WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:06.240 Check Podcasts. 2 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:10.160 Thanks for listening to the Donnie and Dolly podcast. Catch 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.279 the show Monday through Fudday, ten am to noon on Check. 4 00:00:13.599 --> 00:00:14.960 I think you're gonna want to hear this. 5 00:00:17.239 --> 00:00:19.960 Your local sports coverage lives here. 6 00:00:20.280 --> 00:00:24.359 Two nothing, It's Alva not so fast coho breath with 7 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:27.480 Don Taylor. I say that the winner of the draft 8 00:00:27.519 --> 00:00:29.239 lottery should be the winner of a two man. 9 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:31.960 Loosh and Rick Dolly Wall I had a cherry tree, 10 00:00:32.240 --> 00:00:34.079 Little Ricky. I used to go up that tree and 11 00:00:34.200 --> 00:00:36.719 just sit there for hours and bunch on those Jerry years. 12 00:00:36.880 --> 00:00:39.840 Donnie and Dolly. 13 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:43.960 Ten o'clock, get downtown Vancouver. We're in the Paul Carson studio. 14 00:00:44.039 --> 00:00:46.240 Thanks for tuning in, folks. It's Donnie and Dolly the 15 00:00:46.280 --> 00:00:49.960 team on Check. Don Taylor along with Rick Dollingwall. Ryan 16 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.640 Henderson is our producer. He's the man at the controls, 17 00:00:52.640 --> 00:00:56.159 our director. The voice of God is Derek Wong. 18 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:58.079 How are you lovely? Couldn't be better? 19 00:00:59.079 --> 00:01:02.399 You know, sometimes when we do the show the night 20 00:01:02.479 --> 00:01:04.959 before and I know there was a Stanley Cup playoff 21 00:01:05.000 --> 00:01:07.519 game last night, but you wonder, what are we going 22 00:01:07.599 --> 00:01:11.120 to talk about? Because let's be honest, that game last night. 23 00:01:11.359 --> 00:01:14.840 It was dull and that's I'm the first one to 24 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:18.239 back the National Hockey League in the Stanley Cup playoffs, 25 00:01:18.319 --> 00:01:22.560 but Carolina sucked the life out of that building and 26 00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:26.920 the Montreal Canadians for nothing. Final they're up three games 27 00:01:26.959 --> 00:01:30.920 to one. Just a record setting amount of shots for 28 00:01:30.959 --> 00:01:34.200 the Montreal Canadians in a negative way. We hope to 29 00:01:34.239 --> 00:01:39.280 talk to about that more a little bit later, but 30 00:01:39.400 --> 00:01:43.840 let's focus on the Vancouver Canucks and just an update 31 00:01:44.640 --> 00:01:50.760 on Many Maholtra and the Canucks pursuit of him as 32 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:53.760 their next head coach. What's the latest in terms of 33 00:01:53.799 --> 00:01:55.079 contract negotiations. 34 00:01:55.280 --> 00:01:58.719 He's not out. They haven't said he's out. The negotiations. 35 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:02.200 What do they start Monday? Look don money in term 36 00:02:02.359 --> 00:02:04.719 or what are the two biggest hurdles? You've done a 37 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.239 ton of negotiations. We have, both of us have. And 38 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:10.560 what's always the problem? Money in term? 39 00:02:11.280 --> 00:02:12.840 My problem is that I'm not that good. 40 00:02:13.280 --> 00:02:16.000 Well, that's why you had an agent. You know, we 41 00:02:16.039 --> 00:02:19.400 had agents who did that. Thanks to paying Rutherford, Elvin 42 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:23.240 and Foot next year not to work. The Canucks didn't 43 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:25.319 pay much for the GM job. And it's hard to 44 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:27.439 believe they're going to give much money to a rookie. 