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Speaker 1: How are you lovely?
Speaker 3: A lot happening today. We'll get to the soccer in
Speaker 3: a second here, but we just want to remind people
Speaker 3: are telling people, our viewers, our listeners. Manny maholtre, twenty
Speaker 3: third head coach in Canucks history, introduced as the twenty
Speaker 3: third head coach in Canuck's History's going to join us
Speaker 3: in the next segment. A full disclosure. We recorded this
Speaker 3: interview moments ago with Manny. You'll be interested to hear
Speaker 3: who his number one coaching influence has been. So we
Speaker 3: look forward to that in our next segment. And also
Speaker 3: we'll have Thomas drants On in our third segment. And
Speaker 3: Thomas has done an article in The Athletic on Richard
Speaker 3: seely he talked with him and miss Richard. For people
Speaker 3: aren't aware, I'm sure you are, Canuck fans. A new
Speaker 3: Cannucks assistant general manager and general manager of the Abbotsford
Speaker 3: Cannucks BC kit from Power River Power River former Power
Speaker 3: River paper King by the way, So we look forward
Speaker 3: to Manny and Thomas Drantz for connucts out there. Meanwhile,
Speaker 3: there's a good reason why if you came into town
Speaker 3: you don't have a monthly parking If you came into
Speaker 3: town today and people charging parking lots charging sixty five
Speaker 3: dollars to park downtown this morning, people going to work,
Speaker 3: and that they did it to you, sixty five dollars
Speaker 3: are the parking lot across the street. Here, look the
Speaker 3: focus here is soccer. But there's got to be some
Speaker 3: law that you can't do this to people. Are so
Speaker 3: ridiculous that charge should not start until after nine o'clock
Speaker 3: or ten o'clock when people are at work.
Speaker 1: So we park across the street where by BC Place,
Speaker 1: you and I pay what eighteen bucks? Eighteen bucks today
Speaker 1: they charged sixty three bucks. Ridiculous. These guys should be
Speaker 1: held accountable.
Speaker 3: It's BS Canada versus katar as we move away from
Speaker 3: us complaining three o'clock today at BC Place. Hence I
Speaker 3: hate using that works so snobby, Hence the sixty three
Speaker 3: sixty five dollars parting charge. The big news go, well,
Speaker 3: the first of all, this is going to be the
Speaker 3: focus of our Wadling dog pole question. It's got to
Speaker 3: be right up there arguably number one biggest sporting event
Speaker 3: ever going back to nineteen eighty three at BC Place.
Speaker 3: That's going to be the focus of our wadling dog
Speaker 3: poll question. But big news yesterday Jesse Marsh, head coach
Speaker 3: of Canada's national men's soccer team, made himself available to
Speaker 3: reporters yesterday and he came up with some excellent news
Speaker 3: regarding the health coming off a hamstring issue. Still dealing
Speaker 3: with a hamstring issue. Regarding Canadian captain Alfonso Davies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been in training this week and he'll be
Speaker 4: available tomorrow and we'll see how the match goes and
Speaker 4: then make a decision on how we would choose to
Speaker 4: use him.
Speaker 3: So there he goes, Shart and sweet. Alfonso Davies, former
Speaker 3: White Cap, he knows all about BC plays, former White cap,
Speaker 3: will be available by take it. He's not going to start. Also,
Speaker 3: key defender Moist Bombido, who fractured his tibia not that
Speaker 3: long ago, will also be available for the Canadians as
Speaker 3: they take on Guitar. Ryan has gone on record. Ryan
Speaker 3: Henderson has gone on record as saying, not only does
Speaker 3: Canada have to win this game, which is obvious that
Speaker 3: they are favored, looking for their first ever World Cup victory,
Speaker 3: but they have to win big. And I'm saying that
Speaker 3: you know one nails fine, just just win win the match.
Speaker 3: I don't care what the score is, win the match.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's such unfamiliar territory for any of us
Speaker 3: who have cared about followed the Canadian soccer program for
Speaker 3: years and years, going way back eighty six. The first
Speaker 3: World Cup appearance when it was you know, it would
Speaker 3: have been a big deal for them to score a goal,
Speaker 3: which they didn't. But unfamiliar territory, they're the favorites going
Speaker 3: into this game. Ranked thirtieth by FIFA Man's World Cup rankings,
Speaker 3: playing on home turf. There's going to be a march
Speaker 3: to the match. I believe it starts at Science World.
Speaker 3: You know, over fifty thousand mostly Canadian offans. They unfamiliar
Speaker 3: territory favorite going into a World Cup match.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like Davies is going to play a ton.
Speaker 1: Just listening to the coach his injury the hamstring a
Speaker 1: month ago, I said that, I know, but he's obviously
Speaker 1: not going to start. But it could not be many
Speaker 1: minutes either done. They got to get Jonathan David going.
Speaker 1: He's had a top ten months. You know. In the
Speaker 1: first game, I think he only played sixty two minutes
Speaker 1: and then he was taken.
Speaker 3: Out of the game and his replacement, Kyle Larren scored.
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. So what I'm saying is there's Canada's leading
Speaker 1: all time goalscorer. They need him to step up today.
Speaker 1: Jonathan David. There's no question and at the end of
Speaker 1: the day. I don't care if they win four to one, five,
Speaker 1: two on one, nothing, get the victory the first ever.
Speaker 1: That's the most important thing.
Speaker 3: Let's hit the Watling Dog pull question, the experience one
Speaker 3: of Victoria's iconic destinations. We're gonna go to this a
Speaker 3: little bit earlier. Yes, it's a very busy show. We're
Speaker 3: talking about the Wattling Dog. Catch the World Cup at
Speaker 3: the Dog with Canada's a game shown live and loud
Speaker 3: on all twenty two TVs with full sound. Come sit
Speaker 3: and stay at the Watling Dog today.
Speaker 1: Rick Ryan got her up the Wattling Dog pop pole. Question.
Speaker 1: Is Canada versus Countire the biggest sporting met in BC
Speaker 1: plays history? Look at this, fifty three percent say yes,
Speaker 1: but forty seven percent say no. So this is pretty
Speaker 1: darn close the first ever event. Let me just get
Speaker 1: this out of the way. Nineteen eighty three. Little Ricky
Speaker 1: was there. I was in there in the upper deck.
Speaker 1: Uh I was there. To me, that was the biggest event,
Speaker 1: because anytime you open.
Speaker 3: Up, tell people what it was.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the white Caps they beat the Sounder, Seattle Sounders
Speaker 1: down the highway. Beach boys, beach boys. Little Ricky was there.
Speaker 1: I was there eight bucks a ticket or something like that.
Speaker 1: You can't even get a glass.
Speaker 3: It was parking.
Speaker 1: Parking was not sixty three bucks like it is today.
Speaker 1: But for me, the biggest event was the first one
Speaker 1: White Cap.
Speaker 3: Sounders ninety four Great Cup for me. Oh yes, b
Speaker 3: BC Lions over Sycamore. You had that element of Canada
Speaker 3: versus the States. For people who don't remember this was
Speaker 3: this was the era in ninety four, the era of
Speaker 3: CFL American expansion. The American teams, including the Baltimore Stallions
Speaker 3: as they became, they didn't have any import ratio. They
Speaker 3: all and a completely American roster. Don Matthews was the
Speaker 3: head coach and the lines end up beating the Baltimore Stallions.
Speaker 3: In that you mentioned Louis pasagliacond last well last play
Speaker 3: field goal to win that game. The place was packed
Speaker 3: and if people remember this, If you don't remember, here's
Speaker 3: a lesson for you. Louis had is the field goal
Speaker 3: not that long before. Rare miss for the great Louis
Speaker 3: pasaglia and he ends up making amends later in the game.
Speaker 3: That is definitely up there. Twenty eleven, the Lions won
Speaker 3: the Gray Cup against the Bombers in the Wally Buano
Speaker 3: aer Travis lul leading the way, Buck Pierce was playing
Speaker 3: for the Bombers. Yeah, and let's also not forget what
Speaker 3: happened during the Olympics, not necessarily a sporting event, but
Speaker 3: the Olympic opening and closing ceremonies. Of course, infamously the
Speaker 3: arm knot raising in that structure during the opening ceremonies,
Speaker 3: so they had fun with that in the closing ceremonies.
Speaker 3: So that was a big deal, but not really a
Speaker 3: sporting event. And let's not forget this isn't the first
Speaker 3: time a World Cup has been held. No BC plays
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen Women's World Cup Final USA over Japan. I
Speaker 3: want to say the score was five to two. And
Speaker 3: you were saying that, you think in second place, the
Speaker 3: twenty fourteen Heritage Classic, the Canucks losing to the Autumnt Center,
Speaker 3: You thought that was a contender for the greatest sporting
Speaker 3: event in BC Place history. The fakee story, the fake
Speaker 3: snow La Wongo on the bench, you love that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Turts right, NHL Draft which you covered U at
Speaker 1: BC Place nineteen nine. Deal, Yeah, that was a big deal.
Speaker 1: The second one for me is you two Joshua Tree
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty.
Speaker 3: That's not a sporting event, I know, but for me,
Speaker 3: so you two is a band, right.
Speaker 1: The eighty seven I was there on the floor Joshua Tree.
Speaker 1: Great concert.
Speaker 3: Great but again not a sporting I know, but just
Speaker 3: for me and if you want to go obscure here
Speaker 3: and I went to a few games, mostly because as
Speaker 3: a member of the media, I got free tickets. The
Speaker 3: World Basketball League is that the World Basketball The Vancouver
Speaker 3: Nighthawks one season at a reconfigure. I remember the BC Place.
Speaker 3: It was six or five and under that league, their
Speaker 3: star was jose Slaughter and I had a T shirt,
Speaker 3: a Vanker for Nighthawks t shirt. I don't know what
Speaker 3: I did with it. It was a great collect here's itam.
Speaker 3: Even the Voodoo lasted long ago, the Vancouver Nighthawks. Those
Speaker 3: basketball games played at BC Place, eighty three Gray Cup.
Speaker 3: Two Lions lost that to the to the Oregos. That
Speaker 3: was a big deal. That was a tough loss. Don
Speaker 3: Matthews on the other side with the Lions. Yes, yeah, okay,
Speaker 3: here's what's coming up on the show. We got to
Speaker 3: get moving here because we have Thomas Drantz and Manny
Speaker 3: Malultra in the next segment, dtmz is it just me?
Speaker 3: Coming up in the eleven o'clock hour Just after eleven
Speaker 3: o'clock the NHL Draft next Friday, June twenty sixth Liam
Speaker 3: and Marcus ruck Quinn, brothers from the Medicine Hat Tigers.
Speaker 3: Born and raised in a Sawyers. They're going to join
Speaker 3: us just after eleven. Expected to go late first round,
Speaker 3: early second round at the NHL Draft. They're going to
Speaker 3: join us. Big ride the Quitter Guy. Later this hour,
Speaker 3: we mentioned Thomas Drantz joining us in our third segment,
Speaker 3: and up next head coach, twenty third head coach in
Speaker 3: Vancouver Canucks history, joining us for the first time as
Speaker 3: the Canucks. Vancouver Canucks head coach Manuelhultra, thanks so much
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Speaker 3: dot com slash Vancouver. Manny Mahultra, twenty third head coach
Speaker 3: in Knucks history. He was introduced as the twenty third
Speaker 3: head coach in Knucks history back on June fourth, and
Speaker 3: he joins us now, Manny, thanks for doing this, sir.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 6: I'm good, guys, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: No no problem. I was looking at your Hockey dB
Speaker 3: page moments ago. Thirteen head coaches in sixteen seasons, including
Speaker 3: five in your first six years. Muckler, Torts, Hitchcock twice,
Speaker 3: Dave Tippett, McLain, Glen McClellan. Av who influenced you the
Speaker 3: most as a coach, There's.
