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Speaker 5: am Ryan Henderson alongside Rick Dollywall. Derek Wong is our
Speaker 5: director today and Quinn Taylor's producing the program.
Speaker 1: How are you, sir?
Speaker 3: Lovely? Couldn't be better?
Speaker 1: Donnie off today?
Speaker 3: Why? Why?
Speaker 5: And before anybody gets scared, because he was sick last
Speaker 5: week and everything this is see Donnie never misses a
Speaker 5: day that he's owed off. Okay, So when I was
Speaker 5: off for the birth of my son Ben Ben, yes,
Speaker 5: Donnie worked the Friday.
Speaker 1: Yes, because I was off.
Speaker 3: He didn't forget that. So then he.
Speaker 5: Put that in his brain and needed it to be
Speaker 5: made whole. And so that is what is happening today.
Speaker 5: And then this Friday, you're off.
Speaker 3: I'm off.
Speaker 5: You're going to the Big Smoke, your second home. You're
Speaker 5: going to Toronto.
Speaker 3: I got stuff. I got stuff to do in Toronto.
Speaker 5: So Donnie's gonna work this Friday, and I believe he'll
Speaker 5: be off again next Monday because he never misses a day.
Speaker 3: Off, so he's got to get those days off.
Speaker 5: He's apparently very busy today. He might be detailing his
Speaker 5: car for rumors that I'm hearing in.
Speaker 3: The sailing car. You take it, he's not going to
Speaker 3: do it himself.
Speaker 1: Well, that's a good point. That's a good point.
Speaker 5: But there was an incident involving his vehicle that somebody
Speaker 5: in the studio might have been responsible for.
Speaker 6: I left I left my fat my five guy Burger
Speaker 6: rapper in car last night, and this morning I walked outside.
Speaker 6: His doors were open because the bear went in there, and.
Speaker 5: We might have a very angry don Taylor back on
Speaker 5: the show tomorrow.
Speaker 3: You left after this, You left Burgers Rap?
Speaker 7: Yeah.
Speaker 6: I went to Rap Guys yesterday and I left my
Speaker 6: wrappers in his car, and so the bear smells the burger.
Speaker 6: He left his car unlocked. So it's like fifty to
Speaker 6: fifty of whose fault it really was?
Speaker 3: That? Oh boy, Yeah, amazing trouble now, So we'll see
Speaker 3: what kind of mood Donnie is in tomorrow.
Speaker 5: Rick, Can you believe it? It's World Cup week? The
Speaker 5: World Cup is here. Yes, I came with it. It's
Speaker 5: it's crazy, you know, we've for so long, it's been
Speaker 5: in twenty twenty six. It'll be here or you know,
Speaker 5: six months from now, it'll be here. It's here man.
Speaker 5: Friday noon, Canada's first match in Toronto as they take
Speaker 5: on Bosnia at twelve o'clock our time. Then of course
Speaker 5: things shift here to Vancouver. But the World Cup it
Speaker 5: actually opens Thursday in Mexico City at noon our time.
Speaker 5: Mexico takes on South Africa. That's the first match of
Speaker 5: the World Cup. But Canada gets things underway noon on Friday.
Speaker 5: We'll maybe talk a little bit more about that and
Speaker 5: their injury situation, which every day it seems to get
Speaker 5: worse somehow. As the show goes along, we do have
Speaker 5: a jam packed show, and by jam packed it's guests wise,
Speaker 5: we're jam packed we've got Elliott Frieman coming up at
Speaker 5: eleven from Vegas, Elliet. It'll talk about all the things
Speaker 5: happening with the Stanley Cup Final and other league matters.
Speaker 5: Team broke the trade request and that had a new
Speaker 5: chapter to today. We'll talk about that. Scott Wheelers going
Speaker 5: to join us around ten thirty. He of course, he
Speaker 5: was alm with us about a month ago. Rick, he's
Speaker 5: the prospects writer for the Athletic National prospects reporter for
Speaker 5: the Athletic and he was in Buffalo over the weekend
Speaker 5: for the NHL Draft combine.
Speaker 1: So we'll talk to Scott about that coming up to
Speaker 1: ten thirty.
Speaker 5: But next in our next segment is CEO and President
Speaker 5: Rick of the Sports Corporation NHL Agency. He's NHL agent
Speaker 5: as well to the stars he's got speaking of the
Speaker 5: Santa Cup Final, Logan stan Covid, Seth Jarvis, you'r Slevkowski,
Speaker 5: Brandon Point. But he also represents Brendan Gallagher and that's
Speaker 5: why we have Jerry Johansson on the show in our
Speaker 5: next segment to talk about Brendan and full disclosure. We
Speaker 5: take this interview around nine fifteen this morning, and he
Speaker 5: revealed a very interesting nugget rick when it comes to
Speaker 5: the Vancouver Canucks and Brendan Gallagher.
Speaker 3: Well, I've been talking to Jerry since Friday and he
Speaker 3: got permission from Montreal to talk to teams about Brendan Gallagher.
Speaker 3: Brendan Gallagher mentioned in Montreal that he wants to play
Speaker 3: in Vancouver. It's his home, his dad runs the Delta Academy,
Speaker 3: it's you know, he lives in the twas In area.
Speaker 3: So Jerry Johansson got permission to talk to teams over
Speaker 3: the weekend. He met with Brendan and Montreal for breakfast.
Speaker 3: They went over a bunch of teams on the list
Speaker 3: that Brendan said I would like to go to. Obviously
Speaker 3: Vancouver one of them. So Johansen did call the Vancouver Canucks.
Speaker 3: He's already called the Canucks, and the Canucks have showed
Speaker 3: interests a lot of moving parts. And when I say
Speaker 3: moving parts, the drafts coming out. They were busy with
Speaker 3: the combine all that stuff, So that's what I meant
Speaker 3: by moving parts. But the Canucks are showing interests in
Speaker 3: Brendan Gallagher. They want to improve the dressing room, they
Speaker 3: want to improve the culture that Caducks dressing them in
Speaker 3: the past two years, we're stressing him in the National
Speaker 3: Hockey League. This new regime is going to fix that,
Speaker 3: and you can help fix that with guys like Brendan Gallagher.
Speaker 3: But he's got one year left at six point five
Speaker 3: million on his contract, which could be troublesome for some teams.
Speaker 3: The good thing to know here is that the Montreal
Speaker 3: Canadians are really helping in the process for Jerry and
Speaker 3: Brandon to try to make this happen and find him
Speaker 3: a new home. So there is a list of teams
Speaker 3: that Brendan's got, Vancouver's on him. They're not the only
Speaker 3: team on it, but the process has started. Jerry has
Speaker 3: called Vancouver and Vancouver has told him there is interest.
Speaker 3: They could have said no, you know, I see this all. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they could have said no, yes because of the price
Speaker 3: tags yes boy five million. But the initial response from
Speaker 3: the Canucks is yes, we have interest.
Speaker 5: That's an interesting point, Rick, because you know, I think
Speaker 5: sometimes people go two plus two weeks four. It doesn't
Speaker 5: always happen that way, right, Look, it doesn't just because
Speaker 5: Brendan Gallagher says he wants to come from here, just
Speaker 5: because of.
Speaker 1: All those things. Happened.
Speaker 5: Maybe Ryan Johnson and the Canucks don't want to take
Speaker 5: up a roster spot for Brendan Gallagher. No disrespect to Brendan,
Speaker 5: but you know, maybe they maybe they have somebody else
Speaker 5: carved out for that space.
Speaker 1: All of those things.
Speaker 3: Soul is diminished, he's a little bit older, but boyle boy.
Speaker 5: But the fact we're hearing that there is interest from
Speaker 5: the Canucks that is that, you know, affirms things that, yeah,
Speaker 5: maybe this marriage will end up happening. It's it's it's
Speaker 5: funny because in years past, Rick, that's six and a
Speaker 5: half million that could have got the Canucks like a
Speaker 5: first round draft pick from Montreal, right if you because
Speaker 5: if because of the flat cap and you know, they're
Speaker 5: obviously in a much different position than Montreal is and
Speaker 5: all those things, and so that's not gonna happen this
Speaker 5: time around.
Speaker 1: I don't know what a trade will end up looking like.
Speaker 5: But they're not they're the habs don't have They're not like,
Speaker 5: oh my goodness, we're pressed up against it. This is
Speaker 5: the guy we got to move, So we're gonna pay
Speaker 5: a premium to get off. Right, That's not happening anymore.
Speaker 5: With the way the cap is going bonkers through the roof.
Speaker 5: So the Cannucks. By the way, I for wondering, I
Speaker 5: think according to puck Beatia, they got twenty one and
Speaker 5: a half twenty one million of CAP space for next season.
Speaker 3: But Ryan Johnson said on the weekend in an interview,
Speaker 3: we're not gonna spend crazy.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna splash money around.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna spend They're not gonna be after the
Speaker 3: Alex Tucks of the world. If Tuck hits so July first,
Speaker 3: they're not gonna spend a whack of money on July first,
Speaker 3: like some of the previous regimes have here in the
Speaker 3: last six seventy eight years.
Speaker 5: Just quickly, while we're on that subject, because this is
Speaker 5: something you've brought up previously. Michael mccaron out of Minnesota. Yeah, uh,
Speaker 5: he is appending UFA. He came over at the tre
Speaker 5: deadline from Nashville to Minnesota. Joe Smith and Michael Russo
Speaker 5: at the Athletic this morning dropped their mail bag where
Speaker 5: they take fans questions and they respond to them, and
Speaker 5: one of them was about mccarran's future, and they are
Speaker 5: both reporting. Russo and Smith are reporting that it looks
Speaker 5: as though he's close to re signing in Minnesota on
Speaker 5: a long term contract. They threw out the numbers of
Speaker 5: three and a half million per season with a five
Speaker 5: or six year term. So and by the way, that
Speaker 5: discussion he wanted to stay in Minnesota made it clear
Speaker 5: he likes the Midwest all those things, so it lined
Speaker 5: up for him.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's why he's jumping the que not going to
Speaker 1: dry for.
Speaker 3: He say, he's a massive, massive center who you know,
Speaker 3: he can duke it out with all the best. He
Speaker 3: kills penalties. He played higher up in the lineup for
Speaker 3: Minnesota in the playoffs. He could play third line center,
Speaker 3: So boy, there was going to be a lineup. I
Speaker 3: heard there was going to be a lineup for the
Speaker 3: guy on July first. If he hit July first, it
Speaker 3: doesn't look like he's gonna do it.
Speaker 5: So over the weekend, Rick NHLD Draft Combine happening in Buffalo.
Speaker 5: This is where the physical testing and the interviews happened
Speaker 5: at the back half of the week. I think the
Speaker 5: testing portion of it happened on Saturday. Where you see
Speaker 5: these guys on the bike, they do their vertical jumps,
Speaker 5: pull ups, all these sorts of things, and then they
Speaker 5: interview with the teams, and so you've been hearing things
Speaker 5: out of that draft combine. Again, this is the first
Speaker 5: chance for a lot of teams to sit down with
Speaker 5: players one on one and have an interview with them
Speaker 5: essentially and ask them a whole bunch of questions. So
Speaker 5: what did you hear out of the combine from the weekend?
Speaker 3: Well, first of all, look, I want to say this,
Speaker 3: two and a half weeks we are away from one
Speaker 3: of the biggest drafts in Canucks franchise history. Third overall,
Speaker 3: pick twenty fourth overall, pick four picks in the top
Speaker 3: twenty one ten picks overall. This is going to help
Speaker 3: Ryan kickstart the rebuild. The combines over interviews, testing all done,
Speaker 3: all the data has been compiled. It's going to be
Speaker 3: fun to see how this shapes out. The four guys
Speaker 3: to keep an eye on if you're a Canucks fan
Speaker 3: are Gavin McKenna, Caleb maholtra At, Chase Reed, and Ivar Stenberg.
Speaker 3: Those are the four I think if you're a Canuck
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna say something about Chase Reid. Early in
Speaker 3: the season, the Canucks had Verhoff ranked really high. Chase
Speaker 3: Reid came out from behind. And I'm telling you, Ryan,
Speaker 3: he has climbed and climbed and climbed. He's a defenseman. Yeah,
Speaker 3: out of Sue Saint Marie. But he passed all the
Speaker 3: other defenseman for the Canucks.
