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Speaker 5: Thanks for tuning in, folks. It's Donnie and Dolly the
Speaker 5: team on Check. Don Taylor, along with Rick Dollywall. Ryan
Speaker 5: Henderson is our producer. He's the man of the controls
Speaker 5: or director. The voice of God is Derek Wong. How
Speaker 5: are you?
Speaker 6: It couldn't be better?
Speaker 5: A lot of sports fans are feeling the same way.
Speaker 5: We always go on about April or maybe October being
Speaker 5: the best month, the best time for sports, but what
Speaker 5: about right now June NBA Finals and the Stanley Cup Final.
Speaker 5: As a combination. I cannot remember the two of them
Speaker 5: being so good at the same time. Yeah, you know,
Speaker 5: I guess, but I don't remember them being this good. Yeah,
Speaker 5: there's a recency bias as well. World Cups starting today
Speaker 5: as well, the Lions get going on the weekend. There's
Speaker 5: a lot going on, and it's all positive in terms
Speaker 5: of entertainment. The World Cup's going to be entertaining.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 5: There's some people complaining about what's happening downtown these days,
Speaker 5: and streets cordoned off and things like that, and traffic
Speaker 5: businesses upset, some of them happy, but the sports eventually
Speaker 5: takes over. It'll be I would think it would be
Speaker 5: just fine. Well, you're not paying for paying for tickets.
Speaker 5: There's some connuct news, okay, and we mentioned the Lions,
Speaker 5: but we got to talk about what happened last night
Speaker 5: in New York City, and I'm like a lot of people,
Speaker 5: I actually was kind of lucky. I was preparing for
Speaker 5: this show, so I was, you know, watching background. I
Speaker 5: was watching the game last night. Nixon Spurs Spurs way
Speaker 5: up between twenty nine points in the third quarter. It's over,
Speaker 5: so it's just kind of in the background. So I
Speaker 5: was lucky. I didn't turn it off. A lot of
Speaker 5: people did. Well, yeah, I did, you know, but your
Speaker 5: patients sporting events is awful.
Speaker 6: Twenty nine points. Anytime I've been with you to a
Speaker 6: football game on twenty nine points and you're gonna watch that.
Speaker 6: I took the dog for a walk, I started playing
Speaker 6: with him. He's going a little orange ball. I took
Speaker 6: the ball out. We started playing. I come back. There's
Speaker 6: four minutes left. I enjoyed the last four minute. But
Speaker 6: I'm not gonna watch a basketball game when one team's
Speaker 6: up by twenty nine point. Stop it.
Speaker 5: You clearly have learned no lessons in your life about sports.
Speaker 5: You just never know. It's the beauty of sports. It's
Speaker 5: the best reality television. I go out there, the greatest
Speaker 5: comeback in NBA Finals history. We just talked about it.
Speaker 5: Down twenty nine points in the third quarter, down twenty
Speaker 5: in the fourth, and the Knicks end up winning that game.
Speaker 5: And I'll get to the karma involved here. But og
Speaker 5: n Andobi tipping in Jalen Brunson's long range three point
Speaker 5: a miss with one point two seconds left, and then
Speaker 5: they managed to nail it down after that. But one
Speaker 5: o seven, one oh six the next now up three
Speaker 5: games to one, the crowd just going nuts and just
Speaker 5: the sense of disbelief watching on television. Can you imagine
Speaker 5: being there? Can you imagine being Taylor Swift being at
Speaker 5: the gay?
Speaker 6: I get you probably can Sandler, there's a Jerry Seinfeld,
Speaker 6: Adam Sandler. I loved it. A lot of stars is
Speaker 6: there last night?
Speaker 5: Yeah? Okay, so this is where I'm going with this.
Speaker 5: And boy, the defense was awful on this play. They
Speaker 5: forgot all about O G. But this is where I'm
Speaker 5: going with this. And you can talk about strategy and
Speaker 5: the two missed free throws by Wemby with just under
Speaker 5: two minutes left to me crucial moments, no doubt about that.
Speaker 5: But let's get back to Wemby for a second. I
Speaker 5: talk about this a lot that I'm a real believer
Speaker 5: in karma. Or earlier in the game, when they were
Speaker 5: destroying the Knicks and built up that lead to twenty
Speaker 5: nine points, you saw Wemby taunting Cocky Cocky, counting the taunting,
Speaker 5: the I'm lucky there taunting the New York Knicks. I'm
Speaker 5: in your hand pointing to his head. He did it
Speaker 5: a couple of times to Robinson, and to Carl Anthony Towns,
Speaker 5: you know, saying that, I mean in your head, you know,
Speaker 5: I don't know, something to the effect that we got
Speaker 5: this game one. The clapping there, and you just don't
Speaker 5: do that because it'll always come back. Kids, if you're
Speaker 5: listening out there, it'll always come back to haunt you.
Speaker 5: Missing those free throws at the end, his team blowing
Speaker 5: a twenty nine point second half leat losing that crucial
Speaker 5: game they had it. What you don't do that, You
Speaker 5: don't do that sort of thing. That's right. I'm not
Speaker 5: you know, people will disagree like it wasn't you know,
Speaker 5: there wasn't crucial crucial moment. I think it was. I
Speaker 5: think it was. Those moments were crucial. When you're taunting
Speaker 5: the opposition, it nine times out of ten it comes
Speaker 5: back to hurt you. And sure enough, the Spurs lose
Speaker 5: that game and now on the verge of handing the
Speaker 5: Knicks their first NBA title since seventy three.
Speaker 6: Who was the Vancouver Grizzly who taunted Michael.
Speaker 5: Jordan is Eric Murdoch.
Speaker 6: Martin, Okay, Derek Martin, Derek Martin.
Speaker 5: A little different stage there, that was.
Speaker 6: You don't do that don't you that.
Speaker 5: I think the Bulls had a reason for falling behind
Speaker 5: to the expansion Grizzlies. Think you're having a fun time
Speaker 5: in Vancouver the night before. So here, here's where else
Speaker 5: I want to go with this. We got time for this, Ryan,
Speaker 5: how are we doing for time? How are you? By
Speaker 5: the way, did you watch that game?
Speaker 1: Derek Martin confirmed? Yeah? Yeah. Come on now, now, I
Speaker 1: will say to Rick's point, and I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of people's twenty donny. I mean, come on, like
Speaker 1: that's what's the equivalent of hockey?
Speaker 5: I never give up.
Speaker 1: It's nothing like like the equivalent of hockey. Like it's it's, it's,
Speaker 1: it's it's out of.
Speaker 5: The realm, did you know?
Speaker 1: I mean I was doing other things, but I didn't
Speaker 1: have it off by any means. And it's just like
Speaker 1: chip Away, chip away, chip away, but crazy man crazy?
Speaker 5: So uh do we want to save this for later?
Speaker 5: I'm I'm, I'm can I I've been to New York
Speaker 5: a few times. Have you been in New York yet?
Speaker 5: I'm still questioning whether you've been to London.
Speaker 6: I got I got, I got photos. I've been to
Speaker 6: London three times anyway, But.
Speaker 5: I I just had such a good time going there.
Speaker 5: It's it's always been for business, for work, but it's
Speaker 5: just a fabulous I'm worried about it because I know
Speaker 5: what happened in Vancouver during Big you know NHL's series afterwards.
Speaker 5: But did you see this scene? Yes, hotel so New
Speaker 5: York is exploding right now with interest in the Knicks.
Speaker 5: I don't remember this with the when the Canducks were
Speaker 5: playing the Bruins or the Rangers Bruins in twenty eleven.
Speaker 5: By the way, Milan Luchs is on the show today.
Speaker 5: Later on he's retiring after seventeen seasons Rangers in ninety four,
Speaker 5: But it seemed like there were thousands of Knicks fans
Speaker 5: all over waiting for the Spurs to return to their hotel,
Speaker 5: like get off the bus, look at this, look at
Speaker 5: this scene here and talking about taunting. They're screaming at
Speaker 5: him and Wemby. I don't know if yeah, there is.
Speaker 5: There's somebody threw an egg at him, a couple of eggs,
Speaker 5: actually one and one hit them. I mean, what's this
Speaker 5: gonna be like if there's a game six, if they
Speaker 5: win Game five on the road, what's it gonna be
Speaker 5: like in New York after that crazy because I've always
Speaker 5: said win or lose, there was gonna be a riot
Speaker 5: in Vancouver ninety four and in twenty eleven. But they're
Speaker 5: waiting for the Spurs to get off the bus at
Speaker 5: their hotel. Now, if you've been to New York, there's
Speaker 5: not a lot of alleys there, So you were asking
Speaker 5: this question before the show, can you sneak? Can you
Speaker 5: sneak through a back door in the alley? I do
Speaker 5: believe that's not the case with this hotel or most
Speaker 5: situations in New York. Like you'll see garbage on the streets,
Speaker 5: and like people put their garbage out on the front street,
Speaker 5: so there's no real place to hide there. But I
Speaker 5: just you know, what is it gonna be like if
Speaker 5: they end up winning. I mean they're waiting for the Spurs,
Speaker 5: and not that just a few fans. It look hundreds
Speaker 5: thousands of fans waiting for them outside their hotel.
Speaker 6: Holding a second, how do they even know where the
Speaker 6: Spurs hotel is? Well, I mean no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 6: You know where the NHL team stay when they come
Speaker 6: to Vancouver. Yes, okay, maybe maybe you do, But how
Speaker 6: the hell the thousands of people figure out where the
Speaker 6: Spurs stay.
Speaker 1: It's it's easy. It's because they're gonna be at the
Speaker 1: Ritz Carlton or four seasons or whatever. Right, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that, right, Donny. I I think though, it's I
Speaker 1: were if they If the Spurs win Game five, I
Speaker 1: think it's going seven games only because what did we
Speaker 1: see in Game three?
Speaker 5: I can't see the Spurs are a good team. I
Speaker 5: can't see them losing. I mean, of course you can
Speaker 5: see them losing, but they're owing two at home?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Serious?
Speaker 1: But I just think I think the nervous energy we
Speaker 1: saw in Game three with the Knicks, the Knicks looks
Speaker 1: scared of being an MSG. We heard about the ticket prices,
Speaker 1: the celabs trump.
Speaker 5: I bet they're not scared anymore.
Speaker 4: Ah I I I bet it's I bet they overcame
Speaker 4: a twenty nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah for sure, but that's not gonna happen again. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna happen again. Like, let's be honest. The Spurs
Speaker 1: rolled over and they shouldn't have. I just wonder about
Speaker 1: the nervous energy for the Knicks at home. Could win
Speaker 1: in Game six, I think you'd be feeling a lot.
Speaker 5: Tell Wenby to stop taunting and maybe, yeah, maybe they'll
Speaker 5: be Okay, I would like to see as a sports
Speaker 5: fan that a six game at Madison Square Guard. Oh,
Speaker 5: because we've talked about this a lot on our show
Speaker 5: that I am and I believe you two are the same,
Speaker 5: and I'm fan of building. I wanted to see the
Speaker 5: Montreal Canadians advance of the Stanley Cup final, if for
Speaker 5: no other reason than the history and the Bell Center.
Speaker 5: Same thing. I want to see big games Rangers Knicks
Speaker 5: at Madison Square Garden. Did you see how.
Speaker 1: Full it was like ten minutes after the game ended
Speaker 1: last night?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Usually like understandably no, but one of the broadcasters said,
Speaker 1: like in New York, usually it's like we got to
Speaker 1: get to the subway. We need to get out of here,
Speaker 1: especially down Anyway.
