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Speaker 4: Ten o'clock, get downtown Vancouver. We're in the Paul Carson studio.
Speaker 4: Thanks for tuning in, folks. It's Donnie and Dolly the
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Speaker 5: How are you lovely? Couldn't be better?
Speaker 4: You know, sometimes when we do the show the night
Speaker 4: before and I know there was a Stanley Cup playoff
Speaker 4: game last night, but you wonder, what are we going
Speaker 4: to talk about? Because let's be honest, that game last night.
Speaker 4: It was dull and that's I'm the first one to
Speaker 4: back the National Hockey League in the Stanley Cup playoffs,
Speaker 4: but Carolina sucked the life out of that building and
Speaker 4: the Montreal Canadians for nothing. Final they're up three games
Speaker 4: to one. Just a record setting amount of shots for
Speaker 4: the Montreal Canadians in a negative way. We hope to
Speaker 4: talk to about that more a little bit later, but
Speaker 4: let's focus on the Vancouver Canucks and just an update
Speaker 4: on Many Maholtra and the Canucks pursuit of him as
Speaker 4: their next head coach. What's the latest in terms of
Speaker 4: contract negotiations.
Speaker 5: He's not out. They haven't said he's out. The negotiations.
Speaker 5: What do they start Monday? Look don money in term
Speaker 5: or what are the two biggest hurdles? You've done a
Speaker 5: ton of negotiations. We have, both of us have. And
Speaker 5: what's always the problem? Money in term?
Speaker 4: My problem is that I'm not that good.
Speaker 5: Well, that's why you had an agent. You know, we
Speaker 5: had agents who did that. Thanks to paying Rutherford, Elvin
Speaker 5: and Foot next year not to work. The Canucks didn't
Speaker 5: pay much for the GM job. And it's hard to
Speaker 5: believe they're going to give much money to a rookie.
Speaker 4: GM rookie head coach, rookie's.
Speaker 5: Sorry, head coach. Manny doesn't have to rush into this.
Speaker 5: He's got one year left in Abbey. He can go
Speaker 5: back to Abby if he wants and become a UFA
Speaker 5: in twelve months. Does he want to be the lowest
Speaker 5: paid coach in the NHL. I don't think so, but
Speaker 5: he should take a look Manny and Donnie. I'm going
Speaker 5: to bring this up on to Travis Green. When he
Speaker 5: got the Canucks, drop didn't get a lot of money.
Speaker 5: When he left town, he was making three point five million.
Speaker 5: When Travis went back to Ottawa, he didn't get a
Speaker 5: ton of money. But what's his next deal going to
Speaker 5: look like? That's the way you got a if you're
Speaker 5: a rookie coach, the opportunity to coach in the NHL,
Speaker 5: do well and hit it, nail it on.
Speaker 4: That confidence in yourself and even though it's a low number,
Speaker 4: he can lead to bigger and better things.
Speaker 5: Travis Green is evidence that.
Speaker 4: You know you think Manny's making a mistake.
Speaker 5: No, I don't. I didn't say that. I think Manny's
Speaker 5: doing what's best for Mannie and he should and He
Speaker 5: should also be concerned that this hockey club fired a
Speaker 5: coach last a couple of weeks ago who was one
Speaker 5: year into a three year deal. This hockey club is
Speaker 5: on there the cup.
Speaker 4: The club can't operate like that. That's just done.
Speaker 5: You can't. If you're Manny Malhulter, you're asking these guys,
Speaker 5: why are you guys firing coaches every year? I would
Speaker 5: have questions, don I would have big time questions.
Speaker 4: So, well, where does that lead to? You?
Speaker 6: Have?
Speaker 4: You got other options?
Speaker 5: Look, either they cut a deal or they don't. You
Speaker 5: know what, I know how that works. But I mean,
Speaker 5: if I'm Manny, I'm doing that.
Speaker 4: But why is he Why would he get upset at that?
Speaker 5: Wouldn't you? Well, no, I would coach in five years.
Speaker 4: No, I wouldn't because the fact that you've let go
Speaker 4: of all those coaches is open up up a door
Speaker 4: for him. But I wouldn't be upset. I'd be like, great,
Speaker 4: I'll take that job. I mean, you know again, term money,
Speaker 4: it has to be worked out. But they're firing coaches
Speaker 4: left and right. It seems they're if you know, well
Speaker 4: they do they have new people in charge. It seems
Speaker 4: they have a new direction, maybe a little bit more patience.
Speaker 4: I'm okay like that. Look to me that the worry
Speaker 4: has to be for the Canucks and their fans, because
Speaker 4: I think they can sell many mahultra. I think that
Speaker 4: the customers want that. The fan base wants many mahultra.
Speaker 4: They want that decision. The worry would be Lisa looking
Speaker 4: for a coach. The Kings are law for a coach.
Speaker 4: Are they going to lose many malultra.
Speaker 5: Well, they got to give permission first.
Speaker 4: Look.
Speaker 5: The bottom line is they've been talking negotiating for a while.
Speaker 5: There's no deal. So you got to ask yourself why.
Speaker 5: Usually the reasons are money in term of course, they
Speaker 5: got to.
Speaker 4: Figure it out.
Speaker 5: They can always the case with the exhaustation and he's
Speaker 5: got an agent, and all these guys got agents now,
Speaker 5: and they you know, some of them are tough negotiators.
Speaker 4: Okay, we want to hawk and a little bit of
Speaker 4: a left turn here. We want to talk about CFL
Speaker 4: football and a new television agreement. We'll do that in
Speaker 4: a second, but I also want to mention that Canada
Speaker 4: has defeated the States at the World Hockey Championships in Switzerland.
Speaker 4: Final score for nothing City Crosby finally finally got a goal,
Speaker 4: nine assist going, and I believe it was an empty edter.
Speaker 4: Bottom line, he scores, He's been outstanding on a line
Speaker 4: with Maclin Celebrini, so four nothing final. I saw the
Speaker 4: big story out of that game. The big story is
Speaker 4: what happened in the first period. Did you see this?
Speaker 4: Evan Bouchard left the game. We got the video there
Speaker 4: we go. Left the game early, taking a hit to
Speaker 4: the head from Ryan Lindgren of The States place for
Speaker 4: the Seattle Kraken and Lindgren as you would expect, what's
Speaker 4: he thinking here? Right under the chin five minute major
Speaker 4: and was ejected. Evan Bouchard was out cold. This was
Speaker 4: really frightening to watch, not only the hit but the
Speaker 4: apter math. It was clear he was in He was
Speaker 4: in some sort of distress, at a lot of distress
Speaker 4: on the ice. We understand that, you know, he's okay now,
Speaker 4: but this is awful. In a couple of this is
Speaker 4: where I go with this. Obviously, it's awful. You worry
Speaker 4: about Evan Bouchard and his health. First of all, you know,
Speaker 4: you see hits to the head and you say to yourself,
Speaker 4: how can this happen again. But it happens again and
Speaker 4: again and again. And I know things happened in a
Speaker 4: split second, but five minute major ejection. What's he thinking.
Speaker 4: The other thing that I go to is when you
Speaker 4: see something like this, this is a star defenseman for
Speaker 4: the Evans and Oilers, and I go here and it's
Speaker 4: not right. But I am a hockey fan. I just
Speaker 4: wonder about NHL participation in events like this. And you know,
Speaker 4: I know they're they're committed to the Olympics, in the
Speaker 4: World Cup and the World Championships and all that, but
Speaker 4: is it worth it to send your star players when
Speaker 4: you see when you see something like that, That's where
Speaker 4: I go and look at look at Kevin Fial at
Speaker 4: the Olympics as well, in case.
Speaker 5: You don't think they could have used him. Of course
Speaker 5: they could have. Yeah, they had troubles scoring goals big time.
Speaker 4: So for nothink Canada. Canada goes onto the semi.
Speaker 5: Finals, absolutely okay.
Speaker 4: And then also the checks want today and the Philipronics critical.
Speaker 5: Philip Roonic, who everybody in Vancouver wants traded, who is
Speaker 5: still on the radar to be named the new captain
Speaker 5: of the Canucks. Look at this bullet. Come on, he's
Speaker 5: on the list on whether you like it or not?
Speaker 4: How long is that list?
Speaker 5: Well it's not lost.
Speaker 4: They lost by the way for one.
Speaker 5: Anyways, Watch what a bullet? What a bullet by Heronic?
Speaker 5: Make him captain?
Speaker 4: Well okay, so good with the media.
Speaker 5: Did Rutherford not say he's on a short list to
Speaker 5: be named captain? Look at that bully shot right now?
Speaker 5: An advisory's still with the team. But what a bullet
Speaker 5: by Ironic there.
Speaker 4: Future captain of the whether you like it or not. Okay,
Speaker 4: you think he's going to be God if he's that's
Speaker 4: your representative that he's bitchy like he can't have that.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: He's a good pro on and off the ice. He
Speaker 5: brings all. He plays a ton of hockey. He's always
Speaker 5: on the ice. Yeah, and you think he's a bad
Speaker 5: captain because he's a bad interview.
Speaker 4: He's not stop it, stop it. Part of the job
Speaker 4: is dealing with the media. I know that people don't
Speaker 4: hear that. In the Canucks front office.
Speaker 5: I care less. I need him in the dress care less,
Speaker 5: remember the media. I need him to be a good
Speaker 5: dressing room guy who guides the young kids along and
Speaker 5: and and do you ever hear anything bad about heronic
Speaker 5: I do? What's that other than the bad interview with
Speaker 5: Jeff Patterson? One interview and you're all over the guy.
Speaker 4: You don't back your brethren. Unbelievable kind of a teammater.
Speaker 4: You wouldn't be a captain. Okay, CFL, let's get this
Speaker 4: is big, big news, and it goes beyond what happens
Speaker 4: on the on the playing surface. Stuart Johnson, Commissioner of
Speaker 4: the Canadian Football League, Man, this guy does not mess around.
Speaker 4: The rule changes, the playoff format changes, and now this
Speaker 4: the CFLs announced a series of new groundbreaking media agreements
Speaker 4: with Bell Media. You love those guys, Rick Do Zone
Speaker 4: or as you call it, Dozen and YouTube TSN is.
Speaker 4: This starts in twenty twenty seven. TSN gets sixty games,
Speaker 4: six playoff games, and the Great Cup. The Zone will
Speaker 4: air Saturday night games starting at four o'clock Pacific, and
Speaker 4: also a Saturday night playoff game in each of the
Speaker 4: first two rounds. Remember things change in twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 4: And then on top of that, you've got YouTube which
Speaker 4: will come up with live preseason games, enhanced coverage, the documentary.
Speaker 4: There's all sorts of tentacles to this agreement. So money
Speaker 4: six years, five hundred million dollars for the Canadian Football League.
Speaker 4: That's nine million dollars per team per year if our
Speaker 4: calculations are correct, and there's some question about that. So
Speaker 4: they go from fifty million a year to eighty four million.
Speaker 4: That's arounded. I've got sixty percent increase something like that
Speaker 4: again my math, sixty percent increase from the last deal
Speaker 4: with TSN. But five hundred million over six years for
Speaker 4: the Canadian Football League. Look, and Stuart's going to join us.
Speaker 4: Stuart Johnson, Can I try the CFL at eleven fifteen.
Speaker 4: You can criticize him, you can. You can criticize the
Speaker 4: decisions that he's made, the playoff format, the rule changes.
Speaker 4: Maybe you could even criticize this deal. Although five hundred million,
Speaker 4: half a billion over six years sounds pretty good to me.
Speaker 4: But he's not sitting on his hands. No, he's just
Speaker 4: waiting for the season to start. He's getting deals done well.
Speaker 5: And one of the he came from TSN, so one
Speaker 5: of the big reasons for hiring him his commissioner Don
Speaker 5: was that he knows television. He knows television, he knows
Speaker 5: how to cut big deals.