Speaker 1: Again.
Speaker 3: Verhoff was so high on that list early in the season.
Speaker 3: But Caleb maholtre we all know the connection to Manny,
Speaker 3: the new Canucks head coach. So they took some of
Speaker 3: these guys out for dinner, right, yep, right, So you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know which one of these guys at dinner,
Speaker 3: Uh they took out, but I heard one of the
Speaker 3: prospects ordered, Uh wohoo, wagog you rehearse, just stop. You
Speaker 3: think of a steak expert, sit.
Speaker 6: Again, Wagu wagu steak. Yeah, it's a big deal. It's Japanese.
Speaker 1: I think it's the top end cut of steak.
Speaker 3: It is. It's a top end steak. Yeah. So how
Speaker 3: much would this state?
Speaker 1: Cause do Quinn did some research?
Speaker 5: You found a steaks a picture of Wahoo, or you
Speaker 5: found a steak cooast Though Quinn Quinn found a steakhoast
Speaker 5: in Buffalo and one of their specialties, if not their specialty,
Speaker 5: is Wagu steak.
Speaker 3: So I was told I don't know which one. I
Speaker 3: was just told one of these kids ordered a Wagu
Speaker 3: or wag. This is a this is it?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a wagon premium.
Speaker 3: So it's from Japan. Yeah, it's supposed to be one
Speaker 3: of the best steaks in the world. Yeah wow yeah,
Speaker 3: way is that the size of the portion you get
Speaker 3: the you know, the different size the ninety dollars steak
Speaker 3: at the restaurant's only a six ounce.
Speaker 1: Yeah. See that's how that's joke.
Speaker 3: I'm paying ninety bucks for this wagon for six inces,
Speaker 3: and and it's.
Speaker 6: Half of this I believe probably you probably get some
Speaker 6: mashed potatoes or vegetables.
Speaker 3: I don't care about the side dish. How big is
Speaker 3: the actual steak? Quinn? Six ounces?
Speaker 1: Six ounces?
Speaker 3: That's that's probably that's probably just the cut of it.
Speaker 5: An eight ounce or a ten ounce steak or something
Speaker 5: that's gotta be. But see, so here's the thing. Okay,
Speaker 5: so this is what I'm curious about. Okay, So you're
Speaker 5: the player, because again you're being tested by everything that
Speaker 5: you do, right, it's a.
Speaker 1: Test by the organization. I'm not ordering the most expensive thing.
Speaker 1: That's a test that's a test.
Speaker 3: That's not a test. Yes, no, I you know what.
Speaker 3: I asked a couple of scouts about these dinners, and
Speaker 3: I'm gonna tell you something. How do they treat the waitresses?
Speaker 3: Do they say please?
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you? Because down the road they're gonna have
Speaker 3: to deal with equipment managers and how have you with
Speaker 3: your equipment managers? Do you say thank you for taking
Speaker 3: my bag out to the bus, Thanks for doing this.
Speaker 3: So there's a lot of little things they look at dinner.
Speaker 3: I don't think that you're telling it's weird. Okay, okay,
Speaker 3: what about this?
Speaker 1: Okay, what about this? What about this? Because because we've
Speaker 1: heard other things, what about this?
Speaker 5: What if you order like the double cheeseburger, They're gonna
Speaker 5: be going, what's this guy's nutrition?
Speaker 1: Diet going on?
Speaker 5: Like I think you go to play Jane, you go
Speaker 5: like a chicken caesar salad. That's what I would do.
Speaker 5: I like the safety safest, it's not expensive.
Speaker 3: I have sources that tell me that's what the city
Speaker 3: is like, right, A chicken caesar salad. Yeah yeah, see yeah,
Speaker 3: see chicken sesar salad. I'm in a bar that's pretty clean.
Speaker 3: I'm in a restaurant in Buffalo and I'm not kid,
Speaker 3: I'm ordering this the best thing on that. Are you
Speaker 3: a kidding?
Speaker 8: No?
Speaker 1: Get test.
Speaker 5: This guy. This guy, we took him out for dinner
Speaker 5: and he ordered the most expensive item. What does that
Speaker 5: say about his character?
Speaker 6: Or is it him being like, yeah, I'm big time,
Speaker 6: I'm gonna order the ninety dollars. See that is true.
Speaker 6: There is that. That's a bold move. If you're making
Speaker 6: a ninety dollars steak. Yeah, for your draft. It's a
Speaker 6: job interview basically essentially, yes, you're ordering the most expensive
Speaker 6: thing on that.
Speaker 5: But you're right, there is there is like a cockiness
Speaker 5: almost like a bold steak.
Speaker 3: I have NOI is shoes with that kid ordering the
Speaker 3: Wago steak if you did at which I believe is true.
Speaker 3: But at the end of the day, take what's best
Speaker 3: on the menu? Are you kidding me? It's on the
Speaker 3: Canucks tab?
Speaker 1: I know, but exactly you, Derek? Do you have that?
Speaker 5: Jeff Merrick tweet Okay, so this is the other pieces
Speaker 5: these interviews these guys go through. So Merrick tweeted this
Speaker 5: out and we'll talk to Scott about this as well.
Speaker 5: Merrek tweeted this over the weekend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 5: I told the New York Islanders put a brick in
Speaker 5: front of run of the prospects and ask what they
Speaker 5: could do with it.
Speaker 3: I know. I heard some stuff too on the weekend
Speaker 3: about they do this right, it's all mental. They got
Speaker 3: their psychology coaches in there and stuff like that.
Speaker 1: What if what if they said I'd like to smack
Speaker 1: you in the head with it or something.
Speaker 3: Well, it's just a little at the end. It is
Speaker 3: at the end of the day. At the end of
Speaker 3: the day, it's the eye test, you know, speed, size, skill,
Speaker 3: all that. Yeah, I mean this.
Speaker 5: Is yeah, it's it's it's it's psychology, it's it's it's
Speaker 5: if we try and throw you off your game, how
Speaker 5: do you how do you react?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 5: Two, there's that standpoint Peter Puck's telling us that steak
Speaker 5: is three pounds three pounds that photo Quinn showed.
Speaker 9: I don't know how you not ounces three pounds three pounds,
Speaker 9: So that would be so that wouldn't be on the wedge.
Speaker 9: That's that's like bananas, Okay, So let me get this
Speaker 9: into the Canucks interviewed six foot seven London Knights defenseman Maxim.
Speaker 3: Solakovski good job at the combine on the week. You
Speaker 3: don't know if I'm right or wrong. I it sounds
Speaker 3: close Solakowski, Maxim. I think he's one of the tallest
Speaker 3: guys okay draft Uh he is, well if he's six
Speaker 3: foot seven, six seven. But there's two guys in Ontario
Speaker 3: right now. I think one guy's six 's eight. But
Speaker 3: I know the Canucks interviewed six foot seven London Knight's
Speaker 3: defenseman Maxim Solakowski at the combine. We'll see where Maxim
Speaker 3: Solakowski go.
Speaker 5: Yeah, and it's interesting. We'll talk more about this is
Speaker 5: the show goes along, because Drant's had a big piece
Speaker 5: at the Athletic talking about guys they had interviewed for
Speaker 5: that twenty fourth pick, Rick the second that the second
Speaker 5: of the two first rounders, and some names that they
Speaker 5: talk to at the combine. But the one interesting thing was,
Speaker 5: you know, and you bring this up with the with
Speaker 5: the volume of picks they have this year, they had
Speaker 5: the most interviews probably they've ever had as an organization
Speaker 5: because they got to talk to everybody under the side
Speaker 5: and because of all these picks.
Speaker 1: It's a great thing.
Speaker 3: The right thing. By the way, they can't afford any
Speaker 3: misses at this draft. No, the first four picks have
Speaker 3: to play in the NHL. Like, there's a lot of
Speaker 3: pressure on this draft, I think, but four picks in
Speaker 3: the top forty one, so the margin for air is small.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, it's non exist especially that top one. Can
Speaker 5: you imagine if they whiff on this third overall draft pick.
Speaker 5: I can't imagine.
Speaker 3: Actually.
Speaker 5: On the other side, as mentioned, Jerry Johansson, NHL agent
Speaker 5: and president and CEO of the Sports Corporation's gonna join
Speaker 5: us talk about Brendan Gallagher.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we mentioned this.
Speaker 5: He also represents Jonathan Karamaki, so he's gonna tell us
Speaker 5: about the Karamaki's off stating updated updated Now he's doing
Speaker 5: the shoulder all of that. So we'll talk to Jerry
Speaker 5: on the other side. Ten thirty, Scott Wheeler from the
Speaker 5: Athletics going to join us talk a little bit more
Speaker 5: about the combine Friedman and eleven. So we've got everything covered.
Speaker 5: Thanks for tuning in on this Monday morning, everybody. I'm
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Speaker 1: Jerry joins us now. Jerry, thanks for doing this today.
Speaker 1: How are you?
Speaker 10: I'm good, guys, Thanks for having me on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we appreciate it.
Speaker 5: So this time last week Brendan Gallagher kind of shocked
Speaker 5: the sports world where he admitted that, you know, he
Speaker 5: could see the writing on the walls. Time with the
Speaker 5: Montreal Canadians was coming to an end and he would
Speaker 5: wouldn't mind coming home, potentially to Vancouver.
Speaker 1: So we're a week later.
Speaker 5: Where do things stand right now with Brendan and the
Speaker 5: habs and yourself and where's where's the picture at?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 10: I think you're what you said was correct, and I
Speaker 10: just think we're working on the details now about what
Speaker 10: team and and you know, just sort of reaching out
Speaker 10: to different clubs, and you know, it takes a little
Speaker 10: time to put this together, you know, especially the teams
Speaker 10: are so busy right now. They're at the combine they
Speaker 10: just left, the drafts coming up. But I do think
Speaker 10: in due course we'll get Brennan's settled somewhere. He's still
Speaker 10: got some juice for sure, some gas in the tank.
Speaker 3: Jerry, have you had the one on one with Brendan
Speaker 3: to talk about you know, what teams? Uh, where do
Speaker 3: I end up? Have you had that one on one
Speaker 3: with him yet.
Speaker 10: Jerry, Yeah, it was. Yeah, we had we had breakfast
Speaker 10: in Montreal a couple of days ago, and it was
Speaker 10: a really good meeting. Obviously, it's you know, it's emotional
Speaker 10: and it's a big, big thing, you know, so you know,
Speaker 10: just really talked about, you know, the next steps, which
Speaker 10: we're sort of into right now. It wasn't very specific necessarily,
Speaker 10: just really about the idea of moving on and moving forward.
Speaker 3: He Mentionedvancouver. Did that surprise you, Jerry that you know,
Speaker 3: you don't hear players mention another team, but he mentioned Vancouver.
Speaker 3: Jury did did that take you back a little? Not? Really?
Speaker 10: It was kind of obvious. I mean, he grew up there,
Speaker 10: played there, you know, was really successful there. You know,
Speaker 10: has a house there, his family's there, you know, so
Speaker 10: that would be normal. And we talked about other teams
Speaker 10: as well, so you know, obviously, you know, Vancouver is
Speaker 10: going to have to you know, you know, make get
Speaker 10: things squared away on their end if this is going
Speaker 10: to work. And and you know, but I do know
Speaker 10: that you know, Kent Hughest in Montreal's is very cooperative
Speaker 10: and really it's just going through the routine of you know,
Speaker 10: checking in with teams and following up and you know,
Speaker 10: sort of it always seems to work out, right.
Speaker 3: Jerry, have you talked to Vancouver. Is their interests to
Speaker 3: bring the kid home?
Speaker 10: I think initially they expressed interest and but but they
Speaker 10: have moving parts too, right, So you know, it's one
Speaker 10: of work. We're pretty close to what the teams are doing,
Speaker 10: but we really don't know going on inside. You know
Speaker 10: their operations, and they do have a lot of things
Speaker 10: happening right the draft and free agents, and there's a
Speaker 10: lot coming up here. So I do think it's on
Speaker 10: their desk and I do think they have interest. It's
Speaker 10: just a matter of whether it can work or not.
Speaker 10: And I think that's always the case. Until it's done,
Speaker 10: it's never done.