Speaker 5: Exactly, crazy, outstanding. Okay, we got time for a little
Speaker 5: knuck talk here for three minutes. Oh okay, so let's
Speaker 5: go here. Then this just broke. There's some other other
Speaker 5: news regarding the Cannucks as Thomas Answer article that we
Speaker 5: want to talk about, and some Jake Depress trade rumors
Speaker 5: or one roomer at least out of Ottawa. But Patrick
Speaker 5: Calvin and we we he has landed a job, and
Speaker 5: you wondered when Patrick Alvin, it just seemed, okay, I'm
Speaker 5: going to use the word seem like a puppet in Vancouver.
Speaker 5: Jim Roth, no question, So you no question how much
Speaker 5: respect was out there for him, Jimmy round the show
Speaker 5: the show Hockey League, And I think the answer is
Speaker 5: that the guy has some respect.
Speaker 6: He's been hired by the Seattle Kraken vice president and
Speaker 6: assistant GM. And Ryan are we going to show this
Speaker 6: just down the highway? Patrick Alvin? We mentioned this yesterday.
Speaker 6: It's been out there that Seattle was one of the
Speaker 6: teams talking to him. And he's got a relationship with
Speaker 6: Jason botterrall the GM that goes back to Pittsburgh when
Speaker 6: they were all together with Jim Rutherford. So these guys, uh,
Speaker 6: you know, helping each other out. And so he's going
Speaker 6: to be the vice president and assistant GM in Seattle.
Speaker 6: Down the highway? Are you going to show the quote
Speaker 6: and Rick Talk? When Rick Talked left Vancouver, he took
Speaker 6: a shot at the practice facility. One of the reasons
Speaker 6: he left. Theyucks don't even have a practice facility. Now
Speaker 6: they're talking, We're done. Just down the street here Britannia, Britannia.
Speaker 6: So anyways, So there's Patrick Alvin in his press release.
Speaker 6: Absolutely no one asked him about the practice facility in Seattle,
Speaker 6: which is one of the best in the league. And
Speaker 6: out of the blue.
Speaker 1: It's the second line here, it's.
Speaker 6: The second line.
Speaker 5: Can you make a smaller?
Speaker 6: Can you? Right? I got glasses and I can't see
Speaker 6: that it's from a long press cause anyways, the practice
Speaker 6: facility is phenomenal, best in the league.
Speaker 5: These are Alvin's where it's listening on the podcast, so
Speaker 5: you know what.
Speaker 6: No one asked about the This is a shot wait
Speaker 6: the whole thing. Oh, okay, here we go. This is Alvin.
Speaker 6: I liked everything I heard from Jason about the good
Speaker 6: people in the organization. The practice facility is phenomenal, best
Speaker 6: in the league. The support of the Kraken in the city,
Speaker 6: in the region was evident every time I've been down there.
Speaker 6: So no one asked him about the practice facility unsolicited, unsolicited,
Speaker 6: This is a shot at the Order of Vancouver. Uh
Speaker 6: take her to the bank, Rick Talcket. One of the
Speaker 6: reasons you left, no practice facility. And here's uh, Patrick Elvin,
Speaker 6: out of the blue. No one asked him about the
Speaker 6: practice Diciliiti in Seattle unsolicited mentions it.
Speaker 5: Yeah, well that the same thing happened with archer Sealovs
Speaker 5: in Pitts.
Speaker 6: Remember that.
Speaker 5: Yes, he talked about how great the practice facility was.
Speaker 5: I'm not sure he asked a question about the practice facility.
Speaker 5: So a little dig at the at the Vancouver connection.
Speaker 5: Get that practice facility done. What's happening, by the way, well,
Speaker 5: you couldn't come up with the name of the place
Speaker 5: they're thinking of having it Bretagna.
Speaker 6: As you mentioned, there's still uh in negotiation talks with him.
Speaker 6: And until I see the shovel going the ground, you
Speaker 6: know it's not done.
Speaker 5: They will be when Calgary finishes things off. The only
Speaker 5: team in the NHL with facility. They've gone on and
Speaker 5: on a horrible, horrible, horrible and obviously you know, people
Speaker 5: with the conducts were getation. They can say what they want.
Speaker 5: It's a thing, right, it's they can say it's you know,
Speaker 5: they'll get around to it. Maybe it's not that big,
Speaker 5: it is a big.
Speaker 6: Thing, but they will get it done. They will get
Speaker 6: it done.
Speaker 5: Yep. Okay, here's what's coming up on the show. DTMC
Speaker 5: is it just me? In the eleven o'clock hour we
Speaker 5: alluded to this. Milan Luchard's Pride of East Vancouver has
Speaker 5: retired after seventeen NHL seasons. He spent this past season
Speaker 5: playing pro hockey in Scotland. Milan's going to talk about that.
Speaker 5: We recorded the interview moments ago. That's just around eleven
Speaker 5: fifteen or so. Farhand is going to join us just
Speaker 5: after eleven. He's on the World Cup beat right now.
Speaker 5: Farhand World Cup starting today with a couple of games
Speaker 5: in Mexico. Canada opens tomorrow in Toronto against Bosnia and Farhan.
Speaker 5: I'll talk about that, and of course the Lion's opening
Speaker 5: up against the Sketch One on Saturday. Big Ride the
Speaker 5: Twitter guy later this hour and up next from a
Speaker 5: sports net Jason Bukla, Yes, former head of amateur scouting
Speaker 5: for the Florida Panther, works for sports that his final
Speaker 5: list going into the draft of prospects is mock draft
Speaker 5: is out there on sportsnet dot ca. So we're going
Speaker 5: to talk to Jason and see what he thinks about
Speaker 5: who the Conducts might take at number three. June twenty
Speaker 5: sixth at the NHL Entry Draft. Thanks so much for
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Speaker 5: the top one hundred. This guy works hard. Top one
Speaker 5: hundred NHL Draft prospects. You can check it out on
Speaker 5: sportsn dot CA. He has Iver Stenberg at number one,
Speaker 5: followed by Gavin McKenna number two, and wouldn't you know it,
Speaker 5: Caleb Malholtra at number three. Where the Cannucks pick twenty
Speaker 5: twenty six NHL Draft Round one, June twenty sixth, Jason
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Speaker 6: Thanks for doing this, sir.
Speaker 8: How are you great to be here? Fellas?
Speaker 9: I love the intro to I love minor league baseball.
Speaker 9: Anybody people who don't go watch minor league baseball are
Speaker 9: missing out on great entertainment.
Speaker 8: It's awesome.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and Nat Bailey is a gem. If you ever
Speaker 5: get out here, Jason, or maybe maybe you have, I'm
Speaker 5: not sure. And they have nice hats, yes.
Speaker 8: Yes, they got great hats.
Speaker 5: Ivor Stanberg over Gavin McKenna on your list, how come?
Speaker 9: Well, honestly, guys, thanks for having me. First of all,
Speaker 9: you know what he he came to life for me. Well,
Speaker 9: I shouldn't say this year, because he's been on my
Speaker 9: radar for the last couple of years for people in
Speaker 9: Canada and North America, even out of side, out of mind.
Speaker 9: Right when you're seeing Gavin McKenna run up the numbers
Speaker 9: he did in medicine had the year previously, and Stenberg
Speaker 9: was doing fantastic things on the world stage for Team
Speaker 9: Sweden and then his club team in Sweden in the
Speaker 9: build up to this year. Why at Christmas time there
Speaker 9: was a separation between the two of them, Guys. Stenberg
Speaker 9: took another step at the World Junior. Yes, McKenna had
Speaker 9: a productive World Junior, but Stenberg stood out for a
Speaker 9: variety of reasons outside of just point production at that time.
Speaker 9: And I have to be honest, McKenna's game went to
Speaker 9: a whole new level in the second half of the
Speaker 9: season past the World Juniors, but Stenberg's didn't fall off,
Speaker 9: and the reality is that he had to fall off
Speaker 9: that perch.
Speaker 8: And he just didn't do that.
Speaker 9: And the end of the season on a high representing
Speaker 9: Sweden at the Men's World Hockey Championship, appoint a game
Speaker 9: there as a draft eligible prospect. That doesn't happen very often.
Speaker 9: And he's just a special, special player. I'm splitting hairs though.
Speaker 9: I'm calling this one A and one A. That's how
Speaker 9: close it is. They're just they're just different players. Stembergs
Speaker 9: he's a little bit more responsible in all three zones.
Speaker 9: He's going to be more uh, he's gonna be more
Speaker 9: buttoned up from a team perspective. But then you got McKenna,
Speaker 9: who's going to be that quick, strake, offensive guy. And
Speaker 9: and they just approached the game differently, and pick your poison.
Speaker 8: They're both gonna be fabulous players.
Speaker 6: Jason, as you can imagine Caleb Mahold, your dad's coaching
Speaker 6: a Vancouver boy. It's a hot button issue in this town.
Speaker 6: I'll tell you that much right now. But let's talk
Speaker 6: about the player. If the Canucks get him, what are
Speaker 6: they getting?
Speaker 5: Wow?
Speaker 9: Complete players. So anybody that watched Manny play and I
Speaker 9: know you guys, did you appreciate Manny for what he
Speaker 9: did off the puck and defensively, and certainly in the
Speaker 9: face off tyde and and the character that he he
Speaker 9: persevered through the NHL his NHL career with and he's
Speaker 9: he's brought that to his coaching pedigree obviously, So the
Speaker 9: apple doesn't fall far from the tree here, Guys. Caleb Majoltra,
Speaker 9: he's a two hundred foot player. He was used in
Speaker 9: all situations in Branford with the Bulldogs, and they had
Speaker 9: a really good team. They had several high end NHL
Speaker 9: draft picks on their team, but Caleb persevered and one
Speaker 9: out over a lot of those guys for ice time
Speaker 9: and key situations throughout the course of the year, including playoffs.
Speaker 9: I mean, the kid had thirteen and thirteen in the playoffs.
Speaker 8: His face off work, if you will, that's just going
Speaker 8: to be a work in progress.
Speaker 9: You know, a lot of the younger guys that coming
Speaker 9: to the league, it takes some time to win draws
Speaker 9: against the best players in the world.
Speaker 8: But he's going to be six to two.
Speaker 9: Hundred plus pounds by the time he's done. He plays
Speaker 9: with speed, he's tenacious, His big game compliments his a
Speaker 9: game and what I mean by that is on his
Speaker 9: best days, you're going to see offense and he's going
Speaker 9: to produce for you, and he's going to score key,
Speaker 9: key goals, but his big game. On the days that
Speaker 9: he's not scoring, you're going to be able to throw
Speaker 9: them out on the penalty kill or on a road game,
Speaker 9: he's going to be able to match up against top
Speaker 9: six forward groups from your opponents. So he's kind of
Speaker 9: like a bo Horvat value wise for me if the
Speaker 9: Vancouver Canucks were to select him.
Speaker 8: And that's the kind of leader he is too.
Speaker 9: He was the captain of a team CHL in the
Speaker 9: US National team development program CHL kind of prospects game there,
Speaker 9: and boy, there's lots to like.
Speaker 8: He's mature beyond his ears.
Speaker 6: Hey, I heard a lot of good things about Vancouver
Speaker 6: Giants defenseman Ryan Linn at the Combine in Buffalo. You
Speaker 6: got him ranked twelve, some teams got him fourteen to fifteen.
Speaker 6: Talk about him and what kind of season he had
Speaker 6: and what you expect in the pros with him.
Speaker 9: Yeah, it's you know, I've been tracking Ryan for a
Speaker 9: couple of years at the Major junior and then at
Speaker 9: the Team Canada levels. And so Ryan Lynn a year
Speaker 9: ago with the Vancouver Giants, guys easily identifiable as you
Speaker 9: can identify him as a transitional defenseman of powerplay quarterback,
Speaker 9: no problem there. This year he took his confidence in
Speaker 9: terms of getting to the net more often to another level.
