, I think he knows who his team is now, right,
And you went through a tough time two years ago where you just had
so many rookies that we're going to have to earn spots, and now they
can pick and choose right So I think he's a little bit more discerning right
now and has a pretty good sense of where the battles are going to be
won. And last year far in the last few weeks, a lot of
negativity about SFU and the football program. But can I say that it sounded
like some at least way more positive in the in the in the past week.
Are we going to get someday that football program up and running again.
Yeah, I think we are, and it has been more positive, primarily
because we finally finally have a legitimate process. And I touched on this where
we talked last Thursday that we've got the group with Richard McLaren and Bob Copeland
leading the way on this special advisor consulting process. And I had a chance
to meet with Bob opening who I knew from before he was a former athletic
director at Waterloo and we've spoken together at some similar events, and I think
there's a real legitimacy and a real earnestness to look at a pathway forward to
twenty twenty four and I think the university is open to that, and I
think that's great. However, I think there needs to be something in twenty
twenty three. I think that matters to this program, and it matters to
these kids because you know, we've kind of if there is going to be
a twenty twenty four, there was really never a reason to cancel twenty twenty
three. So there's a lot of these kids that are still in limbo right
now, and there's a lot of uncertainty around their situations. They don't have
legitimate options to transfer to. Some of them are upperclassmen, and if you
transfer, the school that takes you in is only going to accept a certain
amount of your credits, and you know you don't want to if you're close
to graduation. You don't want to be starting all over again. So not
all over, but you don't want to take a year back right just for
football. That doesn't make sense for you know, guys that aren't going to
make millions of dollars playing this sport. So I think there has to be
a way for them to get some exhibition games this year, And as much
as anything else, I think the university needs to send an alive branch to
these players because while the special Advisor was was good in terms of the broader
football community and the alumni and stakeholders and you know, people like Kamar Doman,
for the players themselves, they need to know that this is getting back
on the rails. And for you know, I think they should open their
locker room. I think they should allow these kids access to training logs and
training programs from the strength of conditioning staff because in court the university said their
varsity athletes still and get the benefits of that, but they've been denied some
of those things, right, So if they could just again extend in all
of branch and make these kids feel a little good about the process, because
I know that they did meet with with the advisor, and generally the feedback
was, you know, just not enough urgency, a little bit disappointing,
and maybe too little too late, just as far as certain selected kids are
concerned, not bigger picture for the program. So I'm really hopeful the university
can see the reasoning and big picture. For every kid you lose right now
that's going to transfer, it makes twenty twenty four that much harder. So
give us a chance to have some competitive moments and exhibition games and an olive
branch here in twenty twenty three. You've been Arizona many times, covered a
lot of big events there, the hockey Coyotes's what are your thoughts on what's
going on there with the Coyotes? Is it even a hockey town in your
eyes? You've been there many times. No, it never has been.
And I remember when you know they had a BlackBerry, Jim Balsilano, Donny,
you've still got a BlackBerry. They hold on a second friand you're the
last person I know that had a BlackBerry. No, Bob mackenzie and Pierre
Lebrun, Okay, okay, those guys had blackberries after I did, and
I did have one for a long time. I was forced to get to
get an iPhone and it was a good thing. But I remember back when
he was looking at buying the team. I mean we're talking like fifteen years
ago now. I was in Arizona covering that story. And when you look
at just what this franchise has been through in terms of different owners, different
locations, different situations with City of Glendale and eventually being essentially kicked out and
having to play in this little, tiny college barn and all of it's it's
so bad and through it all, Gary Bettman has just doubled down, double
down, and double down some more. And I wonder if he actually would
ever admit a level of embarrassment or I got it wrong? Right? Like,
is Gary capable of that? Because Gary, you got this wrong,
and you had it wrong for around twenty years now, right, and you
just continued to just say no. So it's it's unfortunate what they've been through.
I'm curious see what it's going to look like if they wind up in
Salt Lake or if they wind up in Houston or some of these other cities,
you know, and what it does eventually to the expansion process, because
it certainly appears as though this team's days are done, and they should have
been done long ago in the valley. Any suggestions asked to where they could
move, but Kansas City is the latest city that's been talked about thanks to
Patrick mahone Yeah yesterday, Yeah, that'd be good and maybe he'll put some
money into it and get it done. You know, I think they should
move to Anmore and be in your backyard because you'd get enough space back there
for a brand new arena. That's kind of what I'm thinking, wasn't I
wasn't supposed to tell everybody that you lived in a palatial state and ann where
with security in the mode, right, Yeah, but I didn't know that.
Don't worry about it, Okay, But you know, I don't know
because none of them are hockey towns. Right. So Lake has the Olympic
experience, and you know, from a time zone perspective, I think some
of that stuff matters. You don't want to put him in Sacramento at the
Pacific time zone and and and have to realign and things like that. Houston's
obviously a big city that has some successful sports franchises in the other three major
sports. You know, he's the room for the NHL probably, So I
don't know what the right scenario is, right, there's some bigger markets,
there's some markets where it could be a little bit higher up to queue in
terms of importance. But go to Quebec City, man, they want it.
They want it, and if you tell them you're going there, they'll
if the arena that they built a decade ago is outdated, they'll probably read
build another one. Right. So there there's a real passion for it and
as we saw when the Jets went back to Winnipeg, it's a winner,
right, it's a winner. And you don't have to go through this.