Speaker 3: As you guys know, Jerry, is the contract troublesome? I mean,
Speaker 3: this is where you come in because you're so good
Speaker 3: at your job. But is that contract troublesome to move?
Speaker 10: I don't think so. I mean there's always a way
Speaker 10: to work it out. I mean, certainly there's a little
Speaker 10: more flexibility with money coming up, and you know, and
Speaker 10: and obviously you know Montreal is working closely with us
Speaker 10: to make something work. So I think when all parties
Speaker 10: are on the same page. There's always a way to
Speaker 10: make it work.
Speaker 5: At what point, Jerry, did Brendan start to maybe look
Speaker 5: at things this year and think that maybe his time
Speaker 5: in Montreal was going to come to an end at
Speaker 5: the end of the season.
Speaker 10: I'm not sure. Probably the first time he got healthy
Speaker 10: scratch to magic, yeah, he never never happened, And you know,
Speaker 10: I think that was, you know, a big moment, and yeah,
Speaker 10: and I think it's just the way it all worked out.
Speaker 10: But I know he really loved his time in Montreal,
Speaker 10: and he has a lot of, you know, really good memories,
Speaker 10: and he just has had a crazy hockey journey in
Speaker 10: his young life already. It's been impressive to watch him
Speaker 10: and one of the coolest stories for a young player
Speaker 10: coming sort of a little bit out of nowhere and
Speaker 10: having amazing success and doing it for all the right reasons.
Speaker 10: Just work ethic and drive and compete and just all
Speaker 10: those things.
Speaker 3: Oh.
Speaker 5: One of those things with Brendan too is the culture
Speaker 5: carrier that he is in the in a locker room.
Speaker 5: And we are talking so much about that here in Vancouver,
Speaker 5: Jerry about that needing to improve in Vancouver, just talk
Speaker 5: about how important Brendan is to a locker room and
Speaker 5: what he does for a team's culture and especially for
Speaker 5: young players, which is what the Canucks are going to
Speaker 5: have here.
Speaker 10: Yeah, that's a good one.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 1: It's funny.
Speaker 10: I've had to, you know, opportunity work some amazing leaders
Speaker 10: and watching them grow up, like you know, Ryan Getzlap,
Speaker 10: you know, watching him mature into one of the great leaders.
Speaker 10: Brent Seabrook, you know, Carry Price. You know, these guys
Speaker 10: were leaders, but they were all different and how they
Speaker 10: did it. And I put Brendan Gallagher in that category.
Speaker 10: I mean, he competes, it's almost competes, not even the
Speaker 10: right word. How hard he plays and how you know,
Speaker 10: just what he does on the ice and he leaves
Speaker 10: it all out there. It's just something I've never really
Speaker 10: seen before with one of my clients like that, and
Speaker 10: you know, and it's so authentic, you know, And I
Speaker 10: just think he's such a valuable player, and it's just
Speaker 10: a valuable person to have in your room. He's just
Speaker 10: it's just you can't help but you appreciate and what
Speaker 10: he does and follow what he does. He'd be good,
Speaker 10: it'd be good for any team to have that in
Speaker 10: their room.
Speaker 11: There's no question.
Speaker 5: We mentioned your list of impressive list of clients on
Speaker 5: the way in here, Jerry, two of which are in
Speaker 5: the stand the Cup five know the Seth Jarvis and
Speaker 5: Kamlub's boy Logan stan Covid. I got an idea of
Speaker 5: who you're rooting for in this stand of the Cup final.
Speaker 5: But talk about Logan's performance. He's go fourteen points in
Speaker 5: sixteen games. He's fit so well, seemingly in Carolina since
Speaker 5: he got traded there. Just talk about how impressive impressed
Speaker 5: you've been by how he's done this postseason.
Speaker 11: Yeah.
Speaker 10: Well, first of all, shout out to my my, my
Speaker 10: best buddy, Scott Bonner, my right hand Matt. Yeah, I
Speaker 10: mean he's you know, those are truly two of his clients.
Speaker 10: Obviously we all work together. But yeah, I mean Logan's
Speaker 10: been Yeah, just we're not you know, It's funny how
Speaker 10: it works. You're not surprised when he does it because
Speaker 10: he's always been good, But then you're a little bit
Speaker 10: surprised when it happens because it's such a big stage.
Speaker 10: You know, he's performing, you know, at the highest level,
Speaker 10: and he's but he's just doing what Logan's always done,
Speaker 10: so it's really interesting. You're sort of surprised, but at
Speaker 10: the same time you're not, but we're sure happy for him.
Speaker 10: And you know, it's been great.
Speaker 3: Jerry, you got a client in Vancouver, first round pick
Speaker 3: Jonathan Kara Makie hasn't gained the traction yet that people
Speaker 3: want to see him gain traction. Are you worried there
Speaker 3: with Kara Mackie or he's got that shoulder problem he's
Speaker 3: going to come back, but talk about his development of Vancouver.
Speaker 10: Oh, I think he's going to be fine. I mean,
Speaker 10: I think what happens is, you know, especially if you're
Speaker 10: a high pick and some success early, there's always you know,
Speaker 10: added expectation and pressure on the player, including from themselves,
Speaker 10: and you know, and I think that, you know, you
Speaker 10: look at the process of learning and just understanding what
Speaker 10: it takes to play and all those things. And I
Speaker 10: think he's going to be fine. I mean, it's for me,
Speaker 10: it's normal. I'm not worried at all. You know, it's uh,
Speaker 10: you know, the line to success is not a straight line.
Speaker 10: It goes up and down. And I've never had players
Speaker 10: that didn't have adversity or struggle at different times and
Speaker 10: so and every player is different. So I think Jonathan's,
Speaker 10: you know, his journey's on the right track, you know, hopefully.
Speaker 10: I think he's going to be one hundred and healthy
Speaker 10: coming to camp. I think Vancouver's got an exciting new group,
Speaker 10: you know, in charge, and I think there's going to
Speaker 10: be a good energy. I'm actually really optimistic with Vancouver
Speaker 10: and Jonathan.
Speaker 3: All right, good stuff. Last one, Jerry, I know you're busy.
Speaker 3: You got two UFAs. I want to know about Brett
Speaker 3: Koulak and Carson SUSSI. What's your feeling on both those
Speaker 3: where they're gonna end up?
Speaker 10: You know what's funny. I mean, obviously both guys are
Speaker 10: what every team needs, you know, it's just a matter
Speaker 10: of who needs them. And obviously Brett has been just,
Speaker 10: you know, just been a workhorse. He's been, you know,
Speaker 10: incredibly consistent and such a valuable player. And then Carson,
Speaker 10: I mean, who doesn't need a player like that. So
Speaker 10: really it's just us finding the right spot and doing
Speaker 10: the work and checking in with teams and just trying
Speaker 10: to find the right fit. So it's always hard to.
Speaker 5: Say outstanding stuff today. Jerry really appreciate it and apologies
Speaker 5: if this guy's bugging you too much, especially this time
Speaker 5: of year.
Speaker 1: I know how he gets.
Speaker 5: He bugs me enough, so I can only imagine how
Speaker 5: much she bugs you. But thanks so much for the
Speaker 5: time today. Jerry really appreciate it.
Speaker 10: Thank you guys.
Speaker 11: Have a good day.
Speaker 1: Thank you too.
Speaker 5: Jerry Johansson, CEO, great guy, Rit guy the Sports Corporation.
Speaker 5: Very interesting stuff there and Brendan Gallagher including admitting that
Speaker 5: there was some initial interest from the Canucks. That's the
Speaker 5: first concrete thing we've we've put two and two together.
Speaker 5: But hearing that there is that interest from the Canucks
Speaker 5: very interesting.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there it is right there there. Brendan Gallagher's
Speaker 3: agent has called the Canucks and there is initial interest
Speaker 3: from Vancouver's.
Speaker 5: And yeah, very interesting. We'll see how this progresses. As
Speaker 5: you mentioned, very busy time for NHL front offices at
Speaker 5: the moment.
Speaker 1: On the other side, we're going to talk with Scott Wheeler.
Speaker 5: We've been talking a bit about the draft combine happened
Speaker 5: over the weekend, well that past week in Buffalo. Scott
Speaker 5: Wheeler from the Athletic covering prospects for the Athletic. We'll
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Speaker 5: Rick national reporter for the Athletic covering prospects in the
Speaker 5: NHL Draft, and he was in Buffalo for the scouting
Speaker 5: combine that has now concluded.
Speaker 1: Scott, thanks for doing this today.
Speaker 3: How are you?
Speaker 12: Thanks for having me Fellas. I'm doing well. I'm a
Speaker 12: little road weary after a weekend Kolowna for the mem
Speaker 12: Cup and then about twelve hours back home with the kids,
Speaker 12: enough time to give them a kiss and get back
Speaker 12: on the road to Buffalo. So happy to be home
Speaker 12: for about four days here before the OAHL Draft in
Speaker 12: Kingston and then we'll be off and running for the
Speaker 12: NHL Draft after that.
Speaker 5: Just a ton going on at the moment. So Scott,
Speaker 5: for people that you obviously aren't overly familiar with the
Speaker 5: combine and what happens in Buffalo, what are the key
Speaker 5: things that occur with teams and these prospects, the testing,
Speaker 5: the interviews, all that, what goes down in Buffalo over
Speaker 5: this last week and mainly over the past weekend.
Speaker 12: Yeah, it's sort of a hotbed of not just meetings
Speaker 12: between the players, and that is the prospects in this
Speaker 12: draft and the teams, whether it's through sort of the
Speaker 12: setups that they have at the rank. Each team gets
Speaker 12: a suite at the rink. The players rotate through really
Speaker 12: for four or five days constantly through teams will interview
Speaker 12: typically forty fifty of the ninety or so players who
Speaker 12: are invited to the combine each year. But it's also
Speaker 12: an opportunity for agents to get into town for head
Speaker 12: starts on conversations about free agency. A lot of meetings
Speaker 12: between general managers and sort of the top ten or
Speaker 12: so agents in the sport around the hotel, and then
Speaker 12: there's obviously the physical testing at the end of the week,
Speaker 12: which allows you, at least at the extremities to form
Speaker 12: some takeaways. I don't think there's a ton of emphasis
Speaker 12: put into the actual testing. You'll typically see almost all
Speaker 12: of the general managers, scouts, directors of scouting are all
Speaker 12: gone when the testing actually takes place. They typically leave
Speaker 12: their strength and conditioning coaches to stick around and watch
Speaker 12: it happen. But you can see at the extremities, like
Speaker 12: there were players who performed really well, players who were
Speaker 12: consistently in the top of several of the events, and
Speaker 12: then there were players who struggled and players whose feet
Speaker 12: looked slow and who look clunky out there, and who
Speaker 12: look on athletic and some of the testing, and despite
Speaker 12: the fact that these are the ninety best hockey players
Speaker 12: in their age group, you'd be surprised how many of
Speaker 12: these kids aren't great athletes, great natural athletes. So that's
Speaker 12: really the takeaway from the testing. But it's more about
Speaker 12: the networking. It's about the people. It's about getting to
Speaker 12: know the players. It's about getting a head start on
Speaker 12: free agency and trade talks and that side of it.
Speaker 5: So speaking of networking, you, of course talked to a
Speaker 5: lot of people while you were there. Was there a
Speaker 5: consensus on a belief of who the Canucks are zeroing
Speaker 5: in on with a third overall pick.
Speaker 13: Yeah.
Speaker 12: When we spoke a month ago, I sort of talked
Speaker 12: about Caleb and how dialed in on Caleb they've been
Speaker 12: all year. I don't coming out of the combine, I
Speaker 12: don't think anything has changed there. I do know that
Speaker 12: both Caleb and Manny have expressed at least a little
Speaker 12: bit of queasiness about the prospect of being paired together
Speaker 12: and sort of what that will look like. But everything
Speaker 12: I've been told is that that queasiness doesn't extend to
Speaker 12: a hard and fast no, and that if he's the
Speaker 12: top player on the canucksust board, which I believe he is,
Speaker 12: or I believe he will be when it's their turn
Speaker 12: to pick. At least, I think they're going to make
Speaker 12: him the selection and figure out how to work the messaging,
Speaker 12: how to manage it within the team that will come after.