Speaker 4: See. And you know what I like about this is
Speaker 4: that I just assumed that. And we'll get into the
Speaker 4: streaming aspect of it in a second. I just assumed,
Speaker 4: because he came from TSN, he sert an executive at
Speaker 4: TSN for for a long time, I just assumed the
Speaker 4: new deal would just be all TSN. But they're branching
Speaker 4: out the CFLs is branching out with streaming with YouTube
Speaker 4: and also sticking with TSCN to some extent.
Speaker 5: And you can say what you want about the CFL,
Speaker 5: but they deliver big numbers for TSN and the summer
Speaker 5: done in the summertime, especially when hockey's not there, it's
Speaker 5: a big component for TSN to get through the summer.
Speaker 5: And this is massive money for the CFL done. And
Speaker 5: what's going to happen is the salary cap is going
Speaker 5: to go up because the players are going to say, hey,
Speaker 5: look at the money coming in. And so now you
Speaker 5: can go out and get more American pleasant problem, a
Speaker 5: pleasant problem. You can pay players more. The league's going
Speaker 5: to get better because you're paying more. Go down to
Speaker 5: the South, get some guys that used to play in
Speaker 5: the NFL, get them up here. Pay a little bit more.
Speaker 5: It's all good.
Speaker 4: I think the most interesting aspect of this, though, is
Speaker 4: the situation with the zone, because I know how much
Speaker 4: trouble you have with streaming.
Speaker 5: I hate this well.
Speaker 4: The Zone. It's a big player in the world of
Speaker 4: sports media right now. Champions League NFL, there's an NHL component, boxing, PGA,
Speaker 4: pretty much pretty much everything. This will allow the CFL
Speaker 4: to air its product if streaming you know where. Streaming
Speaker 4: is available to over two hundred countries outside the US
Speaker 4: and Canada. It's it's it seems to be the wave
Speaker 4: of the future. Hate it and the present.
Speaker 5: Hate it now. Listen to me, horrible idea to put
Speaker 5: twenty one cer. No one supports the CFL more than
Speaker 5: you and I. In this market, I will not be
Speaker 5: paying I okay, listen to me. We live in a
Speaker 5: very expensive city. I'm really worried. The Canucks have gone there. Now,
Speaker 5: lines have gone there, now, the white Caps have gone there.
Speaker 5: Where is this heading in two, four, six, eight, ten
Speaker 5: years done? Are we going to be paying four hundred
Speaker 5: bucks a month to watch our local teams? I don't
Speaker 5: know if the White CAP's going to be here, but
Speaker 5: this is ridiculous. A family of four. Right now, the
Speaker 5: dollar is stretching. You know what, whether your kids are
Speaker 5: in sports, are in there in university, every penny counts
Speaker 5: now because we live in a very expensive city, the
Speaker 5: dollar is stretching and stretching and stretching. Look, I already
Speaker 5: paid for TSN and Sports Net. I'm not paying anymore.
Speaker 5: I'm not paying anymore. These guys can go on and shot.
Speaker 5: There's twenty one games up you know where. I'm not
Speaker 5: going to pay for this.
Speaker 4: And I'm so you don't watch the You don't watch
Speaker 4: the Canucks game on Amazon?
Speaker 7: No?
Speaker 5: I no, I get the Amazon game. I'll tell I'm
Speaker 5: not telling you how I get the Amazon game. But
Speaker 5: not just done. Listen, I'm not paying. And nobody supports
Speaker 5: the CFL more than you and I. We went to
Speaker 5: Empire Stadium, watch the Eskimo's Warm Moon.
Speaker 4: You can well, there's there's an amount of there's a
Speaker 4: mount of an amount of risk to that, to this.
Speaker 4: I get this, But are they supposed to turn down
Speaker 4: this money?
Speaker 5: They're not supposed to turn But don't expect me to pay.
Speaker 5: I'm not going to pay. It's not a penny comes
Speaker 5: out of my bocket for these guys.
Speaker 4: Is it because you don't want to pay or because
Speaker 4: you can't figure out how to access streaming.
Speaker 5: No, just they're a little both. First of all, don
Speaker 5: why the hell am I paying for TSN and sports Net?
Speaker 4: And then more on.
Speaker 5: Top of that, why like why like I I mean,
Speaker 5: family budgets are going through the roof and cable internet
Speaker 5: all this well, you know, people are cutting out the
Speaker 5: what's the ground line?
Speaker 4: The phone?
Speaker 5: Everyone's just got sells now. But Donnie, it's it's just
Speaker 5: if you keep adding twenty twenty twenty.
Speaker 4: Times, what bothers me a boat streaming?
Speaker 5: I'm not doing it.
Speaker 4: And Ryan, you can chime in here. I know we're
Speaker 4: we're shirt on time here, but you can chime in
Speaker 4: here for a second. You you, if you subscribe to
Speaker 4: the zone, what will you be paying per month if
Speaker 4: you're interested in the CFL games come twenty twenty seven,
Speaker 4: and we don't know what the price will be, you know,
Speaker 4: come a year or two from now.
Speaker 7: That's that's the thing. Today's today's cost is twenty five
Speaker 7: bucks a month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and so there's those in the extra charge per
Speaker 4: game twenty five bucks a month.
Speaker 7: Twenty five bucks a month, and there's pros and cons
Speaker 7: and one of the pros is in Canada.
Speaker 8: The Zone is the hub for the NFL, NFL, if.
Speaker 7: You're an if you're if you don't have cable, and
Speaker 7: especially for people that the favorite team is in the Seahawks.
Speaker 7: Like my brother's a massive Indianapolis Colts fan. The only
Speaker 7: way he can watch Colts games for the most part
Speaker 7: is through the Zone. So if you have the Zone now,
Speaker 7: you're also gonna get the CFL. And that's a that's
Speaker 7: a nice promotional vehicle for the CFL.
Speaker 4: No doubts, league, boxing, golf, some NHL content as well.
Speaker 4: If they were going just about the CFL, if they were.
Speaker 7: Going to some unknown or if they were launching their
Speaker 7: own streamer or something, I'd be even more correct.
Speaker 4: I just get upset with that mL I know it's changed,
Speaker 4: but that Apple deal with with MLS where and this
Speaker 4: still bothers me with streaming, how it's changed. It was
Speaker 4: supposed to be let's say, ten dollars a month and
Speaker 4: that was it. But now it's like all of a sudden,
Speaker 4: I'm watching a movie or I'm watching a sporting and
Speaker 4: there's ads I wasn't supposed to be the case, or
Speaker 4: I'm paying extra for that movie or for for that.
Speaker 4: Sports supposed to be like that. No, it's changed. It's
Speaker 4: supposed to be better than cable and like financially speaking,
Speaker 4: and it's not. I'm sorry, it's not. Especially if you
Speaker 4: add it all up, you get get Apple, if you
Speaker 4: get the Zone, if you've got cable on top of that,
Speaker 4: which most sport sports fans do.
Speaker 5: There you go, why should I? So that's one hundred
Speaker 5: and eight box we got to break? But that is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: So the white Caps want you to pay extra to
Speaker 5: watch extra. The Canucks want you to pay extra, Like
Speaker 5: where the hell are we heading?
Speaker 4: Where? Where are we going here? Like in you got
Speaker 4: to ask Patrick? You get upset Stuart Johnson. I'm getting
Speaker 4: mixed up with Patrick. Patrick Johnson had a very good
Speaker 4: article in the Province today.
Speaker 5: Or talk about your buddy Heronic.
Speaker 4: Yeah, shipping him to the San Jose future captain of
Speaker 4: the Sharks. Okay, here's what's coming up on the showcase.
Speaker 4: The hand signals, I get it, we got to break
Speaker 4: DTMZ is it just me? Coming up in the eleven
Speaker 4: o'clock hour, John Shannon mister Television, he'll talk about the
Speaker 4: CFL deal and about the Stanley Cup playoffs. Of course,
Speaker 4: Big Ryan the Twitter guy coming up later this hour
Speaker 4: and up next from the Athletic and he's got a
Speaker 4: forward who are centered and not not who you think
Speaker 4: not named Gavin McKenna who he prefers over caleab Maholtre Wow. Okay,
Speaker 4: so I heard him on six fifty today Thomas Drants
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Speaker 4: Vancouver just before we bring and Thomas Drantz from the
Speaker 4: Athletics some just awful news man. The sports world around
Speaker 4: these parts around Canada has been hit hard lately. This
Speaker 4: is so strange. Yeah, this is from the NHL Alumni Association,
Speaker 4: devastated to share that Claude Lemieux has passed away at
Speaker 4: the age of sixty. Born in Buckingham, Quebec, Claude was
Speaker 4: selected by the Montreal Canadians round two of the eighty
Speaker 4: three NHL at Your Draft. He went on to win
Speaker 4: a const My Trophy and three Stanley Cups with the
Speaker 4: three different teams, the Haves, the Devils and the Avalanche.
Speaker 4: Ricky brought in the torch just the other day at
Speaker 4: the Bell Center and he looked great. Sixty years old.
Speaker 4: My Lord God bless him. Claude Lemieux leaving us a
Speaker 4: tough transition and transition. We're going to make it. Thomas
Speaker 4: Drantz joins us from the Athletic Thomas, are you sir?
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's terrible news. I mean, man, you had to
Speaker 9: love the way Lemiue competed as a player. You know,
Speaker 9: some of my earliest memories were just absolutely yelling at
Speaker 9: my television, mad at the guy, because you know, the
Speaker 9: ninety six as that just steamrolled the Canucks in the playoffs,
Speaker 9: and Lemiu had been a big.
Speaker 3: Part of it.
Speaker 9: I loved his game, like, I just loved watching him
Speaker 9: play as a competitor, obviously at a long career post
Speaker 9: hockey too, and it was cool to see him in
Speaker 9: the jersey.
Speaker 4: Like just this week, Yeah, looking great talking yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 9: Rest in peace, man, like rest in peace to an
Speaker 9: absolute legend, like honestly one of the purest competitors winners played,
Speaker 9: played the game exactly the way. You know, you hate
Speaker 9: him when your team's playing against him, you love him
Speaker 9: when he's on your team, Like just the the absolute
Speaker 9: picture of what I like when I watch hockey, and
Speaker 9: he sort of epitomized I agree.
Speaker 4: And you're being on there, Thomas. You you hated him,
Speaker 4: but you wanted him on your team. Yeah, Brad Musham
Speaker 4: would be in that category as well. Sixty years old
Speaker 4: puppy and he leaves us. Okay, another tough transition. I
Speaker 4: heard you on six fifty Radio today, excellent hit as always.
Speaker 4: You were going on about Sweden's Vigo Bjorke, and it
Speaker 4: sounded to me like if he was there at number three,
Speaker 4: tell me if I'm wrong, Vigo Buorke. It's from another show.
Speaker 4: I believe that that phrase, But tell me if I'm wrong,
Speaker 4: Vigo Bjork is there. Caleb Maholtro is there. It sounded
Speaker 4: like you would take Vigo Bjork.
Speaker 9: I think there's an argument to take Vigo Bjorke ahead
Speaker 9: of iver Stenberg. Now, look, I want to contextualize this, gentleman.
Speaker 9: I've been I've been crunching the numbers, and I've been
Speaker 9: watching the tape, and I've been putting together a series
Speaker 9: which your viewers can go check out. At the Athletic
Speaker 9: started making the case for everybody, making the case for
Speaker 9: iber Stenberg.
Speaker 3: It's a very impressive case.
Speaker 9: Making the case for Kayla Malhotra also a wildly impressive case,
Speaker 9: by the way, a really good prospect. Making the case
Speaker 9: for the defenseman at the top of the class. I
Speaker 9: really like Carls out of Prince George, western Canadian kid.