45 00:02:27.120 --> 00:02:30.840 GM rookie head coach, rookie's. 46 00:02:30.680 --> 00:02:33.400 Sorry, head coach. Manny doesn't have to rush into this. 47 00:02:33.439 --> 00:02:35.960 He's got one year left in Abbey. He can go 48 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:38.319 back to Abby if he wants and become a UFA 49 00:02:38.360 --> 00:02:40.439 in twelve months. Does he want to be the lowest 50 00:02:40.479 --> 00:02:42.719 paid coach in the NHL. I don't think so, but 51 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:45.879 he should take a look Manny and Donnie. I'm going 52 00:02:45.919 --> 00:02:48.719 to bring this up on to Travis Green. When he 53 00:02:48.719 --> 00:02:50.439 got the Canucks, drop didn't get a lot of money. 54 00:02:50.759 --> 00:02:53.199 When he left town, he was making three point five million. 55 00:02:53.599 --> 00:02:56.000 When Travis went back to Ottawa, he didn't get a 56 00:02:56.000 --> 00:02:58.039 ton of money. But what's his next deal going to 57 00:02:58.080 --> 00:03:00.680 look like? That's the way you got a if you're 58 00:03:00.680 --> 00:03:03.639 a rookie coach, the opportunity to coach in the NHL, 59 00:03:04.000 --> 00:03:06.719 do well and hit it, nail it on. 60 00:03:06.639 --> 00:03:09.560 That confidence in yourself and even though it's a low number, 61 00:03:09.560 --> 00:03:11.240 he can lead to bigger and better things. 62 00:03:11.439 --> 00:03:13.000 Travis Green is evidence that. 63 00:03:13.000 --> 00:03:14.639 You know you think Manny's making a mistake. 64 00:03:14.759 --> 00:03:17.120 No, I don't. I didn't say that. I think Manny's 65 00:03:17.120 --> 00:03:19.240 doing what's best for Mannie and he should and He 66 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:22.800 should also be concerned that this hockey club fired a 67 00:03:22.840 --> 00:03:25.879 coach last a couple of weeks ago who was one 68 00:03:25.960 --> 00:03:28.280 year into a three year deal. This hockey club is 69 00:03:28.280 --> 00:03:28.919 on there the cup. 70 00:03:29.120 --> 00:03:31.599 The club can't operate like that. That's just done. 71 00:03:31.680 --> 00:03:34.560 You can't. If you're Manny Malhulter, you're asking these guys, 72 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:37.120 why are you guys firing coaches every year? I would 73 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:40.080 have questions, don I would have big time questions. 74 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:41.680 So, well, where does that lead to? You? 75 00:03:41.719 --> 00:03:41.800 Have? 76 00:03:41.840 --> 00:03:42.680 You got other options? 77 00:03:42.759 --> 00:03:44.800 Look, either they cut a deal or they don't. You 78 00:03:44.840 --> 00:03:47.120 know what, I know how that works. But I mean, 79 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:48.800 if I'm Manny, I'm doing that. 80 00:03:48.960 --> 00:03:50.960 But why is he Why would he get upset at that? 81 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:56.000 Wouldn't you? Well, no, I would coach in five years. 82 00:03:56.120 --> 00:03:58.520 No, I wouldn't because the fact that you've let go 83 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.520 of all those coaches is open up up a door 84 00:04:00.560 --> 00:04:03.319 for him. But I wouldn't be upset. I'd be like, great, 85 00:04:03.560 --> 00:04:07.599 I'll take that job. I mean, you know again, term money, 86 00:04:07.639 --> 00:04:10.960 it has to be worked out. But they're firing coaches 87 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.240 left and right. It seems they're if you know, well 88 00:04:13.240 --> 00:04:15.439 they do they have new people in charge. It seems 89 00:04:15.439 --> 00:04:17.879 they have a new direction, maybe a little bit more patience. 90 00:04:18.959 --> 00:04:21.680 I'm okay like that. Look to me that the worry 91 00:04:21.759 --> 00:04:24.639 has to be for the Canucks and their fans, because 92 00:04:24.680 --> 00:04:27.160 I think they can sell many mahultra. I think that 93 00:04:27.279 --> 00:04:30.480 the customers want that. The fan base wants many mahultra. 94 00:04:30.519 --> 00:04:34.399 They want that decision. The worry would be Lisa looking 95 00:04:34.399 --> 00:04:36.480 for a coach. The Kings are law for a coach. 