Speaker 6: A mix there.
Speaker 7: I think having played for Ken Hitchcock, he was an
Speaker 7: incredible hockey mind, especially the fact that knowing he didn't
Speaker 7: play at a very high level, so his hockey acumen
Speaker 7: and his the way he saw the game was incredible
Speaker 7: and it really opened my eyes to the game.
Speaker 6: Taught me a lot.
Speaker 7: And then playing for Todd in Todd McClelland and San
Speaker 7: Jose kind of put it all together for me in
Speaker 7: terms of his ability to teach you the system and
Speaker 7: his communication. I just found that there was never any
Speaker 7: gray areas with him, and I realized how important the
Speaker 7: two were. It's it's great that you have a plan
Speaker 7: and you know what you want to do, but if
Speaker 7: you can't communicate that plan, then it's all for not.
Speaker 7: So I think those two are the two guys that
Speaker 7: I kind of lean towards when when I talk about
Speaker 7: who influenced my coaching career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe more on Ken Hitchcock. Man it because I
Speaker 3: think we underestimated him. What exactly was it that made
Speaker 3: him special? You touched on it there, well, he he.
Speaker 7: It's one thing to have played the game and you
Speaker 7: can feel certain situations, you know what players perhaps are
Speaker 7: going through. But for him, never having played and to
Speaker 7: still have that level of recognition and knowing what is
Speaker 7: needed in a certain play, and more so with him,
Speaker 7: it was he didn't care about anything but the win,
Speaker 7: and it was interesting to live that. And he said
Speaker 7: something really interesting to me. He took from Pat summit.
Speaker 7: I believe it was said, I'm not going to tell
Speaker 7: you what you want to hear. I'm going to tell
Speaker 7: you what you need to hear. And a light bulb
Speaker 7: went off for me when I heard that, and just
Speaker 7: everything kind of started to come together for me at
Speaker 7: that point when you when you saw the way he
Speaker 7: thought the game, and it was it was just about
Speaker 7: what the team needed. How are we going to get
Speaker 7: the next win? What do we need to do? What
Speaker 7: do I need out of you? Really direct with his messaging.
Speaker 1: Hey, Manny, how's the search going for assistant co coaches?
Speaker 1: Are you looking for experienced guys, young guys? How's that
Speaker 1: shirt going?
Speaker 7: It's going so having a number of candidates having gone
Speaker 7: through the process already, video meetings. I'm looking for a
Speaker 7: balance of both guys with experience, guys who are up
Speaker 7: and coming and ready and hungry. But I think the
Speaker 7: biggest thing goes back to what I was just saying.
Speaker 7: The ability to communicate and teach what we want to do.
Speaker 6: Is going to be There's gonna be a real premium
Speaker 6: on that.
Speaker 1: All right, Absford meets a coach as well. You were
Speaker 1: down there developing guys. What kind of guy. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you're going to have a say in it too, but
Speaker 1: what kind of guy would you like to see in Absford?
Speaker 7: That many Again, it goes along the same lines understanding
Speaker 7: how difficult the American Hockey League is. Obviously, you need
Speaker 7: somebody that is willing and able to think on their toes.
Speaker 7: We had many time in the last couple of years
Speaker 7: where you know, my lineup was set, I was ready
Speaker 7: to go and I got a call from RJ and
Speaker 7: he said, your number one center's gone and I'm taking
Speaker 7: your number one d I. Oh, by the way, the
Speaker 7: goalie is coming up as well.
Speaker 6: And you got to pivot.
Speaker 7: And so it's somebody that that's going to be able
Speaker 7: to be able to think on their feet.
Speaker 6: But again, that message of.
Speaker 7: Delivering the message, teaching the message, and the biggest thing
Speaker 7: for me that I learned down there was was managing
Speaker 7: personalities and managing the people and the players that are there.
Speaker 1: Your captain in Abosburg got a new contract yesterday, Chase Waters,
Speaker 1: great guy. What qualities do you look forward to captain?
Speaker 1: And when you find one at the NHL.
Speaker 7: Level, Well, Wady really exemplifies what it means to be
Speaker 7: a leader.
Speaker 6: For me.
Speaker 7: When I was asked this question in the presser, Watty
Speaker 7: was not our best player, but he was the guy
Speaker 7: that exemplified what we needed. We needed a shop block,
Speaker 7: He's going to do it. We needed to hit, He's
Speaker 7: going to do it. He needs to step up and
Speaker 7: stand up for a teammate, He's going to do it.
Speaker 7: We need guys getting in the net. He's going to
Speaker 7: go do it. So whatever was asked of him, he
Speaker 7: was willing to do. And even more so before was
Speaker 7: asked of him, he was the guy initiating, you know,
Speaker 7: the type of things that we want our team to
Speaker 7: do and be tenacious and be hard to play against.
Speaker 7: And that selflessness that he displayed is I think a
Speaker 7: large reason as to why he was able to sign
Speaker 7: an NHL contract.
Speaker 3: Talk with Manny Malhultra, Manny, you've talked about how you
Speaker 3: want the Canucks to play with pace high energy? Is
Speaker 3: pace more about speed or about smart crisp puck movement?
Speaker 3: Nothing my old coach used to say, nothing moves faster
Speaker 3: than the puck out there. Or is it a combination
Speaker 3: of both.
Speaker 7: Yeah, it's definitely a combination of both for me. Obviously,
Speaker 7: you need to be able to move your boots and
Speaker 7: skate up the ice and get back with speed, but
Speaker 7: the execution of passing and making sure everything's sharp and
Speaker 7: guys know where the next play is going to go.
Speaker 7: So once again it comes back to the understanding of
Speaker 7: the system. When everybody knows where the next play is going,
Speaker 7: then the anticipation can happen. Now you can anticipate a
Speaker 7: play and you can be one step ahead, and that's
Speaker 7: where the speed is going to come from. The connectivity
Speaker 7: of our group breaking pucks out. Everybody knows where they
Speaker 7: need to be, where the next play is going, allowing
Speaker 7: us to get numbers to areas quicker Mannie.
Speaker 3: There's a video of you online. I believe it was
Speaker 3: back in twenty eighteen at camp and you're on the
Speaker 3: bench as an assistant coach with the Vancouver Canucks, marveling
Speaker 3: at a shootout move that Elias Petterson made. He was
Speaker 3: a rookie wearing number forty one. How does Elias, how
Speaker 3: do you get him back to being that fabulous young
Speaker 3: player we saw all those years ago.
Speaker 7: Well, there's no one distinct answer that I can give you.
Speaker 7: I can tell you that my main goal with with
Speaker 7: all of our players is to get the best out
Speaker 7: of them and to help them reach their potential.
Speaker 6: And for me.
Speaker 7: If you go back to that clip and you go
Speaker 7: back to that time, there was such a joy that
Speaker 7: he was playing with He enjoyed playing hockey. And this
Speaker 7: is this is from an outsider looking in. Obviously I
Speaker 7: haven't been on the bench with him in a while,
Speaker 7: haven't been in the locker room with him in a while.
Speaker 7: But for me, getting him back to that level is
Speaker 7: about helping him find the joy in the game and
Speaker 7: playing free and having fun with his teammates and being engaged.
Speaker 1: Hey, Manny, there's a guy I want to ask you about,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Lacarramaki. You had him in avisburd He comes up
Speaker 1: to Vancouver. You know, it starts out in the top six,
Speaker 1: fourth line. Two days later, then back to what has
Speaker 1: he got to do to become an NHL regular in
Speaker 1: your eyes.
Speaker 7: Well, for me, the main things that we're focused on
Speaker 7: in Abbotsford in terms of what I would call transferable
Speaker 7: skills whether you're at the American League level the NHL level,
Speaker 7: is your ability to win puck battles, your ability to
Speaker 7: win and gain body position on people, and just learning
Speaker 7: how to play heavy. Obviously, when you when you watch
Speaker 7: Jonathan play extremely skilled a lethal shot, he puts himself
Speaker 7: in good scoring positions. The thing that he needs to
Speaker 7: work on, and the thing that we discussed in Abbitsford
Speaker 7: is his ability to get pucks off of a wall
Speaker 7: or come up with puck in a puck battle. And
Speaker 7: obviously he's not six four two and twenty pounds, so
Speaker 7: those are learned.
Speaker 6: Behaviors of how heavy you have to.
Speaker 7: Be on your stick, and how to engage guys and
Speaker 7: how to get through hands, and those are the type
Speaker 7: of skills that for him, once he once he masters
Speaker 7: and once he gets really good at, will give him
Speaker 7: that opportunity to be an everyday guy.
Speaker 1: Okay, in about a week, you're gonna be a proud dad.
Speaker 1: Caleb's gonna go high in the NHL draft. The scouts
Speaker 1: that I talked to love him on the ice, but
Speaker 1: just as much off the ice.
Speaker 3: Character through the roof.
Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about his journey and up to
Speaker 1: next week when he gets drafted.
Speaker 7: Well, yeah, excuse me, looking at it through the lenses
Speaker 7: of a proud father, having gone through this journey myself,
Speaker 7: knowing what it takes for me, watching his evolution of
Speaker 7: really liking hockey, putting in the work, to then understanding
Speaker 7: how much more work is needed and applying himself, and
Speaker 7: his willingness to be all in his training, in his
Speaker 7: commitment to his craft, and really having that pro mindset.
Speaker 7: That's for me, what makes me the most proud is that.
Speaker 6: His work is being rewarded.
Speaker 7: And he is now recognizing that, you know, if you
Speaker 7: want to attain your goals, it takes what it takes.
Speaker 7: And he's excuse me, he's been willing to do those
Speaker 7: things over the last few years.
Speaker 6: Excuse me. So going into next.
Speaker 7: Week, No, obviously a lot of the prospects play that
Speaker 7: game in their head.
Speaker 6: What if I go here, what if I go there?
Speaker 6: What if I go there.
Speaker 7: That's part of the fun of the draft experience. But
Speaker 7: it's fun to watch him go through that and live
Speaker 7: these experiences and have the interviews with all the different
Speaker 7: teams and the combine and all those things. It's a
Speaker 7: pretty special moment in a young player's career. So yeah,
Speaker 7: we're really proud of the work that he's put in.
Speaker 3: But the Conductions would be the only team that asked
Speaker 3: him the question, what would it be like playing for
Speaker 3: your dad? Do you foresee any issues if Caleb ends
Speaker 3: up being drafted by the vankor of a caduction between
Speaker 3: you and him? You coach, He told us you coached
Speaker 3: him in minor hockey. He enjoyed that experience, but what
Speaker 3: about at the pro level?
Speaker 7: Yeah, I fully understand the pros and cons of the situation.
Speaker 7: As I said in the presser.
Speaker 6: I don't want to go too far down that rabbit hole.
Speaker 7: It's obviously such a big if. But he's answered the question.