Speaker 9: He really stood out to me when I was watching
Speaker 9: the video of him just mashing guys and looking at
Speaker 9: the data and talking to scouts around the business. Tomorrow
Speaker 9: I'm going around the B York piece, and I'd liked
Speaker 9: Byork's game from early on in this process, but this
Speaker 9: was the first time, over the course of the last
Speaker 9: ten days that I'd really sat down and done the
Speaker 9: deep dive, and the takeaway that I have from Byork
Speaker 9: is like I'd sort of liked him as a guy
Speaker 9: who I thought would be undervalued in this class. I
Speaker 9: think it's more than that. I think this guy's got
Speaker 9: a legit prodigy level profile. I mean, we're talking about
Speaker 9: a guy who, you know, at sixteen in the j twenty,
Speaker 9: which is sort of the Swedish version of the CHL,
Speaker 9: was leading.
Speaker 3: Scorer ever ever.
Speaker 9: He's the most productive sixteen year old ever in that league,
Speaker 9: and second place is twenty four points behind him. Twenty
Speaker 9: four points behind him, even if you go on a
Speaker 9: point per game basis, Even if you go on a
Speaker 9: point per game basis, he's number one ever, and it's
Speaker 9: by a huge margin, only him, William Nilander, and this
Speaker 9: six foot two center Milan Sunstrom, who will talk about
Speaker 9: more twelve months from now, gentlemen, especially given that he's
Speaker 9: from warren Skoldsvik, the hometown of Hendrik and Daniel Sedin.
Speaker 9: They're the only three guys who've ever been over a
Speaker 9: point and a half per game in that league at sixteen,
Speaker 9: and he's number one by a mile over those other
Speaker 9: two guys. He played pro hockey in Sweden at the
Speaker 9: age of sixteen. He played one game, which also is
Speaker 9: wildly impressive, especially given that you know he's under five
Speaker 9: point ten and he scored a goal. He scored a
Speaker 9: goal in his one game against professionals men at the
Speaker 9: age of sixteen. This season, at seventeen, he plays in
Speaker 9: the SHL, which is the top Swedish profession league. It's
Speaker 9: very rare, like the list of centers that play Sahl
Speaker 9: hockey at the age of seventeen is is short, you know,
Speaker 9: like in the early nineties we're talking Peter Forsberg, we're
Speaker 9: talking Nicolas Sunstrom. Late nineties we're talking Hendrik Sadeen. Last
Speaker 9: fifteen years we're talking Mika's Banajad. We're talking Leo Carlson,
Speaker 9: Marco Casper, like we're talking, you know, the best of
Speaker 9: the best, yoel Eric Sinek. Right, it's only like ten
Speaker 9: guys on the list that even do it, that even
Speaker 9: do it, and this guy outproduced all of them except
Speaker 9: for the guys from the early ninties. Like this guy
Speaker 9: had you know, eighteen points in forty eight games. His
Speaker 9: role expanded as the year went along. He ended up
Speaker 9: playing twenty minutes a night and being point per game
Speaker 9: in the playoffs. He's the most productive seventeen year old
Speaker 9: SAHL centerman this century, this century, and by a lot,
Speaker 9: by a lot, Like he's much better at the SAHL
Speaker 9: level as a seventeen year old than Edrick Sidein was.
Speaker 9: This is again prodigy level stuff. This is crazy and
Speaker 9: the way gentlemen after that. After that, so he gets
Speaker 9: called up. They plays the whole season in the SHL.
Speaker 9: Then they send him back to the j twenty, back
Speaker 9: to his sort of junior level team after they're eliminated
Speaker 9: in the playoffs. And the junior level team without him
Speaker 9: was like mid They were fourth in the league. They
Speaker 9: ground out a first round series win. It's the best
Speaker 9: of three. So in five games against Moto they don't
Speaker 9: lose again, three straight sweeps. He has twenty points and
Speaker 9: nine games against his peers, twenty points and nine games
Speaker 9: and they only allow twelve goals against. They win all
Speaker 9: nine games against the three best teams in j twenty,
Speaker 9: he's just air dropped back to his peer group and
Speaker 9: single handedly wins a championship. Now he's playing at the
Speaker 9: Worlds and he's playing eighteen minutes against NHL players.
Speaker 3: He's winning face offs against.
Speaker 9: Ryan O'Reilly, he's coming out of board battles against Mark
Speaker 9: Schifley with the pawk.
Speaker 3: He's almost point per game. He's got six points in
Speaker 3: seven games.
Speaker 9: He's playing fifteen to sixteen minutes a night for the
Speaker 9: senior men's national team in Sweden. And so before this
Speaker 9: you could say credibly like, well, you know, he's five
Speaker 9: nine and a half and he's not an elite skater.
Speaker 9: How's it gonna work against Stanchel players. It's like, well,
Speaker 9: I'll tell you how it's gonna work against Stanchill players.
Speaker 9: This guy always has the puck. He always find ways
Speaker 9: to produce. He's a right handed centerman who's already capable
Speaker 9: of winning draws. Like what box doesn't this guy check.
Speaker 9: You want a competitor, he's got it. You want a
Speaker 9: defensive difference maker, complete game, he's got it. You want
Speaker 9: a faceoff winner, he's got it. You want a right
Speaker 9: handed centerman, he's got it. You want a scoring profile
Speaker 9: that jumps off the page, He's got it. And by
Speaker 9: the way, seven months younger than Stenberg is. Like, I've
Speaker 9: talked at length about Stenberg's historic SHL season well when
Speaker 9: he was seventeen, like when he was the age b
Speaker 9: York was this past season, Byorke was way more productive
Speaker 9: at the same level in the same league. So for
Speaker 9: to take Stenberg, like, I'd probably rate Stenberg higher personally,
Speaker 9: but I think there's a conversation to be had. I
Speaker 9: think we're sleeping on this guy. This profile, to me,
Speaker 9: is very much in the mix for the best non
Speaker 9: McKenna profile in this draft class, and I kind of
Speaker 9: hadn't realized it until I really dove into it all.
Speaker 9: I just came away being like, you know, because again
Speaker 9: I'm making the case for these guys, what's the case
Speaker 9: to take this guy at third?
Speaker 3: Overall? What's the case?
Speaker 9: I made the case for every guy, and this was
Speaker 9: the one that I found the most compelling, maybe even
Speaker 9: more so than I verse Tenver.
Speaker 5: There is a case to be made for Manny Maholtro
Speaker 5: to be the next head coach of the Canucks. They
Speaker 5: started negotiating early this week. It's Thursday, still no deal.
Speaker 5: What's going on there?
Speaker 9: Well, negotiation, right, was what was in the air earlier
Speaker 9: this week. Rick, as you touched on on this program.
Speaker 9: I'm not surprised, not surprised by that at all. We've
Speaker 9: talked about this at length. Right, Malhotra is not just
Speaker 9: a top candidate here, He's a top candidate period. You
Speaker 9: talked about profiles, Right, Every team in the NHL wants
Speaker 9: top American league head coach. Guy who's won a championship
Speaker 9: at that level. Guy with significant experience in the NHL
Speaker 9: both as a player and and on a coaching staff,
Speaker 9: which he has across seven years on Travis Green's staff
Speaker 9: in Vancouver and then.
Speaker 3: Sheldon Keeps in Toronto.
Speaker 9: You want a good communicator, a guy who has close
Speaker 9: relationships with players. How about a guy who can develop
Speaker 9: young players and isn't afraid to play them. This is
Speaker 9: what every team in the NHL wants. This is what
Speaker 9: Manny Mahotra offers. I'm not surprised that it's taking a
Speaker 9: little bit of time. I would have hoped that it
Speaker 9: would get done this week, but you've still got Monday
Speaker 9: before most of Canucks brass heads to Buffalo for the
Speaker 9: NHL Draft combine, I suppose I don't think the twins
Speaker 9: are going, So I guess.
Speaker 3: Have I frozen there?
Speaker 4: Okay?
Speaker 3: Yeah, anymore, froze there.
Speaker 9: I froze there, looking like a Karen or something, right like,
Speaker 9: looking like I was about to ask you for the manager.
Speaker 3: Anyway, anyway, so you still have time to get this done.
Speaker 9: But yeah, I think the longer this drags out, the
Speaker 9: more questions will have about, you know, like is this
Speaker 9: a financial issue, because because I don't think we think
Speaker 9: it's an evaluation issue, right, we think that we think
Speaker 9: the commands of very high on Malatrap.
Speaker 3: They should be. He's clearly the right fit for the job.
Speaker 3: We'll see when they get it done.
Speaker 4: Froze froze there like a Karen beauty Wow.
Speaker 5: Wow wow and wow. Uh one other question. Uh, we're
Speaker 5: we're all being uh, we're all concentrating on Manny the draft.
Speaker 5: What about July first? They got some money to play with,
Speaker 5: you know, like you know, like you know, Ryan's out
Speaker 5: there talking agents and yeah, you know he's talking agents
Speaker 5: right now and looking for you know, side speed and skill,
Speaker 5: but good teammates, looking let's go quiet. I'm going to
Speaker 5: be interested to see what they spend on July first,
Speaker 5: how much they spend, because I think it's going to
Speaker 5: be significant.
Speaker 3: Really, I hope it is. I think it should be.
Speaker 9: The So, okay, there's there's a lot to pack here,
Speaker 9: and I'll try to do it as straight manus straightforward
Speaker 9: a fashions.
Speaker 4: Just don't freeze like Karen. Don't freeze like Karen.
Speaker 3: I will try not to freeze. It's like a Karen. Okay.
Speaker 9: So the cap is going up, right, And so in
Speaker 9: the past ten years, every dollar you spent in free
Speaker 9: agency was a dollar that you couldn't use to like
Speaker 9: get a player for free on the trade market, right,
Speaker 9: I mean the Oliver b York Strand for two mid
Speaker 9: round picks type trade. Right, eighty percent of the league
Speaker 9: was available for free and all you.
Speaker 3: Had to have was cap space.
Speaker 9: So when you spent cap space on July one, it
Speaker 9: was a problem, right, It was inefficient, it was suboptimal
Speaker 9: for teams. Now the CAP's going to go up and
Speaker 9: there's no one in free agency right, which means that
Speaker 9: talent is going to concentrate and there's going to be
Speaker 9: more cap space. Teams are going to have more cap
Speaker 9: space than good ways to use it on players worth
Speaker 9: the cap space.
Speaker 3: Okay, and so for a team like the.
Speaker 9: Vancouver Canucks, who are the thirty seven team in the league,
Speaker 9: the least talented team in the league, this is a
Speaker 9: problem because you do not want teams to be able
Speaker 9: to keep their players. You want cap pressure to cause
Speaker 9: teams to have to make hard decisions with their players,
Speaker 9: like the Tampa Bay Lightning did when the Vancouver Canucks
Speaker 9: traded for JT.
Speaker 3: Miller, for example.
Speaker 9: Without that, talent won't flow around the league, and that
Speaker 9: is bad for you, the thirty second place team. I
Speaker 9: think the Vancouver Canucks should wade into free agency and
Speaker 9: throw around silly amounts of money. I think they should
Speaker 9: be trying to send a message to every Nick Schmaltz
Speaker 9: and Poler in Anaheim, and who is the gentleman who
Speaker 9: just signed in Columbus, Charlie Coyle, send a message like, oh,
Speaker 9: maybe I shouldn't take this team friendly deal before I
Speaker 9: hear what the crazies in Vancouver might offer me like
Speaker 9: I literally think they need to send a lightning bolt
Speaker 9: around the league. And the way that I'd love to
Speaker 9: see it done is you go to high character guys, size, speed,
Speaker 9: skill and marketable, marketable on a in trades. My list
Speaker 9: would be like Colton Sistans, right handed center in Vegas,
Speaker 9: Michael McCarron, right handed center in Minnesota. How about Beck Mallenstein,
Speaker 9: local kid, good guy, super fast, skater.