You can have some stability. So and I get why it's all about mark
and size, but they have to have some interest in hockey and I'm not
sure any of these other ones. Du So, Yeah, it's gonna be
tough. Fran. Thanks for this. That BlackBerry movies out by the way,
right, yeah, just came out. Yeah, is it really Yeah?
Yeah? About are you in the start? Hey again, you're the
last person I know to have a BlackBerry. Yeah. I had a BlackBerry
Prive and I did well by but then at the end it got smoking hot,
like I'd literally put in my pocket and would burn. And then TSN
got to the point where they said, look, we're not going to give
you any more product support on the tech side for this. If you want
that, you gotta get an you gotta get an iPhone, you gotta get
an Android. Then they just set me the iPhone without me even asking.
And it's been good. Yeah, too bad, you got a free iPhone.
Fran. Thanks for this, My friend appreciate it. See, yeah,
there you go. Cross over the moat anytime you want. Um.
Yeah, that BlackBerry movie? Is it? What's the worst coming out with?
Down's what's happened? Bruff was tweeting about it. He said, he's
very good. Okay, you're gonna go by him. Apparently it makes Balsilly
look not great, silly but silly. Yeah. Yeah, well we just
took a Farhand did and we have taken shots with Gary Bettman about Arizona.
Balsilly was going after the penguins and coyotes and a whole bunch of Terry Batman
didn't want him in the club. He didn't want him he knew something,
which which I remember it being so ridiculous at the time, because of BlackBerry
was still fairly massive. Yeah, and so it was like, come on,
here's a guy connected to tech. How would you not want that?
Apparently he made the right call. Did never let him in. And one
more thing. Farhand made a point there about smoke making its way from northeastern
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I will see this. We had an argument in the first segment, me
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the trees talking about from Wizard of Oz, it was the apple tree.
Yeah, I mean to talk to that tree. There was a tree like
that, yeah, right there, right there. I was right bang on.
Yeah. It was not the same one though, but it was.
That's not that tree. But I remember a treating the Wizard of Oz right
there? You call it, like, how do you watch this? This?
This is a scary Are you guys out of your minds? This was
a great movie. It was a great show. Was that ground treating?
But look at that. As a kid, dad, we'd always watch it.
It freaked me out. And we're not even getting we're not even seeing
the witch here the way she made it home at the end. You can't
you can't beat that. We know, we know this story, but it
was still there were scenes in there. Na monkey's flying, how about a
house falling on someone? The witch was the Witch was really Scary stopped too.
But come on, man, this is a this is a this is
what do they call it? And Hollywood? Uh classic, Yeah, that's
what they call it. Absolutely didn't win the Oscar that year. I'm telling
you nine. What was her name again, Dorothy Judy Garland, Judy Garland
Gray Bulger played the Scarecrow? How old am I? Oh my gosh,
Okay, we got time for Ken Holland. Why don't we run it?
Run it going a break? How about that? Yeah? Wizard of Oz
nineteen forty best picture. It was nineteen forty Wow ahead of its time.
Wow, doubt about it. But little Ricky didn't see it till the seventies
and and you know what, you were forty one at that time. My
parents took me to Wizard of Wizard of Oz on ice. It was like
one of those shows that they call the sum explains a lot. Yeah,
the ten men skating around? Yeah yeah, I wasn't the ten men for
one year for Halloween? Can we get to Ken Holland? Okay, so
we're running out of time here, But I wanted to run this because if
you don't think the pressure of the National Hockey League and certainly the National Hockey
League playoffs. It doesn't get to these guys, Oh it does. I
counted eleven uses of the were devastated here This clip goes goes on a bit,
but just shows you how passionate this guy is. And by the way,
Ken ken Holland's contract is left is one year left, set to expire
at the end of next season. There was some thought that Steve Staos former
cannot move up, former oiler would would move up. I think he's in
an advisory role right now. Keith Gratzky another candidate assistant GM, but that's
gonna have to wait. Ken Hollen says he's gonna stick around for at least
another year. But he was made available to the press up at Evanston yesterday
and here's what Ken had to say about the pain of being eliminated in the
playoffs. I traded two first the deadline for at Home. I traded a
second last year for for Kulak, traded lots and lots of picks. UM
signed of Vander came to a four year deal. I think these are players
that have impacted, Like why don't want you to know where I'm Tryum,
we're trying. Other teams are Trump like ye Swhite's Stanley Cup. It's sord
It's sird Hard. We're there, We're we're banging away, we're pushing,
we're pushing. Our guys came out here. They're it's they're devastated. They're
devastated. I'm devastated. The fan base is devastated. Why we devastated because
we went fourteen o one one heading into the playoffs. Do we have the
second best record in the National Hockeleeague behind Boston's since the first January. Boston's
devastated like teams that are out, they're devastated, like we're devastated, Like
these guys, these guys, these guys are got guys, and they're telling
me they're going to the gym next week like they're they're they're not going on
a vacation, and like they're going to work like they're and these other teams
are going to work. That's what these NHL players do. They take a
week after the season, they get back in the gym and they go to
a Teams that missed the playoffs are devastated. They missed the playoffs. So
there are no guarantees and givens and entitlements because because of this and because of
that, it's earned. It's earned, it's earned, it's sacrificed. It's
sticking to the it's sticking to what you believe, and you believe you're good.
Um, that's how you become the last team standing. And they're devastated.