Speaker 7: I've answered the question. As I was talking about before
Speaker 7: his mindset evolving to that of a pro. It wouldn't
Speaker 7: be you know, we show up to the rink and hey, Dad,
Speaker 7: where am I playing? It's you know, he understands there's
Speaker 7: the separation that when we arrive at the arena, I'm
Speaker 7: a coach, he's a player. And then when we leave
Speaker 7: the rink, that relationship change and there's no more hockey.
Speaker 7: So yeah, it's a big what if, not something that
Speaker 7: I really have talked too much about, But there's definitely
Speaker 7: a professional and that would go along with it.
Speaker 3: Were you just a crazy minor hockey parent, what kind
Speaker 3: of any.
Speaker 7: I had to I had to tone it down in
Speaker 7: the in the sense of there had to be a
Speaker 7: separation that when I left the rink, I couldn't talk
Speaker 7: to him about hockey anymore. But I have prided myself
Speaker 7: in never talking to any of his coaches regarding hockey,
Speaker 7: never talk to them about ice time or power plays
Speaker 7: or this that or the other thing. I've prided myself
Speaker 7: and just sitting in the stands watching all of my
Speaker 7: kids play hockey and enjoying that experience, And anytime the
Speaker 7: coaches would ask me for what I thought, that would
Speaker 7: be the only time I'd give my opinion.
Speaker 6: So I think I would.
Speaker 7: Like to think I I I stray from the crazy
Speaker 7: hockey dad norm.
Speaker 6: But you'd have to ask the other parents of the rink.
Speaker 3: I guess, Yeah, what kind of a minor hockey parent
Speaker 3: were you? You didn't complain to the coaches about your kids.
Speaker 3: Come on, we aye, yeah, both of us. Hey yeah,
Speaker 3: you look excited, Manny. Your body language you just exude excitement.
Speaker 3: Can you tell people just how confident you are, not
Speaker 3: just in yourself but the Sudines and Ryan Johnson and
Speaker 3: the job they're going to do with your hockey club.
Speaker 7: Well, I've said this over and over and it's something
Speaker 7: that I've believed in for a long time. It's not
Speaker 7: just what you're doing, it's who you're doing it with.
Speaker 7: And obviously I'm very grateful for the opportunity to be
Speaker 7: one of thirty two head coaches in the National Hockey League,
Speaker 7: but more so knowing that the people that I'm going
Speaker 7: into this with share the same beliefs, share the same vision,
Speaker 7: feel the same way about how you treat people. Then again,
Speaker 7: you just said the body language and energy is a
Speaker 7: huge part of that, and the Twins and RJ both
Speaker 7: exude that in the mindset of leading by example from
Speaker 7: top down. So yeah, I'm extremely excited for this opportunity,
Speaker 7: knowing that we have an opportunity to create an environment
Speaker 7: for players that will allow them to thrive and achieve
Speaker 7: their highest goals.
Speaker 3: This has been great, Manny. We can't thank you enough.
Speaker 3: Say hi to Craig McEwen and everybody in the Canucks
Speaker 3: front office. They love our show. So again, best of luck,
Speaker 3: my friend, have a great offseason and we'll talk to
Speaker 3: you again in the fall.
Speaker 6: Thanks so much, appreciate it, guys, take care.
Speaker 3: You bet Manny Mahultra the Canucks twenty third head coach. Boy.
Speaker 3: He looked relaxed, like he was having fun. Of course
Speaker 3: the games haven't started yet and started yet, but yeah,
Speaker 3: that was a fun interview.
Speaker 1: Yah. Clarity, he gives you clarity, don And you can't
Speaker 1: say that after you listen to him, there's anything but
Speaker 1: clarity in what he says.
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Speaker 8: How are you, gentlemen, Thanks for having me.
Speaker 3: I know you were watching maname Malhultra came across really well.
Speaker 3: I think you were watching many Malulter came across really well.
Speaker 3: Of course not of course, of course not. He came
Speaker 3: across really well in that interview. How do you think
Speaker 3: he's going to handle the spotlight day after day, game
Speaker 3: after game, practice after practice at the NHL level again
Speaker 3: that it was a good indication what we saw just now.
Speaker 8: Yeah, I mean, I think he's got a.
Speaker 9: He's sort of got an interesting combination of two factors
Speaker 9: that I think will play very well. The first is
Speaker 9: that he's got sort of a politician's level of message discipline. Right,
Speaker 9: anytime you guys steered the conversation to something thorny, you know,
Speaker 9: he brought it back to what he'd said in the presser, right.
Speaker 9: He didn't want to give a new quote. I didn't
Speaker 9: want to contradict anything he'd previously said. He was very
Speaker 9: disciplined about delivering the same message.
Speaker 8: So I think that's.
Speaker 9: Always, you know, to put on my former PR guy
Speaker 9: hat like that's something you love to see from a
Speaker 9: spokesperson of any capacity for an organization. Also, I'd add this, like,
Speaker 9: you know, the Peterson response that he had for you
Speaker 9: where you asked about the clip of him and Peterson
Speaker 9: yucking it up on the bench in Penticton when Petterson
Speaker 9: was a rookie, and he defaulted to something he'd previously
Speaker 9: said or previously touched on in his intro pressor. But
Speaker 9: you know, talked about sort of the idea that you
Speaker 9: need to find joy in the game again, right, And
Speaker 9: I thought too when you steered the conversation to Caleb Malhotra,
Speaker 9: and you know his focus on the work that his
Speaker 9: son put in and taking pride in that process as
Speaker 9: a dad, right, Like, as a dad, it's not about
Speaker 9: where his son's picked. It's about the fact that he
Speaker 9: found something to commit to, loved it, and made everything
Speaker 9: he was about about succeeding in that, right, Like, that's
Speaker 9: what you want to see for your kids. You know,
Speaker 9: you're not worried about the outcomes. You're worried that they're happy,
Speaker 9: and you're worried that they're adult and mature enough to
Speaker 9: be quality people. And that shows through in his answer.
Speaker 9: And I think in both answers, you get the sense
Speaker 9: of like a complete person, like a whole person, right,
Speaker 9: that that's sort of perspective. It's not necessarily about you know,
Speaker 9: the glitz and the glamour and the winds and losses
Speaker 9: and the you know, sort of associated successes that come
Speaker 9: with the pursuit.
Speaker 8: It's about the pursuit itself, right.
Speaker 9: It's not it's not can I get Petterson to bounce back,
Speaker 9: because that's a huge task. It's about can I get
Speaker 9: him to enjoy the game again?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 9: And and if we can, then the rest will take
Speaker 9: care of it itself.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: It's not about where my son's picked. It's not about
Speaker 9: whether I'm coaching him or not. It's not about whether
Speaker 9: he has a thousand points in his NHL career. Is
Speaker 9: the second coming of Sasha Barkup. It's about the fact
Speaker 9: that he's a complete person too, that he's grown up
Speaker 9: and learned how to commit to things right.
Speaker 8: And so I think you can see.
Speaker 9: That sort of like adult prioritization in a lot of
Speaker 9: Malhoacher's answers, and it's really refreshing.
Speaker 8: I mean, I think it's really appealing.
Speaker 9: I think it shows someone who's you know, very thoughtful
Speaker 9: about what really matters. And that's a good skill to
Speaker 9: have a good attribute to have, not just in a communicator,
Speaker 9: but in an actual organizational leader.
Speaker 3: You said you listened or watched our interview with Manny
Speaker 3: Mulhultra Really right?
Speaker 8: I crivet notes from it.
Speaker 3: Oh, beautifact. We appreciate that.
Speaker 8: We read unitated.
Speaker 3: We read your article today in the Athletic on Richard's
Speaker 3: please you had a conversation with their Richard Seeley new
Speaker 3: Caducks agm GM of the Abbotsford Canucks. For people who
Speaker 3: haven't read it, in shame on them. What stood out
Speaker 3: for you? Thomas?
Speaker 9: Yeah, I mean he's an interesting guy. Powell River, right,
Speaker 9: former Powell River paper king and in the BCHL. And
Speaker 9: he's had a long career and this is the first
Speaker 9: time that he's ever had in NHL portfolio, right, I mean,
Speaker 9: this is his twelve year in management, but three of
Speaker 9: the years we're in the ECCHL as a coach slash
Speaker 9: manager and then a lot of time eight years with
Speaker 9: the Ontario Rain in the AHL. Now look, in that
Speaker 9: sort of role, you're going to have input on the
Speaker 9: NHL team in the NHL organization. But now he's got,
Speaker 9: you know, a real NHL portfolio in this new job
Speaker 9: as a Canucks AGM and the GM in Abbotsford. It's
Speaker 9: clear that he's going to be focused on the player
Speaker 9: development side and on running Abbotsford. He's clearly got the
Speaker 9: skills and experience to do that. But yeah, I mean
Speaker 9: I thought his sort of diverse set of experiences, his
Speaker 9: open mindedness on using data and a value adading American leaguers,
Speaker 9: his firm belief in the primacy of player development as
Speaker 9: the engine of a successful organization, you know, and talking
Speaker 9: about being from this community, right, being from Powell River,
Speaker 9: being from you know, up by Nancys in London. I mean,
Speaker 9: I think there's a lot there in terms of him
Speaker 9: having that sort of understanding which Malhotra shares, which the
Speaker 9: twins share, and which Ryan Johnson's share, about what this
Speaker 9: team means, what its potential is in this or in
Speaker 9: this city, in this marketplace. And so yeah, I mean
Speaker 9: I thought there was a lot of meat on the
Speaker 9: bone there. I hope everyone heads over to the Athletic
Speaker 9: and checks it out. If you go to my Twitter feed,
Speaker 9: I've unlocked it so you can read it around the paywall.
Speaker 1: Lund is twenty two kilometers away from Paul River. Just
Speaker 1: so people, because Donnie and I you know, I lived
Speaker 1: in Power River, so I know Lund. I know where
Speaker 1: it is.
Speaker 3: That's great to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I just wanted to clear that up. It was
Speaker 1: a good little drop. But do you think everybody knows
Speaker 1: where Lund is?
Speaker 3: Thomas?
Speaker 8: Well, that's the point, yeah, isn't it. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 8: an insider drop for the people who.
Speaker 9: Know exit people who grab for the people who grab
Speaker 9: their sticky buns on the way to Savory bro Come on, so.
Speaker 1: I lived in Powell River. I know where Lund is.
Speaker 1: I've been there.
Speaker 8: It's twenty two mile kilometers away.
Speaker 1: Right, thank you, thank you?
Speaker 9: There you go, okay, mad guy, No, it's more of
Speaker 9: an eye test guy when it comes to when it
Speaker 9: comes to city locale.
Speaker 3: There's a beautiful restaurant and you and your fancy numbers.
Speaker 1: Our radio boss took us out for lunch there.
Speaker 3: It's a great place. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Oh we had a contract, you know Donny Contra on radio.
Speaker 3: It was what you have? Wow, dude, it was nice
Speaker 3: to see lady.
Speaker 1: You think I remember what I had for lunch in
Speaker 1: London nineteen eighty or ninety.
Speaker 9: Come on, uh, you remember the kilometers away from No.
Speaker 1: I googled that, No I googled that. Okay, listen. Patrick
Speaker 1: Johnson said something interesting yesterday Thomas that the owner of
Speaker 1: the Canucks wants to reduce costs, get off contracts, he
Speaker 1: wants to spend less. It's making a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: They've got the cheapest front office. They probably not going
Speaker 1: to spend a ton of money the cap. You don't
Speaker 1: have to spend the cap in a rebuild. The rebuild
Speaker 1: is not about spending money. It's about draft and develop.
