WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.480 --> 00:00:06.240 Check Podcasts. 2 00:00:06.679 --> 00:00:10.160 Thanks for listening to the Donnie and Dolly podcast. Catch 3 00:00:10.199 --> 00:00:13.279 the show Monday through Friday, ten am to noon on Check. 4 00:00:13.960 --> 00:00:15.359 I think you're gonna want to hear this. 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.359 Your local sports coverage lives here. 6 00:00:20.719 --> 00:00:23.679 And the man wearing Dennis Kurrn's old number six makes 7 00:00:23.719 --> 00:00:24.800 it to nothing. 8 00:00:24.719 --> 00:00:25.839 With John Taylor. 9 00:00:26.039 --> 00:00:29.079 I was just gonna say underrated egg, deviled egg, and 10 00:00:29.239 --> 00:00:30.960 Rick Dolly Wall, now you. 11 00:00:31.039 --> 00:00:33.560 Gonna go on the couch at eight o'clock tonight, sits 12 00:00:33.600 --> 00:00:34.399 down and let's. 13 00:00:34.240 --> 00:00:39.960 Put it in hears Donnie and Dolly. 14 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.320 Ten o'clock and Downtown Vacouver Roe of Paul Carson Studio. 15 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:46.719 Thanks for tuning in, folks. It's Donnie and Dolly the 16 00:00:46.719 --> 00:00:50.159 team on Check. Don Taylor, along with Rick Dollingwall. Ryan 17 00:00:50.200 --> 00:00:52.880 Henderson is our producer. He's the man at the controls 18 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:56.280 our director. The voice of God is Derek Wan. 19 00:00:56.600 --> 00:00:57.320 How are you? Oh? 20 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:58.039 It's Friday. 21 00:00:58.719 --> 00:01:01.479 All sorts of positive response to our Wadlin dog poll 22 00:01:01.600 --> 00:01:06.159 question today. We'll get to that in a second. You'll 23 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:11.200 see what we mean. First of all, we were negligent yesterday. 24 00:01:11.799 --> 00:01:15.280 Our friend Barkley Parnetta and the Vancouver Giants have parted 25 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:20.799 ways Barkley GM for the last seven years with the Giants. 26 00:01:21.359 --> 00:01:23.799 We wish him the best. Wish to the Giants the 27 00:01:23.840 --> 00:01:26.599 best as well. Barkley are pretty much a regular on 28 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:27.079 this show. 29 00:01:27.159 --> 00:01:29.040 We love them, we love them, and I. 30 00:01:28.959 --> 00:01:32.159 Think the most disappointing part of this piece of news 31 00:01:33.400 --> 00:01:35.439 tongue in cheek is that we don't get to run 32 00:01:35.480 --> 00:01:39.040 the barks has Bite commercial anymore. We could probably still 33 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:40.879 run it once in a while for no reason at all, 34 00:01:40.959 --> 00:01:44.640 but there was a reason to do that when Barkley 35 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:47.120 was a regular, our semi regular on the show. So 36 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:51.760 all the best to Parnetta and the Vancouver Giants. More 37 00:01:51.799 --> 00:01:54.120 hockey in a bit, But I want to mention this. 38 00:01:54.200 --> 00:01:56.159 I know you were watching this game last night on 39 00:01:56.280 --> 00:02:02.239 one Soccer cruise. A Zoul defeats Puma one nill Thursday 40 00:02:02.239 --> 00:02:06.040 in Mexico. So it will be in the final of 41 00:02:06.120 --> 00:02:09.520 the CONCA CAF Champions Cup Cruise as well versus the 42 00:02:09.599 --> 00:02:13.039 Vancouver white Caps. That's on June first, and it's going 43 00:02:13.120 --> 00:02:16.080 to be in Mexico City, not at BC Place. 44 00:02:16.120 --> 00:02:19.080 And I believe June first is a Sunday and where 45 00:02:19.240 --> 00:02:21.759 the white Caps won this year in Mexico. Two or 46 00:02:21.759 --> 00:02:23.759 three times they've done really well. 47 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:28.319 Yes, yeah, yep, they've advanced against the two Mexican sides, 48 00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:34.199 and then of course the victory over inter Miami, Messi 49 00:02:34.240 --> 00:02:34.960 and inter Miami. 