My guys are devastated on it. I'm working on it. What are
you working on? Just the weather? So what we're gonna do with this
hot weather on this weekend. That's working on a goal. You had something
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First of all, let's get to a tweet from one of our viewers,
Dan is in Hawaii. He sent this to us last night, Dolly,
wall I found your dream entree out here in Hawaii. You'll see where
the red arrow is pointed on the menu. It's a Wally steak Crown Royal.
The steak is cooked in a Crown Royal. Demigloss say that again?
You marinate the steak with Crown Royal. Yeah, what a brilliant idea.
Have you ever done that? No? You should apparently. I think the
big question is who's Wally. Yeah. I don't know. I'm not sure
if this is like wall These Steak steakhouse or something, but Walty is apparently
marinating his steak and Crown Royal. Yep. So yeah, you see people
marinate stuff with beer? Is that is? Have you seen that which you're
getting ripped for? By the way, there's somebody in our inbox saying that
you should support craft breweries Budweiser. Wonder for a while, I have a
bottom a cokeney guy at heart done first ever. They're not Craft's BC though,
Yeah, holding a second my first ever beer beer cocony and I love
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water on what he's doing an ad here, I'm a cocony guy. Budweiser
once in a while. Remember Wally's Burgers in King's Way? Yeah? Yeah,
yeah, I don't so. I don't think he's made his way to
Hawaii? Yeah? Who was that? Thanks for him? From from Dan
Dan good guy Dad tweeted yesterday, Okay, let's move on here. You
guys have alluded to this, and so Edgovanoski in our next hour. Patrick
Mahomes causing a bit of a stir yesterday by tweeting out, Kcy coyotes is
a nice ring to it, NHL, what y'all think? Then he tagged
the T Mobile Center. So the T Mobile Center is the building that's been
in Kansas City now for I'm going to say at least ten years, and
it doesn't have a tenant. It's got concerts obviously they roll through if but
it doesn't have a permanent tenant like a sports team, and so that's why
everyone has always said that KC might be interesting for the NHL because you have
a building sitting there now, whether or not you would have Central time Zone
or there about built in rival with the Saint Louis Blues, and I mean
you're competing with the Chiefs obviously, the NFL and the Royals, but there's
no NBA team you have to go up against. The Royals are awful,
they've had success, but they're awful currently, so you wouldn't have to worry
about that. The interesting thing about this, and of course Mahomes doesn't clarify
this with this, is he saying, hey, NHL has come on down
to Kansas City, or is he saying, hey, I would like to
be part of bringing a team to Kansas So I would imagine it's the former,
like just like just over there. Yeah. Yeah, he's been at
Blues games a lot. In twenty nineteen, he was there wearing a Blues
jersey. Same right, Missouri. So I would think it would be as
a fan. And obviously if we're talking ownership as part as part of a
group. Of course, the Kansas City Scouts lasted two years in the NHL
in the seventies and they went on to become the Colorado Rockies, who went
on to become the Colorado Where did they go? The cook would become a
talking tree, talking tree. New Jersey Devils. Oh the Devil's yeah,
Devil's Uh. The most important thing about that tweet was two point two million
views. Yea, it was. He's got two point four million followers.
When a high profile NFL guy does this, this does wonders for the National
Hockey Look at the names with the NHL Mahomes this right, Snoop Dogg and
Ryan Ds. We know Reynolds is out the weekend as well. It's a
big names have been attached to the NHL. Reason Aaron Rodgers was at the
Rangers devil also as well. Yeah, yeah, it all helps and and
we we didn't we didn't talk about it. But as we were closing yesterday
show the Coyotes, I just shake my head. The Kyotes confirmed that they're
staying at Mother Arena at least for next season and they're gonna continue on trying
to find a home in Arizona. Now. The latest other than the Kansas
City development with Patrick Mahomes, is that there's this talk of maybe partnering with
the new Sun's ownership group. Yeah, they talked, and I don't know
if that that means going back again. I don't know the name of the
arena is downtown, It's it's changed talking. So what is it now with
the Suns. No, it's it's footprint center right with the Sun's play the
one in Glendale. No, the one in downtown of Phoenix. The one
in Glendale is I went, was there a few years ago. It's not
made for hockey. It's favorite basketball. I don't have the tweet in front
of me, and I apologize, but I saw something this morning that they're
already reaching out to another part of Arizona, apparently about building a stadium now.
But the second part of the tweet from the person, and I think
it was a news report in Arizona, mentioned how if they even if they
did this, it would have to be public support again. You'd have to
have another vote. You want to put that to the people again. You
don't want to say no again. Like I think yesterday we made the point
where it's not just saying no to the entertainment a complex. They said no
to hockey. That's for over twenty years that that market has said no to
NHL hockey, the highest level hockey in the world. They've said no to
it. This is Seventh's something else, Donny, This is the seventh order
in twenty six years that's trying to fix it. Why are they getting a
million chances? No other city gets a million chances. Yeah, franchises move
in every league. Well, I mean like it's it's if it's embarrassment that
he's to bet it, get over it, because you know, maybe you've
had other teams move. This is far more work out. This is far
more embarrassing at this point, just hanging on desperation. Oh, jova said
it. You know, Jovanski told us he said get him out of there,
And I mean no in disrespect. Steve Peters was great yesterday with you.
And there probably is a hardcore portion of hockey fans in Arizona. I
mean, I don't outcore. Where do you see the hardcore they but but
they're in there in their biggest drink. There's not it's seven thousand, and
I'm sure there are hardcore fans there. There are four or five of them
right right by the way. You let the count out of the bag.