Speaker 1: So are you surprised that the owner is saying, hey,
Speaker 1: let's cut back a little here.
Speaker 9: Well, if it's a little, I mean, that's one thing.
Speaker 9: But you know what I would say is this, if
Speaker 9: at any point over the last decade, Rick the Canucks
Speaker 9: that had the discipline to tighten their belts for a
Speaker 9: single summer once, just once not signed Beagle and Roussell
Speaker 9: not be major players in free agency, right just once
Speaker 9: not sort of sign Louis Erickson or you know, blow
Speaker 9: your brains out with a ton of pieces or a
Speaker 9: ton of yeah assets going out for a rental and
Speaker 9: an Elias Lindholmer just once not signed Thatcher Demco and
Speaker 9: Connor Garland. In a desprit hail Mary appeal to keep
Speaker 9: Quinn Hughes, or you know, just once not trade for Aliba,
Speaker 9: Eckman Larson and let the Russell and Beagle mistakes and
Speaker 9: the Rickson mistake for that matter, expire. This franchise would
Speaker 9: be in so much better a place. Unfortunately, unfortunately, while
Speaker 9: the Canucks are rebuilding, this is a moment where if
Speaker 9: you look around the league, like, the Canucks have twenty
Speaker 9: million in cap space going into the summer, and that's
Speaker 9: about an average amount of space. Right, everyone has more
Speaker 9: than five million in space. Almost everyone has more than
Speaker 9: ten million, except the Colorado Avalanche and they'll shortly have that.
Speaker 9: And you know there's teams with forty million, fifty million. Meanwhile,
Speaker 9: there's no one restricted free agents that are worth spending
Speaker 9: all that cap space on.
Speaker 8: Right, So five years ago, seven years ago.
Speaker 9: Right when you looked at the Montreal Canadians, when you
Speaker 9: looked at you know, the Chicago Blackhawks with the mckayev
Speaker 9: and Dickinson acquisitions, when you looked at San Jose with
Speaker 9: you know, getting paid to take Jake Wollman, keeping cap
Speaker 9: space during a rebuild was just good business because you
Speaker 9: could use that cap space to get futures to accumulate futures.
Speaker 9: But now, like Montreal, Canadians an't going to pay an
Speaker 9: asset to get off Brendan Gallagher most likely, Right, most
Speaker 9: teams aren't going to have to part with assets to
Speaker 9: get off the players that they find undesirable for whatever reason.
Speaker 9: No one's paying you, So your cap space doesn't create
Speaker 9: value for you anymore. Right, So holding it during a rebuild, Rick,
Speaker 9: just because the game has changed in the marketplace has changed,
Speaker 9: is no longer sensible, right, It's no longer common sense.
Speaker 9: What you want is to use that cap space on
Speaker 9: more desirable assets, because your better way to create value
Speaker 9: is by taking on other teams bad contracts, right, and
Speaker 9: sort of sitting with those and getting paid to send
Speaker 9: them more useful players.
Speaker 8: Right.
Speaker 9: So, you know what are you going to get if
Speaker 9: you trade a Drew O'Connor, right, Probably a third round
Speaker 9: pick or something. If you did it the summer, maybe
Speaker 9: a hope he can have a good season and you
Speaker 9: get a second to the trade deadline. The way to
Speaker 9: get a second and a third, though, would be to
Speaker 9: trade Drea O'Connor too. And I'm just pulling this out hypothetically.
Speaker 9: I'm not suggesting that this is a real possibility to
Speaker 9: Buffalo for Jordan Greenway. Jordan Greenway costs four million, Drew
Speaker 9: Connor costs. So the Canucks should be wading into free
Speaker 9: agency and the trade market and looking to use their
Speaker 9: cap space committing cash because cash is what people don't
Speaker 9: want to spend. Cash is now what's scarce in this marketplace.
Speaker 9: So I'm concerned a little bit to be totally honest
Speaker 9: with you about belt tightening in this moment in time,
Speaker 9: because we now exist in a market right where instead
Speaker 9: of it being bad team building to spend recklessly when
Speaker 9: the Canucks were spending recklessly, it's now bad team building
Speaker 9: to sit tight old cap space. That cap space does
Speaker 9: nothing for you. You need talent, You need good players.
Speaker 9: Like I'll tell you this for example, Pierre Lebron talking
Speaker 9: about the Canucks looking to tear things down right. The
Speaker 9: worst type of trade that the Canucks could make, whether
Speaker 9: it's Elias Petterson, whether it's Jake Debress, whether it's brought Better,
Speaker 9: whether it's Marcus Betters, the worst type of trade that
Speaker 9: the Canucks could make would be a deal in which they,
Speaker 9: like they did with Guard and especially send them out
Speaker 9: the door and only get like a third round pick
Speaker 9: back or a fourth round pick back. Right, what you
Speaker 9: want to see is them trade a Brock Besser type two,
Speaker 9: again totally hypothetical, the New York Islanders for Pierre Ngvall
Speaker 9: and Scott Mayfield, and now all of a sudden, acquiring
Speaker 9: Besser is only a one and a half million dollars
Speaker 9: cap liability for the Islanders, and now they'll pay for
Speaker 9: the privilege. And then you get those future assets, because
Speaker 9: those future assets are everything. Those are going to be
Speaker 9: the fuel of what builds the next great Canucks team.
Speaker 9: So for me, it's it's not like a matter of
Speaker 9: business sense. It's not a matter of anything else. It's
Speaker 9: it's simply a matter of how, what and how should
Speaker 9: you invest in expediting this rebuild so that you get
Speaker 9: back to the business of having a waiting list for
Speaker 9: season tickets and playing fun, competitive playoff hockey and not
Speaker 9: paying players in the playoffs while you go on long
Speaker 9: runs year after year. Like it's about making money, it's about,
Speaker 9: you know, making this franchise an aspirational vehicle in a
Speaker 9: marketplace that absolutely loves this team and will spend you know,
Speaker 9: through the nose on it. If it's worth spending on.
Speaker 9: So the best way to do that. Unfortunately, this summer,
Speaker 9: with the changing dynamics like this is the way to
Speaker 9: think about it. Rick Cash is the new cap space.
Speaker 9: So if the Canucks are not spending into this skid,
Speaker 9: they're going to put themselves behind the eight ball and
Speaker 9: they're going to prolong how long it takes before they're
Speaker 9: delivering competitive hockey again to this marketplace. Period like that,
Speaker 9: There's nothing else to it. That's just how this is
Speaker 9: about to go down.
Speaker 3: This is the widest shot we've had of you.
Speaker 9: Yeah, have you you get to see my many leatherbound books?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Have you read all those? Or are they just
Speaker 3: for show?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 9: Some of them are like old university books. Some of
Speaker 9: them are my wife's like self help books. I've got
Speaker 9: my sports books up there. I've read all those. Yeah,
Speaker 9: I've got my I've got my novels that I actually
Speaker 9: like right here. So I've read all those. But then
Speaker 9: like some over here, I definitely haven't read. There's some
Speaker 9: of them. Some of those are like those like you
Speaker 9: know those like really like murder mysteries for the beach,
Speaker 9: for my wife.
Speaker 8: I haven't really read those.
Speaker 3: All, right, considering who she's married to. Your wife needs
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Speaker 3: thanks for this.
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Speaker 10: Yeah, we've had a loaded show, very very busy. So
Speaker 10: one thing we haven't talked about today is the NHL
Speaker 10: has announced its ruling on the future of Mike Babcock
Speaker 10: in the National Hockey League. They've completed that investigation that
Speaker 10: they were apparently asked to do.
Speaker 1: So.
Speaker 10: This is a tweet from a br open Ice summarizing
Speaker 10: the situation that they have completed their investigation. NHL has
Speaker 10: and will not restrict his employment in the league. He's
Speaker 10: allowed to be hired by any team, with Edmonton being
Speaker 10: the rumored destination. And I've got another tweet here from
Speaker 10: Ryan Orshag, reporter Edmonton reporter out of TSN. He's making
Speaker 10: it sound like it's basically a done deal. Sounds like
Speaker 10: final details on a contractor being nailed down, but bearing
Speaker 10: a last minute rush. Wouldn't expect a press conference Edmonton
Speaker 10: until early next week for Babcock. So wow, I don't know.
Speaker 10: Good good luck to you guys. Don't want to playoff
Speaker 10: rounds in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 3: I know, I know.
Speaker 10: If you look at his resume as it's it would
Speaker 10: you would call it a success. But the desperation here,
Speaker 10: he hasn't coached in seven years, that's my thing. I
Speaker 10: just don't what he's getting from the Oilers that they're desperate. Yeah,
Speaker 10: but there's other ways to go. There's gotta be a
Speaker 10: better situation. They are, they are desperate.
Speaker 3: You would take poscast on Connor McDavid's time with the
Speaker 3: Evans and audience. I find it hard to believe they're
Speaker 3: not hiring Cassidy. I don't understand Vegas is getting in
Speaker 3: the way or they not get they did for every
Speaker 3: team except Toronto apparently. But yeah, the Oilers are desperate,
Speaker 3: but there's got to be something better McDavid.
Speaker 10: Maybe right, there's got to be something better, And let's
Speaker 10: be honest, let's be honest. I think that they are woodcraft. Well,
Speaker 10: they probably should have just ran it back with Nablo,
Speaker 10: but then they were forced not to because of the
Speaker 10: way it got out with Cassidy. You had to fire him, basically, that's.
Speaker 3: True, and alsold the veiled negative comments towards him by
Speaker 3: their top players during the season. Yeah, so there was that.
Speaker 10: I just I don't know, man.
Speaker 3: I Also, people are ripping into them for being desperate.
Speaker 1: They are, but the other thing that for them to win.
Speaker 10: Yeah, okay. But the other thing that bugs me is
Speaker 10: we're hearing all about the leadership group signed off. The
Speaker 10: leadership signed off? How did that work when you hired
Speaker 10: Connor's junior coach and you brought in his agent as
Speaker 10: his president of hockey ops or whatever. How's that going.
Speaker 3: I thought you were going in another direction there, because, uh,
Speaker 3: you know, everything you hear Mike Commoner is his biggest critic,
Speaker 3: and a paraphrasing here is that he tweets the superstars great.
Speaker 3: He picks on the little guys, right, you know, the
Speaker 3: third and fourth line, bottomils, six and seven defensemen, and
Speaker 3: even even reportedly the staff.
Speaker 10: But that's not entirely true because look how he treated Marner,
Speaker 10: and Marner was in a bottom six piece in Toronto.
Speaker 3: He was young, That's right.
Speaker 10: Yeah, so I guess that'soky And then.
Speaker 3: That people will say, well, what don what about Mike Madano,
Speaker 3: But that was at the end of his career with Detroit. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I just benched him when he was reaching a landmark
Speaker 3: total of the games played.
Speaker 10: I just really worry that you're completely dictating your franchise.
Speaker 3: How did that go? Here in Vancouver?
Speaker 10: When you dictated your franchise around one player?
Speaker 1: How'd that go?
Speaker 10: How'd that go? You had to fire the head coach.
Speaker 10: You're talking about trading a lot of the I'm talking
Speaker 10: about quin Eyes talking about trading a lot of his
Speaker 10: buddies that signed extensions to keep him around here.