50 00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:35.719 So there you go. 51 00:02:36.039 --> 00:02:40.039 You can all look forward to June first, and also 52 00:02:40.039 --> 00:02:41.520 look for it if you're a white Caps fan, if 53 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:43.479 you're a soccer fan, if you're a Vancouver a sports fan, 54 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.879 to more of the white Caps continue there MLS schedule 55 00:02:47.159 --> 00:02:50.759 versus Reale Salt Lake. The white Caps on top of 56 00:02:50.800 --> 00:02:54.719 the MLS table against Saturday, BC. 57 00:02:54.639 --> 00:03:01.080 Place, unbeaten in nine games. There you go, Vancouver Warriors. 58 00:03:01.120 --> 00:03:04.000 Meanwhile, we're all over the place today this first segment 59 00:03:04.039 --> 00:03:08.159 saying goodbye to Barkley, mentioning the mentioning cruise AZUL. Vancouver 60 00:03:08.199 --> 00:03:14.280 Warriors played tonight in Buffalo, Game one, best of three 61 00:03:14.719 --> 00:03:18.080 National Lacross the League Playoffs Semifinal. Game two go Sunday 62 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.400 at Rogers Arena. You know the Canucks the way you 63 00:03:20.439 --> 00:03:24.000 know the Vancouver Canucks and what they're up to. Well, 64 00:03:24.000 --> 00:03:26.639 they're not up to much. Disappointing season, but all the 65 00:03:26.719 --> 00:03:31.479 success all around them, including the Vancouver Warriors. Kurt Maloski 66 00:03:31.599 --> 00:03:34.879 is going to join US head coaching Jim of the 67 00:03:34.919 --> 00:03:36.919 Warriors at the bottom of this hour. 68 00:03:36.960 --> 00:03:37.960 In our third. 69 00:03:38.039 --> 00:03:41.080 Segment, also let's get back to hockey. Here we mentioned 70 00:03:41.080 --> 00:03:45.680 all the success the Warriors, this Vancouver success minus the Canucks, 71 00:03:46.080 --> 00:03:49.520 the Warriors, the White Cap, Abbatsford Canucks. They beat Coachella 72 00:03:49.599 --> 00:03:53.319 Valley Down of California yesterday game one, three to one. 73 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.639 Oh, Maddy Mahuldrop, who is going to be interviewed by 74 00:03:56.639 --> 00:03:58.960 the Canucks for the head coaching job. This guy keeps winning? 75 00:03:59.159 --> 00:04:05.599 Uh Sea Lov's great and goal twenty nine saves, Jet Wu, Danilla, Klemovic, 76 00:04:05.919 --> 00:04:08.400 Donnie and Gilliam breeseball with the goals. 77 00:04:08.759 --> 00:04:12.800 Game two Saturday. Yeah, and it's it's the best of five, 78 00:04:14.120 --> 00:04:16.800 like you say. Game two on Saturday. Then it switches 79 00:04:16.839 --> 00:04:19.800 to Abbotsford for the final three games I believe starting 80 00:04:19.839 --> 00:04:23.560 Wednesday next week, the final three games if necessary, certainly 81 00:04:23.600 --> 00:04:28.639 the third game, but yeah, all three of those games 82 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.319 would be next week if necessary. What if Manny Maholtra 83 00:04:32.800 --> 00:04:36.480 and the Atbmosford Canucks if this role continues, you know 84 00:04:36.600 --> 00:04:38.839 what what happens with him? Is he going to get 85 00:04:38.879 --> 00:04:43.639 offers from not just the Vancouver but elsewhere. Hot Commodity 86 00:04:43.680 --> 00:04:46.480 but just just his first year as a head coach 87 00:04:46.759 --> 00:04:49.000 with this team, not a lot of head coaching experience 88 00:04:49.040 --> 00:04:49.800 at the pro level. 89 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.399 Yeah, and don't forget Travis Green and Utica when he 90 00:04:52.480 --> 00:04:54.879 went to the American Hockey League Final. What happened Donnie? 