Speaker 9: So this is a kid that can transport the puck
Speaker 9: as as a one man breakout from below his goal line,
Speaker 9: hit the rush with the puck on his stick, on
Speaker 9: his own or if he outlets it. As you guys
Speaker 9: know of the NHL game today, defensemen are way more
Speaker 9: active than they've ever been, and he can come as
Speaker 9: an extra layer there, almost be like an offenseman, a
Speaker 9: fourth forward off the rush. Here's what stood out for
Speaker 9: me in the back half of the season and why
Speaker 9: he rose in my ranking. His defensive His attention to
Speaker 9: defensive detail went to a new level. And then on
Speaker 9: top of that, and I don't expect them to be
Speaker 9: overly punishing at the NHL level, but he was gapping
Speaker 9: up to kill place physically in the neutral zone or
Speaker 9: even on zone exits for his opponent in their zone.
Speaker 9: So instead of just pitching down to extend a play
Speaker 9: if he couldn't get puck on stick. He was making
Speaker 9: sure that that opponent was not going to be able
Speaker 9: to exit their zone without sometimes being put right on
Speaker 9: their backside. So that physicality that he added at the
Speaker 9: end of the year that added to his value. And
Speaker 9: then combine, guys, he hit it out of the park
Speaker 9: with his interview. He's a really good kid, really gregarious personality.
Speaker 9: I think he's going to be a great pro and
Speaker 9: he's going to be a powerplay quarterback in the NHL.
Speaker 6: A couple of BC boys got to ask you, you
Speaker 6: got Liam and Marcus rock twins both in the first round.
Speaker 6: Going to be amazing, Jason to see if one team
Speaker 6: can get both. But talk about these two that had
Speaker 6: a phenomenal season of medicine at.
Speaker 9: I'll tell you something and again, almost to a man,
Speaker 9: these kids, I've been doing.
Speaker 8: This a long time follows.
Speaker 9: This is like my twenty fourth draft, And when I
Speaker 9: first got into this, a lot of the kids that
Speaker 9: came through, they were almost programmed. You guys, interview a
Speaker 9: lot of people, you know how you know when you
Speaker 9: get into an interview and it's almost it's set up
Speaker 9: to be answered, almost robotically. The kids this year especially
Speaker 9: were not like that. At all and especially the Rock
Speaker 9: Twins now listen, they openly admit they want to play
Speaker 9: together at the NHL level. They're hoping that a team
Speaker 9: can pull that off. But great personalities. Liam's a little
Speaker 9: bit different than Marcus. I would say Marcus is a
Speaker 9: little bit more inward where Liam's more outward. But these
Speaker 9: two kids, Marcus is the play maker in the middle
Speaker 9: of the ice, outstanding puck touch, great vision and I'm
Speaker 9: not talking tunnel vision. I'm not just talking about what's
Speaker 9: in front of you. I'm talking about spatial awareness, and
Speaker 9: that's all he makes plays. Then Liam's the guy that
Speaker 9: shoots the puck, leg off the rush. All He's scored
Speaker 9: forty seven goals, but over eighty percent of his goals,
Speaker 9: guys came from between the hash marks in high danger areas.
Speaker 9: That's the key, isn't it, Because you know, when they
Speaker 9: get to the NHL, you can shoot it all you want,
Speaker 9: but NHL goalies from the perimeter, that puck is not
Speaker 9: going in the net. You better get to the hard areas.
Speaker 9: So that's what Liam is. You got a playmaker versus
Speaker 9: the shooter. I'm curious to see what NHL team tries
Speaker 9: to tries to grab them both here in a couple of.
Speaker 5: Weeks, JA, let's go back to the top of your list,
Speaker 5: or near the top of your list. A group of defensemen.
Speaker 5: Here Keaton Verhoff at number five, followed by Chase in order,
Speaker 5: Chase Reed, Carson, Carls Daxon, Rudolph Albert Smith, all defenseman. What,
Speaker 5: in your opinion, not everybody shares this separates Keaton Verhoff
Speaker 5: from those other d men.
Speaker 8: Yeah, you're right, they don't. And here's what separates it
Speaker 8: from me.
Speaker 9: Last year in Victoria and the WHL he had twenty
Speaker 9: one goals. Guys, if he stays back and he plays
Speaker 9: major junior hockey this year instead of being a very
Speaker 9: young seventeen year old challenging himself at the college level, Like,
Speaker 9: what does.
Speaker 3: That look like?
Speaker 9: You know, I think part of what you have to
Speaker 9: if you look at the top of my list, even
Speaker 9: one through ten, there's a real melting pot of players there.
Speaker 9: You got the Stenbergs who played pro, McKenna played college,
Speaker 9: maultra major junior, Verhoff college read major junior. What the
Speaker 9: challenge for scouts is that imagine we have to try
Speaker 9: and imagine if they were all suiting up in the
Speaker 9: same game and competing against each other. So having said that, Verhoff,
Speaker 9: at seventeen, goes to college hockey, he challenges himself to
Speaker 9: be a little bit different than he would have had
Speaker 9: to be at the major junior level. I think he
Speaker 9: would have added over thirty goals. I think he would
Speaker 9: have played thirty minutes a night for Victoria. He goes
Speaker 9: down to North Dakota. His numbers, his offensive metrics this
Speaker 9: year at North Dakota, it's the third highest in the
Speaker 9: history of the NCAA offensively for a draft eligible prospect.
Speaker 9: So I just feel like people, and I don't care
Speaker 9: about other people. Everybody has their own system. Everybody's going
Speaker 9: to have their own projections. For me, I'm giving him
Speaker 9: more praise, if you will, for the fact that he
Speaker 9: did it against much older, stronger, heavier, faster competition, and
Speaker 9: he evolved in other areas of his game defensively, et cetera.
Speaker 9: And the other thing fellas, he can't teach size.
Speaker 8: You just can't.
Speaker 9: But you're going to be six four, six foot five,
Speaker 9: two hundred and twenty five pounds when he's done. I
Speaker 9: mean that's and he's a right shot. You know how
Speaker 9: value those guys are how valuable those guys are come
Speaker 9: trade deadlines, right, the teams overpay for these guys.
Speaker 8: So for me, he.
Speaker 9: Reminds me a lot of Aaron ek Blad when we
Speaker 9: drafted him in Florida years ago, and I think he
Speaker 9: deserves to be where he is on my list.
Speaker 5: Talk with Jason Bucola just before we let you go,
Speaker 5: You've got on your list at number twenty four with
Speaker 5: the Canucks pick later in the first round, William Hackinson,
Speaker 5: a left shot demon out of Sweden. Give us maybe
Speaker 5: him a dark horse player, someone who the Canucks might
Speaker 5: grab at twenty four that you would be in favor of.
Speaker 9: Yeah, so I've got the hack there. I love this guy.
Speaker 9: If you did you guys like Mattias Oland when he
Speaker 9: was a Yeah, absolutely, because if you like if you
Speaker 9: like Matthias Oland, you guys would love William Hackinson. This
Speaker 9: guy is big, strong, he's got some nasty to him.
Speaker 9: He's efficient, guys, and I use that that I make
Speaker 9: that statement because he's gonna be one of those guys
Speaker 9: that you're you're gonna watch the game. And so if
Speaker 9: he especially as a first round pick, people are gonna say, well,
Speaker 9: I wish she did this and I wish he did that.
Speaker 9: But you know what happens at the end of the night.
Speaker 9: When you have enough of these type of efficient players,
Speaker 9: big rigs on the back end, especially, you win more games.
Speaker 8: And that's the name of the game. You got to win.
Speaker 9: And he's he's big, he's long, he's physical, he makes
Speaker 9: a good first pas and what he does. You talk
Speaker 9: about a Ryan Lynn. If you pair him with a
Speaker 9: Ryan Lynn, Ryan Lynn can be that fourth, fourth forward
Speaker 9: off the rush if he will, he can be kind
Speaker 9: of he can free wheel and play more free because
Speaker 9: the Hack's going to be back there protecting the house
Speaker 9: and doing what he does well. So I love that kid.
Speaker 9: If they get him, I'll be I'll be dancing a
Speaker 9: jig for the Vancouver Canucks. That'll be very, very very
Speaker 9: good day for them.
Speaker 5: He should be a curler, the Hack And Jason, you
Speaker 5: got to you gotta tell me this, the Canucks have
Speaker 5: any chance of drafting the captain of this year's draft
Speaker 5: All Name Team, Ben macbeth, Yeah.
Speaker 9: Well he'll be there. He'll be there for sure, Ben macbeth.
Speaker 9: I've got him a little bit later. He's a late bloomer.
Speaker 9: Guys like this guy played so here's the guy that
Speaker 9: had already committed to go to college, but because of
Speaker 9: the CHL rules changing, he comes to the Western Hockey
Speaker 9: they to go play in Calgary this year. He's a
Speaker 9: Carson Carl's light. And what I mean by that is
Speaker 9: left shot. Not quite as physical as Carson Carls, but
Speaker 9: super agile. He can run a power play. You can
Speaker 9: do a variety of things. And that's another guy that
Speaker 9: in the back half of the season. Shot blocking, secondary
Speaker 9: perseverance in the defensive zone, that pushback that you need
Speaker 9: a game B game. I think that would be a
Speaker 9: really good addition as well.
Speaker 5: Jason. We could go on for two hours, do this
Speaker 5: the whole show. Than this has been fabulous. If we
Speaker 5: did that, we'd have to start paying you. We don't
Speaker 5: have that tight budget here, otherwise it would be a
Speaker 5: done deal. Thanks so much for this, buddy.
Speaker 8: Guys.
Speaker 9: This is great. I appreciate you having me on. This
Speaker 9: is our super Bowl, so I could talk. I could
Speaker 9: film up the mouth for hours. Have me back anytime.
Speaker 5: Oh right, we will. You'll regret saying that, Jason, Thanks
Speaker 5: for this.
Speaker 8: Yeah, boys, have a great weekend.
Speaker 5: You bet. Jason Buokla, former Florida Panthers, head of amateur
Speaker 5: Scouting Sportsnet Pro Hockey Group. Now, by the way, we
Speaker 5: mentioned Ryan Lynn Math of the Vancouver Giants, or formerly
Speaker 5: of the Vancouver Giants. Mathis Preston of the Vancouver Giants.
Speaker 5: Jason has him at number thirty five, so early in
Speaker 5: the second round, he had a really impressive combine. I
Speaker 5: believe he finished top ten at six six of the events.
Speaker 6: He'd have been ranked higher, but he came from the
Speaker 6: Vancouver Jis got hurt right away, so from Spokane all right.
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Speaker 9: Oh Jamaica.
Speaker 5: Okay, I heard this song?
Speaker 6: Great song, I mean.
Speaker 5: On the radio. Yeah, over the last twenty four hours
Speaker 5: and I can't get it out of my head. I
Speaker 5: told you that. Now you're playing it again, it's gonna
Speaker 5: be there for another twenty four hours.
Speaker 1: Just to you know, let everybody in this morning, million
Speaker 1: stories going on. I'm trying to ask you know, what
Speaker 1: are we gonna do? Iwry mapping things out? You give
Speaker 1: me the heisman, Just stop everything and you fire this
Speaker 1: song on. Yeah, you have to listen to it for
Speaker 1: three and knucklebolts.
Speaker 5: Nothing wrong. You remember the movie Cocktail?
Speaker 6: Are you kidding me? In nineteen eighty eight?
Speaker 5: This song?
Speaker 6: Beautiful song.
Speaker 1: John SteamOS on the steel drums, Uncle Jes, Uncle Jesse.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Steymos in Full Life, Full House, Full House, Full House,
Speaker 6: Old Grant Hughes.
Speaker 5: Grant Hughes was in it.
Speaker 6: Grant, just stop with the grand hughs.
Speaker 1: Well, it's gonna take a while and the.
Speaker 5: People aren't stopping the Grand Hughes address me, okay. Wadling
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Speaker 6: Great song, just a great song. Anything in the eighties
Speaker 6: was great. This was in the eighties eighty eight.