We recorded the interview with the Jova. Oh okay, I let the count
out of. I did the next segment too, But you didn't listen to
him? Yeah he did. I said, I really, I know.
Well, you know what, I've lost all respect for you because well in
you too, you're not gonna watch the conference? Said, well you watch.
He never said we're not gonna watch, didn't say we're not watching it.
I said the interest is in his hot. Is it in Boston Toronto?
That's not what you guys. If it's Boston Toronto tonight, I am
into it. I'm not into it with these two, shouldn't I know one
guy that's gonna definitely back up Taylor who question? And that's our next guest,
John Shannon say he's dialed in. He's a hockey lifer and that's fine.
Problem with that. I thought you guys were hot. Bottom line is
these four teams are pretty much met for me. Coming up next, we
talked to John Shannon and we play that prerecorded interview with Jovanovski coming up at
eleven fifteen, along with DTMZ Is it just Me and much more Donny and
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Tell you about Kansas City and then possibility of the NHL going back there.
The Kansas City Scouts back in the day, great unis so nice,
red blue, yellow? Do you remember those at all? I've remember are
watching the Kansas City getting at me. I love the Kansas City Scouts.
Well they were pretty bad, but anyways, yeah, and they moved after
two years. John Shannon, NHL analyst, co hosted the Bomb Account podcast.
He remembers the Kansas City Scouts. He joins us Now, John,
thanks for doing this, sir. How are you? I'm doing great?
In fact, this year New Jersey in their reverse recros did a salute to
the Scouts in their in their color scheme post sweaters. Yeah, yeah,
yeah, absolutely, and we all remember Simon lay and Wolf Paymont, Wolf
Paymon, Danny Herron, great Scouts of the past. John, your interest
level, because we've been arguing about this the last hour. Your interest level
in this National Hockey League final for the conference finals. Well, Ryan's right,
I have interests because I love the National Hockey League. I love the
Stanley Cup playoffs. But I actually think that that Ryan and Rick are closer
to what we're going to see in our country for the next couple of days.
And what's going to happen over the holiday weekend is by the time we
get to Tuesday, and remember, we're going to go back to having a
hockey game every night starting tonight that they were by game three when in the
series both moved to the other city. People will be back. And also
so we're going to see ratings rather disappointing, rather low through the weekend,
and then they'll start to spike again as we get into next week and we
get closer to finding out who will play for the Stanley Cup. Yeah,
as a proud Canadian, John, the four remaining teams all from the US
South, all from non traditional hockey markets. So you're okay with that?
Well, I mean, listen, we let them into the club. You
know, you have to pay the consequences, you know, I look at
I look at Paul Maurice, He's Canadian. You know, Pete Dabors Canadian,
Rus Cassidy's Canadian, Rod Britain Wars Canadian. They're still forty to fifty
percent of the players or Canadian It's still our game in so many ways,
and by the way, it's still our cup, So it's I don't have
an issue with that. We you know, that whole Canadian versus American thing
and been out in in my opinion, went out for the most part in
nineteen sixty seven when they expanded to six American cities without even contemplating going to
Vancouver or any other place in Canada. Four remaining teams, John Crystal Ball,
who's your pick? Well, I have studied Vegas closely for the first
two rounds. I did. I did some work in both series for radio
in Winnipeg and radio in Edmonton. They are They are a whirling dervish.
They are impressive. They are relentless. Aiden Hill, as the backup goalie,
is actually a better goalie than the Laurent Bossois And all the people on
the island don't want to hear that, but that's the truth. Well,
he guess he's from the island too, isn't he. Yeah? But uh,
but Aiden Hill was a starter for more of the seat regular season than
Bossois was. So if they can solve their goaltending problem, when you think
of their defense with the experience of Petrangelo and Martinez and Theodore and McNabb all
have Stanley Cup rings. When you think of you know what mark Stone is
to that club and how in many ways I think he has taken Jack Eichel
under his wing, and you can see Eichel playing like a true pro.
Now. I think Vegas is going to be tough to beat. I really
do. John. Let's talk about what's going on in Arizona. Your thoughts,
Uh, you know, they get Tempe, the voters shot down the
new arena. What's going to happen here? I mean, it just happens
every four or five years. It looks like it feels like it, doesn't
it. Yeah, um My gut tells me we're close to the end.
And and I think that in order to try to get a proper resolution,
whether that's new ownership or whether that's relocation, you know, you need a
year to a year and a half to do that. So that just fits
in with playing one more year at mult Arena yea, and then moving on.
But I can see us at this time next year talking about the Coyotes
being in another city and and and so or or being owned by Matt Ishpia,
who owns the Phoenix Suns, and they're gonna play downtown for a relatively
short period of time before they have to renovate again because they've just finished a
renovation downtown renovate again to allow for hockey or are they build a brand new
arena and Phoenix at some point? But those are to me, those are
the two options local ownership with Ishpia and then and then move the team.
John, Why why did they get so many chances in Arizona? Other teams
have moved? Uh, you know, attendance is down. You we're gonna
move you. Why do these guys get so many chances? In your eyes?