91 00:04:55.079 --> 00:04:57.560 He got hired by the Canucks if he goes deep 92 00:04:57.600 --> 00:04:59.600 in the playoffs. But my biggest thing with the Knucks 93 00:04:59.720 --> 00:05:03.439 coaching search dot are they going to spend money or 94 00:05:03.439 --> 00:05:06.519 are they going to take the cheap route? So you're 95 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.639 saying that Manny would be I'm not talking. I didn't 96 00:05:08.639 --> 00:05:11.000 put him in the cheap category. I'm saying cheaper than 97 00:05:11.240 --> 00:05:14.319 some people. Their offer to talk it at the end, 98 00:05:14.519 --> 00:05:17.079 it was big. Are they going to make another offer 99 00:05:17.160 --> 00:05:19.160 like that or are they going to go a little 100 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.920 bit cheaper? That's the million dollar question in their coaching search. 101 00:05:23.000 --> 00:05:27.600 But it's a tough situation because if you really well, 102 00:05:27.639 --> 00:05:30.439 if you really well. First of all, they fired a 103 00:05:30.480 --> 00:05:33.759 head coach, so that's that. Not probably they parted ways 104 00:05:34.199 --> 00:05:37.600 with a head coach. Rick Talckett left the organization. There's 105 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:41.800 no firing there from what we understand. But if Manny Halter, 106 00:05:41.920 --> 00:05:45.000 if they consider him a hot commodity, did you not 107 00:05:45.079 --> 00:05:48.439 want to hang on to him. It's so early in 108 00:05:49.279 --> 00:05:52.680 his career as a professional head coach. You know what, 109 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:56.360 you get that question, do you go on? Well, let 110 00:05:56.399 --> 00:05:57.639 me maybe go somewhere else. 111 00:05:57.879 --> 00:06:00.439 Here's the great thing for manny molds in another wordanization. 112 00:06:00.560 --> 00:06:04.439 There's eight NHL opening, yes, eight, and there could be more. 113 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:07.680 The LA Kings last night. Is that is that going 114 00:06:07.759 --> 00:06:10.279 to be another opening? I don't know. It could be nine, 115 00:06:11.040 --> 00:06:13.560 you know it could there could be other teams out 116 00:06:13.560 --> 00:06:14.800 in round one that fire their coach. 117 00:06:15.639 --> 00:06:17.759 And the news from the National Hockey League payoffs, but 118 00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.600 they're great to watch. I mean every night you go home, 119 00:06:21.319 --> 00:06:23.480 I turn on Check and then I go back and 120 00:06:23.519 --> 00:06:26.920 forth between Check and the National Hockey League playoffs. But 121 00:06:27.000 --> 00:06:31.120 it's just tremendous. We said going into these playoffs that 122 00:06:31.199 --> 00:06:34.199 it was so disappointing in a way, we look forward 123 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:37.120 to this, that the Avalanche and Stars were going to 124 00:06:37.160 --> 00:06:39.279 meet in round one and lo and behold what happens 125 00:06:39.279 --> 00:06:40.920 They're going to go to They're going to go to 126 00:06:40.959 --> 00:06:46.519 seven games. Just just tremendous entertainment. And McKinnon's goal last 127 00:06:46.600 --> 00:06:50.199 night up in the air off Blackwell, it was there. 128 00:06:50.040 --> 00:06:51.839 Were no there was one screenshot. 129 00:06:51.879 --> 00:06:54.879 I don't know if you watch the game where there 130 00:06:54.879 --> 00:06:58.279 were no Avalanche in the pitcher, there was nobody there. 131 00:06:58.360 --> 00:07:00.959 McKinnon had been peeled, I was no and they had the. 132 00:07:02.519 --> 00:07:04.920 End up scoring and the and and that and that 133 00:07:05.000 --> 00:07:07.920 was it, And that was just a just a tremendous 134 00:07:08.439 --> 00:07:12.240 night of entertainment in Colorado and pretty much everywhere else 135 00:07:12.240 --> 00:07:13.199 in the National hockey. 