Speaker 1: Paul, Okay, so we can show it. But Twitter is
Speaker 1: having an issue right now. So yeah, I know that
Speaker 1: the results aren't results.
Speaker 5: That we don't have any normal for us.
Speaker 6: Yeah, nokidding.
Speaker 1: We have no votes and no results at the moment
Speaker 1: to share from our poll question, unfortunately.
Speaker 6: But the poll question is oh, yeah, okay, by how
Speaker 6: would you describe your interest level in the twenty twenty
Speaker 6: six World Cup high lower met Well, right now, everyone's zero,
Speaker 6: everyone's zero. But for me, it's uh, why what are
Speaker 6: you talking about? It's the world's biggest sporting don I'm
Speaker 6: a sports guy. We're in a Canadian market for hockey,
Speaker 6: We're in a Canadian country for hockey. I just got
Speaker 6: I'm not feeling any buzz. I'm sorry.
Speaker 5: Uh, I will say hi because I know that's where
Speaker 5: it'll go. Like right now, there are a lot of
Speaker 5: negative the ticket prices. What happened with the BC Sports
Speaker 5: Hall of Fame? Eventually, when when there are all these
Speaker 5: negative stories surrounding a sporting event. Eventually what takes over
Speaker 5: the sport. Soccer is a wonderful, wonderful sport. It's not
Speaker 5: our number one sport here in Canada, but eventually sports
Speaker 5: takes over and our interest, my interest will end up
Speaker 5: being high and you'll be the same way.
Speaker 4: You'll come in here and you'll be like a soccer.
Speaker 6: Expra In a few weeks in Qatar, I was, I was.
Speaker 6: You were there, No, I was over the moon with
Speaker 6: because Canada was building up and building up and building up,
Speaker 6: and they qualified and they did you know, they did well.
Speaker 6: In my eyes, they were competitive, so it built up.
Speaker 6: I am not feeling anything. I don't have anybody texting
Speaker 6: me going, hey you got your World Cup tickets? Hey,
Speaker 6: I got.
Speaker 1: More people nobody's asking no.
Speaker 6: Not, I got more people asking me about Curtis Douglas
Speaker 6: dead in soccer. That's just the honest truth.
Speaker 5: I also rick people know that you won't pay for anything.
Speaker 6: So there's no I'm not paying five, six, seven hundred
Speaker 6: bucks to watch soccer.
Speaker 5: There's not.
Speaker 6: That's a cold day in hell.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I agree that ticket prices are too high, but.
Speaker 4: It's like going to watch the games on television.
Speaker 6: I will watch, We'll watch on team in sports.
Speaker 5: The great sport of soccer will take over and my
Speaker 5: interests will end up being high. Do you feel the
Speaker 5: same way, Ryan, Uh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I don't know. My plan is to go
Speaker 1: to the fan festival tomorrow or on Saturday.
Speaker 6: Story, no buzz, no bust. I'm not feeling like going
Speaker 6: to get a coffee every day. I don't feel anything.
Speaker 6: I'm right here in downtown. I don't feel anything.
Speaker 5: If people knew, or you get a coffee, they know,
Speaker 5: there'd be absolutely nobody.
Speaker 1: Now that you see, like the soccer ball on Science
Speaker 1: World and you see all no bus.
Speaker 6: You don't see, look no bus.
Speaker 5: And I go for a walk after work and I
Speaker 5: go around Science World. The amount of people clearly from
Speaker 5: out of town taking photos of tourists, tourists, Yes, all
Speaker 5: sorts of big numbers there. Yeah okay, yeah, well no,
Speaker 5: I don't I don't think it's just tourists. I think
Speaker 5: it's a really cool thing. So I don't know what
Speaker 5: the cost. I can't imagine, but it's it's cool to look.
Speaker 5: I want to feel better.
Speaker 6: If I felt the buzz, I would tell you I
Speaker 6: felt everything.
Speaker 5: Is excited about anything.
Speaker 6: That is true. If I felt the buzz, I would
Speaker 6: tell you there's a buzz, there's no buzz, So you
Speaker 6: claim there's more buzz about. We are in downtown. I'm
Speaker 6: walking around downtown. I feel nothing.
Speaker 5: You don't walk around.
Speaker 6: I'm going to get a coffee for you every day. Yeah,
Speaker 6: I got no buzz. I got no one stopping me
Speaker 6: and saying, hey, Ricky, who's gonna stop people?
Speaker 5: So you're saying, say, if there's a Stanley cup, fo
Speaker 5: people are gonna go, hey.
Speaker 6: Rick jolly people I have. I'm feeling no buzz.
Speaker 5: I want to your sports will take over and eventually
Speaker 5: people will stop you in the streets and say, hey, it's.
Speaker 6: Not about starting about feel I don't over hear anybody talking. Hey,
Speaker 6: you hear spains the town Sometimes in the cost you
Speaker 6: don't win, you you you hear what people in front
Speaker 6: of you? Nothing again, you no one's talking sport soccer.
Speaker 5: So do you hear people talking about Curtis Curtis Douglas.
Speaker 6: I hear that in the street. I heard it. I
Speaker 6: heard a couple in front of the coffee line the
Speaker 6: other day. There's no way.
Speaker 1: I will say, because we don't have any poll results.
Speaker 1: The majority summary of the box is either low or mad.
Speaker 1: At the moment, I don't mark my words.
Speaker 5: It'll get you. What if Canada advances and you look
Speaker 5: at the way they'll set up this year, I think
Speaker 5: I don't want to jinx. I think it's pretty good
Speaker 5: chance they're going to advance past the group stage.
Speaker 1: I'm curious if you if you, because we're down here
Speaker 1: all the time, If you don't come downtown, I'm curious.
Speaker 5: Where I get yea, you know what I mean, because
Speaker 5: like I tell my wife and kids, you got to
Speaker 5: see downtown, see the colors, then you got the big
Speaker 5: you know, science, SI, soccer ball. It's all They're like, really,
Speaker 5: what what are you talking about? Well, it's pretty impressive. Yeah,
Speaker 5: it is impressive. I don't know how much it costs.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Controversy.
Speaker 6: You don't feel the buzz in downtown, You're not going
Speaker 6: to get it out in the burbs. I mean, that's
Speaker 6: that's the real buzz downtown.
Speaker 5: Now. It took a while.
Speaker 1: I agree with Donnie. When Canada is playing here in Vancouver,
Speaker 1: the day of that game is going.
Speaker 6: To be because there's going to be fifty thousand people
Speaker 6: going to BC place. Yes, but even now there is
Speaker 6: no buzz.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I hear that there there are and problems with Canada.
Speaker 6: That's that's well, that's every day and now this and.
Speaker 5: They decided they've decided to call up Curtis.
Speaker 6: He got hurt cone Most right, what's his last name?
Speaker 1: Bombido?
Speaker 6: Yeah, what's is noise?
Speaker 5: Yeah, got hurt that first name. It's not Brazil here, Okay.
Speaker 6: Most I heard about another injury this most you heard
Speaker 6: Hulford Bruff mentioned it. Another injury for this most guy.
Speaker 5: He got her latest development is the midfielder, the great
Speaker 5: midfielder cone Ill yesterday wasn't able to take part in practice,
Speaker 5: and he has transcended to the point where he's right
Speaker 5: behind uh Alfonso Davies, who's also not gonna just like
Speaker 5: as one of their best players. Yeah, it's a it's
Speaker 5: a big, big deal. But you just focus on Moses there,
Speaker 5: whoever you think it is, and I'm sure things will
Speaker 5: work out. You'll get into it. You'll get into it
Speaker 5: and you'll be an expert in your own mind. We
Speaker 5: have a time for anything.
Speaker 6: Else, athlete.
Speaker 1: No, this is rusty in the whack, just quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I never watched soccer guys, but I'm all in for
Speaker 1: the World Cup. It's the biggest sporting event in the world.
Speaker 1: Just hung up my canine flag on my patio.
Speaker 5: There you go.
Speaker 6: Okay, And and you know what, good guy Rusty, you
Speaker 6: throw that.
Speaker 5: Well, he kind of disagrees with you, but he's got
Speaker 5: the flag up. You throw that maple leaf on anything,
Speaker 5: and Canadians are going to get an interesting You're.
Speaker 6: Gonna get into its gym and amnastics, let it get going, Letty,
Speaker 6: maybe not that, but yeah, Lori funk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, but like a hype in hysteria around it
Speaker 1: was a big deal back, Steve, are you kidding me?
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Speaker 1: Okay tonight Game five, Stanley Cup Final back in Carolina.
Speaker 1: They go, uh so, of course the conversation, who's going
Speaker 1: to be in net for the Carolina Hurricanes conversation. You
Speaker 1: don't think it's a conversation, No, oh, you think it
Speaker 1: should be bussy all the way through?
Speaker 5: Now, yes, okay, depending on what happens.
Speaker 10: Uh.
Speaker 1: This is courtesy Adam gold Rod, Brenda or Freddie skated
Speaker 1: this morning Anderson everyone is available. That's all I'm saying.
Speaker 1: About the lineup. Everybody is available. So we had that
Speaker 1: instance where he needed a break. According to the goalie coach,
Speaker 1: so Brenda Moore. Once he was told that, he said, okay, fine,
Speaker 1: he's talking to back up nothing. Let's give him an
Speaker 1: actual break day off. So by this logic, it seems
Speaker 1: as though at the very least he's going to be
Speaker 1: backing up this evening now because Brandon Bussy was also
Speaker 1: in the starter's net. By the way, A practice think.
Speaker 5: There's a question about Bussy starting this game.
Speaker 1: I think so.
Speaker 11: No.
Speaker 1: Toney that was his first playoff start the other night
Speaker 1: on the road, absolutely lost.
Speaker 5: The game in overtime in Vegas. Right in game three,
Speaker 5: he played really well in the third period and the overtime.
Speaker 5: If Anderson was healthy, he would have started Game four.
Speaker 5: Bussey would have started Game four.
Speaker 1: He's the guy that got them there. So I think
Speaker 1: it's I'm I'm not overly surprised there's still a conversation.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's a slam dunk. I don't think
Speaker 1: anybody's like, yeah, yeah, for sure, he's.
Speaker 5: I think Bussy to some extent, and maybe it's the
Speaker 5: left handedness. I don't know. He's just he's very very
Speaker 5: I think he's in the Knight's heads to some extent. Well,
Speaker 5: there's also there's there's not a lot there, but I
Speaker 5: think he is to some extent.
Speaker 1: You also see these stories in the playoffs of the
Speaker 1: guy that's like the unknown, right, and he goes on
Speaker 1: a heater like Matt Murray did that. Jordan Bittington did
Speaker 1: that for the Blues, right.
Speaker 5: Ken Ryden, going back to nineteen seventy one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, these things, what did you call it?
Speaker 5: He said that you have no appreciation for history, you
Speaker 5: have no appreciation for the current. There's there was never
Speaker 5: been a story like Ken Dryden, god bro of course.
Speaker 6: Of course Cornell University was Cornell.
Speaker 5: Yes, and he won the con smile yeah before he crazy?
Speaker 6: And what was sickening about Ken Dryd and the teams
Speaker 6: were so good in front of him, and yet they
Speaker 6: had this outstanding goaltender just to boot you know, hey,
Speaker 6: we're great out of nowhere, out of nowhere, and we
Speaker 6: had this oh, great forwards, great defense, Oh and we
Speaker 6: got this all star goalie. Crazy.
Speaker 5: Richard Burder eighty two, yes, said go wait, you're getting there.
Speaker 1: You went from the seventies to the eighties, there you.
Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, but see, you wouldn't appreciate Richard Burder. You
Speaker 6: you wouldn't appreciate it behind me in the spring of
Speaker 6: eighty two. Yeah, a little Ricky had every game, every game,
Speaker 6: it was all King Richard, King Richard. You wouldn't appreciate.