Two things, It's it's in the top fifteen markets in the United States,
so it's a really big market, you know. And it's it's a
market with all four major professional sports, and I think that that's, you
know, there is something to be said for that. The other thing is
that Gary's always been able to find somebody to buy it right. So,
you know, if you make comparisons to the last team that was relocated,
which was Winnipeg, that was after a decade of infighting amongst ownership in Atlanta
and Finally, the five owners realized they could not get along, they could
not work with each other, and they threw the keys on the table and
said, Gary, we're giving this up. We don't want anything to do
with this, so you can do with it what you want. And he
only had one place to send it at that point, and that was Winnipeg.
That's hasn't been the case. And as as we've seen with Ottawa,
there are plenty of people willing to dip their toe in and say, I
might want to buy a hockey team, I might be interested in this.
I can make a real estate play out of this. So that's why it's
all. That's why he's always believed in in the Valley of the Sun as
a potential. What's never happened, guys, I'm sorry for getting on a
soapbox here, but what's never happened in Phoenix is good ownership and a good
team. Yeah right, you know that's an amazing combination. Yeah, you
get you get good ownership and then you get a team that's actually proficient on
the ice. I mean, how many times, I mean, what was
it twenty twelve? I think the last time they really made it. Dent
in the playoffs eleven years ago. I mean, maybe maybe the fans in
Phoenix are actually smarter than we think and they don't want to go watch bad
hockey. Yep. I know he had Gary Bettman on the Bob McCown podcast,
but a week and a half ago or so, Johnny talked about the
Phoenix situation. But of the cities that we bring up, is possible destination
Salt Lake City, Kansas City, Houston, Quebec. Is there one that
you think intrigues or interests Gary more than the others? Salt Lake City?
I really think so, because well, there there is an NBO a owner
there named Ryan Smith from Portland who has a desire to bring an NHL team
to UM Salt Lake. He's he's dipped his toe in ownership of other bidding
processes UM Kansas City. I think it's off the table, guys, I
know you. I heard you're talking about it. I think it's off the
table because that building that is owned by Philip Anne shoots his company, UM
actually makes money without having a professional sports team in it. Of the of
the Big Four, of the Big Two, the NBA, of the NHL,
I don't think they need it or wanted, right, I think,
And there's there's no single owner sitting there and saying I want to bring a
team to Kansas City. Uh, I mean Quebec City. I just you
know, it breaks my heart to say. And I'm gonna get heck for
it. But Quebec City's never going to get a team never. It's the
market's not big enough. Sure, the arena is spectacular, the fan base
is there, but this is a time when corporate I mean corporate marketing,
corporate partnerships have to account for eighty ninety million dollars and that's just not going
to be the case in Quebec City. And it can't be government money,
you know. I know the Quebec government wants to get the team there,
but it can't be government money. So take that off the table. And
the other two big cities, Atlanta in Houston. I think for some reason,
if if, if, if somebody can't buy a team for those two
places, they're saving them for expansion. Yeah. Could you imagine if they
went to Atlanta a third time and it didn't work there would That's not the
that's not the kind of hat trick you want. I'll be in the cabin
at the lake by then, boys, All right, John, I know
you and I will enjoy the conference finals, So do that, okay.
I will, by the way, say a lot Ed Jovianoski when you're talk
him for me. We will. Although as we let the cattle the bag,
we did record the interview. But next time he's on the show,
I'm all aware because after all, yes, unlike unlike Ed, unlike Ed.
Thanks John, talk to you next week, you bet. John Shannon,
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Next, He's an analyst among other things with the Florida Panthers. He's gonna
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time to get Edgewobnoski on the show. Florida Panthers analyst, former Panthers former
canack ed. Thanks for doing this, sir, How are you hey?
Guys by long time? Yeah, absolutely, absolutely looking buddy, You're the
first person to say that in the last ten years. Hey Joe, what
do you What are you up to these days? For people who don't know
other than doing analysis, that's pretty much much right now, you know,
I think, you know, during the season's obviously nice having that structure.
We all know as players sometimes you know, coming out of the game,
you're just trying to kind of find yourself and see where you're kind of gonna
find your niche a little bit. So it took a couple of years kind
of get back with the team, covered them, you know, all year
for the last handful of years. So it's been it's been fun, you
know, enjoy doing what I'm doing, and especially right now obviously with the
team, you know, being in the Eastern Conference Finals. Not covering them
right now because the national TV, but certainly fun to continue watching them play
and they're an eighth seed. You look at the overall standings, they're actually
seven teeth overall during the regular season, but here they are winning, knocking
off Boston, knocking off Toronto in the Eastern Final. How do you explain
that, Well, it's quite remarkable kind of what they've done. And you
look at this season, you know, one of the areas where you know,
quite a bit of concern was is how inconsistent this group was, and
if you look at their core of guys, you're kind of shaking your head.
Going out is as possible. The goaltending obviously wasn't great throughout the year.
Come January time, we all know, you know, coach kind of
went berserk on the bench, Keith Kachuck called them out and ever since then
they kind of found their game again. And coach Marie's been talking from the
get go, you know, about just changing their style of play to be
conducive for playoff time, and we were all kind of waiting around to kind
of see when that was gonna come to fruition for him. But slowly,
Sureleott did found themselves kind of getting into the playoffs by a point. So
are they an eight seed? I don't think if you look at their group
they're an eight seed. They're better than eight seed team. But running up
against Boston was obviously a tall task, you know, being down three games
to one. Listening, I mean, they had to worry about game five
in that situation. But Rovsky comes in in such a crazy moment, pressure
moment for him and rattles off three in a row, finding a way to
get through Boston and then taking care of Toronto and five, how do you
explain it? I think you get hot at the right time, you feel
good about your game, you get excellent goaltending, you get timely goals,
and you ride the wave kind of simmer kind of what we did in ninety
six pack here in four to You know, this team was much more talented
in the group that we had. But you know, winning is contagious.