Speaker 3: Physical, hits hard, everything you'd want.
Speaker 9: And I'd look at the right handed defenders, your radishes,
Speaker 9: your truba's, all those guys, and I would love to
Speaker 9: see the Canucks make huge money offers.
Speaker 3: I'm talking like six million a year for Michael McCarran,
Speaker 3: but for two years, two years, other teams are going
Speaker 3: to be offering him what two and a half times five? Okay,
Speaker 3: that's ten million total.
Speaker 9: I'm offering you twelve over two right, six million times
Speaker 9: two only an eight team no trade, right, like a
Speaker 9: limited no trade, very small so that I can borrow
Speaker 9: him for eighteen months. Get a character, physical, face off,
Speaker 9: winning guy, Insulate young players, teach everyone how to be
Speaker 9: a pro, do the media thing, Embrace being in Vancouver
Speaker 9: and then in eighteen months will retain half of the
Speaker 9: deal and trade three million dollar Michael mccairn after we've
Speaker 9: juiced his production for eighteen months. Right, you create assets,
Speaker 9: you help the environment, and you create this crazy financial
Speaker 9: incentive where other teams are going to have pressure to
Speaker 9: keep up, which is going to be a critical route
Speaker 9: for Vancouver to sort of win the next five to
Speaker 9: seven years in the NHL. Like this is a high
Speaker 9: revenue team in an intense Canadian market. As the cap
Speaker 9: goes up, what your hope is is that some of
Speaker 9: those teams where you can get into the Lower Bowl
Speaker 9: for thirty five bucks to watch a Stanley Cup contender
Speaker 9: are going to struggle to keep up and pay salaries
Speaker 9: in one hundred and fifty million dollar upper limit world.
Speaker 9: Create the incentive, create the environment where teams are going
Speaker 9: to be willing to give you really good players because
Speaker 9: they can't afford them, especially if you're spending a lot
Speaker 9: of time drafting young players who are more cost controlled.
Speaker 3: Right like that, that's the way that five.
Speaker 9: Years from now, I think the Canucks can begin to
Speaker 9: position themselves to come out of this rebuild with rocket boots.
Speaker 9: Its on, right and become one of the like catapult
Speaker 9: up the league standing. So that's what I want to
Speaker 9: see the Canucks do. I want to see them laid
Speaker 9: into free agency and spend even though there's not great
Speaker 9: players around. And I want to see them be very
Speaker 9: scrupulous about limiting term and keeping the ability of the
Speaker 9: flexibility in place to.
Speaker 3: Auction those guys off. That's my plan.
Speaker 9: I know it's a week July one, gentlemen, I would
Speaker 9: say this is the most important July one in the
Speaker 9: history of the Vancouver Connucks.
Speaker 4: Right. I almost froze like a Karen when you said
Speaker 4: the Knucks should span on July one, because we all
Speaker 4: know there's not a great history there. But it makes
Speaker 4: sense with the two year terms. By the way, before
Speaker 4: they let you go, you can use this Rick. Did
Speaker 4: you know this Milan Sunstrim, who Thomas just talked about,
Speaker 4: grandson of Patrick Sunstrom. Put that in your pipe and smoking.
Speaker 5: Patrick Sunstrom, number seventeen. Great in the eighties for the Canucks.
Speaker 4: Great. Great.
Speaker 5: You wouldn't know that you're twenty years old anyways, Patrick.
Speaker 3: Sir Patrick Sunstrom, he was traded to New Jersey.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Greg Adams and Kirk McClain, I know you're telling
Speaker 5: me about Patrick Sunstrom. I grew up watching the guy
Speaker 5: was great, one of the best Swedes in Cannuck's history.
Speaker 4: All right, use that Thomas, and we'll talk to you
Speaker 4: next week. Gentlemen, you met Thomas Drants from the Athletic.
Speaker 4: That was a big deal, that that deal Patrick Sunstrom,
Speaker 4: Milan Suntrium. I guess he's an eligible drafts next year. Said,
Speaker 4: but remember that deal was one of Pat Quinn's first
Speaker 4: best traits. Greg Adams two Warriors for pastrom had an
Speaker 4: eight point game. Yeah, with with the Devils, but it
Speaker 4: was a great deal for Vancouver. Okay, our thanks to
Speaker 4: Thomas Strants to break and then we'll deal with the
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Speaker 5: Rick Ryan got her up. The Watling Dog pop pole question.
Speaker 5: How do you watch the majority of your sports? Look
Speaker 5: at this cable is leading the way at sixty two percent,
Speaker 5: but streamings is up there thirty eight percent. And there
Speaker 5: you go, and the BC lines a new deal. Donny,
Speaker 5: twenty one games for the CFL are going to be
Speaker 5: on a dazen or whatever that it's just streeting the zone.
Speaker 5: I don't know, well it spelled the Dazen. I don't
Speaker 5: know why how do you get to zone out of Dazen?
Speaker 5: But anyways, Donnie, it's got to stop. It's got to stop.
Speaker 5: It's not going to say, here's the thing. Do you
Speaker 5: see the white Caps ever release their their numbers on TV?
Speaker 4: No? Do you know why?
Speaker 5: Because they're crap. They're crap, Donnie, their crap. That's why
Speaker 5: they don't release their numbers on Apple. Nobody is watching
Speaker 5: the white Caps on Apple. Take it to the bank.
Speaker 5: Nobody will watch the CFL on the zone.
Speaker 4: But listen. But so you turn down that money.
Speaker 5: I never said that I have an option to watch
Speaker 5: on TSN, which I will do the majority the game's ninety.
Speaker 4: We don't have an option though on Saturday.
Speaker 5: Nights, and I will if it's the lines aren't playing,
Speaker 5: I don't care. But if the lines are playing, I'll
Speaker 5: try and figure out how to get the game.
Speaker 4: But setup just stop, dog, I will know.
Speaker 5: I will try and figure out how to watch the
Speaker 5: Lions if they're on this at zone, but I'll let me.
Speaker 5: I'll figure I might have to go to a buddy's house,
Speaker 5: a buddy's friend's house.
Speaker 4: The how cheap what you're talking about, I'm not it's
Speaker 4: not about it. You're not about Your job is to
Speaker 4: stay up to date in the world of sports. You can't.
Speaker 4: And it's not just about the CFL or NFL games
Speaker 4: on the zone. It's the way of the future with it.
Speaker 5: The way the future is me sitting on my couch
Speaker 5: and not paying extra for all these stupid sports. I
Speaker 5: shouldn't have to pay extra.
Speaker 4: I'm paying. It is frustrating because I will I will
Speaker 4: say this. It is frustrating because we pay so much
Speaker 4: for cable, thank you, and then you gotta pay cable
Speaker 4: Slash Internet, and then you got.
Speaker 5: To pay for Netflix, and then you gotta pay for this.
Speaker 5: You don't have to pay for that. Okay, okay, fine,
Speaker 5: I'm just saying I don't need my TV cable bill
Speaker 5: to be two three four hundred bucks a month. So
Speaker 5: what would ridiculous.
Speaker 4: We're going to have Stuart Johnson on the show when
Speaker 4: your your advice, I'm gonna tell him. Your advice to
Speaker 4: him would be don't take the deal. I never said that.
Speaker 5: My advice to him is make sure it's a low
Speaker 5: low number that you got to pay to pay to
Speaker 5: play or pay to watch.
Speaker 4: If it look.
Speaker 5: Twenty one games? Actually, what would.
Speaker 4: Your reaction be if you found out there was a
Speaker 4: five hundred million dollar deal on the table for the CFL,
Speaker 4: which you know, a year after year needs help financially
Speaker 4: and they said no because people like Rick Dollywall don't
Speaker 4: want to. I think it's because you can't figure how
Speaker 4: to operate.
Speaker 5: Okay, So now we're at the Lions, Canucks make you
Speaker 5: pay what on Amazon? Amazon? White Caps make you pay
Speaker 5: on Apple? So the white Caps, Lions and the Canucks
Speaker 5: are going to make you pay a watch ridiculous? This
Speaker 5: is this is one hundred and.
Speaker 4: Eight dollars a month if you got all of them,
Speaker 4: if you got the Zone, sports Net plus TSN, Apple
Speaker 4: TV and Amazon Product Watch has NHL.
Speaker 5: I'm paying for SPORTSN, TSN. I don't want to pay
Speaker 5: and I will not pay for the other three. I'm
Speaker 5: not going to pay for it. I know I'm not
Speaker 5: going to pay for it. And if I do have
Speaker 5: to go, I'll go to a buddy's house or we go.
Speaker 4: Okay, this early is it just me? Or if is
Speaker 4: it just me? This is an onside or if it
Speaker 4: can afford an electric merced then he can afford to
Speaker 4: pay for streaming services that provide sports content and Rick
Speaker 4: can shop around instead of going to save On.
Speaker 5: For overpriced I only go to save On for one reason.
Speaker 5: It's two and a half minutes away. Otherwise I wouldn't
Speaker 5: go to save On. I only go to save On
Speaker 5: because it's two and a half minutes away. It's an
Speaker 5: easy in and out Donnie Safeways about twenty thirty No,
Speaker 5: not twenty thirty five, ten minutes away convenience.
Speaker 4: It is for Look, I'm in the business. I have
Speaker 4: to watch like if I'm not at the games.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's right, that's right. But I'm not. You're not
Speaker 5: gonna get me.
Speaker 4: It'll be interesting to see what the what the numbers are.
Speaker 4: CFL television numbers are very good. I mean that's wise.
Speaker 4: They wouldn't demand this kind of money or command this
Speaker 4: kind of money.
Speaker 5: And it's not being about cheapness.
Speaker 4: It's not about cheapness. About cheap No, it's not cheapness.
Speaker 4: And you can't figure out the technology. I mean, if
Speaker 4: I get figure it out, anybody can. Where are we Ryan?
Speaker 8: It's interesting you're talking about the cheapness.
Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. Oh I'm cheap.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you're you're you're not in this scenario because
Speaker 7: you actually have bucked up for these other things. Oh yeah,
Speaker 7: it's interesting.
Speaker 4: It's my job. Your job is to I don't know
Speaker 4: what like come on. Well he also he said you're
Speaker 4: gonna watch it, So I I got if I have to,
Speaker 4: I'll go to a buddy's house or I'll go to
Speaker 4: well the bars. Why should you the bars will have it?
Speaker 4: Why bars? Why should your buddy pay?
Speaker 5: Will? The bars have to be honest.
Speaker 8: That's one of the big things that these plays.
Speaker 4: The bars have his own No, not all.
Speaker 7: No, that's one of the things a lot of these
Speaker 7: places are running into because now you're you're seeing this
Speaker 7: uptick in streaming. A bar doesn't necessarily have an Apple
Speaker 7: TV that's hooked up to all their TVs they can
Speaker 7: just throw on.
Speaker 5: Or maybe they don't have any smart TV.
Speaker 4: They don't have an Internet.
Speaker 7: Yeah, but you have to, okay, that smart TV has
Speaker 7: to mirror in the entire establishment. It's not one TV
Speaker 7: like you would have at home. And so some of
Speaker 7: these places are running into issues that you know, they
Speaker 7: the older one.
Speaker 4: I think by the time twenty seven rolls around, twenty
Speaker 4: twenty seven rolls around. They did.
Speaker 8: But okay, but that business has to be but that
Speaker 8: business has to added.
Speaker 5: If they're called streaming.
Speaker 4: Service, I'm gonna get people to help out establishments like that.
Speaker 7: You're gonna add that to their costs and then we're
Speaker 7: just gonna pay more for our burgers and beers.
Speaker 4: But you know what, like you know, to Rick's point,
Speaker 4: like it was supposed to. This is supposed to be better.