Speaker 12: I do wonder if it's more like if it is Caleb,
Speaker 12: I do wonder if he's more likely to spend two
Speaker 12: years in college instead of one. I think one and
Speaker 12: done was potentially on the table for him. By spending
Speaker 12: two years, he would he and his dad would be
Speaker 12: able to say, look, he's ready when it's his turn
Speaker 12: to come. It wouldn't feel like anything was being given
Speaker 12: to him. Oftentimes, those college kids when they turn pro
Speaker 12: are given opportunities more than having earned them. That's part
Speaker 12: of the negotiation in terms of signing NHL contracts for
Speaker 12: the true, true top guys coming out of college is
Speaker 12: that they get those spring games in the NHL. I
Speaker 12: think it will likely mean, if it's Caleb, that they
Speaker 12: want him to marinate so that there's no doubt that
Speaker 12: there's any favoritism happening or that kind of a thing,
Speaker 12: so an interesting story. One of the most interesting stories frankly,
Speaker 12: I think in the lead up to the draft here
Speaker 12: is whether they ultimately stepped to the stage and announced
Speaker 12: Caleb as the pick and sort of what that looks
Speaker 12: like coming forward. And Caleb said all the right things
Speaker 12: this week. He interviewed very well with everybody. He performed
Speaker 12: quite well in the testing. So a lot to like
Speaker 12: about Caleb's week and the way that he finished his
Speaker 12: year in the OHL. And he belongs in the conversation
Speaker 12: at third overall, but it will be a talking point
Speaker 12: in the years ahead if he's Vancouver's pick.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's going to be fascinating for sure. Chase Reid,
Speaker 3: the Canucks took him out to dinner last week in
Speaker 3: Buffalo Boys. This guy climbed and climbed in the second
Speaker 3: half of the season. In your eyes, is he the
Speaker 3: first defenseman off the board?
Speaker 12: I think it's probably a coin flip. My sense is
Speaker 12: that Carson Carrals and Chase Reid are kind of a
Speaker 12: coin flip in the consensus. I think either could go
Speaker 12: as early as two to the San Jose Sharks. I
Speaker 12: think either could go forward to the Chicago Blackhawks, for example,
Speaker 12: I think you're going to hear both selected before Keaton Verhoff,
Speaker 12: who six months ago was the consensus top D prospect
Speaker 12: in this class. Those are the two guys, very different players.
Speaker 12: Reed is sort of a smooth skating still has room
Speaker 12: to fill out late Bloomer still has room to fill
Speaker 12: out his body, smooth skating, offensive minded defenseman. Carls is
Speaker 12: a bit more of that sort of throwback, physical mean competitor,
Speaker 12: still has tons of offense, but has more of that
Speaker 12: sort of pro quality to him at an earlier age.
Speaker 12: Both are going to college, Carroll's to North Dakota and
Speaker 12: Chase Reid to Michigan State. Both will probably spend two
Speaker 12: years there, I would imagine. But there's a lot of
Speaker 12: excitement about those two kids.
Speaker 3: Absolutely. You know, I heard a lot of good things
Speaker 3: about Ryan Lynn Vancouver giant, Richmond native and Lower Mainland boy.
Speaker 3: This kid stock. I think Scott might have went up
Speaker 3: a little. He had a really good week in Buffalo.
Speaker 12: Yeah, he performed extremely well in the combine testing. He
Speaker 12: wasn't one of the three or four sort of standouts
Speaker 12: of the combine testing. But if you extended that list,
Speaker 12: say who are the top ten kids that stood out
Speaker 12: in combine testing and the results of the ninety kids.
Speaker 12: He's probably in that group, were very close to that group,
Speaker 12: showed up at the top of a bunch of the exercises.
Speaker 12: He's a phenomenal kid, So not at all surprised that
Speaker 12: he did well in the interview process, which is some
Speaker 12: of the feedback that I got from some teams. Just
Speaker 12: a great kid, one of my favorites. I've been very
Speaker 12: high on him. He's kind of a kid in the
Speaker 12: top group of this class that I've kind of stuck
Speaker 12: my neck out on. In this class, I'm a real,
Speaker 12: real big believer. I think he belongs in that top
Speaker 12: group of defensemen. He's not going to get picked in
Speaker 12: that top group of defencemen. I don't expect that he'll
Speaker 12: be a top ten pick in this draft, but from
Speaker 12: the early teens to the late teens is kind of
Speaker 12: his range. Like he's not making it to Vancouver at
Speaker 12: twenty four, for example, So really really excited to see
Speaker 12: what he does. Him and Jaxon Rudolph are obviously both
Speaker 12: going off, and Ben macbeth and Blake Fiddler. They've got
Speaker 12: a really good freshman class of defensemen going off to
Speaker 12: Denver to play under David Carl really excited to see
Speaker 12: what that freshman d group does next year.
Speaker 5: So you just talked about Ryan Lynn, We got to
Speaker 5: ask you about the other Vancouver Giant, Mathews. Preston Scott
Speaker 5: sounds like rave reviews out of Buffalo. You had him
Speaker 5: you earlier this month you put out your top one
Speaker 5: hundred on the Athletic you had him twenty third, I
Speaker 5: think on that list.
Speaker 1: What did you hear?
Speaker 5: What did you see of mathist Preston in Buffalo at
Speaker 5: the combine?
Speaker 12: Yeah, just put out a feature I've been working on
Speaker 12: since you eighteens on Preston a couple of days ago,
Speaker 12: and in speaking to people around the Vancouver Giants, around
Speaker 12: Hockey Canada, even some people from previously when he was
Speaker 12: in Spokane, it had been kind of an up and
Speaker 12: down couple of years. It didn't go well and and
Speaker 12: well in Spokane. He's obviously traded to Vancouver. Vancouver went
Speaker 12: out and made him a priority. Then he comes into
Speaker 12: the Giants, he immediately gets hurt. He misses about two
Speaker 12: months of the back of the season due to the injury.
Speaker 12: And then he comes back and he plays really well
Speaker 12: down the stretch and impresses, as he always has with
Speaker 12: Hockey Canada in a top six sort of power play role.
Speaker 12: At U eighteen Worlds. Obviously, Hockey Canada loses in the
Speaker 12: quarterfinals and ends on a disappointment, but one of the
Speaker 12: positives of the tournament was Preston and his play. And
Speaker 12: then you speak to scouts about him now and you
Speaker 12: hear mixed reviews. He's one of the most talented players
Speaker 12: in the draft. I have a player survey that will
Speaker 12: be coming out at the Athletic where I surveyed sixty
Speaker 12: plus kids in this class and asked them a series
Speaker 12: of questions, and one of the questions was who's the
Speaker 12: most purely skilled player in the class? Not necessarily the
Speaker 12: best player, but from a pure skill standpoint, who pops?
Speaker 12: And the two most common names were Gavin McKenna and
Speaker 12: Matthis Preston, which speaks to the way that his peers
Speaker 12: view him from a skill, skating, playmaking sort of view.
Speaker 12: But he's viewed by NHL scouts it's kind of a
Speaker 12: bubble first round guy still, and that's because he didn't
Speaker 12: produce in line with how you'd hope a five to
Speaker 12: eleven winger would produce, and it's because those types of
Speaker 12: players tip fall, the smaller wingers typically fall. So I
Speaker 12: still think he sneaks into day one. I still think
Speaker 12: he's a first round pick. I could actually see the
Speaker 12: Vancouver Canucks at twenty four being among the teams that
Speaker 12: would strongly consider him. The Canucks do need to add
Speaker 12: an infusion of skill into their pool in this class.
Speaker 12: I think that's priority number one, and he would check
Speaker 12: that box with that late first round pick. So I'll
Speaker 12: be interested to see where he lands. I think he's
Speaker 12: probably a twenties or thirties guy, but the thirties obviously
Speaker 12: extends into day two, so there's a chance he's one
Speaker 12: of the early picks on day two.
Speaker 5: Yep, awesome stuff again, Scott really appreciated. Again you outline
Speaker 5: how busy you are, so we appreciate it. I'm sure
Speaker 5: we'll chat again down the road.
Speaker 12: No sweat fellas anytime.
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Speaker 3: How much stock do you put into the NHL draft
Speaker 3: combine performances? A lot, A little, could care less? Look
Speaker 3: at this, A little is leading a fifty two percent,
Speaker 3: then could care less forty four.
Speaker 1: I'm on the could care less train.
Speaker 3: The combine helps collect data, yeah, for these guys. Psychological stuff, yeah,
Speaker 3: off the ice stuff, you know, testing, which we saw
Speaker 3: Saturday and you know they're doing push ups and all
Speaker 3: that stuff. It's just compiled. It's all the data stuff.
Speaker 3: But it's the traveling. The Canucks traveled to go see
Speaker 3: Caleb Maholt in Ontario, four of them during a game,
Speaker 3: you know, during the season. Not during the game, but
Speaker 3: during the season. They had multiple views of Mahultra. That's
Speaker 3: where you're you know, you're compiling your list. These kids
Speaker 3: are going up and down the list. It's because of
Speaker 3: you know, seeing the visibility of these games. You know,
Speaker 3: they went to see Verhofft, they went to see all
Speaker 3: the top kids, everybody in the first round. That's important,
Speaker 3: But I mean the combine is there for you to
Speaker 3: collect data. It all helps. And also keep in mind
Speaker 3: even the kids that Canucks don't draft that they interviewed, two, three,
Speaker 3: four years down the road, they might be acquiring these
Speaker 3: kids and they'll have a good database of information on
Speaker 3: the kids. Like there might be a kid the Canucks
Speaker 3: don't draft four years later they got a chance to
Speaker 3: him in the trade. They'll be able to go back
Speaker 3: in their notes and say, hey, this kid did really
Speaker 3: well at the combine in Buffalo. Just you know, it's
Speaker 3: it's they're in Buffalo to collect data.
Speaker 6: Look at like, uh, you know Florida with the twenty
Speaker 6: fourteen draft they have they got k Lad, Bennett, and Reinhart.
Speaker 3: That's it. They probably interviewed all three of them. They
Speaker 3: interviewed all of them. So it's information interview.
Speaker 1: The interview portion.
Speaker 5: I can understand getting some information from But the physical
Speaker 5: stuff I don't care about the vertical leap, Like I
Speaker 5: don't care about pull up count and all that stuff.
Speaker 5: Sam Bennett, you just mentioned him infamously no pull ups
Speaker 5: at the combine.
Speaker 3: Well, but that was a one off. But I'm just
Speaker 3: also don't want a kid to show up to the
Speaker 3: combine out of shape. Sure, you know you don't want
Speaker 3: a kid, you know, eating hot dogs at the Sure,
Speaker 3: sure so they you know they.
Speaker 1: I just don't know.
Speaker 5: I'd rather see him in a game situation how he's
Speaker 5: processing a game than how he does riding a bike,
Speaker 5: you know, solo with nobody around him.
Speaker 3: Well, I don't know, but you're right.
Speaker 5: It's one page of data, is ultimately what it is
Speaker 5: in a year long process looking at more than a year,
Speaker 5: but specifically this season leading to this.
Speaker 1: Draft, it's one page of data.
Speaker 6: If you're splitting hairs between Stenberg and Mahulture, McKenna, whatever,
Speaker 6: and one of them outside the other one like astronomical
Speaker 6: in the testing and stuff, then maybe probably leans to Stenburg.
Speaker 3: But what what can't change there is one's a winger
Speaker 3: and ones of center. Yeah, but the Caducks are are
Speaker 3: awful at Center in terms of organizational depth. Everybody that
Speaker 3: complains about Caleb Mahultra and this city need to understand
Speaker 3: that he's he's going to be the top centerman and
Speaker 3: the Canucks are organizing organizationally week at Center. I mean
Speaker 3: that people need to accept that fact.
Speaker 1: Big Rye featuring Quinn Taylor.
Speaker 6: Yes, yes, So in case you didn't hear, Travis Kelsey
Speaker 6: and Taylor Swift, they're engaged. I don't know if you
Speaker 6: know that or not. But not only are they're engaged,
Speaker 6: they're going to plan their wedding. And it was supported
Speaker 6: by TMZ on the weekend that they're gonna get married
Speaker 6: inside of Madison Square Garden and they're gonna one thousand
Speaker 6: guests to the wedding. They're not gonna sell it off.