136 00:07:13.040 --> 00:07:16.120 He go Toronto, Lowton the block shot late in the game. 137 00:07:16.920 --> 00:07:20.199 That's the sacrifice of the playoffs. You know, Edmonton comes 138 00:07:20.199 --> 00:07:22.879 back from to nothing down. If you're the Kings today, 139 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:26.040 you've lost four straight years in road don to the Oilers. 140 00:07:26.079 --> 00:07:28.800 To the Oilers, Like what happens if they meet in 141 00:07:28.839 --> 00:07:31.759 the first round again next year? I'm gonna guess the 142 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.959 Oilers will win. Yeah, four years. Can you imagine losing 143 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:36.040 to the same team four years? 144 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.000 People talked about the Kings being favorites. Wow, but can 145 00:07:39.040 --> 00:07:41.879 you really is that really the case when you're taking 146 00:07:41.920 --> 00:07:45.399 on McDavid. Yeah, once they get up too, I guess 147 00:07:45.399 --> 00:07:47.720 at that point you'd think they'd be able to lock 148 00:07:47.759 --> 00:07:49.560 it down, especially with that home ice record. 149 00:07:49.600 --> 00:07:51.759 But McDavid and dry settle around the Oilers. 150 00:07:51.800 --> 00:07:53.759 But you know, what what did they combine for I 151 00:07:53.759 --> 00:07:56.680 think to two points in the last two games. 152 00:07:56.920 --> 00:07:57.319 It was there. 153 00:07:57.399 --> 00:07:59.839 It was their depth guys that won that problem. And 154 00:08:00.120 --> 00:08:01.480 Calvin Pickard as well well. 155 00:08:01.480 --> 00:08:05.680 And Pickard four wins in a row. Picker, watch it. 156 00:08:05.680 --> 00:08:07.759 He came in last year and look at him. Now. 157 00:08:08.480 --> 00:08:10.839 Skinner gave up twelve goals in the first two games. 158 00:08:10.839 --> 00:08:12.279 They go to Pickard, He's won fo in a row. 159 00:08:12.399 --> 00:08:14.439 Yeah, but all those Skinner came back last year. 160 00:08:14.519 --> 00:08:14.759 Yeah. 161 00:08:15.600 --> 00:08:18.839 So Also when you talk about sacrifices in the in 162 00:08:18.839 --> 00:08:22.240 the National Hockey League or just you know, the just 163 00:08:22.279 --> 00:08:26.079 how courageous players are? You mentioned the block shot. Victor Hedman, 164 00:08:26.120 --> 00:08:30.000 We understand played that Panther series with the broken leg rick. 165 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:33.240 There is no other sport. I'm sorry, and I say 166 00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:35.559 this all the time. Hockey players are the toughest players 167 00:08:35.600 --> 00:08:38.440 on this planet. Victor Hedman played through a broken lake 168 00:08:38.879 --> 00:08:41.039 in round one of the playoffs. Think about that. First, 169 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:44.240 she's of Bob Bond. You got soccer players a little 170 00:08:44.320 --> 00:08:48.279 kick on the shin doing somersaults because they're oh, you 171 00:08:48.360 --> 00:08:51.320 got NBA players. You know what is it when they 172 00:08:51.320 --> 00:08:55.600 get arrest? What's it called load management? Load management? This 173 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:58.279 we got Rasmus Anderson played the last twelve games for 174 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:02.000 Calgary with the broken lake Victor hebnan broken leg. Hockey 175 00:09:02.080 --> 00:09:05.080 players are the toughest players on this planet and football 176 00:09:05.120 --> 00:09:08.960 players are next. But don't ever lump basketball players and 177 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:11.120 don't love soccer players in with hockey. 