Speaker 5: That they made a song about him.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they made okay, stick him with the hockey theme.
Speaker 1: But a local story close to the home here the
Speaker 1: Golden Eyes, which I have to this the friend of
Speaker 1: the show. Jen Gardner inking a three year contract extension
Speaker 1: yesterday with the Vancouver Golden Eyes. The expansion draft process
Speaker 1: is ongoing because of course they've added those new teams Vegas,
Speaker 1: San Jose, Froy, Hamilton, and Detroit. Those are the four.
Speaker 1: So because the contract extension, Jen is now exempt is
Speaker 1: she's a protected player in the expansion process, along with
Speaker 1: Sarah Nurse, who of course resigned this offseason as well.
Speaker 1: Golden I is still looking for a head coach after
Speaker 1: they fired their head coach.
Speaker 5: So there's about with.
Speaker 1: Well I because Seattle Seattle fired their head coach as well.
Speaker 1: So would she fit because of course the Kraken and Seattle,
Speaker 1: But yeah, would she want to stay in Seattle I'm
Speaker 1: not sure, but anyway, friend of the program, Jed Gardner
Speaker 1: is sticking around with the Vancouver Golden Eyed, so I
Speaker 1: have to mention that for.
Speaker 5: Sure they only protect three players.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well Hillary Knight, she just did the sign in trade.
Speaker 1: She's going back to Detroit. So it's it's interesting the
Speaker 1: way they're doing the expansion draft process. But it's ongoing.
Speaker 1: But yeah, there's like there's like stages of it. I
Speaker 1: think they're in like the third phase or something at
Speaker 1: this point. So it's been interesting. But congrats to Jen Greg.
Speaker 1: Glad to see she's sticking around with the Golden Ice. Okay,
Speaker 1: you guys talked a bit about FIFA. I just want
Speaker 1: to get this in quickly. Yesterday this is uh FIFA
Speaker 1: president Janny Infentino.
Speaker 6: This is the guy that wanted the motorcate correct in Vancouver.
Speaker 1: Correct. So yesterday in Mexico he did his kickoff press
Speaker 1: conference for the head of the World Cup starting today
Speaker 1: in Mexico. He's he defended World Cup pricing. This is
Speaker 1: the tweet defending World Cup pricing, says average ticket price
Speaker 1: is comparable to US pro sports playoffs.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and you and I talked about this before the
Speaker 5: show that you can't make that comparedion.
Speaker 1: No you can't America. I'm sorry, you can't. I understand.
Speaker 1: And we had Victim wontag Leanni on the program. He
Speaker 1: talked about this too. The eyeballs for these games are
Speaker 1: unlike anything else. I'm not I'm not taking that away
Speaker 1: from anything, but that's a different conversation than the people
Speaker 1: that are willing to buck up the money, the seven
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, the nine hundred dollars, whatever it is to
Speaker 1: go see Qatar in Australia.
Speaker 5: I'm sorry.
Speaker 1: There's a reason why these games aren't sold out. There's
Speaker 1: not tons of tickets available. The reason they're not sold out,
Speaker 1: And there's a reason why. I like, I know people
Speaker 1: that have their tickets on the resale market and they've
Speaker 1: had them on there for some time and they haven't moved.
Speaker 1: There's a reason for that.
Speaker 5: Well, it is the number one sports in the world.
Speaker 5: It is not the number one sport in North America.
Speaker 5: In North America, no, And I just I wonder some
Speaker 5: of these FIFA people, some of them faith with people
Speaker 5: here at turning to don cherry. It's like they don't
Speaker 5: realize that I'm sure make comparison. You can't make that comparison.
Speaker 5: Well you can, you can do whatever you want. Everything's
Speaker 5: open to opinion. But it just I think you have
Speaker 5: to diel it down a little bit your expectations when
Speaker 5: it comes to pricing, because it's not the number one
Speaker 5: it's just a fabulous sport and I understand why it's
Speaker 5: the number one sport around the world. But the ticket
Speaker 5: pricing versus what would you read most people in North
Speaker 5: America Stanley Cup playoffs, NBA Finals, super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But the weird pick of those. The weird thing is soccer.
Speaker 1: People tell you that other World Cups. This is insane.
Speaker 6: That doesn't matter that other World Cups are in soccer
Speaker 6: great countries.
Speaker 5: Correct, Quitar was cheaper, I believe That's what I'm saying
Speaker 5: right now to me.
Speaker 1: If you had it in Europe, let's say, then maybe
Speaker 1: these prices would drive more. You have it in a
Speaker 1: non traditional place, and yet the price the highest ever.
Speaker 6: Look at the price of groceries, the gas prices. We
Speaker 6: live in an expensive country. You know, you watch for
Speaker 6: a soccer.
Speaker 5: Game, there's a lot of expensive countries. But I just
Speaker 5: think that when it comes to business, like what's better
Speaker 5: for your business, uh, your ticket prices being overpriced or
Speaker 5: lowering them a bit in order to grow the game
Speaker 5: more in the valuable market of North America. And I
Speaker 5: think they missed an opportunity.
Speaker 1: But I think they didn't want to see. This is
Speaker 1: what you're starting to see with artists too. I don't
Speaker 1: think they want to lose out on.
Speaker 5: The secondary maright and he's he he addressed that, right.
Speaker 1: So why should I let Joe over here that bought
Speaker 1: his tickets at one hundred makes six hundred bucks off
Speaker 1: met okay?
Speaker 6: Right?
Speaker 5: Issue? Altogether, I hate that, Yeah, I hate that.
Speaker 1: Looks like there's legislation coming. And look at Ontario right
Speaker 1: that the face value can't be higher and all that stuff.
Speaker 1: I think eventually that's going to come to other places,
Speaker 1: but it's interesting. Up next a load at eleven o'clock hour,
Speaker 1: Milan lou Cheat around eleven fifteen. Farhand Logy is next.
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Speaker 11: World Cup correspondent things.
Speaker 12: I never expect to hear it next to my name,
Speaker 12: but it's going to be exciting to be a part
Speaker 12: of it.
Speaker 11: Should be funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 12: I heard Rick on the show this morning and Rick
Speaker 12: insists there's no buzz buzzz killed, So tell me where
Speaker 12: we're at, Like, Rick, are you excited to get.
Speaker 6: To be so? Hey? Hold day, you just came from
Speaker 6: the FanFest.
Speaker 5: Is there a buzz there?
Speaker 11: Actually?
Speaker 5: Is that? Now?
Speaker 11: When I was there, it was it was.
Speaker 12: About nine point fifteen, nine twenty. When I went on air,
Speaker 12: FanFest began at ten, but when I left there were
Speaker 12: big lineups at every entrance, probably a couple thousand people
Speaker 12: in the lineups at each spot. So I would imagine
Speaker 12: that by now, you know, close to noon, I think
Speaker 12: there'd be a lot of people there. And having gone
Speaker 12: there yesterday for the for the tour, the technical briefing
Speaker 12: as it were, it's spectacular. Like you know, we we
Speaker 12: all have been to the fair right many times, but
Speaker 12: if you go there now, and we're not just talking
Speaker 12: about the Amphitheater, but all of the activations and everything
Speaker 12: else that's down there.
Speaker 11: They've got all of these kind of BC themed areas.
Speaker 12: You know, the the you know, the neighborhood and the
Speaker 12: backyard and the campground and all these different places that
Speaker 12: are kind of the vineyard that are all BC themed.
Speaker 12: It's an entirely different feel. Well, then what would you
Speaker 12: would normally get when you.
Speaker 5: Go to the fair.
Speaker 12: It can handle about twenty five thousand people. There are
Speaker 12: screens everywhere, so if you want to go to an
Speaker 12: area where you want to bring your kids, you know,
Speaker 12: you don't want it as loud. If you want to
Speaker 12: go to an area where just the vibe is upbeat,
Speaker 12: or you know, with a lot of additional music going on.
Speaker 12: They've got the two stages that are there, one hundred
Speaker 12: and thirty different acts. I mean, there's even music that
Speaker 12: you're gonna like, Rick, I know you're fussy when it
Speaker 12: comes to your music.
Speaker 5: I know you're yeah.
Speaker 12: I know you like your eighty your electronic techno, you
Speaker 12: like your techno, and so there's there's that.
Speaker 11: They got a bit of everything, and it's free for
Speaker 11: the most part. It is free. So for the most part,
Speaker 11: so to get on site is free.
Speaker 12: All the seating areas and everything like that are free,
Speaker 12: except for in the Amphitheater. There are the ring there,
Speaker 12: their main seating area. There's a cost to that. Those
Speaker 12: are a little more expensive, right, they're over one hundred dollars.
Speaker 12: But in front of those prime seats there's a general
Speaker 12: admission concrete platform where you don't have seats. You can
Speaker 12: just stand there and those are free. And then up
Speaker 12: above behind the seats there's a grass area and I
Speaker 12: think those tickets are.
Speaker 11: About forty dollars each.
Speaker 12: So you know, if you're paying for the tickets, you
Speaker 12: can come in and out it's a little more convenient
Speaker 12: that way. But if you're not, then you know, if
Speaker 12: you leave, you might have to it might be harder
Speaker 12: to get back in and get your seat because as
Speaker 12: soon as someone leaves, whoever's in line next, they're going
Speaker 12: to let them in.
Speaker 11: But just overall, I.
Speaker 12: Mean, you could go to the other stage get a
Speaker 12: free concert there.
Speaker 11: So ninety five percent of everything at the venue is free.
Speaker 5: Okay. So Canada opens Friday in Toronto versus Bosnia. First
Speaker 5: game at BC play Saturday Australia versus Turkey. I believe
Speaker 5: it's a nine pm start with time zones in mind
Speaker 5: with those two countries. So what can you tell us
Speaker 5: and I saw your report earlier this week on TSAM,
Speaker 5: what can you tell us about alterations that have been
Speaker 5: made beyond the turf at BC Place.
Speaker 12: Well, you know, in terms of the stadium, I think
Speaker 12: the biggest legacy pieces honestly, and people will kind of
Speaker 12: roll their eyes at this, but it's the VIP at
Speaker 12: hospitality areas because if you go up to kind of
Speaker 12: that level three where all the suites are, there's a
Speaker 12: bunch of additional places that have been added there, like areas.
Speaker 11: That weren't being used for hosting.
Speaker 12: Previously some areas that were kind of office space that's
Speaker 12: no longer being used. They just basically gutted all of
Speaker 12: that and they created a number of additional areas.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 12: The downside is the press box, the main press box,
Speaker 12: you know at the midfield area, that's also now a
Speaker 12: VIP hosting area.
Speaker 11: So once the World Cup is over, you can't use
Speaker 11: that for media anymore.
Speaker 12: You're just gonna be able to use media B, which
Speaker 12: is the old baseball press box in the corner. Not
Speaker 12: ideal for football, but so you know whatever. Like it's
Speaker 12: those areas if you get a chance to get to them,
Speaker 12: and they're not exorbitantly priced either are like again you've
Speaker 12: gotta have a ticket to get into the game. But
Speaker 12: then this is this is kind of an add on
Speaker 12: if you want that experience.
Speaker 11: Those are great. There's also some down below. But you know,
Speaker 11: the main thing, you know.
Speaker 12: In terms of upgrades that you're going to see and
Speaker 12: feel is that turf's pretty amazing. Like the grass. It
Speaker 12: smells like grass, and when it's over all of it's
Speaker 12: gonna get dug out. There's actually a forty centimeter elevation
Speaker 12: from where the normal turf used to be because they
Speaker 12: had to put the dirt and everything down and then
Speaker 12: eventually add the grass here. Eventually all of that comes out,
Speaker 12: including the old turf, and they're gonna have brand new
Speaker 12: turf again. That part will be synthetic for the Lions
Speaker 12: and the white Caps. But yeah, that's kind of the
Speaker 12: future of it. I'll tell you what though. Both those teams,
Speaker 12: the Lines and the white Caps would love this grass
Speaker 12: for the rest of the season.