Speaker 3: It went awful. It was horrible.
Speaker 10: And you're gonna do the same.
Speaker 3: Thing desperate too, the Cannucks for desperate.
Speaker 10: Yeah, and look at how did it play out? You know,
Speaker 10: I just I don't know if it's if it was
Speaker 10: Connor's idea to bring in Mike Babcoll.
Speaker 3: Did you bring in if it's not if it's not bad, honestly,
Speaker 3: anybody else and it's not kno block anybody else.
Speaker 10: I tried if I tried it for David Carr, nobody else,
Speaker 10: I try and go completely.
Speaker 3: They may have for me. I did they try to
Speaker 3: go for Roan NuGen Hopkins had has had ten eleven,
Speaker 3: twelve coaches. I know, are you clicking in that they
Speaker 3: keep hiring coaches and firing them like a year and.
Speaker 1: A half two years, so, so make the right call now, Okay?
Speaker 10: And you just said it, Rick w seventy.
Speaker 1: They've been to the Stanley Cup finals and back to
Speaker 1: back years. They got to be doing something right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd hire and they fired the coach that took him to.
Speaker 3: Wy and you'd hired David Carl who's in his thirties,
Speaker 3: untested at the professional level big time over Mike Babcock. Yeah. Right,
Speaker 3: And then you can play. I won win the Cup.
Speaker 10: I would again Babcock seven years no coaching in the league,
Speaker 10: twenty thirteen, last playoff appearance.
Speaker 3: And a shady resumes shady.
Speaker 10: But even if you want to put that stuff aside,
Speaker 10: because I heard I think it was Kipper and Bourne
Speaker 10: talking moved by.
Speaker 3: A desperate team. I'm not surprised by it, That's all
Speaker 3: I'm saying.
Speaker 10: I think I heard Kiperen Bourne talk about this. He's
Speaker 10: done some scongey things, right, the phone, like you know,
Speaker 10: you and friends, physical abuse that's something else with the
Speaker 10: France and abuse, right, but but the phone, that's not
Speaker 10: You're not breaking a law. It's weird, it's stupid. It's weird.
Speaker 10: You're not breaking a law, so you can get back in. Sure,
Speaker 10: it's a different level than maybe some other guys. I
Speaker 10: just don't.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 10: There's just other avenues to go, and I like you
Speaker 10: just play my eas I understand the time is short
Speaker 10: on Connor, but don't waste it either.
Speaker 3: What what? What about? I mean? I might find this
Speaker 3: hard to believe a lot of people would him having
Speaker 3: learned a lesson and changing his act. Okay, I have
Speaker 3: He's you've heard him talk He's got to be smart
Speaker 3: enough to have done that, the invasion of privacy and Columbus.
Speaker 10: But that's the thing, Donnie, he said that going into
Speaker 10: the Columbus job, I've done, I've learned, I've done programs,
Speaker 10: bah bah blah.
Speaker 3: And what do you do?
Speaker 10: You're asking for guys camera their phones and their camera rolls.
Speaker 1: Every coach plays mind games. They all do. It is
Speaker 1: gog minor hockey, going to junior. It's everywhere, Ryan, I
Speaker 1: mean it's not.
Speaker 3: But I think that they want a coach who's different
Speaker 3: from no block and this, this is the history of
Speaker 3: hockey is full of stories like this. They want they
Speaker 3: don't want a player's coach McDavid and dry. They want
Speaker 3: somebody to push them. Okay, you know it's okay to
Speaker 3: be a hard ass versus a player's coach. The after approach,
Speaker 3: What about Torts not a bad suggestion, like if if
Speaker 3: this is what I got? The feeling Torts was just
Speaker 3: kind of there with Vegas, yeah, because he kept saying
Speaker 3: over and over look at I'm basically just steering it
Speaker 3: when I need to steer it. Isn't that restraction I
Speaker 3: think with with Vegas.
Speaker 10: Yeah, I'm just saying, if you want that short term
Speaker 10: squeeze the lemons super hard thing, that's torts. In my opinion,
Speaker 10: I take him over.
Speaker 3: Babcock would hire if he was in Vonton, if he
Speaker 3: was from charge of Edmonton.
Speaker 10: Hitch Can just glowing about big time, big time. If
Speaker 10: you missed that. By the way, the many interviews on
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Speaker 3: Liam and Marcus Ruck are going to join US now
Speaker 3: Medicine Hat Tigers forwards one to two in WHL points
Speaker 3: this season. Marcus is the center, Liam is I hope
Speaker 3: I'm getting this stuff right. Liam is a right winger.
Speaker 3: They're both from a Sailers expected to go high in
Speaker 3: the National Hockey League Draft come next weekend. Starting Friday,
Speaker 3: June twenty sixth, Liam and Marcus join US now, guys,
Speaker 3: Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 2: How are you?
Speaker 11: We're good?
Speaker 3: How are we see you? Guys are laughing because you
Speaker 3: know we're confused right now, So for people for people
Speaker 3: who are wondering, and again, I hope I got this right. Liam,
Speaker 3: you're in purple screen line aft and Marcus you're in
Speaker 3: a gray T shirt screen right. We got that right, correct.
Speaker 3: Have you guys ever not played on the same team together.
Speaker 12: No, we've We've done like caps and things like that apart,
Speaker 12: but we've been together pretty much stole away.
Speaker 3: So your dad was a junior hockey player. I believe
Speaker 3: he played. Derek played for a Left Bridge how how
Speaker 3: how old were you when you first hit the ice
Speaker 3: and did you both love the game right away?
Speaker 12: Yeah?
Speaker 11: We were probably two or three.
Speaker 12: I don't remember the exact age, but we both fell
Speaker 12: in love right when we touched the ice.
Speaker 11: We uh, there's never any hesitations of not wanting.
Speaker 1: To go out there.
Speaker 12: We we love going to the rink and double skating. Yeah,
Speaker 12: we fell in love with with the rink right away.
Speaker 3: Where did you play your minor hockey?
Speaker 12: Uh? Yeah, we grew up playing. It was called South
Speaker 12: Okanagan flint Our Hockey. It's kind of Oas wasn't really
Speaker 12: big enough to have like a rap team, so it
Speaker 12: was Osuas Oliver a couple of other small towns in
Speaker 12: the area. We kind of joined together and made a
Speaker 12: team and played against teams like Penticton and Kelowna.
Speaker 11: So that was it was super fun playing for South Oklado.
Speaker 3: Orange uniform South Okinaga Is that right?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 11: This is this is the morning orange yellow in the logo.
Speaker 3: No, because I know because I coached the Poor Moody
Speaker 3: team and you guys beat us in a tournament. Oh oh,
Speaker 3: but we will carry on with this interview.
Speaker 1: Rick, Okay, guys, you know there's a couple of famous
Speaker 1: twins in Vancouver called the Citine Twins. I heard you
Speaker 1: guys used to wear shirts or something the twins. What
Speaker 1: do you know about them and what do they mean
Speaker 1: to you?
Speaker 12: Yeah, we used to have shirts with them. We'd wear
Speaker 12: them around the house, playing Mini stix and stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 12: watching them when we were young, it was it was
Speaker 12: really cool seeing set of twins that high the level
Speaker 12: playing in the NHL, It was it.
Speaker 11: Was really cool. So yeah, we we we love watching
Speaker 11: them and even to this day we love watching their highlights.
Speaker 1: All right, couple of BC boys, it would be great
Speaker 1: if the Canucks havef did both of you you had
Speaker 1: interviews with the Canucks at the combine? How combined? How
Speaker 1: did those interviews with Vancouver go?
Speaker 11: Yeah, they're pretty good.
Speaker 12: Honestly, all those teams in the combine, they don't they
Speaker 12: don't give a whole lot.
Speaker 11: Up about their thought process. But yeah, they were they
Speaker 11: were good.
Speaker 12: It was a conversation and no two no questions that
Speaker 12: were too tough, so that that was always good. And yeah,
Speaker 12: it was good and it was pretty cool to talk
Speaker 12: to that team.
Speaker 1: Is the goal Liam and Marcus to be drafted by
Speaker 1: the same team in the NHL?
Speaker 12: Yeah, that's that's the hope for sure. We want to
Speaker 12: get drafts together. That'd be pretty pretty cool and pretty special.
Speaker 12: I think that's the obvious answer. I think any set
Speaker 12: of brothers that would would be going through the draft
Speaker 12: would say the same thing. To be able to play
Speaker 12: with your brother, it would be pretty pretty cool, especially.
Speaker 11: At the highest level. But yeah, well we both know
Speaker 11: that it's it'll be tough for a team to pull
Speaker 11: that off, but we definitely do hope that could happen.
Speaker 1: Hey, Willie Desjardan had the twins here. Yeah, you guys,
Speaker 1: did Willy have a tough time separating you?
Speaker 6: That?
Speaker 1: Was there any issues?
Speaker 12: Yeah? He I think it was actually in Brandon. He
Speaker 12: brought us into the coach's office.
Speaker 11: We didn't know what was going on, And yeah, he
Speaker 11: took a picture of us so he could kind of
Speaker 11: study it on the drive back.
Speaker 12: So's that's a good story about him trying to tell
Speaker 12: us apart. And yeah, he's obviously coached the city and
Speaker 12: so he's he's told us some good stories about them
Speaker 12: and how competitive they were with each other.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and speaking of playing in medicine, hat, what was
Speaker 3: it like having Gavin McKenna as a teammate.
Speaker 12: Guys, Yeah, it was unbelievable for Lamb and I as
Speaker 12: sixteen year olds. We didn't see a ton of ice,
Speaker 12: but it was. It was kind of the best sixteen
Speaker 12: year old year you could ask for. You. We were
Speaker 12: part of such a good team on and off the ice.
Speaker 12: We learned a lot and I think that helped us
Speaker 12: a lot going into this season. But talking about Gav,
Speaker 12: he was unbelievable. He's a really good person and I
Speaker 12: think everyone knows what he could do on the ice,
Speaker 12: but off the ice, he's a great leader. He he
Speaker 12: did a lot for our team. He never put himself
Speaker 12: above the team, and yeah, I think that was a
Speaker 12: big the reason why we did so well that year.
Speaker 3: So here's another way that you're similar to the Sedines. Liam.
Speaker 3: Looking at the stats, forty five goals for you, Marcus
Speaker 3: eighty seven assists, much like Daniel and Hendrick. Any particular
Speaker 3: reason why you're the shooter Liam and you're the pastor Marcus.
Speaker 12: It's just kind of how it's worked out. Honestly, I
Speaker 12: don't think we try to be one or the other.
Speaker 11: It's I don't know.
Speaker 12: We just played to our strengths and usually he's the
Speaker 12: one making the play and I'm finishing. But I think
Speaker 12: we can both do both sides of it. But it's
Speaker 12: just us playing to our strengths and c works out.
Speaker 3: Are you up to the challenge of the very real
Speaker 3: possibility of not being drafted by the same team.
Speaker 12: Yeah, for sure. Like I said, we hope to get
Speaker 12: drafted together. That'd be pretty specful. But if it doesn't happen,
Speaker 12: we'd adjust and both of us would be at our
Speaker 12: best for whatever team takes us. And to be honest,
Speaker 12: I think it would be a little bit harder off
Speaker 12: the ice than on the ice for us. If one
Speaker 12: of us is playing with any smart player, it'd come
Speaker 12: to the same out there, but off the ice we'd
Speaker 12: miscmpeting with each other and battling with each other every day,
Speaker 12: and that PROBA would be a little bit harder, but
Speaker 12: I'm sure we'd be great with wherever we end up.