When you get on that role, you feel like you can't lose, and
he just kind of do the little things that contribute to big ws. What
do you like about Matthew Kachuk's game and you mentioned him there everything you know,
in coming into a new situation, we never know kind of what to
expect, especially a blockbuster trade like that, But right from the get go
he came in. He's been as consistent as possible. Obviously again over one
hundred points and playing a certain way, likes to mix it up, gets
the tough areas, big goals leadership, he can check all those boxes and
he's carried that over into the playoffs. He drags everybody into the fight.
So for him, and another thing, I love them, just kind of
on the side just hearing his interviews right from the get go, this is
the place he wanted to be, how happy he was, how excited he
was, and what's not to like. I mean, playing in Florida,
he got a good team, a chance to win, you know, for
him. So everything kind of all the stars aligned for him towards the end
of the season, especially the position they're in right now, Yed, can
you talk about Goostat Forsling drafted by the can Canucks got rid of him real
quick, and all of a sudden, you know, he finds his niche
in Florida's there's some nights she plays more than that, blad. What do
you like about him? Just the way he skates. We all know in
this league as defenseman, if you can get back and get the puck quick
in this advance that make a good first pass, you're going to play in
this league a long time. And you know, he's a guy that plays
against top lines. He's well positioned, he's agile, he's got a bomb
of a shot, and his offensive instincts are there, you know, and
I think, you know, grabbing this guy for what they got him for
everything kind of builds zero is kind of brought into the folder. Get Brandon
bant to or another example in that case where just kind of taking his game
to an elite level. But certainly, you know, playing playing a lot
of minutes for this team, and the guy, you know, he's blocking
shots, he doesn't miss time. You know, he's a real durable type
player for the way he plays. ED have to ask you about what's happening
in Arizona. You played their five years. Tempe voters shot down a vote
for a new rank. They could be leaving, they could be staying.
Your thoughts on what's happening with the Coyotes. Well, I think we can
all agree it's time to get out of there. Yeah, you know,
I listen. I mean, you're gonna plan another, you know, another
season at Mullet Arena. It is what it is I think coming up.
You know, obviously you know what to vote. I don't know too much
about it, honestly, don't read too much about it. But I know
that they were denied, and but I think there's obviously I saw the clip
this morning about Patrick Mahones on his Twitter or whatever he posted. I would
love to have them in Kansas city. I think a lot of viable options
that will work. I think for players, listen, you want to play
in environment where you're welcome, where you feel that you know you're playing in
front of fans. I mean that's I mean five yeah here, Mullet Arena
is a great spot. That noise and this and that. There're a lot
different playing in front of eighteen nineteen thousand people on a nightly basis, you
know, versus that. So I hope, all in all, the league
figured out. Gary Benn's a smart guy, you know, daily smart guy.
I think they'll figure it out. And but let's face it, it's
been years of kind of its happened when I was there. My checks were
being signed by the league when I was there, you know, So I
think when you look at the whole situation there, they've tried and it doesn't
seem like it's working. You played for Wayne Gretzky down there, didn't You
ed? And I did? Yeah? What was that? Like? That
was cool? I mean, you know, I you know, obviously playing
against Wayne and then him kind of picking me to playing the Olympic team was
pretty cool. And then just spending a couple of years with him in Arizona's
passion for the game was there. You know, you can see the guy.
You know, he loved to win hockey games, and you know,
just something that obviously this didn't work out for him and the coaching side of
things. But I see Wayne a lot down here in Florida's down here taking
care of his grandkids, you know. So I run into him here and
there, play some golf, see him at the game. So he's doing
well and enjoying doing some TNT work. Hey, back back to the Panthers
and what's happening right now. I think one of the most surprising aspects of
what's going on ed is Sergey Babrowski. I'm not going to feel sorry for
him giving his contract, but it's been a bit of a tough goal for
him in Florida. Did you think he was capable of doing what he's doing
right now. Well, we've seen it before, right you know, he's
won two vez does He's carried the load in Columbus there and do some spectacular
things, you know for that organization. We see it in spurts throughout the
year, how how great he really can be. But you look at kind
of how this, you know, kind of played out with alex Lyone,
kind of running with it towards the end of the season and really kind of
getting this team to obviously play in the playoffs. So you run with alex
Lyon early on, and now you get thrown into that pressure situation of game
five. What about the saving made on Marshawn, you know at the end
of that game to really I mean it could have been good night, you
know, at that at that moment. But listen, he's he's you know,
I was just listening to the coach where he's talking about he's got a
routine right and you know, any goalies that he was asked you have conversation
with him. It's it's a high and buy, you know, conversation when
things are going, when things are going really well. And I think that's
just the mindset of goalies. He's in a zone right now, he's seeing
the puckwell. And you got to give credit to the guys in front of
him. They're clearing away second and third opportunities. They're playing well in their
in their own zone. They're not giving these great a opportunities Like who've seen
throughout the year that frankly, no goalie could really, you know, give
him a chance on those So I think right now he's feeling it. And
I gotta believe if I'm a healthy scratch and I'm making Tim Banana's ear that
something inside of me I'm waiting for my opportunity to come back in. You
know, he's he's your number one goalie that you gave a boatload of money
too. That he's watching, you know, from the bench and not playing
these playoff games. So him coming into that situation and taking care of game
five, six and seven pretty special and then kind of dismantling Toronto, you
know, really frustrating that group over there, just wrapping up with it.