96 00:04:36.519 --> 00:04:38.120 Are they going to lose many malultra. 97 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.000 Well, they got to give permission first. 98 00:04:41.240 --> 00:04:41.560 Look. 99 00:04:41.759 --> 00:04:44.360 The bottom line is they've been talking negotiating for a while. 100 00:04:44.399 --> 00:04:46.600 There's no deal. So you got to ask yourself why. 101 00:04:47.040 --> 00:04:49.360 Usually the reasons are money in term of course, they 102 00:04:49.360 --> 00:04:49.639 got to. 103 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:50.040 Figure it out. 104 00:04:50.079 --> 00:04:52.720 They can always the case with the exhaustation and he's 105 00:04:52.759 --> 00:04:55.319 got an agent, and all these guys got agents now, 106 00:04:55.360 --> 00:04:58.839 and they you know, some of them are tough negotiators. 107 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.439 Okay, we want to hawk and a little bit of 108 00:05:01.480 --> 00:05:05.120 a left turn here. We want to talk about CFL 109 00:05:05.199 --> 00:05:07.839 football and a new television agreement. We'll do that in 110 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:10.199 a second, but I also want to mention that Canada 111 00:05:10.240 --> 00:05:15.519 has defeated the States at the World Hockey Championships in Switzerland. 112 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:19.319 Final score for nothing City Crosby finally finally got a goal, 113 00:05:19.720 --> 00:05:22.959 nine assist going, and I believe it was an empty edter. 114 00:05:23.040 --> 00:05:25.720 Bottom line, he scores, He's been outstanding on a line 115 00:05:25.720 --> 00:05:28.639 with Maclin Celebrini, so four nothing final. I saw the 116 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:32.079 big story out of that game. The big story is 117 00:05:32.120 --> 00:05:35.040 what happened in the first period. Did you see this? 118 00:05:36.120 --> 00:05:39.160 Evan Bouchard left the game. We got the video there 119 00:05:39.160 --> 00:05:42.720 we go. Left the game early, taking a hit to 120 00:05:42.759 --> 00:05:45.199 the head from Ryan Lindgren of The States place for 121 00:05:45.240 --> 00:05:48.720 the Seattle Kraken and Lindgren as you would expect, what's 122 00:05:48.720 --> 00:05:51.879 he thinking here? Right under the chin five minute major 123 00:05:52.240 --> 00:05:56.279 and was ejected. Evan Bouchard was out cold. This was 124 00:05:56.439 --> 00:05:59.720 really frightening to watch, not only the hit but the 125 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:02.480 apter math. It was clear he was in He was 126 00:06:02.519 --> 00:06:05.439 in some sort of distress, at a lot of distress 127 00:06:06.079 --> 00:06:11.279 on the ice. We understand that, you know, he's okay now, 128 00:06:11.319 --> 00:06:15.439 but this is awful. In a couple of this is 129 00:06:15.439 --> 00:06:18.120 where I go with this. Obviously, it's awful. You worry 130 00:06:18.120 --> 00:06:21.360 about Evan Bouchard and his health. First of all, you know, 131 00:06:21.959 --> 00:06:24.680 you see hits to the head and you say to yourself, 132 00:06:24.680 --> 00:06:26.600 how can this happen again. But it happens again and 133 00:06:26.639 --> 00:06:28.839 again and again. And I know things happened in a 134 00:06:28.879 --> 00:06:34.480 split second, but five minute major ejection. What's he thinking. 135 00:06:34.720 --> 00:06:37.160 The other thing that I go to is when you 136 00:06:37.199 --> 00:06:39.800 see something like this, this is a star defenseman for 137 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:42.879 the Evans and Oilers, and I go here and it's 138 00:06:42.920 --> 00:06:45.680 not right. But I am a hockey fan. I just 139 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:50.360 wonder about NHL participation in events like this. And you know, 140 00:06:50.439 --> 00:06:52.720 I know they're they're committed to the Olympics, in the 141 00:06:52.720 --> 00:06:55.040 World Cup and the World Championships and all that, but 142 00:06:55.519 --> 00:06:57.360 is it worth it to send your star players when 143 00:06:57.360 --> 00:07:00.279 you see when you see something like that, That's where 144 