Speaker 3: Okay, so next season, I'm sure there are NCAA opportunities
Speaker 3: for you. You'd love to play in the National Hockey League,
Speaker 3: but realistically, is it back to medicine at next season?
Speaker 7: Yeah?
Speaker 11: Yeah, I think for us there's no rush.
Speaker 12: There were some colleges that did want us to come
Speaker 12: in and play this year, but we're underdeveloped guys that
Speaker 12: we got time, and I think we know that, and
Speaker 12: we felt it was the mature decision to kind of
Speaker 12: take you another year and play in junior hockey and
Speaker 12: play in a lot of different roles and then hopefully
Speaker 12: be ready for the jump to college the following year
Speaker 12: and see where it takes us from there.
Speaker 3: What was it like growing up in a Soy shouldn't
Speaker 3: you guys be pro golfers and not pro hockey players?
Speaker 5: Yeah?
Speaker 12: The golfers are like wake servers or something. It's a
Speaker 12: great it's a great summer spot. We we love growing
Speaker 12: up here.
Speaker 11: It's uh, that's a small town and you kind of
Speaker 11: know everyone.
Speaker 12: And we were both so lucky Basically all of our
Speaker 12: family lives here, so that was a bonus for us.
Speaker 12: If mom and dad were ever busy, grandparents or aunts
Speaker 12: and uncles would always be driving us places, helping us
Speaker 12: out with whatever we needed.
Speaker 11: So that part was really nice.
Speaker 12: But even the whole community, if you walk downtown now,
Speaker 12: people will be saying congrats on everything.
Speaker 11: It's it's really special.
Speaker 12: I don't think you get that in a lot of places,
Speaker 12: so for us, so it's it's been really special growing
Speaker 12: up here.
Speaker 1: Hey, medicine that was good this year. You guys posted
Speaker 1: big numbers. I can't wait to see what you do
Speaker 1: next year. But if you get the right pieces, you
Speaker 1: think Medicine Hack can win it next year.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we believe so.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 11: I think the people we got in that room and
Speaker 11: and the.
Speaker 12: Organization, all all the staff, it's just a bunch of
Speaker 12: good people and that's what you want to be around,
Speaker 12: Like ninety guys that just want to improve and ways
Speaker 12: to get better.
Speaker 11: And I think that's what we got.
Speaker 12: And obviously we've got a couple holes to fill, but
Speaker 12: we got a lot of good pieces coming.
Speaker 8: Back for sure.
Speaker 3: All Right, guys, Matthis Preston, by the way, says Hi,
Speaker 3: I knew you grew up playing hockey with him. He
Speaker 3: was on our show earlier this week. And by the way,
Speaker 3: Fairview Mountain just down the road in Oliver, there's about
Speaker 3: four hundred balls that my partner Rick has lost there,
Speaker 3: So if you want to go searching in the bushes. Hey,
Speaker 3: this has been just outstanding. I love the way you're
Speaker 3: alternated to your answers. It was just perfect. Guys, all
Speaker 3: the best in the future. Thanks so much for doing this.
Speaker 11: Yeah, we appreciate you guys doing it for us. It's awesome. Yeah,
Speaker 11: lots of fun. Thank guys.
Speaker 3: Thanks Liam and Marcus.
Speaker 1: Rick.
Speaker 3: Did you see that the way the alternated answers, it
Speaker 3: was just a perfect We were so worried about that interview,
Speaker 3: first of all, not being able to tell them apart,
Speaker 3: and whether or not they'd stumble back and forth, not
Speaker 3: knowing who was going to answer. But they were again,
Speaker 3: way smarter and way more confident than we were at
Speaker 3: that age. That's that's for sure. So the Canucks pick
Speaker 3: twenty fourth, yes, thirty, obviously they pick a third. They're
Speaker 3: not going to be picking their rucks there, one of
Speaker 3: the rucks there, But twenty fourth and thirty third, Washington
Speaker 3: picks sixteenth and eighteenth. There's a possibility. But look at Calgary.
Speaker 3: Calgary has the sixth overall pick, also thirtyth thirty, fifth, thirty,
Speaker 3: sixth and fifty one. Craig Button has Liam at number ten,
Speaker 3: Marcus at number sixteen. Jason Bucla, who is on our
Speaker 3: show What Was It Last Week? Has them at twenty
Speaker 3: and thirty Liam and Marcus respectively Hockey News twenty one
Speaker 3: and thirty one. So you look at those three teams,
Speaker 3: something else could happen. There could be a trade made,
Speaker 3: and of course they could end up somewhere. But you
Speaker 3: look at the Canucks, Washington and Calgary, there's three decent
Speaker 3: possibilities there of them being drafted by the same team,
Speaker 3: much like the Sedines back in ninety nine.
Speaker 1: Every kid we've had on in this draft, the great kids,
Speaker 1: obviously great parents involved, just blown away by these two really,
Speaker 1: really good kids. And whoever drafts these guys, I think
Speaker 1: are going to be very happy.
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Speaker 11: You was just named MVP.
Speaker 3: There's no doubt k K. Harvey's number one day, the
Speaker 3: best player in the world, go and calling it is
Speaker 3: the one and only Caroline Harvey court.
Speaker 12: Fallen draftment will mean everything, mean just whatever team.
Speaker 1: To be a part of, Just be so grateful and
Speaker 1: excited for the next chapter.
Speaker 13: The first overall pick in the twenty twenty six PWHL Draft,
Speaker 13: Vancouver Golden Eyes select from the University of Wisconsin defenseman.
Speaker 8: KK Harvey.
Speaker 3: In Detroit.
Speaker 4: KK Harvey becomes the first defender to ever go first
Speaker 4: overall in the PWHL draft.
Speaker 3: There you go, Caroline KK Harvey out of Wisconsin drafted
Speaker 3: first overall. Yesterday PWHL Draft was held in Detroit, first
Speaker 3: overall to the Vancouver Goldeneyes, three time NCAA champion. She's
Speaker 3: from New Hampshire. You were having some troubles with the
Speaker 3: Vancouver team drafting and American defenseman then. But she took
Speaker 3: part in the Milan Olympics and you heard somebody there say,
Speaker 3: you know, considered the best player in the world. Now
Speaker 3: she was still in college. But all you need to
Speaker 3: know Milan Olympics American gold She was the tournament MVP reck.
Speaker 1: This is the best female player in the world. And
Speaker 1: it's not even closed on her skating, which works with
Speaker 1: NHL players, and he said she is the best gater
Speaker 1: he's worked with. And this is going to be a
Speaker 1: treat for fans at the coliseum next year. She's going
Speaker 1: to be the face of the PWHL for years and
Speaker 1: years and years. Very excited that the Golden Eyes picked
Speaker 1: her and she's going to be in Vancouver. It's going
Speaker 1: to be unbelievable.
Speaker 3: They still have to hire themselves a coach, but in
Speaker 3: the meantime, Carolyn KK Harvey is joining the Vancouver a
Speaker 3: Golden Ice. Let's hit the Waddling Dog a poll question
Speaker 3: as we look ahead to the three o'clock start Qatar
Speaker 3: versus Canada. Favored Canada at BC Place experienced one of
Speaker 3: Dectroy's iconic destinations, The Wadling Dog in Victoria. Catch the
Speaker 3: World Cup at the Dog with Canada games including the
Speaker 3: one against Katar later this afternoon, shown live and loud
Speaker 3: on all twenty two TVs with full sound. Come sit
Speaker 3: and stay at the Dog the Waddling Dog today.
Speaker 1: Rick all right, get her up the Waddling Dog. BUPO
Speaker 1: question is Canada versus Katar at three o'clock today, the
Speaker 1: biggest sport event in BC Place history. Fifty five percent yes,
Speaker 1: but forty no. A very close, close, close pole going
Speaker 1: to go down to the wire.
Speaker 3: Okay, so the other candidates, we've had people talk about
Speaker 3: the very first sporting event at PC Place, the eighty
Speaker 3: three White Caps defeating Seattle followed by a Beach Boys concert,
Speaker 3: the ninety four Gray Cup, a lot of people in
Speaker 3: the baseline inbound box mentioning that Lions over Baltimore, Canada
Speaker 3: versus the US, the twenty eleven Gray Cup, the Olympic Ceremonies,
Speaker 3: twenty fifteen Women's World Cup Final, twenty fourteen Heritage Classic.
Speaker 3: But a couple we haven't mentioned. Remember Major League Baseball
Speaker 3: preseason guests. I remember that being played at BC Place,
Speaker 3: and I'll always remember Edgar Martinez being injured. I don't
Speaker 3: mean to laugh, but lou Panella was some kind of
Speaker 3: upset Edgar Martinez being injured at BC Place. I think
Speaker 3: it was a game against the Milwaukee and the rugby
Speaker 3: sevens are a big, big deal is well, but I
Speaker 3: think so much of it because it is the World
Speaker 3: Cup falling behind what we're gonna see today in that
Speaker 3: important important match between Canada and Guitar. All right, Uh,
Speaker 3: you had some information about the Canucks. Let's start with
Speaker 3: somebody that we talked with about, uh, talked about with
Speaker 3: Manny Maholter. That's Lea's Petterson Rick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this is Pederson trade talk. I just want to say,
Speaker 1: is real. It's not just that time of the year.
Speaker 1: Peterson's name comes up all the times. It is real
Speaker 1: right now, Donnie the Petterson. If the Canucks can offload
Speaker 1: that contract, they're gonna try and do it. They're gonna
Speaker 1: try and offloaded. Somebody told me this morning the Saint
Speaker 1: Louis is sniffing around Petterson.
Speaker 3: How many times have you said this?
Speaker 1: But what do you Blues?
Speaker 9: Now?
Speaker 1: Someone told me Saint Louis is sniffing around Petterson. I'm
Speaker 1: looking into it to see if it's true. The way
Speaker 1: it's been told to me is if the Canucks think
Speaker 1: they have a deal for Peterson that makes sense for them,
Speaker 1: I am sure they will then take that deal to
Speaker 1: Peterson's asians, JP, Barry and Paperson to see if Peterson
Speaker 1: will wave.
Speaker 3: I don't mean that as a criticism of you. I'm
Speaker 3: just like like like what are the change eleven point
Speaker 3: six million dollars six years left? How underachieving? How do they.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you how they unload them. I mean, I
Speaker 1: tell you why. Teams are desperate at the center ice position.
Speaker 1: Teams think they can turn this guy Petterson into eighty
Speaker 1: point guy point per game is all he's got to
Speaker 1: do for some teams, then they'll be happy. Do the
Speaker 1: Canucks retain do the Now we're hearing through the grapevine
Speaker 1: the Canucks don't want a ton back. They don't want
Speaker 1: to take a.
Speaker 3: Bad They can't get a.
Speaker 1: Six seven million dollar contract back. They don't want that.
Speaker 1: They don't want that. Okay, yeah, they don't want They're
Speaker 1: trying to offload, offload, and and Patrick Johnson said of
Speaker 1: the province good guy said something interesting yesterday. Don The
Speaker 1: ownership wants to spend less. It explains everything. They're not
Speaker 1: spending money in management hires. They got a practice facility
Speaker 1: that might cost thirty million. They got to buy out
Speaker 1: one of the brothers that could cost two to one.