Speaker 11: It's too bad they couldn't at least make that work.
Speaker 6: And one of those teams in Regina on Saturday for
Speaker 6: the opener for the BC Lions, what kind of game
Speaker 6: are you expecting it? And the Rough Riders are going
Speaker 6: to put their banner up, their Great Cup banner, and
Speaker 6: that's a Western Final. Last year the Lions blue. They
Speaker 6: shouldn't have lost that game. Now they got to go
Speaker 6: back there for the opener.
Speaker 12: Yeah, and I think both teams are going to be motivated,
Speaker 12: right because if you're the white Caps or the white Caps,
Speaker 12: if you're the Riders and you've got the ring celebration
Speaker 12: and the banners and everything going on. I mean, you know,
Speaker 12: regardless of the team, that's a game you don't want
Speaker 12: to lose, right, So certainly the stadium is going to
Speaker 12: be full. I think they were at thirty thousand and.
Speaker 11: As of yesterday or as of this morning maybe, so.
Speaker 12: You know, they'll be in that thirty three range where
Speaker 12: it's going to be loud and it's gonna be electric.
Speaker 11: But honestly, I kind of think the Lions are better.
Speaker 12: And I say that just because I think the Riders
Speaker 12: have lost more pieces than BC has, So I'm not
Speaker 12: saying the Riders are gonna be bad. They've still got
Speaker 12: Trevor Harris, who was outstanding last year. You know, I
Speaker 12: fully believe Trevor's gonna have another good year. But I
Speaker 12: just think it's going to take time for that group
Speaker 12: to come together, whereas I think bc'son a bit better
Speaker 12: of a pocision to hit the ground running. Neither team
Speaker 12: played last week, so there's no advantage there gained one
Speaker 12: way or the other. But I just think the Lions,
Speaker 12: because there's more roster continuity, are in a better position
Speaker 12: to have early success.
Speaker 6: Teams are calling on Jake Debrsk as a possibility he
Speaker 6: could get moved, and he's a guy that said, hey, look,
Speaker 6: I don't think I want to be around here for
Speaker 6: the rebuild. Is that a move that conducts should make?
Speaker 12: I think so, and not because at five point five
Speaker 12: million he's making abs exorbitant dollars.
Speaker 11: But I do think that if you can move.
Speaker 12: The term, it's not a bad thing. And if the
Speaker 12: Brendan Gallagher thing plays out, I think they have to
Speaker 12: move Jake thebrust because what I don't want to see
Speaker 12: and look, I think Brendan Gallagher can bring value for
Speaker 12: a year and I don't think it's gonna cost him
Speaker 12: anything to get him. But what I don't want to
Speaker 12: see is another veteran player that blocks a path for
Speaker 12: a young player to make this team. I think that
Speaker 12: would be really, really unfortunate and needless at this stage
Speaker 12: of the game. So I understand that Brendan Gallagher is
Speaker 12: a culture carrier. I think you'd be a great fit
Speaker 12: in the room. Obviously, he's motivated to come back home
Speaker 12: and play, and there's a lot of positives for bringing
Speaker 12: him here, But adding another veteran to the veterans that
Speaker 12: are already there makes no sense to me. So if
Speaker 12: you're going to bring in Brendan Gallagher, I'd be moving
Speaker 12: Jake Debrusk Okay, very.
Speaker 5: Quickly, Frank, can you remember a time when the NBA
Speaker 5: and NHL Championship series were this enthralling at the same time?
Speaker 12: Yeah, probably ninety four, right, I mean when you go
Speaker 12: back to that and that went seven games and then
Speaker 12: and I think the I think that the Rockets and
Speaker 12: the Knicks were also in that boat. Now the OJ year, right,
Speaker 12: Like I remember watching the OJ chase during Game five
Speaker 12: of the NBA Final, which.
Speaker 11: Was pretty wild.
Speaker 12: But yeah, I mean just in terms of both games
Speaker 12: being that compelling, and it's you know, not all seven
Speaker 12: game series are created equally, right When you look at
Speaker 12: that game last night at MSG and that comeback, I mean,
Speaker 12: you know, I'm gonna be honest, I just viewing the
Speaker 12: second halby, it was more of a choke job than
Speaker 12: a comeback and just terrorless basketball on the part of
Speaker 12: the person. In my mind, there were so many things
Speaker 12: they could have done differently. I thought it was a
Speaker 12: poorly coach coach fourth quarter. So I know you need
Speaker 12: to give the next credit and everyone will add to
Speaker 12: the hype factor and what it means simply because it's
Speaker 12: New York, right, and just the scenes after the game
Speaker 12: about how long the fans were sticking around.
Speaker 11: And things like that.
Speaker 12: You know, nobody wanting to leave, and you know all
Speaker 12: of those things. But you know, you go to look
Speaker 12: at the hockey series and just you know, no lead
Speaker 12: is safe and three goal comebacks on a nightly basis
Speaker 12: and anything like that, you know, and basketball, for me,
Speaker 12: it's it's the sport where home field or home court
Speaker 12: matters the most, and the numbers have shown that over
Speaker 12: the years because you're right on top of the officials.
Speaker 12: Fans are right on top of the officials, and it
Speaker 12: does have a material effect on how often teams go
Speaker 12: to the line and how aggressive teams teams choose to
Speaker 12: be that ultimately draws fouls.
Speaker 11: So it does have an effect.
Speaker 12: And yet three or four road teams have won, and
Speaker 12: you've got similar a similar situation with the hockey, right,
Speaker 12: but all the road teams winning, yes, So just yeah,
Speaker 12: not all seven game series are created equally and all
Speaker 12: these series are compelling.
Speaker 11: I don't think the Spurs are done yet.
Speaker 5: All right, get back to work. Thanks for this, see
Speaker 5: you boys, Thanks for not driving this time. Fourhand logy
Speaker 5: t s and I'm going to disagree with you and
Speaker 5: farhand anybody else who talks about ninety four as a
Speaker 5: comparison to this year in terms of the NHL Finals,
Speaker 5: Why and the NBA Finals being so good at the
Speaker 5: same time because both those series. First of all, both
Speaker 5: those series in ninety four involved in New York teams,
Speaker 5: which helps colored people's opinion. But Rockets over the Knicks
Speaker 5: and seven a Rangel over the Cadocks in seven And
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say that because people forget Rockets over the Knicks.
Speaker 5: It so Michael Jordan was involved in his first retirement,
Speaker 5: and so I find that those I all due respect
Speaker 5: to a chemolage one who spent time in Vancouver in
Speaker 5: the offseason back then, kind of an artificial title to me.
Speaker 5: So I'm gonna, I'm gonna I'm gonna disagree with all
Speaker 5: due respect. Okay, Milan Luchits has retired after seventeen NHL seasons.
Speaker 5: He's from as Vancouver. He's gonna join his next Johnny
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Speaker 5: Giant Milan Lucic, friend of the show, longtime friend of
Speaker 5: the show, going back to our ten forty days, retiring
Speaker 5: after seventeen NHL seasons close to twelve hundred games. Who
Speaker 5: want to Stanley Cup infamously here in Vancouver with Boston
Speaker 5: back in twenty eleven, played for LA Edmonton and Calgary.
Speaker 5: A last played at the start of the twenty twenty
Speaker 5: three to twenty four NHL season. He played this past
Speaker 5: season in Scotland for the Fife Flyers. He's thirty eight
Speaker 5: years old, and we recorded this interview before the show
Speaker 5: and that's where we started the conversation with Milan. He's
Speaker 5: still in Scotland as a matter of fact, and we
Speaker 5: asked him to start things off what his Scottish experience
Speaker 5: on the ice was like.
Speaker 10: It was, you know what it was. It was great
Speaker 10: for the family, It was great living here. It was
Speaker 10: a great place to move to, great place to live,
Speaker 10: you know, in the home of golf here, you know,
Speaker 10: where the flyers play were like forty minutes from Saint
Speaker 10: Andrew's with all the golf courses around, so that was
Speaker 10: a lot of fun. Reconnecting with Garrett Hunt, my old
Speaker 10: team from the Vancouver.
Speaker 3: Giants was awesome.
Speaker 10: And but the hockey side, it was an experience, I
Speaker 10: guess that's the nice way to put it.
Speaker 5: Do you want to leave it at that or do
Speaker 5: you want to get into specifics.
Speaker 3: I will get into specifics.
Speaker 10: But the good part about it was, you know, you know,
Speaker 10: it gives me a lot of peace, you know, heading
Speaker 10: into retirement, because it made me realize that I just
Speaker 10: didn't have anything left. So I'm really really glad that
Speaker 10: I did it. And the fans here and the support
Speaker 10: from all the fire Flyers was was really awesome. So
Speaker 10: I would say it was a good.
Speaker 3: Experience for sure.
Speaker 5: Okay, so meanwhile, you have announced your decision to retire.
Speaker 5: How tough was that decision, miliin what went through your head?
Speaker 3: I don't think it was a tough decision.
Speaker 10: I think, you know, I I think I'm very fortunate
Speaker 10: and grateful that I got to play for a really
Speaker 10: long time. I was also really lucky that I got
Speaker 10: to start as a nineteen year old back in seven
Speaker 10: where I was that summer, I was more focused on
Speaker 10: defending the Memorial Cup than making the Boston Bruins. But
Speaker 10: you know, I've played hard. I got to play for
Speaker 10: four really great organizations with a lot of great players,
Speaker 10: won a Stanley Cup, won a World Championship, one a
Speaker 10: WHL Championship, one of them Cups. So other than the Olympics,
Speaker 10: which you know, I don't think I'm gonna win to
Speaker 10: be a part of any time soon. Even if I
Speaker 10: kept playing, you know, there was not much more for
Speaker 10: me to do. And like I said, I think this
Speaker 10: last year, with this comeback, I just realized that I
Speaker 10: just didn't have that love and passion to be a
Speaker 10: player anymore more So it wasn't and he's it wasn't
Speaker 10: a hard decision for me, and I just wanted to
Speaker 10: now focus on the next chapter of my life and
Speaker 10: spending time with the with the wife and kids and and.
Speaker 3: And move move on from being a hockey player.
Speaker 5: Any any question, and you just talked about it, you
Speaker 5: touched on any question. Winning the Cup in twenty eleven
Speaker 5: with Boston against your hometown Vancouver, Cox was the highlight
Speaker 5: of the line of your career.
Speaker 10: Yeah, one hundred percent. I mean, you know, that's a
Speaker 10: dream come true for any kid. You know, that's why
Speaker 10: you know, that's why you lace him up. That's what
Speaker 10: you dream of playing is to raise the Stanley Cup.
Speaker 10: I was lucky that I did it in my hometown,
Speaker 10: you know. And not only that, like even the two
Speaker 10: thousand and sixth draft was in Vancouver, which is coming
Speaker 10: up on the twenty fourth, twenty years, which was actually
Speaker 10: an amazing draft for the Boston Bruins. Taking Kessel in
Speaker 10: the first round, me in the second round, Brad Marshan
Speaker 10: in the third round, and eating Great Croft for Tuca
Speaker 10: all on the same day. That's that's pretty you know,
Speaker 10: that's an organizational change. You know, that's that's helped them
Speaker 10: be good for set them up for you know, almost
Speaker 10: twenty years. And but yeah, you know, that's that's definitely
Speaker 10: the highlight of my career. I'm also you know, I'm
Speaker 10: getting to play with some really great players and the
Speaker 10: Hall of famers that I got to play with, and
Speaker 10: one of my favorite players growing up was Jerome mcgimma,
Speaker 10: and getting to be his linemate for a year. You know,
Speaker 10: sometimes I had to pinch myself that I'm playing with
Speaker 10: the guy that I you know, idolized as a teenager,
Speaker 10: and so a lot of great memories, and like I said,
Speaker 10: I'm really really grateful for that.