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:02.879 I go and look at look at Kevin Fial at 145 00:07:02.879 --> 00:07:04.759 the Olympics as well, in case. 146 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:06.800 You don't think they could have used him. Of course 147 00:07:06.839 --> 00:07:10.759 they could have. Yeah, they had troubles scoring goals big time. 148 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:13.639 So for nothink Canada. Canada goes onto the semi. 149 00:07:13.439 --> 00:07:15.399 Finals, absolutely okay. 150 00:07:15.439 --> 00:07:19.160 And then also the checks want today and the Philipronics critical. 151 00:07:18.959 --> 00:07:23.279 Philip Roonic, who everybody in Vancouver wants traded, who is 152 00:07:23.319 --> 00:07:26.439 still on the radar to be named the new captain 153 00:07:26.480 --> 00:07:30.639 of the Canucks. Look at this bullet. Come on, he's 154 00:07:30.680 --> 00:07:32.720 on the list on whether you like it or not? 155 00:07:32.920 --> 00:07:34.360 How long is that list? 156 00:07:34.480 --> 00:07:35.480 Well it's not lost. 157 00:07:35.519 --> 00:07:36.959 They lost by the way for one. 158 00:07:37.639 --> 00:07:41.199 Anyways, Watch what a bullet? What a bullet by Heronic? 159 00:07:41.240 --> 00:07:43.040 Make him captain? 160 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:44.959 Well okay, so good with the media. 161 00:07:45.120 --> 00:07:47.759 Did Rutherford not say he's on a short list to 162 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:51.519 be named captain? Look at that bully shot right now? 163 00:07:53.319 --> 00:07:55.959 An advisory's still with the team. But what a bullet 164 00:07:56.000 --> 00:07:57.560 by Ironic there. 165 00:07:57.560 --> 00:08:01.839 Future captain of the whether you like it or not. Okay, 166 00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:05.839 you think he's going to be God if he's that's 167 00:08:05.839 --> 00:08:09.879 your representative that he's bitchy like he can't have that. 168 00:08:10.240 --> 00:08:10.759 I'm sorry. 169 00:08:10.800 --> 00:08:12.759 He's a good pro on and off the ice. He 170 00:08:12.839 --> 00:08:14.959 brings all. He plays a ton of hockey. He's always 171 00:08:14.959 --> 00:08:16.720 on the ice. Yeah, and you think he's a bad 172 00:08:16.800 --> 00:08:18.120 captain because he's a bad interview. 173 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.439 He's not stop it, stop it. Part of the job 174 00:08:21.519 --> 00:08:23.600 is dealing with the media. I know that people don't 175 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:25.120 hear that. In the Canucks front office. 176 00:08:25.240 --> 00:08:27.800 I care less. I need him in the dress care less, 177 00:08:28.040 --> 00:08:30.639 remember the media. I need him to be a good 178 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:34.480 dressing room guy who guides the young kids along and 179 00:08:34.480 --> 00:08:37.080 and and do you ever hear anything bad about heronic 180 00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:40.279 I do? What's that other than the bad interview with 181 00:08:40.360 --> 00:08:43.399 Jeff Patterson? One interview and you're all over the guy. 182 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:46.440 You don't back your brethren. Unbelievable kind of a teammater. 183 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.879 You wouldn't be a captain. Okay, CFL, let's get this 184 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:52.639 is big, big news, and it goes beyond what happens 185 00:08:53.200 --> 00:08:58.840 on the on the playing surface. Stuart Johnson, Commissioner of 186 00:08:58.879 --> 00:09:01.600 the Canadian Football League, Man, this guy does not mess around. 