Speaker 4: Things are supposed to improve as time goes on. I'm
Speaker 4: not so sure this is the case. Having said that,
Speaker 4: what's the CFL gonna do. Here's five million dollars over.
Speaker 5: But they're not getting five hundred million for the twenty
Speaker 5: one games. Don No, I know it's part.
Speaker 4: It's a total total.
Speaker 5: Don't say that they're getting the OWNE is giving them
Speaker 5: five hundred million. They're not.
Speaker 4: They're obviously giving them significant something something.
Speaker 7: To put it this way, Bell Media, ain't we know
Speaker 7: that they're not they're not. They're not making up the majority.
Speaker 5: Of that the good old days when we just watched
Speaker 5: on CBC and BCTV and that was it. And you
Speaker 5: know what, now these guys one game a week on
Speaker 5: game a week and we're happy we get our CFL
Speaker 5: on CBC. Now these guys are they just want They
Speaker 5: just want money, the owners of the white Caps, Lions
Speaker 5: and Canucks. So you gotta pay extra, you know what.
Speaker 4: I want to go on on on, Save the white Caps,
Speaker 4: Save the Lions. And you won't even buck up for
Speaker 4: you know, you don't buck up for tickets. I know that.
Speaker 4: And you don't even you don't buck up to watch games.
Speaker 5: You go to the game.
Speaker 4: Next time you complain about you gotta go. You gotta
Speaker 4: go out and support the line.
Speaker 5: All those people out there that Donnie and I in
Speaker 5: the eighties, don't don't pay extra for the subscription, don't
Speaker 5: do it, don't do it.
Speaker 4: When Patrick Sanstrom was lighting it up for the.
Speaker 5: Connuncent on BC TV Game of the Week.
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Speaker 4: were actually just contacted by the CFL before the show
Speaker 4: started regarding this television deal and streaming deal news, and
Speaker 4: they wanted again. Stuart Johnson commissioned the CFL on our
Speaker 4: show again eleven fifteen, John Shannon in our next segment,
Speaker 4: but right now, Big Rye.
Speaker 7: Just quickly we were talking about the streamers and bars
Speaker 7: in the previous segment, and somebody pointed out and they
Speaker 7: made a good point. The zone is probably exempt from
Speaker 7: that because of the NFL. A lot of the bars
Speaker 7: might have to zone. Do they have all of them?
Speaker 7: Do they have Apple TV for the caps for instance?
Speaker 8: I'm not so sure.
Speaker 4: Ran Like I didn't say this in the previous segment,
Speaker 4: but for you to come across as an expert on
Speaker 4: bars when you've never had an alcoholic drinking your eye,
Speaker 4: that is something else.
Speaker 7: I'm not saying I'm an expert, but I read an
Speaker 7: article recently Awful Announcing or The Athletic, but they were
Speaker 7: talking about that problem, that being a massive problem for
Speaker 7: a lot of you.
Speaker 4: Ever gone to the streets, down to the dirt into
Speaker 4: a bar to check things out? Have you in the
Speaker 4: last thirty years?
Speaker 5: No bos on the ground?
Speaker 4: Ask anybody at the Mountain Shadow in Okay.
Speaker 7: So we're talking a lot about the CFL today. John Gruden,
Speaker 7: this is outstanding. Yesterday, Derek show the photo first. Yesterday
Speaker 7: they teased this. So the Lions sent John a package.
Speaker 7: He posted a video opening another package and in that
Speaker 7: video he had this BC Lions shirt on. So this morning,
Speaker 7: John dropped his video. He does this on a social
Speaker 7: media is Twitter camp. By the way, his Twitter cant
Speaker 7: is barstool Gruden, where he gets these packages from card collectors, teams, whatever,
Speaker 7: and he opens them up and then he talks about
Speaker 7: the swag and the.
Speaker 8: People that have so today seven and a half minute
Speaker 8: long video.
Speaker 7: I wish they could run the whole thing because it's fabulous.
Speaker 7: This is a snippet, though, of the video Gruden posted
Speaker 7: this morning of him opening up his PC Lions gear.
Speaker 10: But this team, the British Columbia Lions. Look at that
Speaker 10: head coach Buck Pierce. Buck Pierce played quarterback in the
Speaker 10: CFL a long time.
Speaker 3: I remember him at.
Speaker 11: New Mexico State. He played with BC, played with Winnipeg.
Speaker 11: He also calls the plays for the BC Lions.
Speaker 3: Look at this.
Speaker 11: You know who the quarterback of this team is, Nathan Rourke.
Speaker 11: I mean this guy with the hell of a player
Speaker 11: at Alio.
Speaker 10: You he threw for fifty two last year, ran for
Speaker 10: about six hundred.
Speaker 11: You like that right now?
Speaker 3: That's really cool.
Speaker 10: Six great cups, thirteen titles in the division.
Speaker 11: Man, check that out. That's called tradition.
Speaker 10: Man.
Speaker 11: Leo the freaking Lion. That's their mascot. Look at this gear.
Speaker 4: You like this gear?
Speaker 11: You talk about Nathan Rourke. You know who else played
Speaker 11: quarterback here?
Speaker 3: Huh?
Speaker 11: Condredge Holloway my good friend for a year. I look back.
Speaker 11: Joe Capp, Joe Capp.
Speaker 10: Remember him in the longest yard, former head coach and
Speaker 10: Cal played for the Vikings.
Speaker 11: He led the league four years in a freaking row.
Speaker 4: And he goes on and on. It's very good and maybe.
Speaker 7: He looked up the Lions and memorized all this stuff before.
Speaker 8: I'm not sure. It's fantastic.
Speaker 4: Condridge Halloway was a big, big deal. Oh yeah, well
Speaker 4: and one year with the Lions, as he mentioned, and
Speaker 4: Jill Capp was a big oh yeah yeah. He would
Speaker 4: know those names for sure.
Speaker 7: And look at and gruden Is and I mean disrespect.
Speaker 7: He's a football nerd. It wouldn't surprise me if he
Speaker 7: knew all about Nathan Rourke and Buck Peers and all this.
Speaker 7: Nathan I Nathan had a really good college career, and
Speaker 7: of course the story with his brother as well, Curtis.
Speaker 7: But just fabulous again, if you have time today later today,
Speaker 7: seven and a half minutes is he's rifling through all
Speaker 7: this gear, but he's just going on on and on
Speaker 7: them with the Lions.
Speaker 5: Really great stuff.
Speaker 4: When you talk to NFL people about the CFL, one
Speaker 4: thing that amazes you is, well, one thing that gets
Speaker 4: driven home is how small the football world is. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they know so many people. Of course they do. You know,
Speaker 4: there's so many Americans who come up to play in
Speaker 4: the Canadian Football League. The connections are many. It really
Speaker 4: really hits them. They have I I've always said this,
Speaker 4: I think that people have more respect for the CFL,
Speaker 4: maybe even more than Canadian football fans are people involved
Speaker 4: in the NFL because they respect the great athletes up
Speaker 4: here and they know Joe Thaisman raves about the CFL
Speaker 4: and his time in Toronto. Doug Doug Flutey, are you
Speaker 4: kidding me? Getting choked up?
Speaker 5: It's banana, But listen, Doug Flutey. Does he do what
Speaker 5: he does if he doesn't come up to Canada first?
Speaker 4: No? No, well, actually it was in the NFL first.
Speaker 4: You have to come up to the CFL, back to
Speaker 4: the NIM.
Speaker 7: More recent I mean, I talk all the time about
Speaker 7: Cam wake tam Way, caamwake Man like he was a stud,
Speaker 7: an absolute stud in state.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Bobo Billivic found him at a camp outside of Maryland.
Speaker 5: He went to the wrong camp. Bob brought him back
Speaker 5: and Cam Wake you don't think he tells people. I
Speaker 5: love the CFL for sure.
Speaker 7: Up next, somebody to us that loves the CFL. John Shannon,
Speaker 7: he loves the CFL. And Stuart Johnson commissioned to the CFL.
Speaker 4: We know is mister television. He can talk about the CFL,
Speaker 4: streamlin about the national likely playoffs in the passing of Claude.
Speaker 8: Yeah, shocking stuff. We'll talk to Shannon next eleven fifteen.
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Speaker 4: what's shocking news today? Can roll the video here if
Speaker 4: you don't mind. Derek Claude Lemieux Montreal Canadians. Great. We
Speaker 4: just saw him what two three days ago at the
Speaker 4: Bell Center carrying out the torch for the Montreal Canadians
Speaker 4: ahead of Game three against the Carolina Hurricanes. Four times
Speaker 4: said three times, four times Stanley Cups champion wanted a
Speaker 4: couple of times with the Devils also cost my trophy
Speaker 4: winner back in ninety four to ninety five with the Devils.
Speaker 4: Sixty years old passes away unexpectedly. Again, we just saw him. Look,
Speaker 4: he looked great there, sixty years old carrying the torch
Speaker 4: and now he's now he's left us as we bring
Speaker 4: in John Shannon, John, thanks for doing this, sir. How
Speaker 4: are you And was your reaction to Claude Lemus passing.
Speaker 12: The same that you had, Donnie? I mean, he looked
Speaker 12: like the powerful Claude Lemieu that we saw so many
Speaker 12: years ago. Is you know it was nineteen eighty six
Speaker 12: when he came in and became a factor for Canadians
Speaker 12: and winning their Stanley Cup against the Calgary Flames, and
Speaker 12: then was a huge factor for Montreal and New Jersey
Speaker 12: and quite frankly wherever he played, because he was a winner,
Speaker 12: pure and simple. This guy knew how to win. He
Speaker 12: didn't necessarily become a fan favorite in lots of cities,
Speaker 12: but he had that drive to be the best and
Speaker 12: that's why he was so good. In his name is
Speaker 12: on the Stanley Cup four times.
Speaker 4: Yeah, these old school stat lines for him eighty one
Speaker 4: points in ninety two to ninety three, which I believe
Speaker 4: was a career high. One hundred and fifty five penalty minutes.
Speaker 4: You don't see that much much anymore.
Speaker 12: John, No, he and let's face it, he was.
Speaker 3: He was that.
Speaker 12: He was that disturber that a lot of teams wanted
Speaker 12: to have. He was like Ken Linzman in so many
Speaker 12: ways and could stir things up and create, you know,
Speaker 12: opportunities on the ice for his team to take advantage.
Speaker 12: He played to the edge most of the games. Sometimes
Speaker 12: he played over the edge, but he was certainly somebody
Speaker 12: that the teams he played for they valued what he
Speaker 12: brought beyond goals and.
Speaker 5: Assists ninety six, Colorado and Detroit, The Brawl. He was
Speaker 5: writing The Miser Chris Draper, the Shot, Andy Boy. He
Speaker 5: was right in the middle of it. CFL TV deal.
Speaker 5: What did you think of it? It's big box, it's
Speaker 5: good stuff all except for the streaming aspect of it.
Speaker 5: But anyways, all of a sudden, but I just said,
Speaker 5: other than the streaming aspect. Uh, your thoughts on the
Speaker 5: CFL deal.
Speaker 12: I think in this day and age, the numbers that
Speaker 12: they're talking about, you know, the five hundred million over
Speaker 12: six years, I think, in this day and age, it's
Speaker 12: amazing that the CFL was able to do this, whether
Speaker 12: it's conventional television, conventional cable TV like Bell and TSN
Speaker 12: and his own And by the way, Rick, do you,
Speaker 12: by the way, do you subscribe to the Athletic No?
Speaker 5: So, why why? Why?
Speaker 4: Why?
Speaker 5: Why why would I join?
Speaker 4: Well?
Speaker 12: Because you're I mean, you have grants on all the time.
Speaker 12: He's an athletic writer.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but I but I don't need it. I don't
Speaker 5: need it. I don't want it. I don't want to
Speaker 5: pay for it.
Speaker 4: I do this show you every day? You need it?