Speaker 1: Yet one of Aquiline brothers is going to be bought
Speaker 1: out soon. It's going to cost between two hundred and
Speaker 1: four hundred million dollars. So ownership wants to spend less.
Speaker 1: It makes a lot of sense and.
Speaker 3: You should have thought of that a long time ago
Speaker 3: when it comes to like rebuilding and you know, identifying
Speaker 3: up and comers management wise and coaching wise, doing the
Speaker 3: right thing.
Speaker 1: Now, there's no need for a huge payroll in a rebuild.
Speaker 1: On all you gotta do to get out of this
Speaker 1: mess this rebuild draft and develop, draft and develop properly,
Speaker 1: and you'll get out of it all. Rebuild teams reduce costs,
Speaker 1: it's it's revenue is going to be less on you
Speaker 1: know what the selling point for ownership was done on
Speaker 1: the rebuild, less on player salaries. Well, guess what they're
Speaker 1: trying to unload Pederson, debusque Besser and not take a
Speaker 1: ton back.
Speaker 3: Well, hold again, how long did that take for the
Speaker 3: light bulb to go off? Well, you know, spend spend
Speaker 3: spends on July.
Speaker 1: They didn't have to Garland. Uh, you know, they just
Speaker 1: did a whole That was Rutherford. That was that was
Speaker 1: Ruther for today's today.
Speaker 3: Trying to keep Quinn use But that's in the past.
Speaker 3: Looking ahead, Yeah, I just said it. It looks like
Speaker 3: they're on the right path man Manny Mahulter was impressed,
Speaker 3: impressive on our show, impressed in our second segment today.
Speaker 3: And then you hear the Sedines talk and and Ryan
Speaker 3: Jo and you're ripping into them for not spending much
Speaker 3: management and coaching. But no, I think they got the right.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they don't care, right guys, I don't
Speaker 1: care what they mean. Doesn't mean they didn't get the
Speaker 1: right guys.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, you've got some business.
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Speaker 3: Just before we get to the laptop, I gotta say this,
Speaker 3: looking at those jerseys from from pastime and watching the
Speaker 3: World Cup, and you guys were going on about Argentina's
Speaker 3: jewsy I was I loved it, and look, uh they're nice,
Speaker 3: very nice, but they've had better ones in the past
Speaker 3: when they didn't go with that gradient look on the striping.
Speaker 3: Canada's uniforms are very nice with the subtle mayle leaf
Speaker 3: they do. But boy, I tell you, the more I
Speaker 3: see them downtown, you see them in sports check, you
Speaker 3: see them on television. Mexico's greens and I said yesterday
Speaker 3: Norway They're reds are fabulous, a take on the Norwegian flag,
Speaker 3: but Mexico, Mexico's greens are just fabulous fabulous. Do you agree,
Speaker 3: Ryan laptop.
Speaker 10: I'm still going with Argentina front of the laptop. Far
Speaker 10: right there, that's the Canadian FIFA World Cup scarves. I've
Speaker 10: bunched it up. I haven't obviously unfolded it.
Speaker 3: They'll figure out. I thought that was infrilled. Thanks for that.
Speaker 10: Pop figuring featuring Maple the mis mascot for the Canadian
Speaker 10: portion of the World Cup and legend soccer legend on
Speaker 10: the left. Christine Sinclair is the card oh the day
Speaker 10: and by the way, for taking transit. You'll hear Christine
Speaker 10: on the skytrain.
Speaker 3: I've heard it all, heard her all week, all time
Speaker 3: leading scorer internationally men and women.
Speaker 1: I used to have taken tracks today.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sixty five dollars sixty sixty three something parking whatever,
Speaker 3: it is ridiculous, it's too much. What a gig like
Speaker 3: honestly owning a parking lot? What are you doing sweeping
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Speaker 3: little left turn here. We have so much to talk
Speaker 3: about today on Donnie and Dolly. A little left turn
Speaker 3: for DTMZ Sports versus Entertainment news. Well it's all all entertainment,
Speaker 3: but Canada versus Guitar at BC Place yesterday in case
Speaker 3: you missed our first segment, a Canadian coach, Jesse March
Speaker 3: made himself available to the media and he came up
Speaker 3: with this very positive news when it comes to the
Speaker 3: health of Captain of Fonsa Davies.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's been in training this week and he'll be
Speaker 4: available tomorrow and we'll see how the match goes and
Speaker 4: then make a decision on how we would choose to
Speaker 4: use him.
Speaker 3: So available, but it sounds like he won't start, No
Speaker 3: surprise there. Moys's bombido also expected to be available. Fond
Speaker 3: of Davies coming off the hamstring problem. Moyses's bombido a
Speaker 3: broken or fractured tibia orphibia broken a fractured leg.
Speaker 1: Broken broken agphibia is the leg. It's broken.
Speaker 3: There you go, okay, so and and we were going
Speaker 3: on earlier about how Canada has to win this game,
Speaker 3: which is which is obvious to say, and how they
Speaker 3: are favored. I guess some would say heavily favored. Keeping
Speaker 3: mind that Canada has never won a World Cup match
Speaker 3: in three tournaments that they've been involved in, and people
Speaker 3: taking I believe Qatar fairly lightly. Keep in mind Canada
Speaker 3: tied Bosnia and had to score late in order to
Speaker 3: do that. Bosnia in the FIFA ranking sixty third, Canada
Speaker 3: is thirtieth. Qatar is higher than Bosnia at forty nine.
Speaker 3: So like most things that in this World Cup, nothing's
Speaker 3: going to be easy. Ah. Also, if you're wondering about
Speaker 3: the makeup of fans and how many Katari fans are
Speaker 3: going to be there, and you think that the whole
Speaker 3: crowd will be a Canadian, that's not going to be
Speaker 3: the case. And we see examples of this. Boy, those
Speaker 3: Congo fans yesterday. It's just amazing seeing examples of this,
Speaker 3: you know, all throughout the World Cup. But the government
Speaker 3: in Qatar, it has flown one thousand fans over to
Speaker 3: North America for the World Cup. Their first game was
Speaker 3: in San Francisco, I believe, against the Swiss and they
Speaker 3: battled back to draw the heavily favored They were heavily
Speaker 3: favored Swiss one to one. But the government, imagine Canada
Speaker 3: doing that for the Canadian soccer team. They've flown one
Speaker 3: thousand fans at our hotel, accommodations, flights everywhere, other freebies
Speaker 3: that they're getting, So I would imagine at tickets they're
Speaker 3: going to be at BC Place today, so it'll be
Speaker 3: sold out, not just with Canadian fans. Oh you mentioned Ryan.
Speaker 3: We talked about it earlier the march to the match,
Speaker 3: which was very impressive in Toronto before the Bosnian game
Speaker 3: starting its science role? Is it at two clock?
Speaker 14: Is that right?
Speaker 10: One o'clock?
Speaker 1: One o'clock? Okay?
Speaker 10: It's actually officially is starting at a pub, Fion mccool's
Speaker 10: on Main Street. Uh, and that's actually starting right now.
Speaker 3: But the official happiest pub at Vancouver today.
Speaker 10: Fisher March, is happening around one o'clock.
Speaker 3: Okay, So what And by the way, if your minutes
Speaker 3: afternoon is going to be in Vancouver.
Speaker 10: If you are driving down to the match. Leave earlier
Speaker 10: than later because there's street closures every you.
Speaker 3: Can't get alone while you're at it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, but you can't get near BC place on match
Speaker 10: days because of the street closer closures.
Speaker 3: Yeah, lots of fun. Okay, birthdays all right? What is
Speaker 3: it today? The eighteenth? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Yeah, hold on a second, eighteen June eighteenth. Absolutely, okay, Ryan,
Speaker 1: get her up. This birthday segment brought to you by
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Speaker 1: This guy was the ninth overall pick of the Penguins
Speaker 1: in nineteen eighty four, second pick of Pittsburgh in that draft.
Speaker 1: You know who number one was? Mario Lemue.
Speaker 3: Doug Boger, Oh, proud of Shimanez. Come on, that's that's
Speaker 3: a game. Yeah, it's not a gamey. How did you
Speaker 3: know that? Okay? Well, I was working in Vancouver Sports
Speaker 3: at the time, and it was a big deal that
Speaker 3: a kid from an Hello, Doug, if you're watching out there,
Speaker 3: that a kid from BC was being selected by the
Speaker 3: same team that picked Mary olimufer.
Speaker 1: Him and Robin Bowa from Schaminez both of them.
Speaker 3: The little town that could here, a little.
Speaker 1: Town that produced two NHL guys Cheminez beautiful Murals, once underrated.
Speaker 1: I once had a beer with Doug Bodger at the
Speaker 1: Shark Club before a Canucks game many years ago. Anyways,
Speaker 1: great guy, great guy. This undrafted player would play in
Speaker 1: six NHL All Star Games. He would win the Lady
Speaker 1: Bing three times at age In twenty thirteen, at age
Speaker 1: thirty seven, he would lead the NHL in scoring. Member
Speaker 1: of the team that won the two thousand and four
Speaker 1: War Cup of Hockey Canada, two time Olympian gold at
Speaker 1: the twenty fourteen Winter Coming out of college, only the
Speaker 1: Ottawe Calgary showed interest. When you go to college that
Speaker 1: just never mind he went to college. I can't, I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't remember, said Vermont.
Speaker 1: No, I don't think it was Vermont.
Speaker 3: The Flame signed him. Martine Sail Louis.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it, that's it. How did you get that?
Speaker 14: You know what?
Speaker 3: Undrafted?
Speaker 1: Undrafted? One of the greatest undrafted players of all time,
Speaker 1: Martan Saint Louis. And we're not even talking about his size,
Speaker 1: just the fact he was undrafted and boom.
Speaker 3: First, he had a great game preseason game with Calgary
Speaker 3: here in Vancouver, and my brother came back and said,
Speaker 3: I just saw the next great National Hockey League player.
Speaker 1: There you go.
Speaker 3: And he got let go by the flames. I think
Speaker 3: was Craig Button.
Speaker 1: Craig Button was the GM at the time, and I'm
Speaker 1: sure people in Calgary remind Craig of that all the time.
Speaker 3: Every GM makes mistakes.
Speaker 1: You know that in Vancouver, every sports guy makes mistakes. Okay,
Speaker 1: This lady was ranked the world's number one lady tennis player.
Speaker 1: She was ranked number one one for a record three
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven weeks. You know how hard that is.
Speaker 1: Three hundred one seventy seven weeks number one. She won
Speaker 1: one hundred and seven singles titles, twenty two major women's
Speaker 1: singles titles. She's the only tennis player male or female
Speaker 1: to have won each major singles tournament at least four times,
Speaker 1: four times a kadruple career Grand Slam. Youngest player to
Speaker 1: appear in the main draw of a major at the
Speaker 1: nineteen eighty three French Open, age thirteen. Oh god, come on.
Speaker 1: I used to start tan and evertill no, it's not Martine.
Speaker 1: I used to watch her all the time in the
Speaker 1: eighties wimmled. Then oh, Steffi Graff, Nah, that's at Stephanie Graff.
Speaker 1: She's married too, Andreagas andre Agassy.