178 00:09:11.360 --> 00:09:13.399 The lacrosse and rugby because lacrosse is. 179 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:17.919 Tough to uh, rugby too in a scrum, and rugby I. 180 00:09:17.840 --> 00:09:21.240 Think boxing and m m A is pretty tough as well. 181 00:09:21.240 --> 00:09:23.679 There's a lot, but hockey's right up there and they 182 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:24.360 revel in it. 183 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:24.919 They love it. 184 00:09:24.919 --> 00:09:27.120 It's part of part part of the culture. Okay, so 185 00:09:27.159 --> 00:09:30.639 we mentioned Victor hebben By the way Mike Sullivan, we 186 00:09:30.679 --> 00:09:32.840 knew this wasn't gonna happen. Mike, Mike Sullivan wasn't going 187 00:09:32.919 --> 00:09:35.320 to return to Vancouver. He's been hired by the New 188 00:09:35.360 --> 00:09:36.840 York Rangers as expected. 189 00:09:37.320 --> 00:09:37.679 Uh. 190 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:40.000 But back to Tampa Bay for a second. We mentioned 191 00:09:40.320 --> 00:09:46.000 Victor Hedman. Giome Breezebois, head honcho of the Tampa Bay Landing, 192 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:48.080 has made it clear John Cooper is going to be back. 193 00:09:48.120 --> 00:09:50.440 There was some talk that he would be let go 194 00:09:51.080 --> 00:09:54.360 and uh maybe be available to come back. 195 00:09:54.240 --> 00:09:57.360 To his home province. Of BC. He's a BC boy, 196 00:09:57.759 --> 00:10:00.840 Prince George. I. I ran into Cooper at the Save 197 00:10:00.879 --> 00:10:03.399 on Foods last summer. I think his dad. No, seriously, yeah, 198 00:10:03.559 --> 00:10:05.639 I think his dad. What section was it? His dad 199 00:10:05.679 --> 00:10:08.879 lives in White Rock, so he I saw him. He 200 00:10:09.000 --> 00:10:10.960 was at the counter checking out. Did you say I 201 00:10:11.000 --> 00:10:11.279 do him? 202 00:10:11.320 --> 00:10:11.399 No? 203 00:10:11.519 --> 00:10:14.240 I I because my lady that was checking me out 204 00:10:14.480 --> 00:10:16.960 forever I had too many groceries and I wanted to 205 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:19.279 say hi, and then he kind of ran out, and 206 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.120 but the lady that was that story had the worst 207 00:10:22.200 --> 00:10:25.519 ending ever. I thought you were going to with that. 208 00:10:25.679 --> 00:10:27.720 I told the lady, I said, can you speed it up? 209 00:10:27.919 --> 00:10:30.039 There's John Cooper. I want to go say hi to him. 210 00:10:30.080 --> 00:10:32.919 And she took forever and and hate that. I hate 211 00:10:32.960 --> 00:10:36.120 dad and Cooper and his dad went out into the 212 00:10:36.120 --> 00:10:38.039 parking lot. I went looking in the parking lot, couldn't 213 00:10:38.039 --> 00:10:39.360 find him. 214 00:10:39.879 --> 00:10:42.679 I had a similar experience with Patrick Alvin really oh 215 00:10:42.720 --> 00:10:43.399 at the gas station. 216 00:10:43.519 --> 00:10:44.200 Yeah. 217 00:10:44.320 --> 00:10:48.200 Then I thought to myself, everybody the Canucks hates our show. 218 00:10:48.240 --> 00:10:50.000 So I don't know if I wanted to introduce myself, 219 00:10:50.080 --> 00:10:50.519 so I didn't. 220 00:10:51.039 --> 00:10:53.679 I didn't bother do I don't think Patrick Alvin is 221 00:10:53.679 --> 00:10:54.399 a fan of us. 222 00:10:54.679 --> 00:10:57.440 Well, he won't be after he checks out our poll question, 223 00:10:57.559 --> 00:11:01.399 the Wattling Dog poll question, and we're bringing this pole 224 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:03.480 question up before we get to it. I just want 225 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:06.480 to say this that oftentimes with our poll question, this 226 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:09.840 is a little look you know, in behind behind the 227 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:13.000 scenes scenes of Donnie and Dolly, the team on check. 