Speaker 12: No, I know this is the way our this is
Speaker 12: the way our business is going. This is the way
Speaker 12: our business is going.
Speaker 5: But I don't have to like it, John, I don't
Speaker 5: have to like it, John.
Speaker 12: Oh no, no, no. But here's the thing. You know,
Speaker 12: that twenty five game package that's going to be on
Speaker 12: the Zone is going to mean more jobs in our industry.
Speaker 12: There's going to be more opportunities for people to earn livings.
Speaker 12: I think that's good enough. I mean, I've been a
Speaker 12: subscriber to athleticsince Stay one because I wanted to help
Speaker 12: employ people. I believe in how the business is going.
Speaker 12: Do I don't like it, but I believe in giving
Speaker 12: back into the industry. I think it's important to give
Speaker 12: back into the industry because it is our life, it
Speaker 12: is our business, and that's important. And you know, the
Speaker 12: the zone situation is better. Your your poll is interesting,
Speaker 12: was it sixty two percent?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Said yeah.
Speaker 12: I guarantee you that those sixty two percent are over
Speaker 12: the age of forty, and I bet you that the
Speaker 12: thirty eight percent are under the age of thirty. And
Speaker 12: that's where young people are going to watch their cord cutters.
Speaker 12: They have never had cable in their life, and I
Speaker 12: think it's a brilliant move to try to reach a younger,
Speaker 12: more vibrant audience, because you know, we're you know, we're
Speaker 12: not sitting at home in our grandfather's basement watching cable
Speaker 12: TV anymore. And the kids aren't doing that, and they
Speaker 12: have to find a way to get to them. And
Speaker 12: that's exactly what this his own package will do.
Speaker 5: Okay, but where is this? In eight nine years? Is
Speaker 5: your watching sports bill going to be eight hundred a month?
Speaker 4: John?
Speaker 11: Like?
Speaker 5: Where does it end?
Speaker 12: Probably it probably, it probably won't be eight hundred dollars
Speaker 12: a month, but it's going to be more. It's discretionary, Rick,
Speaker 12: it's just do you go to movies? No?
Speaker 4: What do you do?
Speaker 5: Why I sit at home? Best seat in the house, John,
Speaker 5: is that I'm not twenty one anymore.
Speaker 12: But here, here's the deal. You have relied on the
Speaker 12: season ticket holder and and and corporate partners and corporate
Speaker 12: sponsors for your entertainment. Why don't you have to pay.
Speaker 8: Part of that?
Speaker 5: You don't have It's an option. It's an option in life.
Speaker 5: It's an option. I don't have to have Netflix, but
Speaker 5: I do have Netflix. And Ryan Walter. Ryan Walter told me.
Speaker 12: A minute, so you would rather you'd rather watch that
Speaker 12: Michael Jackson documentary.
Speaker 5: Yeah, oh, don't ask that.
Speaker 12: Then watch the b then watch then watch the BC Lions.
Speaker 5: But the Netflix is a family decision. I'm not the
Speaker 5: only one consuming it. The BC Lions on the dazen
Speaker 5: Or design that is a singular. You have to like
Speaker 5: the league and the team.
Speaker 4: But it's not Rick. You also get the NFL, you
Speaker 4: get the NHL, you get Champions League.
Speaker 5: Look, I'm stuck in the John, John, I'm stuck in
Speaker 5: the eighties. I'll never get out of the eighties. That's
Speaker 5: the bottom line.
Speaker 12: By the way, Sunstream was the second best suite prior
Speaker 12: to the twins that played for the Canucks.
Speaker 5: Thomas absolutely, Thomas Gredeen was number one. Absolute smil Gardeen,
Speaker 5: Fraser and I don't need the zone and I don't
Speaker 5: need the Zone to tell me that Thomas Gredeen was
Speaker 5: the best week.
Speaker 12: But I'll tell you what, though, if we went back
Speaker 12: to your world where you had Bernie and John doing
Speaker 12: games on Wednesdays, you had a Hockey Night on Saturday,
Speaker 12: you'd be so pissed off on that Tuesday game at
Speaker 12: the Coliseum that wasn't on television.
Speaker 4: We were so happy to get that five o'clock game
Speaker 4: on Saturday night.
Speaker 5: We were every three months.
Speaker 4: We were happy to get one Canuck game a week.
Speaker 12: That's any way, Donnie, Donnie, the contract called for four
Speaker 12: Canuck games a year.
Speaker 4: Was it that many?
Speaker 5: It was four?
Speaker 12: And I knew that was because the only reason I
Speaker 12: knew that on Hockey Day was because I got to
Speaker 12: produce them. Yeah, I mean I get I got to
Speaker 12: come home four times a year to produce Canut games
Speaker 12: at five o'clock.
Speaker 4: Can you imagine? Well, Rick wants to go back to that.
Speaker 5: I'm done. I'm not gonna stream. I don't want to stream,
Speaker 5: and I will never stream. Bottom line anyways.
Speaker 12: But you have, but you have, you have Netflix.
Speaker 5: But that's a family decision. Everybody watches it. The sports
Speaker 5: are different, your kids aren't. The sports are different. I
Speaker 5: got nobody in the house watch the CFL other than me.
Speaker 5: So that's my decision. Crave I don't know, No, I
Speaker 5: don't know. I don't got Crave. I don't have Crave.
Speaker 5: Why would I have Crave?
Speaker 4: It's kind of a catch all, pretty good product.
Speaker 5: I'm just an old I'm John. I'm an old fashioned guy,
Speaker 5: and I I'm really having problems with What do you do?
Speaker 4: What are you just listening again to the radio and
Speaker 4: that's it?
Speaker 5: Hey, I would I would love to listen to Jim
Speaker 5: Robson on the radio like I did in the eighties.
Speaker 5: It was the greatest thing ever, right, But now technology
Speaker 5: we got a new world and guess what, I'm having
Speaker 5: a tough time with it.
Speaker 12: In the moment, the moment that Canuck game is not
Speaker 12: televised next year for some reason or another.
Speaker 4: He'll stand.
Speaker 12: You would have a you would have a fit. You
Speaker 12: would have a fit. Rick, I mean, it's unbelievable. You know,
Speaker 12: I can't believe.
Speaker 3: How old are you?
Speaker 5: How old are you? I'm getting up there. I'm not
Speaker 5: a spring chicken and I'm not twenty one anymore.
Speaker 4: Or are you?
Speaker 12: Are you fifty yet?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well you're younger than John.
Speaker 5: I'm over fifty. I'm over fifty five.
Speaker 12: It is My point is I'm going to be seventy
Speaker 12: next month.
Speaker 4: Yeah, get over it. I'm having I'm having John, you
Speaker 4: made the best point. And Rick, you go on and
Speaker 4: on about our business and how it's dying. It seems
Speaker 4: to be any support people in our business. John's bang on.
Speaker 5: Okay, So walk up so so I hold that all
Speaker 5: that where's the where's the zone, where's the zone? Gonna
Speaker 5: do the CFL game America in in the US?
Speaker 4: What where? Where?
Speaker 5: Where's the talent? Where's their studio?
Speaker 12: Oh No, it's gonna be all it's uh, it's all
Speaker 12: gonna be Canadian.
Speaker 4: Okay.
Speaker 5: I didn't know that. I didn't know that. I don't
Speaker 5: know know.
Speaker 12: That's that's the thing is that this is like they
Speaker 12: you know, I for the most part, I think Amazon
Speaker 12: is about ninety percent Canadian of the people they have
Speaker 12: hired to work on their hockey package. I mean, and
Speaker 12: you should ask Stewart this. This is a good question
Speaker 12: for Stu.
Speaker 4: Yeah, market the.
Speaker 12: Production that's going to be done for his own will
Speaker 12: it be Canadian? Because that's he would understand and appreciate
Speaker 12: that as much as anybody that's you know, fifty to
Speaker 12: sixty new jobs, uh doing doing football across the country.
Speaker 4: Rick doesn't care not say that. John, We're way over
Speaker 4: time here. But this has been great, great conversation. We
Speaker 4: didn't even get into what happened last night in Montreal.
Speaker 4: Next week we'll talk Stanley Cup playoffs. John, Thanks for this.
Speaker 12: Say hello to Stewart for me.
Speaker 4: You bet. Stuart Johnson coming up a CFL commissioner. There
Speaker 4: you go. That's that's all we have time to talk
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Speaker 4: today announcing a new media deal involving TSN, Dezone and
Speaker 4: YouTube are reported six year deal starting in twenty twenty
Speaker 4: seven worth five hundred million dollars. This is on top
Speaker 4: of Stuart's rule changes and scheduling alteration and Stuart joins
Speaker 4: us now Stuart Johnson's CFL commissioner. Thanks for doing this, sir,
Speaker 4: How are you How do you have time to do
Speaker 4: this interview? Aren't you planning tomorre moves more bold moves?
Speaker 1: You know I would never miss this one. I went home,
Speaker 1: I got change, put a suit back on, so take
Speaker 1: this interview. I'm pleased to be here.
Speaker 4: Well, you got us beat with the suit. I'll tell
Speaker 4: you that it might be obvious Stewart, and maybe it
Speaker 4: comes down to dollars and cents, But why does this
Speaker 4: deal make sense for the Canadian Football League? Well?
Speaker 1: I think this is a transformational change that's going to
Speaker 1: happen with the CFL. You know, first up, we couldn't
Speaker 1: be more pleased to be renewing with our friends at
Speaker 1: Bell Media, who've probably been the single greatest supporter of
Speaker 1: the CFL over the last forty years in terms of
Speaker 1: a partner, and having them come back and be the
Speaker 1: home of a great Cup for another six years after this,
Speaker 1: I think is fantastic. They've got the they are one
Speaker 1: of the most powerful domestic media companies and they're going
Speaker 1: to drive our storytelling, our game forward here in Canada.
Speaker 1: And now we can welcome on board to Zone to Zone,
Speaker 1: the global sports entertainment leader with some of the best
Speaker 1: platform that is out there, and incredible distribution across every
Speaker 1: single device and a new way of telling stories. So
Speaker 1: more voices talking about the CFL. And of course we
Speaker 1: were so happy to talk about our new partnership with
Speaker 1: YouTube that's going to have even more content flowing through
Speaker 1: the biggest video platform in the world, and having them
Speaker 1: tie their name and their marketing efforts to the CFL.
Speaker 1: I think it's just great for the entire CFL community.
Speaker 4: Stuy, what do you say to people like my partner here, Rick,
Speaker 4: who aren't comfortable dealing with and or paying for them
Speaker 4: new fangled streaming services.
Speaker 1: Why I think you should say, Hey, what's the best
Speaker 1: way for me to consume the best sport on the planet?
Speaker 1: And we've got a domestic partner that's already proven out
Speaker 1: how well they can tell those stories, and de Zone
Speaker 1: is going to come in and prove that same thing
Speaker 1: out there. This is the way the future of of
Speaker 1: sports in the ecosystem of media. And we have now
Speaker 1: got two distinct voices telling CFL stories, both of them
Speaker 1: on outstanding platforms. And now also we have the biggest
Speaker 1: sports platform in the world, taking CFL content to over
Speaker 1: two hundred countries. It couldn't be more exciting, Stuart.
Speaker 5: We also live in one of the most expensive countries
Speaker 5: in the world and the dollar is stretching for families
Speaker 5: more and more and more. The White Caps are on
Speaker 5: Apple out here, and their numbers are not great on Apple.
Speaker 5: Is there a little bit of a concern Stuart, that
Speaker 5: everyone's not going to jump to Dezone?
Speaker 1: I think when de Zone comes out with their new production,
Speaker 1: they're going to use the backbone of a production house
Speaker 1: that produces over one hundred thousand events a year to
Speaker 1: the Canadian front end of that production and show us
Speaker 1: exactly how they plan to tell our stories. I think
Speaker 1: that's going to be incredibly exciting and people are going
Speaker 1: to appreciate that.