Speaker 3: She was also married to Brooks Shields at the that's right,
Speaker 3: and her and Boris Becker helped grow tennis in Germany.
Speaker 1: At Boris Becker was great too, Okay. This former Major
Speaker 1: leaguer played nineteen years in the big leagues, five time
Speaker 1: National League All Star, two time at OL Gold Glove winner,
Speaker 1: signed with the Expos in seventy nine. At the time,
Speaker 1: I'm the scouts thought the seventeen year old he was
Speaker 1: seventy a little too chubby over eight, but he beat
Speaker 1: that rap and would go on to the mayor. The
Speaker 1: scouts thought he was too heavy. In nineteen eighty eight,
Speaker 1: he had an MVP caliber season.
Speaker 3: Well you're weird ninety.
Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety eight with Montreal ninety two RBI, twenty nine homers.
Speaker 1: Slowed by injuries, the Expos had to trade him to
Speaker 1: Saint Louis in ninety one, then off to Colorado. He
Speaker 1: led the National League with a three seventy batting average.
Speaker 1: Marry Walker, No, No, No, No, first Venezuelan to win
Speaker 1: a batting title in the Major Venezuela. Oh, if I
Speaker 1: give you his nickname, you're gonna you're gonna scream.
Speaker 3: Andres Galeraga, Andres Galarraga, I remember him, Cat, the big Cat,
Speaker 3: the big Cat, I remember him with the Expos. Absolutely
Speaker 3: get a text there.
Speaker 1: Huh yeah, I got a bunch of texts. But listen,
Speaker 1: the Big Cat Andres Gallerega and those Expos uniforms, the
Speaker 1: one that, oh, oh the best.
Speaker 3: You still see you still they see their hats all
Speaker 3: over town.
Speaker 1: Expos were the best uniforms.
Speaker 3: I'd love to see baseball come well. People talking about
Speaker 3: Vancouver getting a major league baseball team? How is that it?
Speaker 1: You're done?
Speaker 3: Paul McCartney. And by the way, is it just me
Speaker 3: is coming up? Paul McCartney eighty four years old? Wow,
Speaker 3: Ryan and I and yourself just huge fans of the
Speaker 3: Beatles of course, eighty four years old, Paul McCartney. What happened?
Speaker 1: And the time flies is what I mean?
Speaker 3: And he John George and Ringo Ryan, They're called the
Speaker 3: Beatles together are going to play us out November nineteen
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Speaker 1: and Dolly need to do a week of live shows
Speaker 1: for Vancouver Island waddling dogs, soup, potholes based side.
Speaker 3: Why why are you laughing? Right? Because we just talked
Speaker 3: about this.
Speaker 1: That's a whole lot of second But did you give
Speaker 1: David Cedar credit? No, we do now, okay, get Bodger
Speaker 1: BAuA and Greg Adams. Uh there was two Greg Adams, remember, yes,
Speaker 1: the one in Cootney's.
Speaker 3: And the one on the island. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So I want to clarify that.
Speaker 3: And for the reason we said we're brought it up
Speaker 3: is because we don't want to give the bosses any
Speaker 3: ideas and that might say that sounds like hard work
Speaker 3: for Ron.
Speaker 1: We should go to London as well, just outside of
Speaker 1: Powell River.
Speaker 3: Beautiful place. I've been to London.
Speaker 1: It's a great place.
Speaker 3: We've got a lot of submissions regarding the name of
Speaker 3: that province, which and you, of all people should know.
Speaker 1: Oh, no comment, Dwight.
Speaker 10: Is it just me?
Speaker 3: But the Victoria Harborcats have a great expos tribute uniform.
Speaker 3: I'm not aware of that. Maybe we can dig that
Speaker 3: up one day. Those powder blue, the baby blue Expo uniforms.
Speaker 1: Oh boy, so nice. Oh Andre Dawson, Gary Carter. I
Speaker 1: could talk Expos all day long. They were the best.
Speaker 1: Edmonton's gonna have a lottery peat Rose, Oh Pete Rose.
Speaker 3: People forget that he played there.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, he was great there before he went to Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Edmonton will have a lot that was after since okay,
Speaker 1: after Philadelphia. Edmonton will have a lottery pick next to you.
Speaker 1: And this is going to be a disaster. Babcock. That's
Speaker 1: Todd in summer Land, beautiful summer Land.
Speaker 3: He doesn't have confidence in Babcock. If indeed that happens
Speaker 3: for people who aren't aware, weren't watching earlier Babcock investigation
Speaker 3: by the NHL. It's over and he's free to find
Speaker 3: employment in the National Oculu.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, yes he is.
Speaker 3: Is it just me? Yes? I would say Canada verus
Speaker 3: guitar is one of the biggest sporting events at BC plays.
Speaker 3: For myself, I was in ninety four twice. The obvious
Speaker 3: was the ninety four Great Cup. The other was the
Speaker 3: exhibition series between the Jays and Expos in April ninety four.
Speaker 3: Not knowingly we were watching the best team not to
Speaker 3: win the World Series with the August shutdown looming labor dispute.
Speaker 3: That's from down and Siicamoose. And he's right. Yes, those
Speaker 3: MLB preseason games when there was this thought maybe the
Speaker 3: MLB would come to Vancouver, they were pretty special. Although
Speaker 3: BC plays not a great venue, not a great venue
Speaker 3: for baseball in my opinion, the Minnesota Twins approved that
Speaker 3: that building, that the old Humphrey Metrodome whatever they called
Speaker 3: it was just like BC place. It didn't work. But
Speaker 3: Don's right, the Expos leading the best team in the
Speaker 3: National League when things were stopped in ninety four because
Speaker 3: of that labor despute.
Speaker 1: It was horrible. Bottom line. Maholter has so well spoken.
Speaker 1: It's such a breath of fresh air. Braiden in Absberg.
Speaker 1: So we heard maholt today on the show, so much clarity.
Speaker 1: He thinks before he talks the Vancouver fans after a game, well,
Speaker 1: there will be no gray area. He will tell you
Speaker 1: the way it is.
Speaker 3: Well, he was very impressive, and Nita's Thomas Needles to say,
Speaker 3: Thomas Grant's wonderfully impressive is always on our show. But
Speaker 3: what about the reut Twins. Oh, the kids. He said, look, look,
Speaker 3: we you especially take shots at young people these days,
Speaker 3: but they handle interviews so much better than we would
Speaker 3: have at that age, athletes of the past would have
Speaker 3: at that age. It was really really impressive. They were
Speaker 3: just full of energy and intelligence. That that was. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure people watch them. We're getting a few comments
Speaker 3: like that in the bayside inbox. People watch that and
Speaker 3: thought to themselves, Hey, whatever the conducts could do, get
Speaker 3: those guys. They're impressive.
Speaker 1: John and Ladder. I love John and Ladder is a
Speaker 1: great guy. John and Lanner supposed that we live in
Speaker 1: a free, free market society. But they gouge you for
Speaker 1: sixty five bucks for parking. It's a BS capital letters
Speaker 1: from John and Ladder. I'm with you, John, just absolutely ridiculous.
Speaker 1: What they're charging in downtown Vancouver today.
Speaker 3: Horrible. Have some shamee you're trapped a lot of people
Speaker 3: don't have a I obviously know there's public I touchted
Speaker 3: you you took the train. I did, But it's like
Speaker 3: buying a coffee at the airport. They've they've got you there,
Speaker 3: They've got you trapped. They can charge what they want
Speaker 3: on signed Is it just me? The biggest event in
Speaker 3: BC Place history. Donnie would remember this, the nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: four Canucks second place parade actually a rally, Yes, you
Speaker 3: remember that? Yeah, course, And I mean other teams have
Speaker 3: done this. They've end up losing a championship series in
Speaker 3: whatever league. And you know, the run was so fabulous
Speaker 3: they culminated with some sort of rally in some facility.
Speaker 3: But Pat Quinn and company did have an event at
Speaker 3: the DC Place in ninety four after losing the ninety
Speaker 3: four Stanley Cup final. YEP, that was pretty special.
Speaker 1: Absolutely they did. Absolutely. Okay, we're getting the signal.
Speaker 3: Full Okay, we got the signal from Ryan, which means
Speaker 3: the next segment we're going to wrap up the show
Speaker 3: and the pole question. That's next, Donnie Dolling, the team, unt.
Speaker 1: Jack, Doc Pole, Rick, Ryan up Waddling, Doc Bupole question,
Speaker 1: and is Canada and Qatar three o'clock today the biggest
Speaker 1: sporting of me NBC Place history. Look at that fifty
Speaker 1: five percent say yes, but.
Speaker 3: Say no many people, uh fans of the ninety four
Speaker 3: Great Cup between the Lions in Baltimore, among other events.
Speaker 1: When BC Place opened White Cap Seattle, I was there,
Speaker 1: Little Ricky I thought that was the best.
Speaker 3: The importance of that game, that you're opening a stadium
Speaker 3: and we were like this, look at this a beautiful thing.
Speaker 3: People forget what a big deal that one.
Speaker 1: That was a big deal. BC plays.
Speaker 3: Okay, you've got some photos right where we're going.
Speaker 1: Overseas.
Speaker 10: You got the details on this. I think we were
Speaker 10: in Toronto first, Toronto.
Speaker 1: You got the details.
Speaker 3: You talk.
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Speaker 3: We got some other photos.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we got the photo.
Speaker 10: You got one more?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, hold on a sec here, two seconds. My
Speaker 1: daughter Michelle celebrated her remarkable performance. Michelle, Michelle, that's it, MICHAELA.
Speaker 1: Mikayla Sorry, Mikayla celebrated her remarkable performance completing the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six Vancouver Marathon in May, donning her d and
Speaker 1: d bucket hat Robin Poco and what a great photo. Someday, Donnie,
Speaker 1: we'll do a marathon. Why are you shaking?
Speaker 3: Some people will say watching this show is like doing
Speaker 3: a marathon.
Speaker 1: I do the StairMaster and I'm going today. I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get to that level.
Speaker 3: Any other photos.
Speaker 1: Oh that's it.
Speaker 10: I just got a photo sent my Buddy's at Science
Speaker 10: World right now, and man, it is well.
Speaker 1: Show us.
Speaker 10: I can't because of the technical issues we're having right now.
Speaker 10: I can't prying. But it's packed. It is packed, So
Speaker 10: it's gonna be a hell of a scene down here.
Speaker 10: Oh some different because I mean you remember the Olympics,
Speaker 10: like it was Lola Land, amazing all that. It was February,
Speaker 10: you know, like this being in the summer.
Speaker 3: They different, different, different weather. But for any of us
Speaker 3: and you guys were anti World Cup, but anybody who
Speaker 3: was worried about a buzz or about the popularity of
Speaker 3: this event and what's it going to do for the economy.
Speaker 3: I don't know the figures, I don't know what they're
Speaker 3: gonna be, but man, all positive so far.
Speaker 10: And then the ad for our city at the moment
Speaker 10: is out of control, and I know our city has
Speaker 10: got warts.
Speaker 3: Sports Illustrated the ranked of the sixteen World Cup cities,
Speaker 3: Van Vancouver number one so far. Thanks so much for
Speaker 3: tuning in, folks. Hey go Canada, go versus the car.
Speaker 3: It starts at three o'clock. Thanks so much for tuning in,
Speaker 3: folks on behalf of Ryan Derek Rick, everybody here at
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