228 00:11:14.120 --> 00:11:19.279 Our poll question is often a response to the responses 229 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:23.799 we get, the inquiries we get in our Delaney's Okay 230 00:11:23.840 --> 00:11:26.360 tire in Langley and all the Grove indox. And this 231 00:11:26.399 --> 00:11:29.559 subject has come up a lot in the wake of 232 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.279 Rick Tocket's departure, like what's going on with this organization? 233 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:35.919 Maybe it's time for a rebuild. I can't believe you 234 00:11:35.919 --> 00:11:38.559 didn't get anything for broad Best or nothing for pe 235 00:11:38.720 --> 00:11:40.960 suitor before the deadline. Now they're going to go, you're 236 00:11:41.000 --> 00:11:43.279 not gonna get anything for him. So this subject has 237 00:11:43.320 --> 00:11:47.320 come up a lot, and the subject is Quinn Hughes. 238 00:11:48.039 --> 00:11:52.559 His contract expires in two seasons. After two seasons, it's 239 00:11:52.600 --> 00:11:56.240 going to be a UFA. Last time I checked. You 240 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:59.159 know this no trade clause, he doesn't have one. No 241 00:11:59.279 --> 00:12:02.039 movement doesn't have a no movement clause. And a lot 242 00:12:02.039 --> 00:12:04.200 of people say, you know, is this the time, And 243 00:12:04.279 --> 00:12:06.480 you know, we talk a lot about the possibility of 244 00:12:06.519 --> 00:12:08.679 a rebuilt this is the time. Maybe you think about 245 00:12:09.480 --> 00:12:12.159 letting go of Quinn Hughes in a trading getting a 246 00:12:12.399 --> 00:12:16.799 massive haulback. Maybe not next this summer, maybe next summer, 247 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:18.080 whatever the case may be. 248 00:12:18.200 --> 00:12:21.159 It's a great question. Waddeling Dog poll question. 249 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:24.200 Visit one of Victoria's favorite pubs, The Dog, where you 250 00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.960 could enjoy twenty taps and twenty screens. You're home for 251 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:28.960 the Canucks in UFC. Come sit and stay at the 252 00:12:29.039 --> 00:12:30.879 Dog today, all right. 253 00:12:30.840 --> 00:12:31.440 Ryan, get her up. 254 00:12:31.480 --> 00:12:34.480 The Waddling Dog pup poll question. When should the canuckstraate 255 00:12:34.559 --> 00:12:40.159 Quinn Hughes this summer, next summer? Never, He's going to resign? 256 00:12:40.799 --> 00:12:43.120 Almost eleven hundred votes is hopping. It's bop and it's 257 00:12:43.120 --> 00:12:46.000 really got some tracks. Your forty nine percent say never 258 00:12:47.120 --> 00:12:50.919 because he is going to resign. Thirty seven percent say 259 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:55.159 this summer, fourteen percent say next summer. So there you go. 260 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.039 There's a lot of positive people in Vancouver who don't 261 00:12:59.039 --> 00:13:03.159 think uh. They say never, he's going to resign. Boy 262 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:07.600 oh boy, I wish boy, oh boy, I wish. I 263 00:13:07.639 --> 00:13:12.000 hope they have some evidence of that because Quinn Hughes 264 00:13:12.039 --> 00:13:14.600 has really got to look at his Vancouver gonna win. 265 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:16.120 He's just been a wonderful player. 266 00:13:16.200 --> 00:13:20.480 Yeah, he's and he's right there with Pavel Burray is 267 00:13:20.799 --> 00:13:23.519 one of the best players in franchise history. Donny next 268 00:13:23.559 --> 00:13:25.960 year is going to be big. Is he good? He 269 00:13:26.080 --> 00:13:28.519 They just got rid of a No, they just parted 270 00:13:28.600 --> 00:13:32.039 ways with the coach he loves. Right his good friend 271 00:13:32.039 --> 00:13:35.679 Brock Besser could be gone in eight weeks. You know, 272 00:13:35.759 --> 00:13:38.120 bo Horvat's gone. They're in disarray right now. They're in 273 00:13:38.159 --> 00:13:41.279 disarray right now. You know, it's been a tough year 274 00:13:41.399 --> 00:13:44.320 on Quinn Hughes. He played as well as he did 275 00:13:44.840 --> 00:13:48.240 with all the drama, with all the drama. He tried 276 00:13:48.279 --> 00:13:51.759 to fix Peterson Miller the feud. He tried. He tried. 