Speaker 5: Hey, how strange was that? I think I've asked you
Speaker 5: this before in previous interviews, but how strange was that
Speaker 5: playing against your hometown team in that twenty eleven Stanley
Speaker 5: Cup final, playing for a team that your hometown hated Milan?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 10: It honestly, looking back, it was strange. Obviously I was
Speaker 10: excited about it because you know, just for friends and family,
Speaker 10: you know, not having to go too far to watch
Speaker 10: the Stanley Cup finals. But you know, if if if
Speaker 10: I wasn't playing against him, I definitely would have been
Speaker 10: cheering for the Canucks to try to win their first
Speaker 10: Stanley Cup. I would say early on, probably the first game,
Speaker 10: it was strange. But once, you know, once once it
Speaker 10: got going and once you know, the emotions kicked on
Speaker 10: and everything like that, you you forget about all that
Speaker 10: and you just go out there and try to win
Speaker 10: and play hockey. So it's it's I mean the aftermath
Speaker 10: was also a little strange.
Speaker 6: You know.
Speaker 10: Sometimes I still hear people telling me how we cheated
Speaker 10: and all this type of stuff. But you know, I just,
Speaker 10: you know, I just tried to have good interactions with
Speaker 10: people in Vancouver. I love the people in Vancouver. I
Speaker 10: love all the hockey fans in Vancouver. But it was definitely,
Speaker 10: uh yeah, it writes a good story. I guess that's
Speaker 10: that's a good way to put it.
Speaker 6: Hey, Maladd, let's go back to the Banham Draft. You
Speaker 6: didn't go in the draft three years later, second round pick.
Speaker 6: Talk about that time and how tough it was, and
Speaker 6: then what did you do to get through that period
Speaker 6: and still make it reck.
Speaker 10: I'm glad you brought that up, because you know, I
Speaker 10: remember when the draft was over and I got home
Speaker 10: from school, you know, sitting at the dinner table with
Speaker 10: my parents and brothers, and you know, I broke down.
Speaker 3: You know, I was crying. I was upset.
Speaker 10: You know, I thought, you know, after that day in
Speaker 10: two thousand and three, that you know, I wasn't going
Speaker 10: to have a chance at all to to live my
Speaker 10: dream of being a hockey player. But if if anything,
Speaker 10: it was probably the best thing that happened to me,
Speaker 10: you know, looking back, because you know, it.
Speaker 3: Made me work harder.
Speaker 10: It you know, it built some resilience in me, and it,
Speaker 10: you know, it made me bet on myself even more,
Speaker 10: made me realize I needed to work on things that
Speaker 10: I felt I needed to get better at because you know,
Speaker 10: I wasn't good enough at the time to be taken
Speaker 10: in the Bandam draft. And every time I see it,
Speaker 10: you know, there's I'm sure there's a lot of kids
Speaker 10: that feel the same way that I did back in
Speaker 10: two thousand and three not getting drafted.
Speaker 3: But you know, it's if I did get drafted, let's.
Speaker 10: Say by you know, Brandon or a Swift Current or
Speaker 10: any other team, you know, and maybe I wouldn't. I
Speaker 10: ended up on the Giants and things went as well
Speaker 10: as it did and a big part of my success
Speaker 10: too was playing for Don hay And and it just
Speaker 10: happened that, you know, I was I ended up on
Speaker 10: the South Delta ice Hawks, playing out of the load
Speaker 10: of Leisure Center, and Don was at the rink and
Speaker 10: decided to watch a game, and next thing you know,
Speaker 10: I'm listed, you know, for the Vancouver Giants on their
Speaker 10: protected list. And you know, I give Shane Cuss a
Speaker 10: lot of credit, who was the coach for the Delta
Speaker 10: Hutt ice Socks back then. You know, he making that
Speaker 10: Junior B team was the hardest team that I ever
Speaker 10: had to make, because finally someone took a chance on me,
Speaker 10: and that's all I needed, was someone to take a
Speaker 10: chance on me. And all the chips started to fall
Speaker 10: after that. And like I was getting into with, you know,
Speaker 10: getting the chance to play for Don Hey, I mean
Speaker 10: the two years with him, all the details and habits
Speaker 10: and work ethic that he helped me with and instilled
Speaker 10: in me, helped me have this great seventeen year career. So,
Speaker 10: like I said, at the time, I was upset, rightfully so,
Speaker 10: but you know it was probably, like I said, it
Speaker 10: was probably the best thing that ever happened to me
Speaker 10: was not getting drafted in that band of draft.
Speaker 6: All right, thirty eight years old? Do you stay in hockey? Like?
Speaker 6: What are you gonna have opportunities? Maybe you work for
Speaker 6: your agents Jerry and Scott, But what's going on here?
Speaker 6: What are you gonna do now?
Speaker 10: I'd like to stay in hockey. I love the game.
Speaker 10: I've always been a student of the game. I still
Speaker 10: watch NHL hockey as much as I can. You know,
Speaker 10: I've I wouldn't say it was a hockey nerd, but
Speaker 10: all my teammates you still always say how you know
Speaker 10: they were impressed by my memory and and plays that
Speaker 10: happened in games, whether it was five years ago or
Speaker 10: ten years ago or.
Speaker 3: Anything like that.
Speaker 10: But so I'd like to stay in the game in
Speaker 10: some capacity, see what opportunities are out there, whether it's
Speaker 10: you know, scouting or player development or coaching or any
Speaker 10: anything like that. So, you know, just stay in the
Speaker 10: game because I have a lot of love for the game.
Speaker 5: Still one more alone, if you don't mind. You didn't
Speaker 5: back down from anybody in your day. What's your take
Speaker 5: on the need for toughness in today's National Hockey League.
Speaker 5: I think it's a little bit different.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think the term.
Speaker 10: Or the definition of toughness is a little different now.
Speaker 10: It's not so much fighting, but I think the toughness
Speaker 10: still needs to be there, but the definition has changed,
Speaker 10: you know, the just being hard and being hard in
Speaker 10: front of the net, whether you're on the offensive side
Speaker 10: or defensive side, for check in finishing your hits, being
Speaker 10: hard to play against. I think that's more of the
Speaker 10: definition of toughness now. And if you see the two
Speaker 10: teams that are currently playing the finals, they have a
Speaker 10: lot of team toughness.
Speaker 3: It's not so much fighting.
Speaker 10: But I also know, you know, when teams still have
Speaker 10: a guy that's willing to drop the gloves and stand
Speaker 10: up for his teammates. You know, all his players around
Speaker 10: him are a little bit taller and a little bit
Speaker 10: heavier just having a guy because they know he'll have
Speaker 10: their back. But you know, so, like I said, I
Speaker 10: think the definition has changed, but I think it's still
Speaker 10: a really big, big, big part of the game.
Speaker 5: You've always been good to us, Milan. We thank you
Speaker 5: so much for this interview. Best of luck in the future.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks for having me, guys.
Speaker 5: Five hundred and eighty six points in his NHL career
Speaker 5: close to twelve hundred games. Who would have thought you
Speaker 5: mentioned in that interview getting passed over in the bantam
Speaker 5: draft all those years ago. You've got some business.
Speaker 6: All you kids out there, don't quit if you don't
Speaker 6: go in the bottom draft. All right, the world is
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Speaker 5: Rick coming off a fifth twenty goal season in his career.
Speaker 5: Still five years left on his contract, but he's cost control,
Speaker 5: so a lot of term left.
Speaker 6: Very good number. Guy scores twenty goals plus season every year.
Speaker 6: Twenty three goals this year, nineteen on the power play.
Speaker 6: Also means you're not producing five on five, Donny, but
Speaker 6: that's another story for the Canucks. You're trying to fix
Speaker 6: their dressing him. It makes sense. He made sure that
Speaker 6: he made it clear he does want to be around
Speaker 6: for the rebuild.
Speaker 5: And as we move on from Jake Debresk breaking news
Speaker 5: out of Edmonton, someone wants out of Edmonton.
Speaker 1: Alia Friedman and Mark Spector have a dual article up
Speaker 1: at Sportsnet right now. Darnold Nurses asked for a trade
Speaker 1: and degrees it's time for a fresh start. He's apparently
Speaker 1: giving three to five teams to the authors. It's a
Speaker 1: steep cap hit.
Speaker 5: So yeah, look, there would have to be some retention
Speaker 5: there would imagine.
Speaker 6: Rick Oh big contract, big contract, But you choose up
Speaker 6: a lot of minutes, whether you like him or not. Yeah,
Speaker 6: choose up a lot of minutes.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and who in a lot of minutes? And how
Speaker 5: do you replace those minutes?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: I'm not saying he's Bobby or by any means, but
Speaker 5: I think there's value there and he's It's one of
Speaker 5: these situations where very good player. I realize there's flaws,
Speaker 5: but he's been there so long that everybody focuses on
Speaker 5: the flaws and not what he does well, including eat
Speaker 5: up minutes.
Speaker 6: Okay, birthdays, All right, here we go, Ry, get up,
Speaker 6: get a sponsor up, donnian doll. He's a backscratchers and
Speaker 6: dental flaws emporium and ball zach Alberta just outside of Calgary.
Speaker 6: This guy was the second round pick of the Flyers
Speaker 6: in nineteen eighty four, drafted out of the University of Wisconsin,
Speaker 6: traded to the Orders and a six foot deal that
Speaker 6: included Yardry Curry going to Philadelphia, went to Florida in
Speaker 6: the expansion Draft. Scored the Panthers' first ever goal in
Speaker 6: franchise history in nineteen ninety three, played in the nineteen
Speaker 6: ninety six All Star game. Come on. Retired playing the
Speaker 6: third most NHL games fourteen hundred, never won a cup,
Speaker 6: never won a Cup. Drafted by Philadelphia, Philadelphia eighty four.
Speaker 6: Come on. His name's popped up here in Vancouver as
Speaker 6: a possible assistant chance Scott Melanbie, Scott Mellanbie, Scott Mellanbie.
Speaker 6: And he's still He's a good friend of Ryan Johnson.
Speaker 5: Why do I not remember this Yari Curry.
Speaker 6: Trade because Curry never ended up playing for Philly. He
Speaker 6: was moved right away. That's why. So there you go.
Speaker 6: This guy was a Canucks third round pick in two
Speaker 6: thousand and one, played for Windsor and Sudbury in the OHL.
Speaker 6: What only play seven games for the Canucks, mostly played
Speaker 6: in Manitoba with the Moose. Canucks traded him to the
Speaker 6: Rangers in two thousand and five in his sixty left
Speaker 6: the NHL for Russia. He's got a famous, famous brother.
Speaker 6: He was beaten up by Kevin Biachter Federoff, Feeder, Federoff,
Speaker 6: feder And what a great story that was beaking off
Speaker 6: to Canada. Well, and he was beating off, something happened
Speaker 6: with a beer and boom Bixa was at one punch.
Speaker 5: And Biexa was worried that he was going to be
Speaker 5: asked to leave the organization. Instead, Brian Burke said, he
Speaker 5: beat up Federoff.
Speaker 6: Sign him, sign him. Brian Burke loved the story. Yeah,
Speaker 6: that was a great story. All right. This actor, I
Speaker 6: tell you boy, I loved him back in the eighties.
Speaker 5: Oh there's a good clue.
Speaker 6: Just stop. His first film role was that of a
Speaker 6: hostage in the nineteen sixty seven motion picture Bonnie and Clyde.