Speaker 6: They're gonna have it closed event, private event. But yeah,
Speaker 6: I got leaked and they're gonna have their wedding Madison
Speaker 6: Square Gardens.
Speaker 1: So so if you're gonna but this is what I
Speaker 1: don't get. If you're having a thousand.
Speaker 5: People y MSG, I know, right, like go to a
Speaker 5: theater then or something like MSG. I was assuming if
Speaker 5: they're having it an MSG, they're having like ten thousand
Speaker 5: people or something, and that's what they wanted. A thousand people.
Speaker 5: It's a big wedding, of course, a thousand people with
Speaker 5: a lot of humans, but MS like a thousand people
Speaker 5: inside MSG is gonna seem like a drop in the bucket.
Speaker 1: But this is like a. It's like, Quinn, it's like
Speaker 1: a royal wedding.
Speaker 5: This the amount of like scoops and people sleuthing to.
Speaker 1: Find out information, it's crazy.
Speaker 5: Like if they wanted to live stream this, like pay
Speaker 5: per view this thing, they could make a boatload of
Speaker 5: cash if they.
Speaker 6: If they sold the tickets for the yeah, for this
Speaker 6: at MSG, do you think that would be go off
Speaker 6: for more than tonight's next game in the finals.
Speaker 1: Or more than the Eras tour that she was part of.
Speaker 6: Like probably would maybe they would sell out, Like the
Speaker 6: Swift fans are crazy like that.
Speaker 3: I could care less about these two. They could get
Speaker 3: married on the moon. I don't care, Like I mean, Quinn,
Speaker 3: I love the fact you showed this, But to me,
Speaker 3: I would care.
Speaker 1: They're a power couple. I think they're there, whose eyes
Speaker 1: every They're the most.
Speaker 5: Popular couple on the planet easily, I think, who what
Speaker 5: other two people are more more popular than them?
Speaker 3: King Charles and his wife?
Speaker 1: Maybe? But this is this is royal level. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is crazy. You were at a wedding yesterday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but it was not It was square that much.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 1: More on Taylor during DTMZ.
Speaker 6: But I don't even know too, Like, isn't this like this?
Speaker 6: They got enough attention? Like I feel like this is
Speaker 6: about attention, like Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 3: I get. Oh, it's about I got. We got tons
Speaker 3: of millions and millions and millions of dollars. There must
Speaker 3: be a week You think renting out Madison Square Gardens
Speaker 3: is cheap?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I understand that.
Speaker 6: But I'm saying, is that as cool as doing it
Speaker 6: somewhere else like Madison Square Garden.
Speaker 3: For a wedding? Is that really that cool?
Speaker 12: No?
Speaker 1: But I agree, like you could, but you could.
Speaker 5: You could go somewhere for a thousand people better than
Speaker 5: a hockey arena, in a basketball.
Speaker 3: Arena, ballrooms that could handle a lot exact thousand people exactly.
Speaker 3: But this is just whatever.
Speaker 5: Yeah, you got something else quick locally, You got something local?
Speaker 3: H this from our friend farhand. Uh yeah.
Speaker 6: So for he says that for those wondering, the roof
Speaker 6: at BC Place will be closed for all match days
Speaker 6: for consistency and broadcast purposes. It's going to be open
Speaker 6: during the good weather days, but between matches it's going
Speaker 6: to close to help out with the grass and the
Speaker 6: gameplay overall.
Speaker 5: So there's currently right now, a tour happening for media
Speaker 5: members at BC Place right to see what the venue
Speaker 5: looks like. Of course we're days away first match. There's
Speaker 5: a Saturday, I believe if I have that right, First
Speaker 5: Canada matches Friday in Toronto. This is very disappointing to me. Now,
Speaker 5: I will say though, it's a very inter resting photo.
Speaker 5: Farhand chose to use because look at the shadows and
Speaker 5: we see this rick during white Caps and Lives games
Speaker 5: on TV. The shadows suck, they do. I'm not gonna disagree.
Speaker 5: And in terms of humans, you get baked if you're
Speaker 5: in one.
Speaker 6: You talk about TV, they're actually in the stage. It's
Speaker 6: hard in the spot with the sun. It's hard.
Speaker 3: It's hard forty minutes if you just in the sun.
Speaker 5: Yeah, but it's also gonna be a steamy, sticky mess
Speaker 5: if it's closed. And like the current temperatures are gonna
Speaker 5: be what they're gonna be next weekend, thirty degree plus days,
Speaker 5: it's gonna be gross inside there too. So I'm a
Speaker 5: bit torn. Look, I don't FIFA cares more about the
Speaker 5: TV audience than they do the people in the building.
Speaker 5: They do, And so if whatever looks best on TV
Speaker 5: is probably having it closed. It sucks because we paid
Speaker 5: a lot of money to put this doughnut on this thing.
Speaker 5: It should be open if the weather's good enough. But
Speaker 5: FIFA cares more about the TV audience than what's in
Speaker 5: the building.
Speaker 6: I guess I don't really care, like because I've been
Speaker 6: to Lions teams before where I'm just sitting in the
Speaker 6: sun and it's all yeah watching it.
Speaker 1: The shadows are are, the shadows are hard.
Speaker 3: I don't see a reason why.
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously a couple of reasons, but I think
Speaker 6: it's overwhelmingly the side of having it closed is way
Speaker 6: better than having it open.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, but what time are the game? Seven at night? Oh?
Speaker 1: Well noon?
Speaker 3: Noon?
Speaker 1: Right noon?
Speaker 5: I I don't have all the one of them's at nine,
Speaker 5: I don't have all the times in front of me,
Speaker 5: but they very throughout the day, the ones in the afternoon.
Speaker 3: You're gonna get this situation. The line is four o'clock games.
Speaker 3: Yeah you get hot, yeah in the in those when
Speaker 3: it's over. Yeah yeah. Yeah. So, like I said, I
Speaker 3: see it on both.
Speaker 5: I gotta say that the grass does look amazing, like
Speaker 5: they've done an amazing job. If they could ever find
Speaker 5: a way to permanently have grass in there, both for
Speaker 5: TV purposes and for player purposes, they would all obviously
Speaker 5: love grass.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it just looks outstanding.
Speaker 3: It does.
Speaker 6: I don't get why the stadiums like like BAC Place,
Speaker 6: I get why they want won't keep it because you
Speaker 6: know it's MLS, CFL whatever. But like MetLife Stadium, like
Speaker 6: the Giants and Jets, they play on like the worst turfic.
Speaker 6: I know they're getting this amazing grass put in and
Speaker 6: they're getting rid of it next month.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 1: I don't get it, but that's gonna change. I think Quinn.
Speaker 5: I think that's gonna big be a big thing with
Speaker 5: the NFLPA. It's putting grass in all those stadiums, including MetLife.
Speaker 5: On the other side, we're gonna head to Vegas. Talk
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Speaker 5: of course, he's got stand the Cup final and everything
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Speaker 1: Elliott, how are you, sir?
Speaker 11: I'm good. How are you guys?
Speaker 1: Doing very good?
Speaker 3: Very good?
Speaker 5: Extra day off in Vegas for you between games three
Speaker 5: and four?
Speaker 1: Are you using it well?
Speaker 13: You know what, I'm I'm an old creaky man, so
Speaker 13: I'm actually doing pretty well.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 11: I'll say this.
Speaker 13: I've been on the road for three rounds. It's been
Speaker 13: the longest time I've been on the road a long time.
Speaker 13: So you do have to learn to pace yourself. But
Speaker 13: I'll say this, the restaurants here I think are better
Speaker 13: than ever.
Speaker 11: Really, that's one thing I will say.
Speaker 5: Yes, pace yourself, see learn something from Elliott. Pace yourself. Okay,
Speaker 5: Elliott game three. You've just said it. You've been in
Speaker 5: hockey rinks for so many games. Where does the craziness
Speaker 5: of Game three ranked for you? In terms of all
Speaker 5: the things that happened, Marner's patrick, the disallowed goals, everything
Speaker 5: that went on in Game three between the Hurricanes and
Speaker 5: the Golden Knights.
Speaker 11: It was up there.
Speaker 13: Like, as I've used this line, I said to Amber,
Speaker 13: when we're ninety five years old and we're fighting over
Speaker 13: shuffle board in the old Bolts Hall, we're going to
Speaker 13: remember this night and say that we were glad we
Speaker 13: were there. It was It was a great hockey game.
Speaker 11: You know.
Speaker 13: I hate when games end on bad goals like that.
Speaker 13: But honestly, Ryan and Rick, like those guys had nothing
Speaker 13: left in that second overtime. Nobody could complete a pass,
Speaker 13: nobody could make a play. And I don't blame them.
Speaker 13: I just think they'd spent all of their energy, Like
Speaker 13: every player in that game, gave it everything they had,
Speaker 13: and they lost, and Carolina lost, and and Vegas won.
Speaker 13: But it was it was a great hockey game. I mean,
Speaker 13: you could argue that Marner had the best playoff performance
Speaker 13: in Stanley Cup history. He had first four period point
Speaker 13: period and over one hundred years fastest had trick. Ever,
Speaker 13: I still can't believe he didn't notice the goalie change,
Speaker 13: and because normally he's right on top of things by everybody.
Speaker 13: In that game, I was a great, great hockey game.
Speaker 13: Had three goals in thirty nine seconds. It just like
Speaker 13: the building was so shocked. I don't even know if
Speaker 13: I've ever heard home building that shocked before is when
Speaker 13: they scored those three goals Carolina did midway through the
Speaker 13: third period.
Speaker 5: A lot of runways still left obviously in this in
Speaker 5: the series, Elliott, But is it a foregone conclusion that
Speaker 5: if Vegas won it, Mitch Marner would be the consmythe
Speaker 5: trophy winner for Vegas.
Speaker 13: You know, I don't have a vote, Ryan, so you
Speaker 13: know I can't influence that myself, but I have to
Speaker 13: think so you know, I'll be honest. The only other
Speaker 13: guy that I would even consider on the same level
Speaker 13: as mar or Shay Theodore, and I don't think that
Speaker 13: he's getting enough credit for what he's done. And the
Speaker 13: other night when McNabb got hurt, he was going in
Speaker 13: Game two, he was going back and forth from right
Speaker 13: side to left side, depending.
Speaker 11: On who he was playing with.
Speaker 13: And you know, I just talked about how I thought
Speaker 13: how incredible I thought that was. And you know, Ryan,
Speaker 13: sometimes when guys who didn't play hockey in the NHL
Speaker 13: talk about hockey, you worried there that you're what.
Speaker 11: You're saying is stupid.
Speaker 13: And a former NHL defenseman called me and said, that
Speaker 13: might be the smartest thing you've ever said on your podcast.
Speaker 13: Like I know guys who would refuse, refuse to do it,
Speaker 13: like they just wouldn't go to the other side, never
Speaker 13: mind going back and forth like that. And Theodore doesn't
Speaker 13: have the most points. You know, Marner does, and Iigel,
Speaker 13: I think has twenty points or eighteen points. But I
Speaker 13: think what what Theodore is doing defensively, I think he's
Speaker 13: the only other guy I would put in the same
Speaker 13: zone as Marner or Vegas wins.
Speaker 3: All their gov of Native Elliott right here in the
Speaker 3: Lower Mainland, they're very proud of.
Speaker 11: Well, nobody's perfect.
Speaker 3: I know, as coaches in minor hockey, great kid h Elliott,
Speaker 3: you're you're you just know everything about every team. What's
Speaker 3: going on with Vancouver? What are you hearing? Uh? There's
Speaker 3: just uh uh, the draft's coming up, free agencies coming up.
Speaker 3: What are you hearing out of Vancouver?
Speaker 11: You know, honestly, not a ton. It's it's it's quiet
Speaker 11: there right now.
Speaker 13: I mean, you guys have made your front office big changes,
Speaker 13: You've got mid some ads, You've done your coaching. Now
Speaker 13: we've got to see what the assistant coaches are going
Speaker 13: to look like. I mean, I think the one big
Speaker 13: personnel thing is is going to be just Petterson.
Speaker 11: Where does that go?