277 00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:53.799 He was the captain. It was his job to try 278 00:13:53.840 --> 00:13:57.240 and fix it. Those two guys in that feud screwed 279 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:59.080 the organization on so many levels. 280 00:13:59.039 --> 00:14:01.039 And he went on He has gone on record several 281 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:04.480 times about just how much he admired Rick Talkin called 282 00:14:04.559 --> 00:14:07.759 him last off season the best coach he's ever had. 283 00:14:08.480 --> 00:14:10.440 So you just have to wonder how he feels about 284 00:14:10.759 --> 00:14:16.159 Talcket leaving the organization his decision. He leaves the organization. 285 00:14:16.200 --> 00:14:18.519 What does Quinn Hughes think about that? 286 00:14:18.759 --> 00:14:18.960 Now? 287 00:14:19.120 --> 00:14:21.279 He has said, he's gone on record to saying, you know, 288 00:14:21.279 --> 00:14:23.519 and I'm paraphrasing here, that he's committed to this, that 289 00:14:23.559 --> 00:14:26.679 he's the captain. He really respects the fact that they 290 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:29.480 made that choice to make him captain, and he would 291 00:14:29.519 --> 00:14:31.879 love to turn things around. But you have to be realistic. 292 00:14:32.120 --> 00:14:35.440 We talked about this yesterday. We've been around watching this 293 00:14:35.480 --> 00:14:38.600 team since nineteen seventy and the most connuct thing that 294 00:14:38.639 --> 00:14:43.679 could happen spring twenty twenty seven. They're fighting for a 295 00:14:43.679 --> 00:14:46.960 playoff spot, you know, trying to eke their way into 296 00:14:46.960 --> 00:14:49.000 the playoffs, maybe getting a couple of kind of like 297 00:14:49.039 --> 00:14:52.320 this year, maybe getting a couple of playoff home dates. 298 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:55.720 Quenhes is still on the roster, going to be a 299 00:14:55.840 --> 00:14:58.679 UFA in a matter of weeks or a month or 300 00:14:58.679 --> 00:15:01.720 whatever the case may be. And they keep him hands 301 00:15:01.759 --> 00:15:02.960 up leaving for nothing. 302 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.639 That they won't see that they there's no way, what 303 00:15:07.000 --> 00:15:08.759 do you mean they won't done? Are you crazy? 304 00:15:08.759 --> 00:15:09.679 What do they just do with best? 305 00:15:09.840 --> 00:15:09.879 You? 306 00:15:10.519 --> 00:15:13.039 You can't let a franchise player go for nothing. They 307 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:15.399 if they get an indication he's not going to resign, 308 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:17.000 they will load him up. 309 00:15:17.039 --> 00:15:21.919 You've been paying attention. Oh like Besser, what suitor? What 310 00:15:22.200 --> 00:15:25.000 going back to the Benning era? What management group? But 311 00:15:25.320 --> 00:15:27.840 this is a franchise player. You can't let him walk 312 00:15:27.840 --> 00:15:30.480 for nothing. Come on, but they did. They just did 313 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:31.120 it with Besser. 314 00:15:31.200 --> 00:15:33.120 Yeah, but Besser is not on the level of Hughes. 