Jo VANASKI one more, Joel, if you don't mind, do you think
the Cannocks, as we talk about one of your other former teams, do
you think the Cannocks are on the right track with Rick Talckett. I love
talk. I had him also in Arizona, A good friend of mine.
You know, I think just his passion for the games and no nonsense,
guys. I'm sure, as you guys know, doesn't take much. I
think he expects, you know, excellence from his group and it will be
learning curves obviously, you know, but you look at the core of that
team. You got to keep that core together and you got to build around
these star players that they have. And I think that's kind of the direction
of this franchise. But I think him at the helm um is a good
fit. Obviously footing back there, who's won in this league. They all
have won, so they know what it takes to get the job done.
And yeah, I can't say anyone you know better things about talk. I
think he'll get these guys definitely competing. And then when you add the compete
side to the talent that these guys have, Um, you know, you
can do a lot of good things. Thanks for your golf later today.
What's going on? What's happening down there? And listen, you know what
my fault, I'm doing another one of these at one thirty, you know.
So yeah, I think just talking cats right now. But yeah,
I get my golf in here and there. You know, I think my
first couple of years out of the league, I gulfed myself out. So
just kind of at home doing doing laundry, fixing beds. Um. You
know, I'll just kind of being that guy where while the misses at work.
Yeah, fixing beds. What a life. Yeah, thanks Ed,
people love you up here. Ed, thanks so much for doing that Vancouver.
Look forward to seeing you guys one day. You bet. Thanks job.
I appreciate it all the us. You bet, Ed Jovanovski. What
a character, Pat said Carolina Game one tonight in Raleigh. Great insight,
great, very interesting what he said about Phoenix. Get him out of there,
Get the Coyotes out of He was there five years. His best year
point wise was in Arizona, fifty one point. His career high was right
there with the Yeah, that's the team he left Vancouver for. That's right,
the Coyotes. Pabrovski. By the way, his contract, he referred
to it seven years, ten million per. I think he's got three years
left on it. Yep, yes, yeah, And Ed didn't sound all
that surprised that he's doing what he's doing right now. Okay break DTMZ next
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Okay, so we did bring that up earlier because we talked about the movie
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By the way, I should also mention that we have the next couple of
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to be well it is signed by Saskatchewan twenty seventeen. Didn't pan out there
the long list of you know, the players at the end of their career
I'll go up to the CFL and didn't end up sticking around. Well,
it's funny because well, Manzielle was the last one. Yeah, well yeah,
well I'm yeah, I'm among others. People forget Ocho Cinco playing for
the Alouettes at BC Place, Ye shadow of his former self totally. It's
funny that people bring up the greatest college football game ever, you know,
that USC Texas game with Vince Young and Reggie Bush and then Matt Leinart is
the is the quarterback in USC, and you think about how fast those guys
fell out of the NFL, the quarterbacks, and I mean Reggie Bush had
a decent career, but yeah, for the most part, you know,
and now line Art, Vince Young, the start of his career was okay,
it was fun. It was, but I mean again, it just
goes to show like the lights of college and then you just can't make it.
Yep, Johnny Man, I think there's a documentary coming out on him,
by the way too, Johnny Man, I think so, well,
will any of it include anything on the field, because the off the field
stuff out, imagine would be fascinating. Well yeah, no kidding, Well,
I mean they didn't play a ton of football. I don't know why
you would do a documentary. Yeah, Netflix, will come on, there's
a lot there. The trophy winner, he looked like well to some extent,
looks like well, he looks like the second coming of Doug Flutie the
way he played. And he came up here and nothing. I'm interception bad
he look, I mean interception after interception. Hamilton trays and what are they
doing? Tiger Cats do exactly what they were totally they were doing. Um,
is it just me coming up? Mark Mother's Ball? Meanwhile, great
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birthday. I was supposed to do it yesterday. We missed it yesterday,
so we're going to get it in today. I want to wish Jerry are
happy bladed sixty fifth birthday. Jerry is Peter Nedved's old ball hockey teammate when
he played for the Canucks. That's from Scott. So you know that Nedved
played ball hockey and the off season here and the Canucks weren't happy with it.
We did it. We did a start on him playing ball hockey.
I think it was in Port Moody. Yeah, and uh Burkie wasn't happy.
Yeah, not that we did this story that one of his up and
coming young players was jeopardizing his career. What else he got? We got
a picture Ryan, get her up. Let's go look at this. You
can't beat this beautiful uh fellas. Uh took Oliver to the BC Hockey League
Finals in port Albernie last night, Penticton vs. One for one. Uh.
They say it's one of the best teams ever. There you go got
to meet Scott and Edemier and Joe Nowondik. They were in the building last
night. Donnie. The kids were playing. Yeah, so they would,
that's why they're there. Good time had by all soapy. But there's Oliver
and a Donny and Dolly hat Berniby. Port Albernie last night had a boil
ever is in part of Bernie or a Penticton last night? No, it
was port Albernie. The first two games are in Penticton. Okay, looks
a nice rink. It is a nice rink and it looks super nice with
all the fans. What well, it's it's jam packed. There's not a
seat available. Done. Yeah, Particular has a beautiful arena as well.