Speaker 5: The new TV deal. Talk about the salary cap now
Speaker 5: it's expected to go up a Stewart. That's got to
Speaker 5: be great because you're going to have more talent. You
Speaker 5: can the more players, more money, more talent. I mean,
Speaker 5: this is going to be a good effect all the
Speaker 5: way around.
Speaker 1: Well, look, we're thrilled where we landed from a financial perspective.
Speaker 1: I think I've talked to you guys before. You've asked
Speaker 1: me what I was looking for and what the league
Speaker 1: was looking for in our next media deal, and we said, look,
Speaker 1: we've got to optimize against three things. We want to
Speaker 1: maximize our revenue, we want to have a broad reach,
Speaker 1: and we want to be able to find new audiences.
Speaker 1: And I think this combination of Bell Media, Dezone and
Speaker 1: YouTube as a premier partner, I think that accomplishes all
Speaker 1: three of those things. And from a revenue perspective, we
Speaker 1: aren't confirming any numbers, we haven't spoken publicly about any numbers.
Speaker 1: I will say that it is a significant increase from
Speaker 1: where we stand today in terms of overall dollars, and
Speaker 1: that of course is going to have a wonderful flow
Speaker 1: through impact and also allow more investment into this league.
Speaker 4: Talking with Stuart Johnson of the Canadian Football League. This
Speaker 4: is the first time we've had you on in a
Speaker 4: long time, Stuart, and we apologize for that. But the
Speaker 4: new playoffs structure, we haven't talked to you about that.
Speaker 4: Eight of nine teams are going to be making the playoffs.
Speaker 4: What's the thinking there, because a lot of people are
Speaker 4: going saying, well, back in we used to make fun
Speaker 4: of the NHL when sixteen of twenty one teams made
Speaker 4: the playoffs, what about this?
Speaker 1: I think there's lots of perspectives you can have on playoffs.
Speaker 1: Let's start. Let's start with the point of view that
Speaker 1: playoffs are the most important and the highest games of
Speaker 1: consequence in any league. And we have the Great Cup,
Speaker 1: the single greatest championship in this country, and our current
Speaker 1: playoffs structure allows for a team to get there by
Speaker 1: winning one game, and I think so a lot of
Speaker 1: different viewpoints. A lot would say that's not really an
Speaker 1: effective playoffs system.
Speaker 4: Anyway.
Speaker 1: What I love about this is it rewards. It rewards
Speaker 1: your record in the regular season. If you don't come
Speaker 1: in the top two in each division, you're going to
Speaker 1: have a long road to try and get to the
Speaker 1: Great Cup and win it. It's introducing basically a playing
Speaker 1: round and that I think is going to be great
Speaker 1: for there at the end of the regular season as
Speaker 1: teams battle out to host playoff games. The host of
Speaker 1: a playoff game over the last five years as one
Speaker 1: eighty percent of those games. Every game is going to
Speaker 1: matter and we're going to have more exciting playoffs. We're
Speaker 1: even going to have the opportunity for a rematch in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. So I'm really looking forward to how this
Speaker 1: is going to play out. I think it's very exciting.
Speaker 5: Is Stuart, We got an issue with our soccer team,
Speaker 5: the white Caps might leave town, BC Place issue, revenue issue.
Speaker 5: What about the BC Lions and BC Place And are
Speaker 5: you overall happy with the growth of Lions the last
Speaker 5: couple of years.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I saw something about John Bruden, Yeah,
Speaker 1: opening up the BC line merchandise. He seemed really into it.
Speaker 1: And when we've got John Bruden who is so powerfully
Speaker 1: speaking about the greatness of the CFL and and particularly
Speaker 1: the BC Lions, I think that's a good step forward. Look,
Speaker 1: I've talked to ownership with Amar at the Lions as
Speaker 1: well as Dwayne and that that front office. They're excited
Speaker 1: about this upcoming season. They're excited to play at you know,
Speaker 1: in Colowna, but also back back home at BC Place,
Speaker 1: and you know, we're looking at a very strong future together.
Speaker 4: And very quickly, if you don't mind, Stuart, first of all,
Speaker 4: and I think you touched on this, will does Zone
Speaker 4: be using Canadian broadcasting talent?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they are looking to hire a Canadian broadcasting talent.
Speaker 1: I'm going to let them speak to their overall philosophy.
Speaker 1: You can bring them on and where they'd love to.
Speaker 1: You know, they're the head of the Zonne here in Canada,
Speaker 1: has roots in Alberta and Saskatchewan. When we first got
Speaker 1: started talking about a potential partnership, those early conversations were
Speaker 1: about watermelons on heads of that she remembers throwing up
Speaker 1: in front with her family. So they've got a great
Speaker 1: connection to this league and I know that they're going
Speaker 1: to have voices that are going to resonate with see
Speaker 1: a band.
Speaker 4: And very quickly, what's your next move Stewart. Yeah, you've
Speaker 4: made some bold ones Like I said, oh.
Speaker 1: Look, I'm just gonna put my feet up on my
Speaker 1: desk and relax, and that won't be the case I'm
Speaker 1: just too excited.
Speaker 4: We have luck.
Speaker 1: We have the right ownership group, the right partners, the
Speaker 1: reach to just grow momentum and overall grow this league.
Speaker 1: And I'm so energized by that looking forward to where
Speaker 1: this season which gets started and I cannot wait till
Speaker 1: next Thursday, but also running through and outstanding twenty six
Speaker 1: and then into twenty seven with all the new things
Speaker 1: that are going on.
Speaker 4: Yeah, real changes, scheduling alterations, the TV deal and you
Speaker 4: put on a suit for us. It doesn't get better
Speaker 4: for that, Stuart, thanks so much.
Speaker 1: You're very welcome. Thank you you.
Speaker 4: Bet CFL chirister Stewart Johnson. And by the way, the
Speaker 4: BC Lions play their final preseason game Friday in Winnipeg.
Speaker 5: Absolutely, it's pretty slick.
Speaker 4: Did he did he convince you that's a good thing.
Speaker 5: Time will tell. We'll see the numbers.
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Speaker 4: playoff type Guy, Okay, We're good, Ryan Yep. DTMZ next
Speaker 4: our thanks to Stuart Johnson, Donny Dolly, the team on Check.
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Speaker 4: couple of the interviews, so let's just do this for
Speaker 4: a DTMZ. Canada winning at the World Ice Hockey Championships
Speaker 4: over in Switzerland for nothing over the Americans. Devastating hit
Speaker 4: suffered by Evan Bouchard in the first period, Ryan Lindgren
Speaker 4: of the crack and laying him out. He got thrown
Speaker 4: thrown out of the game. That was tough to watch.
Speaker 4: Sidney Crosby gets his first goal after grabbing nine assists.
Speaker 4: I think it was non assist. But also Rick Sweden
Speaker 4: is playing. That was a quarterfinal game for the Canadians,
Speaker 4: by the way, significant in that they advanced and that
Speaker 4: remember last year they lost in the quarterfinals. They were
Speaker 4: up set by Denmark. But Sweden has a one nothing
Speaker 4: lead over Switzerland early on. Who's got the goal.
Speaker 5: Linus Carlson of the Vancouver Canucks. He is having a
Speaker 5: great world. Boy, that guy could hit twenty goals next year.
Speaker 5: Done with the Canucks, I won't be surprised.
Speaker 4: And one of the people who assisted on his goal. Yep,
Speaker 4: he's on the Canucks payroll. Oliver Ekman Larson.
Speaker 5: Oh, Canucks are paying a lot of people not to
Speaker 5: work next year.
Speaker 4: Not just what does that upset you so much?
Speaker 5: I don't like what do you think it's normal? You
Speaker 5: think every team in the NHL has got five people
Speaker 5: that are paying the.
Speaker 4: Worst person in the world. It's not. As you've proven
Speaker 4: throughout the show, You're not the one paying the money.
Speaker 5: I got people support me, Russ and Victoria. You know
Speaker 5: who you are. Russ says, I'm with you one hundred percent.
Speaker 4: And there's just four hundred people who go Dollywall buck
Speaker 4: up and John Shannon. Shannon made the good point. You
Speaker 4: go on and on about our industry is in flux
Speaker 4: right now, it's struggling, and you won't support.
Speaker 5: I just got nothing to do with the people. No,
Speaker 5: stop it.
Speaker 4: And that was a good point. Admit it. Okay, let's
Speaker 4: get right to birthdays.
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Speaker 4: Now there are two Ron Wilson's that played in the NHL.
Speaker 4: You sure you got I.
Speaker 5: Got the right. The Vancouver Canucks assistant coach under Bob McCammon,
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Speaker 4: Fine to deal with.
Speaker 5: So he was great. He was great. He didn't have
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Speaker 5: scoring time.
Speaker 4: He played for Sarnia.
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Speaker 4: Is it Terry Crisp?
Speaker 5: Yes, it is Terry Crisp who coached the Flames to the.
Speaker 4: Number one with Terry Crisp should be what did you
Speaker 4: I read his book? Well, hey, coch that's that's the number.
Speaker 4: That's not a clue. I'm telling you I read it well.
Speaker 4: He was the coach of the Flames when they won
Speaker 4: the Stanley Cup. But I remember as a kid he
Speaker 4: was one of the only other players in the NHL
Speaker 4: from Bobby or his hometown Perry Sound, Ontario. Perry Sound, Ontario,
Speaker 4: and there's probably others.
Speaker 5: And when he tells the story of Brett Hall and
Speaker 5: in the American League, they did not get along. Really
Speaker 5: good story. All right, let's change sports here. Known for
Speaker 5: practicing until his fingers bled widely, consider one of the
Speaker 5: greatest guards in basketball.
Speaker 4: History, Brian Adams. Brian Adams played the guitar until his
Speaker 4: fingers bled. Remember that cuts like a knife. You should
Speaker 4: know that summer of sixty nine. Why would I know
Speaker 4: that because you talk to me about how that's a
Speaker 4: signature and it's not.
Speaker 5: Cuts like a Knight knife, cuts like a knife, is
Speaker 5: Brian Adams signs Sean just so wrong. Anyway, go have
Speaker 5: a great video too by Brian.
Speaker 4: The first time I've agreed with you today.
Speaker 5: He played calls basketball for West Virginia Mountaineers, led them
Speaker 5: to the Jerry West.
Speaker 4: I knew it.
Speaker 5: The logo, the logo the Mountaineers, Jerry West Boy, Was
Speaker 5: he ever great?
Speaker 4: Four Times?
Speaker 8: Is a documentary coming out on him?
Speaker 4: Well, hold on the series and I'm looking forward to that.
Speaker 4: But that series winning time, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 8: Yeah, the depiction of.
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Speaker 4: All right?
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Speaker 5: Finals three times as a player, NHL record twenty eight
Speaker 5: shorthanded goals by defenseman. Played on the nineteen seventy two
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Speaker 4: But Mark Howe, Markow, I.
Speaker 5: Knew as soon as I said that, I knew You're
Speaker 5: gonna get it.
Speaker 4: Mark cow Boy?
Speaker 5: Was he good? Boy?
Speaker 4: Was he good? You know? How how informed we are now?
Speaker 4: Are you finished?
Speaker 5: By the way, I'm gone?
Speaker 4: How informed we are now about prospects? I remember my
Speaker 4: brother's screaming at me. I was downstairs until come up
Speaker 4: and watch the television. Toronto Marlboro's were on TV playing
Speaker 4: in the Memorial Cup and Gordy House, two sons were
Speaker 4: playing for the Toronto Marboroughs. It was and I didn't
Speaker 4: I didn't even know it right. You don't care about
Speaker 4: you don't care. You just you don't care. Look less
Speaker 4: interested if you try.
Speaker 5: And Brian Adam's best song was cut like a Knife,
Speaker 5: and don't even get that's.