Speaker 13: And I think you've got time to sort that out,
Speaker 13: Like they're really now that most of the cod now
Speaker 13: the biggest coaching job and the biggest front office job
Speaker 13: is done. I think it's pretty quiet. You guys kind
Speaker 13: of just have to wait and see what happens in
Speaker 13: front of you at the draft. And I think some
Speaker 13: of the most interesting things is what's going to happen
Speaker 13: around you. I think San Jose is going to have
Speaker 13: some decisions to make, like I think Toronto's taking the pick.
Speaker 13: You know, there's a lot of time between now and
Speaker 13: the draft. We still have three weeks. I've got, you know,
Speaker 13: McKenna penciled in as as the guy, but I'm not
Speaker 13: saying it's one hundred percent by any stretch of the imagination.
Speaker 13: Then I think San Jose is gonna have a decision
Speaker 13: to make in front of you. Do they want to
Speaker 13: move down? What do they want to do? I think
Speaker 13: they're going to be presented with options. Then it comes
Speaker 13: to you, and I think Chicago right behind you is
Speaker 13: also going to be like they're they're honest about the
Speaker 13: fact that they would move that pick. So I think
Speaker 13: at that point in time, you guys probably have to
Speaker 13: wait and just see what happens around you, and that
Speaker 13: will determine as much as you know your biggest move,
Speaker 13: which is making your third overall pick.
Speaker 3: You had a great tidbit on the weekend, Joe Pavelski
Speaker 3: up for the head coaching job in Toronto. Where's the
Speaker 3: leaf search right now?
Speaker 13: Elliott Well, Peter Laviolett I think is going to lay.
Speaker 13: I've heard it this morning, and I don't have any
Speaker 13: confirmation at this point in time, but it seems to
Speaker 13: be pointing in that direction.
Speaker 11: I think Laviolette was very seriously considered in both Toronto
Speaker 11: and Edmonton too.
Speaker 13: I think he had legit shot at all three of
Speaker 13: these jobs, and I think la has made the choice.
Speaker 13: You know, I'd forgotten me as a history with Panarin,
Speaker 13: so that makes a lot of sense. But just waiting
Speaker 13: for official confirmation on that. And now so I think Toronto.
Speaker 13: I still think Toronto. We don't know all the names yet.
Speaker 13: I think they're going to cut it down to three
Speaker 13: to five people, and I think they're going to start
Speaker 13: bringing in people for interviews and I'm under the impression
Speaker 13: that Pavelski's going to be one of those people.
Speaker 11: Now. I think it's interesting, guys. I know Toronto told.
Speaker 13: A couple of candidates that they were looking at something
Speaker 13: as somebody more experienced. I think that was Laviolette, And
Speaker 13: now that he's out of the picture, I'm curious to
Speaker 13: see where they refocus.
Speaker 11: I'm not one hundred percent sure right now.
Speaker 3: You also broke the big story Dylan Larkin's trade requests.
Speaker 3: What's going on there, Elliott? How do you see that
Speaker 3: shaken out?
Speaker 11: Well?
Speaker 13: You know what, there was a report today about three teams.
Speaker 13: It was what Vegas, Florida and Minnesota. Yep, I heard Minnesota.
Speaker 13: I heard Florida hadn't heard Vegas, but that makes a
Speaker 13: lot of sense. Probably didn't hear them because they're still playing.
Speaker 13: But you know, I think this is going to be
Speaker 13: I think the Red Wings are upset, but I think
Speaker 13: they have to be practical, you know.
Speaker 11: I mean, it's it's just time, I think, is what
Speaker 11: it is.
Speaker 13: I believe at the end of the day, whether it's
Speaker 13: one of those three teams or somebody else, it's going
Speaker 13: to be somewhere where he thinks he can win.
Speaker 11: You know. I just think that.
Speaker 13: Larkin he wants a better situation than the Red Wings,
Speaker 13: a team that's closer to winning. And whether it's one
Speaker 13: of those three teams or somebody else like a Tampa
Speaker 13: or a Dallas, I think that's where it's going to happen.
Speaker 13: I think the biggest question is how high a package
Speaker 13: Detroit wants. Do they want a package that can help
Speaker 13: them now? I think that's really hard to do, Rick,
Speaker 13: because a team that's training for lark And isn't going
Speaker 13: to want to hurt their chances to win by subtracting,
Speaker 13: and he won't want that either, And so the thing is,
Speaker 13: does Detroit get something in return that helps them now?
Speaker 13: Or do they use those pieces to get something that
Speaker 13: helps them now because Detroit's been now is the longest
Speaker 13: playoff drought in the league, and I think they want
Speaker 13: this to end. But I think this is going to
Speaker 13: be a really active summer, Rick, people like you and
Speaker 13: me were going to be busy, because I have a
Speaker 13: feeling this isn't going to be the last one we
Speaker 13: hear about Ellian.
Speaker 5: Just back to Joe Pavelski for a second. I'm curious
Speaker 5: the Martinez think Louis success in Montreal, no coaching experience,
Speaker 5: he goes in there. Pavelski would be in the same boat, obviously,
Speaker 5: fantastic players, both of them. How much has the success
Speaker 5: of Saintan Louis maybe open the eyes of teams about
Speaker 5: going down a different path and not necessarily needing a
Speaker 5: guy that's had all this head coaching experience previously.
Speaker 13: I think that I think it's definitely opened people's eyes. Ryan, Yes,
Speaker 13: and you know, Ryan, I think that the other thing
Speaker 13: too that's happened is that if you look at the
Speaker 13: two teams competing for the Stanley Cup right now Caroline Vegas,
Speaker 13: they don't do their business the way a lot of
Speaker 13: other teams do. You know, Carolina is a very different
Speaker 13: team in terms of who the GM is, how much
Speaker 13: of a force the coaches and the organization. I don't
Speaker 13: think there's a more powerful coach in his organization in
Speaker 13: the NHL. So I think Carolina does things really differently
Speaker 13: in Vegas, like they don't draft anybody, or if they do,
Speaker 13: they trade them. And so I think a lot of
Speaker 13: teams are looking at the success and saying, Okay, is
Speaker 13: there a different way that.
Speaker 11: We can do things?
Speaker 13: You know, I think you just have to make sure
Speaker 13: you have the right guy, like Marty san Luis confident guy,
Speaker 13: Joe Pavelski confident guy.
Speaker 11: I think a lot I think confidence is.
Speaker 13: So key because you know, to say that all we
Speaker 13: can get rid of all these people, we don't need experience.
Speaker 11: Look at Tortorella, like, you know, a lot of people
Speaker 11: thought he.
Speaker 13: Would never coach again, and he's got them within two
Speaker 13: wins of a Stanley Cup victory, and he's exactly what
Speaker 13: they needed. So I don't think there's ever anything wrong.
Speaker 13: Ryan was looking at something different and doing something different.
Speaker 13: I think it almost always comes down to force of personality.
Speaker 13: Is it the right person to be different?
Speaker 5: With Elliott, we can't thank you enough for making some
Speaker 5: time today. We know you're so busy. Continue to pace yourself.
Speaker 5: We'll see you tomorrow night, back on Hockey Night.
Speaker 11: All right, guys, take good care having thanks.
Speaker 5: Thanks Elliott, Elliott Freeman from the thirty two Thoughts podcast
Speaker 5: and Hockey Nay in Canada joining us. And it's crazy, Rick,
Speaker 5: the amount of news and Betman's gonna hate this, the
Speaker 5: news percolating out of the Stanley Cup final with Lark in,
Speaker 5: some of these coaching positions all that, but you know,
Speaker 5: the offseason has to move on for these other teams
Speaker 5: sleeping out for a while. Right, you got stuff to
Speaker 5: do exactly, exactly, got stuff to do exactly. On the
Speaker 5: other side, we'll get back into the poll question. We
Speaker 5: need to mention a local kid, Rick officially retiring from
Speaker 5: the National Hockey League.
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Speaker 3: How much stock do you put into the NHL Draft
Speaker 3: combine performances leading the way? Fifty four percent is a little,
Speaker 3: forty two percent could care less, and a lot is
Speaker 3: five percent, so right at the bottom there. But it's
Speaker 3: a great week for NHL team scouts gms to get
Speaker 3: additional information on all these prospects and just drive their
Speaker 3: database with more information. And they cannot say after the
Speaker 3: combine in Buffalo that they don't have a book on
Speaker 3: all these kids, because they do.
Speaker 5: And if you missed it in our opening hour, Scott
Speaker 5: Wheeler joined us from the athletic He gave a rundown
Speaker 5: everything that happened at the combine and in our second
Speaker 5: segment Rick. In the first hour, we had CEO and
Speaker 5: President of the Sports Corporation, Jerry Johansson on with us.
Speaker 5: He represents NHL agent as well, represents Brendan Gallagher and
Speaker 5: he told us Rick that initial interest from the Vancouver
Speaker 5: Canucks in Brendan Gallagher.
Speaker 3: So Jerry had breakfast with Brendan in Montreal. Probably no
Speaker 3: weag beef, no Wago beef.
Speaker 1: Probably not.
Speaker 3: Anyways, breakfast with Brendan on the weekend in Montreal. They've
Speaker 3: come up with a list of teams that they're willing
Speaker 3: to go to. Vancouver's one of them. Jerry called the Canucks,
Speaker 3: and there is interest from Vancouver initially it's on their desks.
Speaker 3: They do have interest in Brendan Gallagher. We'll see where
Speaker 3: it goes. It's a tough contract. One year a six
Speaker 3: point five million dollars could be troublesome for some teams.
Speaker 3: How to do it? Do you give up a traffick?
Speaker 3: Don't forget They could also buy them out at the end.
Speaker 3: They could also pick up half the salary. There's other options,
Speaker 3: a ton of ways to get this deal done if
Speaker 3: the Knucks want to do.
Speaker 1: It, yep.
Speaker 3: But they have interest. Yeah, they have interested.
Speaker 5: And that was the key key point today is there
Speaker 5: is interest from the Canucks side.
Speaker 1: It's like I said a culture guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean it's uh, he's going to fix that
Speaker 3: dressing room because he's accountable with his effort, practice and games.
Speaker 3: He's a good pro on and off the ice. He's
Speaker 3: got great practice habits. He's a great team player.
Speaker 1: Yep. Absolutely so.
Speaker 5: We mentioned Brendan Gallagher of course from these parts former
Speaker 5: Vancouver Giant, Another former Vancouver Giant Rick, oh Boy Milan
Speaker 5: lu Chic.
Speaker 1: Yesterday he turned thirty.
Speaker 5: Eight years old and he announced his retirement from hockey.
Speaker 5: Eleven and seventy seven regular season games for Boston, La,
Speaker 5: Edmonton and Calgary. He was of course playing with the
Speaker 5: Fife Flyers in the EIHL in Scotland this past year,
Speaker 5: twenty six games only with the five Flyers, Rick twelve points,
Speaker 5: five goals, seven assists and twenty five Stanley Cup playoff games.
Speaker 5: Back in twenty eleven when he won the Stanley Cup
Speaker 5: with the Bruins here in Vancouver.
Speaker 1: And how weird.
Speaker 5: That must have been kid from here hoisting the cup
Speaker 5: in a Bruins uniform on Vancouver ice. Just a weird situation,
Speaker 5: But congrats to Milan. Great career. He signed a PTO
Speaker 5: at the beginning of this past season with Saint Louis,
Speaker 5: which didn't pand out and he ended up going over
Speaker 5: to Scotland. But man like a menacing player with a
Speaker 5: ton of skill as well size speed.
Speaker 3: There's a size skill. Okay, I wanna let me get
Speaker 3: all you kids out there. Milan didn't go in the
Speaker 3: Battam draft. He wasn't he wasn't ready. He was playing
Speaker 3: junior B hockey. Scott Bonner went out to see another
Speaker 3: kid and in that game, Milan got in two fights.
Speaker 3: The next day the Vancouver Giants listed him. If Scott
Speaker 3: Bonner is not at that game, does this happen?