315 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.320 No give talking franchise defense man. You can't see them. 316 00:15:36.360 --> 00:15:39.399 They get an inkling that Quinn's gone through Quinn and 317 00:15:39.440 --> 00:15:41.440 his agent, they will move him and get a ton 318 00:15:41.440 --> 00:15:45.360 of assets back. You can't let that guy walk for nothing. Done. 319 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:46.399 Come on, you can't. 320 00:15:46.399 --> 00:15:49.919 But would you be surprised if they did? You know, 321 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.679 all because you know you might get a couple of 322 00:15:52.720 --> 00:15:53.480 playoff dates. 323 00:15:54.000 --> 00:15:56.919 I don't know. Oh, I just think it's food for 324 00:15:57.000 --> 00:15:57.879 thought at the very least. 325 00:15:57.919 --> 00:16:00.720 And again, a lot of what we're doing here is 326 00:16:00.759 --> 00:16:03.080 in response to the inbox. We're getting a lot of 327 00:16:03.120 --> 00:16:04.559 people saying, is this the time. 328 00:16:05.080 --> 00:16:10.039 Quinn Hughes is the single most important player person in 329 00:16:10.080 --> 00:16:11.159 this franchise? Right now? 330 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:14.279 There's what's coming up on the show DTMZ. 331 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:15.159 Is it just me? 332 00:16:16.399 --> 00:16:18.799 In the eleven o'clock hour, Stuart Johnson is going to 333 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.440 join us. The television executive a long time at TSN. 334 00:16:22.440 --> 00:16:26.080 He's the president of TSN. He has left that company 335 00:16:26.639 --> 00:16:30.200 much like we did, not exactly the same as we did, 336 00:16:30.240 --> 00:16:33.360 but he has left that company to become the fifteenth 337 00:16:33.399 --> 00:16:36.919 Commissioner of the Canadian Football League CFL. Camps are opening 338 00:16:36.919 --> 00:16:39.559 in a matter of days. Stuart's going to join us 339 00:16:39.639 --> 00:16:42.600 just after eleven o'clock. Big ride the Twitter guy later 340 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:46.519 this hour Kurt Mulawsky. We mentioned this head coach GM 341 00:16:46.960 --> 00:16:50.200 of the Vancouver Warriors. Big Playoff Game, Big Playoff Series. 342 00:16:50.200 --> 00:16:53.720 It starts tonight in Buffalo. They return to Vancouver to 343 00:16:53.759 --> 00:16:56.240 play the Bandits on Sunday, Game two. 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As the Stanley 380 00:19:13.839 --> 00:19:17.799 Cup playoffs continue, Sands the Vancouver Canucks, we bring in 381 00:19:18.039 --> 00:19:20.680 from the athletic Thomas Strants, our first chance to talk 382 00:19:20.720 --> 00:19:23.759 to him since the departure of Rick Cockett from Vancouver. 383 00:19:24.000 --> 00:19:25.200 Thomas, Thanks for doing this, sir. 384 00:19:25.240 --> 00:19:27.720 How are you doing well? 385 00:19:27.799 --> 00:19:28.880 Gentlemen? Thanks for having me. 386 00:19:29.039 --> 00:19:31.519 What was your reaction to that piece of news Rick 387 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:33.799 Cockett no longer with the Canucks? 388 00:19:34.359 --> 00:19:37.200 You know, I wasn't shocked. 389 00:19:37.480 --> 00:19:41.880 I will say I think as the weak dragged on, 390 00:19:42.079 --> 00:19:45.079 the organization was surprised, but not shocked itself. 391 00:19:45.119 --> 00:19:45.640 There was a. 392 00:19:45.559 --> 00:19:48.240 Feeling internally that the longer this went, the more likely 393 00:19:48.279 --> 00:19:49.880 it was that he'd depart. 394 00:19:50.599 --> 00:19:52.839 You know, I do think there'd been at least some. 395 00:19:53.480 --> 00:19:57.480 Measure of thinking about sort of trade offs if they 396 00:19:57.519 --> 00:19:59.759 had to change coaches. That sort of occurred over the 397 00:20:00.000 --> 00:20:02.920 weekend and early next week, as I think the club 398 00:20:02.960 --> 00:20:05.519 began to read the writing on the wall, despite the 399 00:20:05.559 --> 00:20:09.079 fact that they'd been in you know, a sort of conversations, 400 00:20:09.119 --> 00:20:13.519 planning conversations, round table meetings with Rick Talckett about sort 401 00:20:13.519 --> 00:20:14.960