187 00:09:01.639 --> 00:09:06.080 The rule changes, the playoff format changes, and now this 188 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:11.000 the CFLs announced a series of new groundbreaking media agreements 189 00:09:11.320 --> 00:09:15.480 with Bell Media. You love those guys, Rick Do Zone 190 00:09:16.159 --> 00:09:20.559 or as you call it, Dozen and YouTube TSN is. 191 00:09:20.759 --> 00:09:24.159 This starts in twenty twenty seven. TSN gets sixty games, 192 00:09:24.720 --> 00:09:27.559 six playoff games, and the Great Cup. The Zone will 193 00:09:27.600 --> 00:09:33.799 air Saturday night games starting at four o'clock Pacific, and 194 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:36.320 also a Saturday night playoff game in each of the 195 00:09:36.360 --> 00:09:41.120 first two rounds. Remember things change in twenty twenty seven. 196 00:09:41.480 --> 00:09:44.679 And then on top of that, you've got YouTube which 197 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:49.320 will come up with live preseason games, enhanced coverage, the documentary. 198 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:54.279 There's all sorts of tentacles to this agreement. So money 199 00:09:55.120 --> 00:10:00.840 six years, five hundred million dollars for the Canadian Football League. 200 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:04.600 That's nine million dollars per team per year if our 201 00:10:04.679 --> 00:10:09.320 calculations are correct, and there's some question about that. So 202 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:13.120 they go from fifty million a year to eighty four million. 203 00:10:13.200 --> 00:10:17.600 That's arounded. I've got sixty percent increase something like that 204 00:10:17.639 --> 00:10:21.639 again my math, sixty percent increase from the last deal 205 00:10:21.679 --> 00:10:25.799 with TSN. But five hundred million over six years for 206 00:10:25.879 --> 00:10:29.879 the Canadian Football League. Look, and Stuart's going to join us. 207 00:10:29.879 --> 00:10:33.000 Stuart Johnson, Can I try the CFL at eleven fifteen. 208 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.159 You can criticize him, you can. You can criticize the 209 00:10:37.240 --> 00:10:41.159 decisions that he's made, the playoff format, the rule changes. 210 00:10:41.440 --> 00:10:44.600 Maybe you could even criticize this deal. Although five hundred million, 211 00:10:45.039 --> 00:10:48.799 half a billion over six years sounds pretty good to me. 212 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:51.720 But he's not sitting on his hands. No, he's just 213 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:54.799 waiting for the season to start. He's getting deals done well. 214 00:10:54.840 --> 00:10:57.200 And one of the he came from TSN, so one 215 00:10:57.240 --> 00:10:59.879 of the big reasons for hiring him his commissioner Don 216 00:11:00.279 --> 00:11:02.919 was that he knows television. He knows television, he knows 217 00:11:02.960 --> 00:11:03.919 how to cut big deals. 218 00:11:03.919 --> 00:11:05.639 See. And you know what I like about this is 219 00:11:05.639 --> 00:11:09.559 that I just assumed that. And we'll get into the 220 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:12.320 streaming aspect of it in a second. I just assumed, 221 00:11:12.320 --> 00:11:15.279 because he came from TSN, he sert an executive at 222 00:11:15.279 --> 00:11:17.960 TSN for for a long time, I just assumed the 223 00:11:18.000 --> 00:11:20.879 new deal would just be all TSN. But they're branching 224 00:11:20.919 --> 00:11:25.200 out the CFLs is branching out with streaming with YouTube 225 00:11:25.360 --> 00:11:29.120 and also sticking with TSCN to some extent. 226 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.120 And you can say what you want about the CFL, 227 00:11:32.200 --> 00:11:35.080 but they deliver big numbers for TSN and the summer 228 00:11:35.159 --> 00:11:38.679 done in the summertime, especially when hockey's not there, it's 229 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:41.759 a big component for TSN to get through the summer. 