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 3: Like he was playing Junior B, he never got drafted
Speaker 3: in the dub. Scott Bonnery goes out to see him
Speaker 3: one night, He beat the heck out of two guys
Speaker 3: and they listed him the next day. The rest is history,
Speaker 3: you know. But to all you kids, if you're not
Speaker 3: if you don't go in the Banham draft. It's not
Speaker 3: the end of the world. Keep plugging away, Milan, did
Speaker 3: you know? And then he became a one of the
Speaker 3: top enforcers in the NHL. He had some good years
Speaker 3: where I would he score over thirty goals yep, yeah,
Speaker 3: you know, and there he is one of the Cup
Speaker 3: in Vancouver. Just a great long career for a guy
Speaker 3: that wasn't there at the age of fourteen. And you know,
Speaker 3: at the end of the day, what a great career
Speaker 3: for a Vancouver native. I was at the Memorial Cup
Speaker 3: back east in Moncton when they didn't they didn't win that, right,
Speaker 3: but I was able to go watch that, and then
Speaker 3: at the Memorial Cup in Vancouver at the Pacific Coliseum
Speaker 3: he had the shift yep, right, remember the fight, the
Speaker 3: gold everything else like that is.
Speaker 5: Just just such a Bruin too, rick Like, just fit
Speaker 5: the Boston Bruins so perfectly. You mentioned it as high
Speaker 5: watermark as thirty goals in that twenty twenty eleven season
Speaker 5: where he had thirty for the Bruins, and then he
Speaker 5: goes to the Kings, the Oilers and the Flames, as
Speaker 5: I mentioned. So Milan Luchi's retiring yesterday at the age
Speaker 5: of thirty eight. Hard to believe he's thirty eight, but
Speaker 5: announcing his retirement. So congratulations to Milan on a heck
Speaker 5: of a career. Just quickly, Rick, before we get to pastime,
Speaker 5: I want to mention again, it's a massive week World
Speaker 5: Cup starting for Canada on Friday noon in Toronto. They're
Speaker 5: still dealing with these injury issues, including to defender we
Speaker 5: Bombido and they Jesse Marsh is going to wait until
Speaker 5: the last minute to announce his replacement for the World
Speaker 5: Cup squad. It's the list of injuries. This is just
Speaker 5: this courtesy TSN. Of course, Barcelo Flores blew out his
Speaker 5: ACL he's not part of the tournament. But Davies is injured.
Speaker 5: Schaffelberg's got a hamstring injury, Ali Ahmed has got a
Speaker 5: hamstring injury. Alfie joins as an ankle injury. So they
Speaker 5: are just it's a bad time for them to have
Speaker 5: these injuries. And you know, Davies has ruled himself out
Speaker 5: for Game one. He's going to get into the tournament
Speaker 5: at some point, but just really a shame that they're
Speaker 5: dealing with all these injuries that they are heading into
Speaker 5: the tournament. They drew Ireland one to one Friday night
Speaker 5: and their final friendly tune up that was in Montreal.
Speaker 5: Max Crai Poe was outstanding in that match, the former
Speaker 5: White Cap. Of course, he's going to be their leading
Speaker 5: goalkeeper at the tournament. Canada has until June the eleventh,
Speaker 5: at noon our time, twenty four hours prior to their
Speaker 5: opening World Cup match to draw replacement from their provisional
Speaker 5: roster if Bombido does not meet Marcia's standards. So we'll
Speaker 5: have to see where that goes. But again it's hard
Speaker 5: to believe the World Cup is here, but it is
Speaker 5: indeed here. Noon on Friday will be match number one.
Speaker 5: Will be joined by Doley throughout the tournament. He's going
Speaker 5: to be our regular. Paul Dolan is to talk about Canada,
Speaker 5: what's happening at the World Cup, even beyond Canada, but
Speaker 5: mainly of course with Canada and this home World Cup. Ricky,
Speaker 5: You've got.
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Speaker 5: Very quickly in front of the laptop. We've got the
Speaker 5: Ronaldo Legends card. This week we've got a Steve Eisman card.
Speaker 5: We're talking a lot about Dylan Larkin, how he's gonna
Speaker 5: deal with that situation. And in the middle nineteen eighty
Speaker 5: four eighty five Opeach cards they've got bubble gum in them.
Speaker 5: You're not eating it.
Speaker 1: This top Rick not a Rickey.
Speaker 5: Cards this year included Camney, the Steve Eiseman, Doug Gilmour,
Speaker 5: a Tom Brasso and Pat Lofantain. So just an amazing
Speaker 5: year and we should mention very quickly. Elliott got off
Speaker 5: our interview Rick and dropped news Peter Laviolette has.
Speaker 1: Been confirmed the next head coach of the Los Angeles Kings.
Speaker 1: So there you go.
Speaker 5: Edmond in Edmonton and Toronto, Freeman's pointing out both interested
Speaker 5: in Peter Laviolette, but he has agreed to be the
Speaker 5: next head coach of the Kings. So if I have
Speaker 5: it correct, I think the least of the only opening
Speaker 5: now in the National Hockey League for had Edmonton.
Speaker 1: Oh, Edmonton of course yeh as well.
Speaker 5: Yeah, the orders, So the two Canadian teams still have
Speaker 5: to name their coaches.
Speaker 1: We'll see where. We'll see if Bruce Cassidy ever is
Speaker 1: allowed to talk to those Edmonton Noilers.
Speaker 5: On the other side, Quinn talked about Taylor Swift during
Speaker 5: Big Rye and I'm going to talk about her next
Speaker 5: string DTMZ, so get prepared for that.
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Speaker 1: Taylor Swift Okay.
Speaker 5: According to listings on The Realist. Okay, it's an auction
Speaker 5: website The Realist, the court side seat Taylor Swift satin
Speaker 5: during Game three of the Eastern Conference Finals between the
Speaker 5: Knicks and the Calves has been listed up for auction.
Speaker 5: Here's this part of the listing. As one of the
Speaker 5: most recognized and influential artists of her generation, the occupant
Speaker 5: of this chair has earned worldwide acclaim through a career
Speaker 5: defined by commercial success, critical recognition, and multiple Grammy Award victories. So,
Speaker 5: if you want to buy a chair that Taylor satin
Speaker 5: it got originally listed for auction on Friday Rick. It
Speaker 5: received multiple bids. It began at one hundred dollars for
Speaker 5: the chair okay. Bidding is now currently you see it
Speaker 5: there up to twenty two hundred dollars twenty two hundred
Speaker 5: bucks for the chair.
Speaker 1: For the chair okay.
Speaker 5: Bidding closes on June the fourteenth at eight pm local time.
Speaker 1: I don't know what local time is, but you got
Speaker 1: a few more days still to get in on this auction.
Speaker 5: If you'd like a chair that Taylor Swift sat like,
Speaker 5: so you buy this thing you put in your man cave.
Speaker 5: You're gonna tell you like people are gonna go, oh,
Speaker 5: that's cool. You got a courtside seat from the cash
Speaker 5: or whatever. You're gonna say, Yeah, Taylor Swift sat in
Speaker 5: this like that.
Speaker 1: That's where we're hat.
Speaker 3: Really, what is it? What you two? Quinn had it?
Speaker 3: I know, I know, and now you got it.
Speaker 5: I know, I know.
Speaker 3: Is this the tailor it brought shole, brought to you
Speaker 3: by Taylor Swift.
Speaker 5: She's everywhere. Yeah, it's just a coincidence. But like, this
Speaker 5: is a this is creepy. If you buy the seat,
Speaker 5: it is very creepy.
Speaker 1: I agree. Interested in buying, I agree, I agree.
Speaker 3: But it's not at twenty thirty forty fifty sixty seven,
Speaker 3: you know, a stupid number.
Speaker 6: It will be, it could be, it will be you
Speaker 6: couldn't get that five figures potentially could get up.
Speaker 5: Sorry probably, But yeah, I agree with Quinn. It's your
Speaker 5: only label to creep if you buy this thing, because
Speaker 5: if you have interests in this thing, I just stop
Speaker 5: right there. But yeah, no, I I I'm with you,
Speaker 5: and I know there's quirky memory Biley out there that
Speaker 5: people get whatever. This is kind of weak. She sat
Speaker 5: in it for one game, so what I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 5: no more Taylor Swift talk will end it there. But
Speaker 5: I just I couldn't believe it when I saw, like, really,
Speaker 5: we're selling her seats now she sits in Like come on?
Speaker 3: Is there any stories on Pharaoh fauces? No, not today,
Speaker 3: not that I've seen, Like, I mean both yet, what
Speaker 3: is with your fascination with her? She's a very big star.
Speaker 1: Birthdays. It's not her birthday today. I don't think God
Speaker 1: is not her birthday today.
Speaker 3: I would lose it if it was her birthday today.
Speaker 3: It's not Quinn, get her up? What have we got?
Speaker 3: Who's the sponsor? I don't know?
Speaker 1: Not that this.
Speaker 3: Donnie and Dolly's BACKSS and Dental Floss Emporium in baal Zach, Alberta.
Speaker 1: This courtesy graphic courtesy t O in Burnaby. Good, great guy,
Speaker 1: t O in Burnaby.
Speaker 3: Hey, this guy was the second round pick of the
Speaker 3: Islanders in nineteen ninety three. He competed in the nineteen
Speaker 3: ninety five Memorial Cup. Was named back to back Western
Speaker 3: Hockey League. Al Star would play over eleven hundred games
Speaker 3: in the NHL. Not bad for a second round pick.
Speaker 3: He played for Canada the World Juniors in nineteen ninety
Speaker 3: four ninety five. In ninety five named the tournament's best defenseman.
Speaker 3: Also represented Canada at the two thousand and six Winter
Speaker 3: Olympics in Turin twenty three points in his rookie season
Speaker 3: before he was traded to the Vancouver Caducks midway through
Speaker 3: the third year of his Uh.
Speaker 1: Is it scatchered?
Speaker 3: No, it's a sketcher to forward and Scotcher played in Portland.
Speaker 3: This guy didn't play in Portland. He played a half
Speaker 3: a year and a half with the Canucks and then
Speaker 3: traded to Chicago. Got in a contract dispute with Brian Burke,
Speaker 3: and Brian said, hey, if you're going to go to England,
Speaker 3: there was a rum where he was going to go
Speaker 3: to England. He said, you better dress, you better take
Speaker 3: your long johns. Anyways, I was. I remember interviewing.
Speaker 1: Him before A good summary of this show is.
Speaker 3: A good story. What are you talking about? In two
Speaker 3: thousand and one, he had a fourth place finish in
Speaker 3: the Norris Trophy voting. Currently the Florida Panthers director of
Speaker 3: player personnel, Come.
Speaker 1: On, Brian McCabe.
Speaker 3: Brian McCabe yeah, Brian McCabe. Yeah he was good. Yeah,
Speaker 3: Brian mcabe was good.
Speaker 5: Was Brian McCabe the trade to Vancouver or from Vancouver,
Speaker 5: you know, to Vancouver.
Speaker 1: That wasn't the Bertucci trade.
Speaker 3: And that's a true story about Brian Burke in the
Speaker 3: contractor just because I had to call Brian on his
Speaker 3: cell and say hey, Brian said.
Speaker 1: It might be true.
Speaker 3: I don't know what the story, John's take your long, Johns.
Speaker 3: Brian said, I if I remember that story correctly, all right,
Speaker 3: this guy was the first of.
Speaker 1: The Linden trade. The Linden trade was Brian McCabe.
Speaker 5: That's right, Yeah, BERTUSI McCabe and a third round pick.
Speaker 3: Well, you want to kick it off.
Speaker 1: M's a significant trade.
Speaker 3: I got four other birthdays. He was a first round
Speaker 3: pick of the Islanders in twenty fifteen out of the
Speaker 3: Quebec Major Junior League. Played for Canada at the World
Speaker 3: Juniors twenty sixteen. He was the youngest player on the
Speaker 3: Islanders roster, thirteen days younger than Matt Barzel would play
Speaker 3: on the line with Jordan Everley and Barzel in New York.
Speaker 3: Following the hiring of Lou Lamarello, he was forced to
Speaker 3: change his jersey number because it was too high. Like
Speaker 3: with lou you can't have ninety one, ninety two, ninety three,
Speaker 3: was it declare Nope. In twenty twenty three, traded to
Speaker 3: the Canucks. Anthony Bovillier got it bingo bingo, Bingo bingo,
Speaker 3: and then he was a part of the Bohorbet trade. Okay,
Speaker 3: this actor, I'll tell you this actor. Boy, oh boy.
Speaker 3: This actor and comedian has produced, directed and written several films.
Speaker 3: He started doing a stand up back in nineteen seventy seven.