Speaker 6: His first major film role was Leopold Bloom in the
Speaker 6: nineteen sixty seven film The Producers. He was nominated for
Speaker 6: Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. He was in Woody Allen's
Speaker 6: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But You
Speaker 6: Were Afraid to nineteen seventy two Good Show. He was
Speaker 6: Willie Wonka and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Oh what
Speaker 6: a great movie that was. Geene Wilder, Ah, I knew
Speaker 6: you get it as soon as I said Charlie and
Speaker 6: the Chocolate Chocolate Factory.
Speaker 5: That were one of those movies where we decided, hey,
Speaker 5: we'll have our kids watch this, and I realized it's
Speaker 5: really strange, so odd it was. Yeah, ahead, of its
Speaker 5: time or just standalone weird by itself.
Speaker 6: But him and Richard sh him and Richard Pryor stir crazy.
Speaker 6: Silver Street was Silver Street. He did a lot of
Speaker 6: films with Richard Pryor, but ster Crazy. I think King
Speaker 6: Kong Bundy was here.
Speaker 5: Missing is Young Frankenstein?
Speaker 6: Young frank have movies? Yeah, Young Frankenstein The Adventures? Okay, okay,
Speaker 6: we're the woman who read. I think Gene Wilder was great.
Speaker 6: I absolutely loved him, all right. This actor made his
Speaker 6: film debut in the Christmas Path in nineteen.
Speaker 5: Ninety eight, The Christmas Path Path.
Speaker 6: In the early two thousands, he was Lewis Stevens on
Speaker 6: the Disney Channel week Chila buff.
Speaker 1: Shilah buff?
Speaker 6: Is it she up? Or are you saying the boof? Yeah?
Speaker 3: Okay, that's it.
Speaker 6: That's it. That's did he get it right or not?
Speaker 6: It's Shila boof? But listen, how do you know even
Speaker 6: Stephen's the Disney show, Rick, there.
Speaker 1: Is a two thousands man like that show?
Speaker 5: Was?
Speaker 1: I love that show?
Speaker 6: Even Stephen? Yes, goodness, you know what I've never heard
Speaker 6: of it? Oh man? It was huge? That was that
Speaker 6: sounds for that ex me that the Amanda Show with
Speaker 6: Amanda Vines. But his best best movie was Disturbia. It
Speaker 6: was good, great movie, really good.
Speaker 5: But next to a neighbor yeah, oh very god.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Disturbing Oles was a good movie.
Speaker 5: He's got issues, yeah, well.
Speaker 6: Especially when he's had off field or movie problems.
Speaker 5: Yeah. Yeah, he's got a temper.
Speaker 6: He's got a temper.
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Speaker 6: Is it just me?
Speaker 7: Go?
Speaker 5: All right?
Speaker 6: Here we go? But it's is it just me? But
Speaker 6: it goes to show you how much Don H. Peterson
Speaker 6: that he says that Darnell Nurse has value, but Peterson
Speaker 6: isn't worth a bag of pox. Come on, Don Sheldon
Speaker 6: from Surrey, Surrey.
Speaker 5: It contributes regularly and we thank him for that. I
Speaker 5: don't remember Darnell Nurse being accused of not staying in
Speaker 5: shape in the off season.
Speaker 6: Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 5: That's all I'll say. Yeah, is it just me? Okay,
Speaker 5: let me go back. Okay. Maybe maybe I'm a little
Speaker 5: sensitive when it comes to this sort of thing. Would
Speaker 5: you make that trade contracts aside Darnell Nurse for Lias Patterson?
Speaker 6: I think I would. I think I would. I think
Speaker 6: you get way more invested player, You get a way
Speaker 6: more invested player. I think I think I would.
Speaker 5: Is it just me? But I don't know what's some
Speaker 5: more stupid take. I'm not supporting the CFL because they
Speaker 5: don't want to pay a dollar a day to use
Speaker 5: to zone or Curtis Douglas is a bigger story in
Speaker 5: Vancouver than the World Cup. Y L O L. Tan Beer,
Speaker 5: your buddy.
Speaker 6: Tan Beer first of all, is an idiot. Second of all,
Speaker 6: I never said Curtis Douglas is a biggert. I'm saying
Speaker 6: I get more questions about Curtis Douglas than the World Cup.
Speaker 6: That's all I'm telling you. Don't read that, idiots. You
Speaker 6: said you were in line. No, it was in line
Speaker 6: at Timmy's and I heard a couple of people in
Speaker 6: front of me talking about Curtis Douglas. But I haven't heard.
Speaker 6: I haven't heard anybody in line talking about the World
Speaker 6: Cup about the coffee shop lineup. I listened to people
Speaker 6: in the coffee shop lineup. I think it's amusing. I
Speaker 6: think it's good. You guys are dinosaurs on the World
Speaker 6: Cup issue. Get off, get on the bandwagon, or just
Speaker 6: leave it off your program. It's embarrassing. No name to
Speaker 6: that submission.
Speaker 5: We have Paul Dolan as a regular exactly exactly during
Speaker 5: the world coverage Zach about a whole lot where I
Speaker 5: think people, some people who love their soccer are upset
Speaker 5: that we're not big fans of the ticket prices or
Speaker 5: what happened with the BC Sports Hall of Fame. As
Speaker 5: I said earlier. For people who don't think it's a
Speaker 5: big deal, I guarantee the eight sport of soccer, sports
Speaker 5: itself will take over. People will end up being more
Speaker 5: interested than they are right now. I just don't know
Speaker 5: about it. I don't they're going to go to the
Speaker 5: buck up and go to the games.
Speaker 6: I feel no buzz. I feel no buzz.
Speaker 5: In that coffee shop plant.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I think other than the coffee shop.
Speaker 5: David Cedar is just me or did Dully miss Today's
Speaker 5: most Important Kodak Black twenty nine.
Speaker 6: David Cedars, great guy. I love David Sedar, but Dave,
Speaker 6: I don't know anything about Kodak Black to come up
Speaker 6: with the quarter back other than what he did at
Speaker 6: the Panthers game, I have none. I have no.
Speaker 5: I wonder if Kodak has any idea because it was
Speaker 5: at a Panthers game before the Panthers where you got
Speaker 5: fad Yeah, more of a respected franchise. I wonder if
Speaker 5: he realizes what a legend he is in Vancouver.
Speaker 6: Yeah, Kodak Black, but I'm not doing Kodak Black. I
Speaker 6: don't know anything about his music anyways. Go ahead, Jeez
Speaker 6: from Surrey.
Speaker 5: Is it just me? But I'm pretty sure I saw
Speaker 5: Rick downtown grabbing a coffee with Grant Hughes this morning.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of Grant Hughes's.
Speaker 6: Grant, I made a mistake. Is it okay to make
Speaker 6: a mistake once in a while?
Speaker 5: Derek band name? Okay? Because we're gonna reveal our band
Speaker 5: names early or late June, early July. The Grand Hughes.
Speaker 6: Experience, Yes, Grand Hughes Experience or Project Cannacks have got
Speaker 6: to stop using the excuse that Land is expensive in
Speaker 6: Vancouver for the practice facility. Land is more expensive than
Speaker 6: other NHL cities. Get it done, Aqua Chipo. That's from
Speaker 6: Eden White Rock.
Speaker 5: Thank you, ed, Eric in a lot of people feel
Speaker 5: that way, Eric in East West Van. Is it just me?
Speaker 5: But speaking of nineteen ninety four, I love the thirty
Speaker 5: for thirty doc June seventeenth, nineteen ninety four that all
Speaker 5: the sports events happening on that day overshadowed by oj
Speaker 5: in the Bronco. That's a thirty for thirty the documentary,
Speaker 5: as he mentioned, Eric, thank you very much for that.
Speaker 5: It is fabulous. Yes, it is right up there with
Speaker 5: the two Escobars, also thirty for thirty. But that June seventeenth,
Speaker 5: nineteen ninety four, Arnold Palmer's last competitive round think at
Speaker 5: the US Open, Ken Griffy breaking an MLB record. There's
Speaker 5: all sorts of things including the Bronco chase and the
Speaker 5: Rangers parade NEUK Rangers parade, sorry Canuck fans in ninety four,
Speaker 5: and what was happening with the Knicks and Rockets. Just
Speaker 5: absolutely fabulous documentary.
Speaker 6: Absolutely your bang on about that. So I've heard FIFA
Speaker 6: selling a world Cup soccer jersey for five hundred dollars.
Speaker 6: Dominic in the Ridge. This is again when you see
Speaker 6: there's no buzz about soccer. Tickets are seven hundred bucks,
Speaker 6: as Dominic says, jerseys are five hundred bucks. I mean,
Speaker 6: don this is ridiculous.
Speaker 5: This style one of the tourists that come into town,
Speaker 5: or the soccer efficionados that we know people that care
Speaker 5: more about the game than maybe you and I and
Speaker 5: Ryan do. We do care, but well they buck up
Speaker 5: for that, so maybe we're not the ones to comment
Speaker 5: on that. Like a lot of things around here. Okay, break,
Speaker 5: we'll wrap up the show in the poll. Question next
Speaker 5: Wildling donk Pole question Donnie Della. The team on check.
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Speaker 6: How would you describe your interest level in the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty six World Cup? And look at this, All these
Speaker 6: people up in me because I said I don't feel
Speaker 6: the buzz. Look at this. Fifty two percent say men,
Speaker 6: followed by twenty eight to twenty nine percent say absolutely high,
Speaker 6: and then nineteen percent say low. So take a look
Speaker 6: at that, Donnie. Seventy percent basically essentially are saying to
Speaker 6: you it's either low or meh and so, and I'm
Speaker 6: getting rid of I will bet.
Speaker 5: That the man will turn into high, which is the
Speaker 5: first time I've used that since. When the World Cup starts,
Speaker 5: you said it sports entertainment, soccer entertainment will will take over.
Speaker 5: It always does. People were against the Olympics.
Speaker 6: That's true, and then when then it happened, it was
Speaker 6: like that wonderful. It was wonderful okay, go photos, all right.
Speaker 1: I got a photo. Oh this is uh, this is
Speaker 1: somebody you guys know. I know quite well. That's my brother.
Speaker 5: Ah, how many pictures of your brother?
Speaker 6: Where is that? I don't have a short.
Speaker 5: Photo my brother on the show.
Speaker 1: I don't know this in his D and D golf
Speaker 1: shirt at Banne Beach in Croatia. Oh okay, my cousin
Speaker 1: is getting married in Dubrovnick today.
Speaker 5: Welcome were not there.
Speaker 1: It's a great question to stick it out with you
Speaker 1: two and Derek so him and his wife yelling out,
Speaker 1: are over for Mitchen Live's wedding and beautiful Dubrovnick today.
Speaker 5: Beautiful, he almost said to Brusnick.
Speaker 1: Almost almost look at.
Speaker 6: That water overseas great photo.
Speaker 1: Did you have a birthday or something?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 6: I have two of them? Absolutely, Ted maple Ridge a
Speaker 6: seventy first birthday today, big fan of the show, Hughes
Speaker 6: and stop with the grand huse. Howard by the Dog
Speaker 6: another big view of ours is turning sixty two. So
Speaker 6: Ted maple Ridge and Howard by the Dog. I think's
Speaker 6: in Victoria. Happy birthday to both of you guys.
Speaker 5: Happy birthday Howard and Ted.
Speaker 6: Anymore, that's it that's it. Okay?
Speaker 5: Is it just me? I'd like to know why this
Speaker 5: is unsigned, Why the grass at BC plays can't stay
Speaker 5: after FIFA for the rest of the season for the
Speaker 5: Lions and Caps. If BC taxpayers paid for it all,
Speaker 5: then they should have to say whether it stays or goes.
Speaker 5: I'm gonna guess that the answer is maintenance slash money. Yes,
Speaker 5: the roof's going to be closed for all all seven
Speaker 5: of the or seven plus matches at BC place the daytime, yes,
Speaker 5: but it will be open at other times in order
Speaker 5: to help the grass grow or to maintain the grass. Absolutely,
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