230 00:11:42.080 --> 00:11:45.480 And this is massive money for the CFL done. And 231 00:11:45.559 --> 00:11:47.440 what's going to happen is the salary cap is going 232 00:11:47.480 --> 00:11:49.120 to go up because the players are going to say, hey, 233 00:11:49.120 --> 00:11:51.480 look at the money coming in. And so now you 234 00:11:51.480 --> 00:11:53.799 can go out and get more American pleasant problem, a 235 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:56.519 pleasant problem. You can pay players more. The league's going 236 00:11:56.559 --> 00:11:58.720 to get better because you're paying more. Go down to 237 00:11:58.759 --> 00:12:00.519 the South, get some guys that used to play in 238 00:12:00.559 --> 00:12:03.200 the NFL, get them up here. Pay a little bit more. 239 00:12:03.720 --> 00:12:05.080 It's all good. 240 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:08.440 I think the most interesting aspect of this, though, is 241 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.919 the situation with the zone, because I know how much 242 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:14.120 trouble you have with streaming. 243 00:12:15.240 --> 00:12:16.480 I hate this well. 244 00:12:16.759 --> 00:12:21.039 The Zone. It's a big player in the world of 245 00:12:21.120 --> 00:12:28.960 sports media right now. Champions League NFL, there's an NHL component, boxing, PGA, 246 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:33.120 pretty much pretty much everything. This will allow the CFL 247 00:12:33.240 --> 00:12:36.960 to air its product if streaming you know where. Streaming 248 00:12:37.039 --> 00:12:41.200 is available to over two hundred countries outside the US 249 00:12:41.720 --> 00:12:46.960 and Canada. It's it's it seems to be the wave 250 00:12:47.000 --> 00:12:48.919 of the future. Hate it and the present. 251 00:12:49.000 --> 00:12:52.120 Hate it now. Listen to me, horrible idea to put 252 00:12:52.120 --> 00:12:55.000 twenty one cer. No one supports the CFL more than 253 00:12:55.039 --> 00:12:57.120 you and I. In this market, I will not be 254 00:12:57.159 --> 00:13:00.120 paying I okay, listen to me. We live in a 255 00:13:00.200 --> 00:13:04.679 very expensive city. I'm really worried. The Canucks have gone there. Now, 256 00:13:04.840 --> 00:13:06.960 lines have gone there, now, the white Caps have gone there. 257 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:09.840 Where is this heading in two, four, six, eight, ten 258 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.080 years done? Are we going to be paying four hundred 259 00:13:12.080 --> 00:13:14.440 bucks a month to watch our local teams? I don't 260 00:13:14.440 --> 00:13:16.039 know if the White CAP's going to be here, but 261 00:13:16.120 --> 00:13:20.159 this is ridiculous. A family of four. Right now, the 262 00:13:20.279 --> 00:13:22.879 dollar is stretching. You know what, whether your kids are 263 00:13:22.919 --> 00:13:25.639 in sports, are in there in university, every penny counts 264 00:13:25.679 --> 00:13:28.039 now because we live in a very expensive city, the 265 00:13:28.200 --> 00:13:31.440 dollar is stretching and stretching and stretching. Look, I already 266 00:13:31.480 --> 00:13:34.919 paid for TSN and Sports Net. I'm not paying anymore. 267 00:13:35.159 --> 00:13:38.200 I'm not paying anymore. These guys can go on and shot. 268 00:13:38.279 --> 00:13:41.159 There's twenty one games up you know where. I'm not 269 00:13:41.200 --> 00:13:42.080 going to pay for this. 270 00:13:42.399 --> 00:13:44.399 And I'm so you don't watch the You don't watch 271 00:13:44.399 --> 00:13:45.600 the Canucks game on Amazon? 272 00:13:45.600 --> 00:13:45.639 No? 273 00:13:45.720 --> 00:13:50.639 I no, I get the Amazon game. I'll tell I'm 274 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:52.480 not telling you how I get the Amazon game. But 275 00:13:53.360 --> 00:13:57.039 not just done. Listen, I'm not paying. And nobody supports 276 00:13:57.080 --> 00:13:58.759 the CFL more than you and I. We went to 277 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.480 Empire Stadium, watch the Eskimo's Warm Moon. 278 00:14:01.639 --> 00:14:03.799 You can well, there's there's an amount of there's a 279 00:14:03.799 --> 00:14:06.279 mount of an amount of risk to that, to this. 280 00:14:06.360 --> 00:14:08.000 I get this, But are they supposed to turn down 281 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:08.480 this money? 