Um anything else? No, go, I don't know this thing about me
tailgating? You go ahead, Okay, where's it? I have no idea.
This is strange. Go ahead, I gotta find it. I spent
it, I got it, I got it. Go? Is it just
me? But? Does don need driving lessons? I'm driving on the Barnett
Highway heading to work this morning, listening to yesterday's show, and some clown
has ride in my ass. I look in the rear view mirror and it's
none other than Dawn. I own the road. Taylor guess his personal limo
chauffeur as the day off, was surprised he doesn't have a police escort to
the studio Double Dion in bell Cara. You know what's strange I was gonna
say, is that somebody was running in my tail today, a tailgating,
and I'm like, who's this guy in there? We got it's maybe it's
Deon I'm not sure that's range that we get that. So you gotta Hey,
people know you, you gotta watch yourself when you're driving out there double
D. Sometimes you'll lose yourself and you know, like and do something that's
unsafe. And I apologize for that, but I don't know. I think
what I think with theyond the situation might be he was tailgating me and he's
trying to make up for that or cover that up by saying that I was
tailgating him. But he's listening to our podcast and you're on you're riding him
from behind or you're behind him in the car. It's tough to you're riding
the car behind him. Yeah, And he say he's listening to us,
he's listening to you and you're right behind in the car. Believe you cannot
recover from that? Hey? Anything else? Have We better change subjects?
Quick? Uh? Is it just me what happened in the days of Al
Davidson giving us training camp reports twice daily? Someone needs to step up and
market this team radio and TV talking about the BC Lions cameos. Donnie,
I'm gonna say it. I hate saying this, but there was no media
at the BC Lions in cam Loops for the first few days. I don't
know if they're up there now. It's the state of our industry. It's
bad. It's really bad. I remember going to Lions training camps on Vancouver
Island. There'd be ten, fifteen, twenty of us. You know,
we'd go for a beer after everybody filed their stories. And now nobody's at
training camps. Rick. It's not just the Lions, it's the White camps,
it's the Canuck even the Canucks games. You used to have to fight
to get interviews. Now it's it's everything's a whole lot diffriended and interviews are
made available later on on the Canucks website. It's just different. I'm not
I'm not so sure it's better or or worse. It's just the different than
numbers aren't there. But when it comes to the Lions camp or even Canucks
camp, you don't see the carbage like he used to. And I'm not
exactly sure sure why this is very good Terry from Vancouver. Is it just
me? I wish Gary Bettman was the NBA commissioner when the Vancouver Grizzlies were
here. Give Vancouver twenty seven years with the NBA to work here, and
I guarantee we would have a successful franchise today. The late David Stern,
who we talked about earlier this week when it came to the NBA Draft Lottery,
said before he passed that one of his great regrets, if not his
number one regret as commissioner, in the job he did, the great job
he did, was that he didn't give Vancouver a fair chance. And part
of that was, you know, the restrictions on the draft and didn't give
give Vancouver a fair chance to compete. He said it was one of,
if not his greatest regretst Commissioner. David Stern fought for Vancouver. David Stern
did not want the Grizzlies to move. David Stern tried everything in his power
to keep them in Vancouver. It just wasn't meant to be. Yeah yeah,
And along came Michael Heisly and off they went to Memphis. Good yeah,
yeah, we gotta bring Okay, we'll wrap up up for us the
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promise some Patrick Alvin information? Yeah? And Rick you had that? Yeah,
Patrick Alvin at the World Hockey Championships. He's really high on Leo Carlson.
Donnie a big Swedish center six three one night. Yeah Sweedish. Anyways,
Alvin said all options are open. If the price is right to move
up to get Carlson, he'll do it. It's gonna be a top five
pick. He says, he will leave no stone unturned. Yeah, because
Leo Carlson. You just said top five, he's he's third or fourth,
and a lot of them mocked drafts out there. He's really bullsh on Carlson.
That's a lot of bull going around. That's what I said in the
paper. He's really bullish on him. But anyways, you can't move up,
Donnie. What do you gotta do to move up? You better have
high picks, damn good prospects and and they don't have either. You know,
Heather in Victoria is just me. But September in Victoria would be a
perfect road trip for Donnie and Donnie. Maybe you'd even get some Canucks to
come on your show from training camp. We have talked about that Canucks training
camp with the second part of I don't know about the second part of getting
any Canucks. I think a few months ago one of us criticized the penalty
killed and they've been in a state US since say hate us, the Canucks
hated us. I don't care. We don't care anyways. I don't think
we're not allowed, like you know, Cannock management of the past. We're
not allowed to say the word rebuilt. I think we've done that a few
times on the shows. Yeah, well, we'll get it. We'll get
it. Can can I guess one of these days asked for Victorian September.
I think we're working on it. It's it's under consideration. What do you
got is it just me? Hockey should be over by now. It's time
for families to play street hockey and baseball. I'm I'm I'm used to look
may. This would be early right, yeah, uh, mid June,
usually for the end of the National Hockey League season. Hey, I'm I'm
watching you guys. I didn't say we're not watch He's buying cheese and watching
the NBA playoffs. You're watching your car I'm watching hockey. And we'll have
a report on Game one between Florida and Carolina. Uh tomorrow. It's lots
of fun. I probably won't because we're all we're off. We're off for
four days. We're off Monday as well. Have a great weekend of folks
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