Speaker 4: Not the conversation.
Speaker 7: The conversation is it's a signature song and that is
Speaker 7: cuts like a knife.
Speaker 4: No, it's not, Yes, it is. You're arguing with Rick.
Speaker 8: If you ask ten people on the street, give me
Speaker 8: one Brian Adams.
Speaker 7: Song that's like a knight, Cuts like a night. At
Speaker 7: least nine out of ten Cuts like a knife. So good,
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Speaker 4: c A. Is it just me? Rick? You're taking a
Speaker 4: beating in the bayside inbox.
Speaker 5: No, I'm not because look at Russell Victoria. I agree
Speaker 5: with Rick about streaming. I don't want to subscribe to
Speaker 5: five different services to watch sports. I prefer cable TV.
Speaker 5: I like the guide option. I like the couch option.
Speaker 5: I like the fridge option. We are in the minority
Speaker 5: wreck Russ and Victoria. Russ gets it.
Speaker 4: Tan Beer.
Speaker 5: Is it just me?
Speaker 4: Or is Rick everything that's wrong with the CFL too
Speaker 4: old and not willing to evolve as a human being
Speaker 4: or a league. Streaming is the way to go, and
Speaker 4: that's from our buddy.
Speaker 5: No, it's not not for me, it's not And anybody
Speaker 5: over fifty, streaming is not the way.
Speaker 4: To go, don anybody over fifty, that's not Stu Johnson said,
Speaker 4: it's not the market, ding, I don't they value that market.
Speaker 5: But their games on the Zonne are gonna get young
Speaker 5: kids to watch. Come on, don, we've been through this.
Speaker 5: They get that MGM or what's that guy at the
Speaker 5: Great Cup Chris Burn.
Speaker 8: Kelly machine machine gun, Kelly machine gun?
Speaker 5: What do they call him? MGK MGK? They had him on?
Speaker 4: Did it?
Speaker 5: Did a result in fifty thousand new season ticket holders
Speaker 5: at every Canadian city.
Speaker 4: You just don't try. You just don't try it.
Speaker 5: Don stop it?
Speaker 4: Uh Jeeves from Surrey is just me. I love seeing
Speaker 4: Rick getting grilled and beaten by John Shannon today I
Speaker 4: just added the end beat.
Speaker 5: I did not get beaten by John Shann and I
Speaker 5: disagree with that.
Speaker 4: You do not support the broadcasting the media industry.
Speaker 5: I don't want fifty I don't want to be told
Speaker 5: fifty different ways that you got to watch fifty different
Speaker 5: teams fifty different ways.
Speaker 4: Let me read this one is from Pat and Whistler.
Speaker 4: We won't bother with his last name. Is it just me?
Speaker 4: But the Canucks need more Canadian toughness than sandpaper like
Speaker 4: Claude Lemieux, rest in peace to him. Canucks need to
Speaker 4: sign Reeves and re sign Douglas for people just tuning in.
Speaker 4: Claude Lemieux, a couple of days after carrying the torch
Speaker 4: out at the Bell Center before Game three, has passed
Speaker 4: away at the age of sixty.
Speaker 5: Just shocking like it we found out this morning, And
Speaker 5: what a great text Canucks could use. Three Claude musing
Speaker 5: the line of show every team playoffs games he played.
Speaker 5: He was a playoff performer. He did everything in the
Speaker 5: playoffs at every great playoff performer. Does very sad believe
Speaker 5: it or not. If you want to watch the BC
Speaker 5: Hockey League on their streaming service. Also, American is sixty
Speaker 5: dollars Canadian per month, Joan Nanaimo. It's everywhere. It's everywhere.
Speaker 5: It's American League, BC Hockey League, Western Hockey League, Donnie,
Speaker 5: it's everywhere.
Speaker 4: Well, I thought you'd support it because it's helping out
Speaker 4: to BHL. We care about that league, Martin and north Burnamy,
Speaker 4: is it just me? I predict the Montreal Canadians will
Speaker 4: come back and beat the Carolina Hurricanes. And I know
Speaker 4: why you're laughing because these last three games, and I
Speaker 4: am worried for the NHL. That game was dead last
Speaker 4: night or Carolina sucked the life out of that incredibly
Speaker 4: vibrant building, and I'm worried that the dead pock era
Speaker 4: is going to come back. They end up winning the
Speaker 4: Stanley Cup. It's the copycat league most leagues are. Our
Speaker 4: team's going to play the way the Carolina Hurricanes play.
Speaker 4: Elliott Friedman made a great point postgame last night. It
Speaker 4: looked like it looked like Carolina had eight people on
Speaker 4: the ice. Oh you know what I mean, they were
Speaker 4: just fan sali, They were just just everywhere. Montreal set
Speaker 4: a record for fewest shots over a three game span
Speaker 4: in an NHL playoff series ever.
Speaker 5: And they're also two and six at home. You talk
Speaker 5: about what the greatest place to play Hockey's Montreal? Well,
Speaker 5: why the hell done are they're two and six at
Speaker 5: home in the playoffs?
Speaker 4: Well, Carolina has something to do with that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so the Citine Twins, uh want a better relationship
Speaker 5: between the media and the Canucks. There's no chance they
Speaker 5: name heronic captain, which you want.
Speaker 4: See. That's another more proof that you were anti media.
Speaker 4: Look you want tell you want to make coronic who
Speaker 4: clearly hates the captain and you won't watch CFL games
Speaker 4: on his own.
Speaker 5: So how many captains in the NHL do you sit
Speaker 5: there and go, oh, you know he's not good with
Speaker 5: the media.
Speaker 4: Let's not make it a Canadian market. You need that,
Speaker 4: you need to communicate with your fan base.
Speaker 7: You do, well, don't I wouldn't assume, by the way,
Speaker 7: they don't need all that stuff with the captain. Under
Speaker 7: the last regime, we don't know the stance of Ryan
Speaker 7: Johnson and Henry and Danerson.
Speaker 4: You know, a captain.
Speaker 5: We don't know that.
Speaker 7: All that stuff about Heronic was when Rutherford was still here,
Speaker 7: which that's no longer the case.
Speaker 4: Uh is it just me? Unsigned? But guys, did you
Speaker 4: know Vigo Bjork, who Thomas Grantz talked about, brother of
Speaker 4: Wilson York, a fifth front pick of the Canucks in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the Canucks drafted him. So if they get view
Speaker 5: of Ugo of Yorke Donnie, they could have brothers.
Speaker 4: That's the gist of it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and then go get the ruck brothers out of
Speaker 5: assayers and then you got the twins and it's.
Speaker 4: Oh my god, it all works. Brother, and then draft
Speaker 4: Milan Sunstrom, grandson of Patrick suns Patrick.
Speaker 5: Next year one of the greatest Canucks suitets to ever play.
Speaker 5: What a wonderful thing that was greatest, one of the
Speaker 5: greatest Canucks tick one of the greatest Canucks. Patrick Sunstrom was.
Speaker 4: Align with him.
Speaker 5: What's what's his name too? Are you kidding me? Screekle
Speaker 5: Petri Scregel was great. Donnie oh man, was he fun
Speaker 5: to watch.
Speaker 4: In the days when you only watch games on BCTV
Speaker 4: and Hockey Night.
Speaker 5: And it was so simple and so nice and no
Speaker 5: streaming and no paying extra money.
Speaker 4: One game every two months. It was great. Okay, we
Speaker 4: gotta get going here. Okay, we'll wrap up the show
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Speaker 5: Pop question. How do you watch the majority of your
Speaker 5: sports cable is winning at sixty five percent, then come
Speaker 5: streaming at thirty six percent. So there you go. As
Speaker 5: we found out today, CFL games are going to streaming
Speaker 5: twenty one of them next year in the new TV deal.
Speaker 4: Yeah twenty twenty seven, the CFLs announced a series for
Speaker 4: people that Know and announced a series of new groundbreaking
Speaker 4: media deals with Bell Media, Dezone and YouTube starts in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty seven. Six years, five hundred million dollars, nine
Speaker 4: million dollars per team per year. Hard to turn that down,
Speaker 4: no matter what Rick dilling Wall thinks of streaming. We
Speaker 4: got pictures, photos, photos.
Speaker 5: Before we get to the photo quickly, I want to
Speaker 5: say something. Dean Baines made a donation Donny to the
Speaker 5: Canucks for kids. Find out b half for Donny and
Speaker 5: Dolly right, he does it every few weeks. Thank you
Speaker 5: Dean for doing that. That's above them, beyond Thank you
Speaker 5: de Right when we're going the overseas, we're going to Victoria, okay,
Speaker 5: and we got a photo featuring our good pal Moreno
Speaker 5: Oh love my tour of the team sales and Victoria
Speaker 5: Moreno is a joy to deal with. Finally got my
Speaker 5: Donnie and Dolly took that's a Ken in Chilliwak.
Speaker 8: And he said he picked up another T shirt as well.
Speaker 4: Do we have time to show what Marina has come up?
Speaker 5: Uh with the darn latest merch?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 7: We got two new quarters hips we mentioned yesterday and
Speaker 7: I've been told they've been dispatched to YouTube by the way,
Speaker 7: so they're coming here soon.
Speaker 8: Navy and oh Ray dispatched to YouTube.
Speaker 7: Oh okay, Morena sent them over here to the studio,
Speaker 7: not to the band.
Speaker 5: I'm not sending them everybody.
Speaker 4: That was the message. I I'm losing it.
Speaker 5: You are out of it. When's the new shipman getting in?
Speaker 8: And the boonty hat on the left there?
Speaker 5: What's it called the boot boonie?
Speaker 4: If John Gruden can wear a BC Lions helmet, yeah,
Speaker 4: Bono could wear this Johnny and Dolly Quarters. I mean
Speaker 4: they should send.
Speaker 7: A box over to the YouTube studios and see if
Speaker 7: they can open it up for us and do a
Speaker 7: video led Gruden today?
Speaker 4: What else you got?
Speaker 5: Thank you too?
Speaker 8: That was Ken and Chilliwack by the way, who sent
Speaker 8: us the photo.
Speaker 4: Appreciate it?
Speaker 5: Yeah, that was great. So Rick will pay for streaming,
Speaker 5: but he'll spend lots at the bar on Crown to
Speaker 5: watch the game for free. Stop being afraid of technology, Rick, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike, Mike.
Speaker 4: I'm surprised you uh you're read that unsigned Is it
Speaker 4: just me? But Dolly is so wrong on the CFL.
Speaker 4: Just look at what Amar Doman is doing and look
Speaker 4: at the performers he has gotten for the concert series openers.
Speaker 4: The new target is twenty to fifty with families. They
Speaker 4: want new money. Very smart game plan. Put that in
Speaker 4: your pipe and smoke it. Rick.
Speaker 5: I'm with Don Die and Nanaimo.
Speaker 4: I'm with Rick.
Speaker 5: The commissioner must be a politician thinking we're all rich. No, Don,
Speaker 5: do you know what? So you good? God bless your Don.
Speaker 5: If you got five hundred bucks to watch every month
Speaker 5: five hundred different sports on streaming, God bless you.
Speaker 4: But you know who else has money problems? The CFL
Speaker 4: and turning down five hundred million dollars is probably didn't
Speaker 4: turn five.
Speaker 5: Stop saying that, you know that's not It's part.
Speaker 4: Of the deal. The Zone, the streaming service to Zone
Speaker 4: is part of the deal five hundred million dollars.
Speaker 5: The bulk of the five hundred million is TSN, not
Speaker 5: the zone.
Speaker 4: You know that. Thanks for tuning in, folks, God God
Speaker 4: bless Cloud, the meal On behalf of Ryan, Derek Rick,
Speaker 4: everybody here at Oh Boy in check. I'm done and
Speaker 4: you up to date the world of sports.
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