282 00:14:08.840 --> 00:14:11.200 They're not supposed to turn But don't expect me to pay. 283 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:13.399 I'm not going to pay. It's not a penny comes 284 00:14:13.480 --> 00:14:14.720 out of my bocket for these guys. 285 00:14:14.799 --> 00:14:17.200 Is it because you don't want to pay or because 286 00:14:17.240 --> 00:14:19.600 you can't figure out how to access streaming. 287 00:14:19.919 --> 00:14:23.000 No, just they're a little both. First of all, don 288 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.279 why the hell am I paying for TSN and sports Net? 289 00:14:26.399 --> 00:14:27.320 And then more on. 290 00:14:27.240 --> 00:14:30.960 Top of that, why like why like I I mean, 291 00:14:31.399 --> 00:14:35.600 family budgets are going through the roof and cable internet 292 00:14:36.000 --> 00:14:37.960 all this well, you know, people are cutting out the 293 00:14:38.200 --> 00:14:39.279 what's the ground line? 294 00:14:39.320 --> 00:14:39.639 The phone? 295 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:43.840 Everyone's just got sells now. But Donnie, it's it's just 296 00:14:43.919 --> 00:14:46.039 if you keep adding twenty twenty twenty. 297 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.200 Times, what bothers me a boat streaming? 298 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:49.000 I'm not doing it. 299 00:14:49.080 --> 00:14:50.960 And Ryan, you can chime in here. I know we're 300 00:14:51.000 --> 00:14:53.600 we're shirt on time here, but you can chime in 301 00:14:53.639 --> 00:14:57.559 here for a second. You you, if you subscribe to 302 00:14:57.639 --> 00:15:00.879 the zone, what will you be paying per month if 303 00:15:00.879 --> 00:15:03.559 you're interested in the CFL games come twenty twenty seven, 304 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:05.600 and we don't know what the price will be, you know, 305 00:15:05.720 --> 00:15:07.360 come a year or two from now. 306 00:15:07.480 --> 00:15:10.399 That's that's the thing. Today's today's cost is twenty five 307 00:15:10.399 --> 00:15:10.879 bucks a month. 308 00:15:11.039 --> 00:15:14.759 Yeah, and so there's those in the extra charge per 309 00:15:14.799 --> 00:15:16.320 game twenty five bucks a month. 310 00:15:16.240 --> 00:15:17.960 Twenty five bucks a month, and there's pros and cons 311 00:15:18.000 --> 00:15:20.720 and one of the pros is in Canada. 312 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:24.679 The Zone is the hub for the NFL, NFL, if. 313 00:15:24.559 --> 00:15:26.639 You're an if you're if you don't have cable, and 314 00:15:26.799 --> 00:15:29.480 especially for people that the favorite team is in the Seahawks. 315 00:15:29.960 --> 00:15:32.159 Like my brother's a massive Indianapolis Colts fan. The only 316 00:15:32.200 --> 00:15:34.000 way he can watch Colts games for the most part 317 00:15:34.519 --> 00:15:36.559 is through the Zone. So if you have the Zone now, 318 00:15:36.600 --> 00:15:39.639 you're also gonna get the CFL. And that's a that's 319 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:42.039 a nice promotional vehicle for the CFL. 320 00:15:42.120 --> 00:15:45.639 No doubts, league, boxing, golf, some NHL content as well. 321 00:15:45.679 --> 00:15:47.960 If they were going just about the CFL, if they were. 322 00:15:47.840 --> 00:15:50.639 Going to some unknown or if they were launching their 323 00:15:50.639 --> 00:15:53.360 own streamer or something, I'd be even more correct. 324 00:15:53.399 --> 00:15:56.320 I just get upset with that mL I know it's changed, 325 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.159 but that Apple deal with with MLS where and this 326 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:02.679 still bothers me with streaming, how it's changed. It was 327 00:16:02.720 --> 00:16:05.000 supposed to be let's say, ten dollars a month and 328 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:07.759 that was it. But now it's like all of a sudden, 329 00:16:07.799 --> 00:16:10.399 I'm watching a movie or I'm watching a sporting and 330 00:16:10.440 --> 00:16:13.639 there's ads I wasn't supposed to be the case, or 331 00:16:13.919 --> 00:16:17.320 I'm paying extra for that movie or for for that. 332 00:16:17.360 --> 00:16:20.759 Sports supposed to be like that. No, it's changed. It's 333 00:16:20.799 --> 00:16:24.519 supposed to be better than cable and like financially speaking, 334 00:16:24.559 --> 00:16:27.080 and it's not. I'm sorry, it's not. Especially if you 335 00:16:27.120 --> 00:16:29.919 add it all up, you get get Apple, if you 336 00:16:29.919 --> 00:16:32.240 get the Zone, if you've got cable on top of that, 337 00:16:32.320 --> 00:16:34.080 which most sport sports fans do. 338 00:16:34.240 --> 00:16:36.480 There you go, why should I? So that's one hundred 339 00:16:36.519 --> 00:16:40.440 and eight box we got to break? But that is ridiculous. 340 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:43.159 So the white Caps want you to pay extra to 341 00:16:43.200 --> 00:16:46.159 watch extra. The Canucks want you to pay extra, Like 342 00:16:46.200 --> 00:16:47.399 where the hell are we heading? 343 00:16:47.879 --> 00:16:51.320 Where? Where are we going here? Like in you got 344 00:16:51.320 --> 00:16:55.600 to ask Patrick? You get upset Stuart Johnson. I'm getting 345 00:16:55.679 --> 00:16:58.639 mixed up with Patrick. Patrick Johnson had a very good 346 00:16:58.720 --> 00:16:59.960 article in the Province today. 347 00:17:00.279 --> 00:17:02.360 Or talk about your buddy Heronic. 348 00:17:02.399 --> 00:17:07.240 Yeah, shipping him to the San Jose future captain of 349 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:09.960 the Sharks. Okay, here's what's coming up on the showcase. 350 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:11.880 The hand signals, I get it, we got to break 351 00:17:12.039 --> 00:17:14.759 DTMZ is it just me? Coming up in the eleven 352 00:17:14.799 --> 00:17:17.839 o'clock hour, John Shannon mister Television, he'll talk about the 353 00:17:18.119 --> 00:17:21.519 CFL deal and about the Stanley Cup playoffs. Of course, 354 00:17:21.519 --> 00:17:23.599 Big Ryan the Twitter guy coming up later this hour 355 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:29.160 and up next from the Athletic and he's got a 356 00:17:29.400 --> 00:17:34.960 forward who are centered and not not who you think 357 00:17:35.480 --> 00:17:40.279 not named Gavin McKenna who he prefers over caleab Maholtre Wow. Okay, 358 00:17:40.440 --> 00:17:43.000 so I heard him on six fifty today Thomas Drants 359 00:17:43.000 --> 00:17:44.920 from the Athletic. 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The sports world around 382 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:11.000 these parts around Canada has been hit hard lately. This 383 00:19:11.119 --> 00:19:16.680 is so strange. Yeah, this is from the NHL Alumni Association, 384 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.599 devastated to share that Claude Lemieux has passed away at 385 00:19:20.599 --> 00:19:24.039 the age of sixty. Born in Buckingham, Quebec, Claude was 386 00:19:24.039 --> 00:19:26.480 selected by the Montreal Canadians round two of the eighty 387 00:19:26.480 --> 00:19:28.880 three NHL at Your Draft. He went on to win 388 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:32.000 a const My Trophy and three Stanley Cups with the 389 00:19:32.039 --> 00:19:35.640 three different teams, the Haves, the Devils and the Avalanche. 390 00:19:36.720 --> 00:19:40.119 Ricky brought in the torch just the other day at 391 00:19:40.119 --> 00:19:43.680 the Bell Center and he looked great. Sixty years old. 392 00:19:43.799 --> 00:19:48.519 My Lord God bless him. Claude Lemieux leaving us a 393 00:19:48.559 --> 00:19:51.640 tough transition and transition. We're going to make it. Thomas 394 00:19:51.720 --> 00:19:55.680 Drantz joins us from the Athletic Thomas, are you sir? 395 00:19:57.119 --> 00:20:00.680 Yeah, it's terrible news. I mean, man, you had to 396 00:20:00.720 --> 00:20:03.279 love the way Lemiue competed as a player. You know, 397 00:20:03.319 --> 00:20:07.000 some of my earliest memories were just absolutely yelling at 398 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:10.359 my television, mad at the guy, because you know, the 399 00:20:10.680 --> 00:20:14.759 ninety six as that just steamrolled the Canucks in the playoffs, 400 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:15.799 and Lemiu had been a big. 401 00:20:15.680 --> 00:20:16.039