Speaker 3: He was on The Johnny Carson Show in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 3: Said it was the only dream he ever had to
Speaker 3: be on that show. He made it. He was on.
Speaker 3: Show was like Cheers, Chips and Benson. You guys don't
Speaker 3: know that Chips. You remember Chips and Punch now.
Speaker 5: You guys don't remember Chips now than I even the
Speaker 5: two cocks in La I know.
Speaker 3: I don't know a punch. Who was the other guy's name,
Speaker 3: Punch of Strata. Anyways, Benson was a good show too, uh.
Speaker 3: He launched the careers of megastars like Jim Carrey and
Speaker 3: Jamie Fox. He was in the movie Hollywood Shuffle twenty fourteen.
Speaker 3: He was a judge on the eighth season of Last
Speaker 3: Comic Standing. He is one of ten children. Four of
Speaker 3: his brothers ractors as well. Are you serious? Bald Wilson
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Speaker 12: Uh.
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Speaker 3: TV series Living Color. You know Cooper Hi who Keenan
Speaker 3: and Ivory Waynees Bingo Bingo in Livy Color. Should have
Speaker 3: given it away? Yeah, And he's scary movie. He did
Speaker 3: scary movie, the new one. Yeah, no, no, the first
Speaker 3: one in two directed scary movie.
Speaker 1: There's a new one coming out right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, this one might be tough for you, guys,
Speaker 3: but let's give it a shot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's have been so easy for you.
Speaker 3: So you think those were hard? Anyways? This comedian had
Speaker 3: a six decade career. She received an Emmy and a Grammy.
Speaker 3: She appeared in comedy clubs with her peers George Carlin,
Speaker 3: Woody Allen or Richard Pryor. Rose to prominence in nineteen
Speaker 3: sixty five as a guest on The Tonight Show Joan Rivers. Yes, what,
Speaker 3: thank god?
Speaker 5: You got that well, because Joan Rivers infamously with Carson
Speaker 5: was like a huge.
Speaker 3: But then they got in a big fight.
Speaker 1: They got a big fight.
Speaker 3: Yeah. She started her own talk show. Yeah, and that
Speaker 3: really pissed Johnny Off.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and that was the end of that.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Joan Rivers, she was so fabulous. Rolling Stone ranked
Speaker 3: her one of the top fifty best stand up comics
Speaker 3: of all.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, absolutely, yep, there you go. All right, thank
Speaker 1: you very much for that. Is it just me?
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Speaker 3: Rick, all right, if you're gonna go out to dinner
Speaker 3: with these millionaires, you order the most expensive thing on
Speaker 3: the menu. Johnny and Victoria. We heard one of the
Speaker 3: Canucks guys they took out for dinner. I don't know
Speaker 3: which one, Ryan, Yeah, but they ordered a Wagu steak. Yeah,
Speaker 3: ninety bucks.
Speaker 1: That was one of the places Quinton found.
Speaker 3: And it's expensive because it's top.
Speaker 6: They treat the cows basically like kings for their entire life.
Speaker 3: And this is in Japan. Japanese cast them up with
Speaker 3: fat and stuff. They give them like that, so they
Speaker 3: beef up the cow. Yeah. They literally like treat them
Speaker 3: like royalty royal.
Speaker 6: Their beef it comes out just before they just you
Speaker 6: know what.
Speaker 1: I'm you know what I'm talking about?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, wago ninety bucks? Uh rick?
Speaker 6: How would you feel if when we went out for coffee,
Speaker 6: instead of said me getting coffee, get like a massive latte?
Speaker 3: Coffee is ready yet?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Quick?
Speaker 3: Big again? Stupid price.
Speaker 1: Quinn's right though, it would be like an abuse.
Speaker 3: Coffee right now? Is the stupid prices? You know? Seven
Speaker 3: eight nine bucks? What's going on?
Speaker 5: Yeah, this is there's a piece of this is wagoo.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so all that white stuff, it's all the extra
Speaker 6: fat yea, they fatten up the cow.
Speaker 3: Yeah for ninety bucks, you're not getting this. You're getting well,
Speaker 3: I don't know exactly, but no, no, you're not getting
Speaker 3: this portion.
Speaker 1: No, well, because we don't really know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I have no idea.
Speaker 5: Big that is okay? This is from Navid Delta. Is
Speaker 5: it just mirroor does the NHL have a problem. If
Speaker 5: a player is a no trade to protect themselves, a
Speaker 5: team should have some protection as well. If a player
Speaker 5: with a no trade demands out, the no trade should
Speaker 5: be null and void. You can't screw over a team
Speaker 5: by demanding out and then only giving one or two
Speaker 5: options it's Navin Delta. Very interesting situation reported today by
Speaker 5: Helene Saint James out of Detroit who covers the Red Wings,
Speaker 5: that Dylan Larkin is looking to go to either Minnesota,
Speaker 5: Las Vegas, or Florida.
Speaker 1: Yes, and move on, and you're seeing a lot of hockey.
Speaker 5: We're getting a lot of reaction in this today, and
Speaker 5: unfortunately we've just had such a busy show we haven't
Speaker 5: been able to talk about it a ton. But the
Speaker 5: eyes glazing over Rick with those being the three teams,
Speaker 5: not so much Minnesota, but Vegas and Florida. It feels
Speaker 5: like every one of these guys.
Speaker 3: There's a reason.
Speaker 1: It's there's the only places they want to go.
Speaker 5: And so is the NHR going to become a four
Speaker 5: team league that only anybody cares about?
Speaker 3: Vegas gives you two things. It's the low tax state, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: So both those cities give you what. The only one
Speaker 3: that's not a low tax state is Minnesota. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: Quinn Hughes is there. He's buddies with Quinn Hughes very close.
Speaker 3: Larkin and Quinn Hughes are buddies, really good buddies. And
Speaker 3: the other two places have low tax state and more.
Speaker 5: Importantly, Rick is is is I'm not so sure. Like Florida,
Speaker 5: where are they with their window?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Vegas is so ruthless. I don't know
Speaker 1: if their windows ever going to close.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. Now.
Speaker 5: At the same time, what can any of those three
Speaker 5: teams give up for Dylan? Like Minnesota, it would have
Speaker 5: to be essentially, in my opinion, a clone of the
Speaker 5: huge deal. But well, they don't have those assets anymore.
Speaker 5: Those assets are here in Vancouver, So what could Minnesota
Speaker 5: possibly give up? And by the way, if there's one
Speaker 5: guy that might stare down a game of hardball, it's
Speaker 5: his GM and Steve Eiseman. Steve, I don't see him, Cavin,
Speaker 5: because this guy wants out and they're not going to
Speaker 5: get a centerment of the same quality. By the way,
Speaker 5: because you're you're behind the eight ball. Yeah, it's an
Speaker 5: interesting situation.
Speaker 3: I do remember Quinn Hughes told the Canucks before the trade,
Speaker 3: I want to go to the certain Yeah, you're right,
Speaker 3: Eastern Seaboard.
Speaker 1: You're right, you're right.
Speaker 3: And so he limited things too, you know, he can
Speaker 3: demand everything he wants. Yeah, that hockey club in Detroit
Speaker 3: does not have to do what he says, yeah, no,
Speaker 3: you're right, they don't have to do it. Okay, regarding Gallagher,
Speaker 3: great player and teammates, stop or in a rebuild, move on.
Speaker 3: That's from Rick.
Speaker 1: I sprinkle these in here, which I totally disagree with.
Speaker 3: But I see the hate for Brandan Gallagher. And look,
Speaker 3: he's not twenty one anymore, he's not top six anymore.
Speaker 3: He's good, he's over thirties, thirty four, he got healthy,
Speaker 3: scratched in the playoffs by Montreal. You're not bringing him
Speaker 3: into being your top six. You're bringing him in because
Speaker 3: he's gonna help you change at the culture of this
Speaker 3: hockey club. He has been a leader all his life
Speaker 3: and he's good. You have had this Vancouver dressing him
Speaker 3: is horrible, so worst dressing him in the NHL last
Speaker 3: two years. He's going to help you fix the culture
Speaker 3: of the hockey club, which was awful.
Speaker 5: Yep, this is from Tanmier, your friend. Is it just
Speaker 5: mere If the draft combine is so important, Sam Bennett
Speaker 5: wouldn't be an NHL player we talked.
Speaker 3: About, Yeah, he picks out one. This guy first of all,
Speaker 3: is an idiot. Second of all, you can't you can
Speaker 3: pick out one. Oh, Sam Bennett. Yeah, you know, you
Speaker 3: can't pick out twenty six Sam Bennett incidents. Pat to combine,
Speaker 3: you can everybody pick up everybody picks it. You're right, okay,
Speaker 3: but there's not thirty, forty, fifty, sixty seventy more Sam
Speaker 3: Bennett incidents. The majority of these kids, today's athlete, the
Speaker 3: elite athletes. These kids, they're eating right, they're resting right,
Speaker 3: they're doing everything right to try and make the NHL.
Speaker 3: Just you know, it's the Sam Bennett thing happened, but
Speaker 3: it's not the norm.
Speaker 6: I think there was an interview later on too in
Speaker 6: Bennett's career where he said he was battling an injury
Speaker 6: during that and then also, I don't know about this
Speaker 6: like fully, but a lot of people are a couple
Speaker 6: of people have texted in saying the celebrated he had
Speaker 6: a really like lackluster.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he did have a great com.
Speaker 5: Quintuck about this before the show with the NFL. You
Speaker 5: see these guys do the forty. Yeah, makes a big
Speaker 5: deal about forty. How many of the guys that do
Speaker 5: a really amazing forty your super Bowl champions. The combine
Speaker 5: is to collect that, you're right, total, especially off ice.
Speaker 3: What they do on the ice this year in the
Speaker 3: regular season, in the playoffs, that's what teams are.
Speaker 1: Gonna go off of. You're right, Garth and Ladner. Is
Speaker 1: it just me?
Speaker 5: But ordering wagu Skate steak is like going over for
Speaker 5: the first dinner with your new girlfriend's parents when they
Speaker 5: are saying and ordering the most expensive meal. That's a
Speaker 5: good point. It is you got the first date dinner
Speaker 5: with the other family. You're not going with the special.
Speaker 6: It's your first impression, like bingle, they think of you
Speaker 6: as the guy like.
Speaker 1: So I don't necessarily go with Wago steak.
Speaker 3: He's a kid. He looks at the menu.
Speaker 1: But it's a first impression.
Speaker 3: Yeah, But the fact that he knew what a Wagoo's
Speaker 3: steak was not everybody does. What is that?
Speaker 6: What does that tell you that he knows what.
Speaker 3: People know he's eating? Right?
Speaker 1: No, he knows that it's a good quality steak.
Speaker 3: Come on, everybody knows.
Speaker 1: How do you know his parents are rich and he
Speaker 1: eats Wago?
Speaker 3: Probably are, but yeah, but how do you know he
Speaker 3: doesn't eat Wagoo's steak all the time?
Speaker 5: My kid, we had steak like twice in a week recently,
Speaker 5: which doesn't happen often for us. My kid Max, he says,
Speaker 5: he goes steak again.
Speaker 3: I'm like, what is this kind of over it?
Speaker 1: It's a bit overrated. You're right, you're right. You want
Speaker 1: more before break.
Speaker 3: My dog loves steak. If you just mad money here, yeah,
Speaker 3: just dog give him the leftovers a little piece. But
Speaker 3: when he hears the word state, he jumps ten feet
Speaker 3: in the air.
Speaker 5: Leo, great dog, leo great. We got one more quickly?
Speaker 5: Oh no, I got okay, we got a break. We
Speaker 5: got a ton of got a lot of photos we
Speaker 5: got with sprinkle more. As the week goes on, final
Speaker 5: segment of the show is next. It's Tony the team
Speaker 5: on Check.
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Speaker 5: A time now to refresh the wadling dog pole question
Speaker 5: for the final time during the live portion of the show.
Speaker 1: You can still vote on the donning and only Twitter account, though,
Speaker 1: Rick all.
Speaker 3: Right, Quinn, get her up the waddling dog pop pole question.
Speaker 3: How much stock do you put into the NHL draft
Speaker 3: combine performances leading the way fifty three percent, a little,
Speaker 3: could care less forty two percent, and away at the
Speaker 3: bottom a lot at five percent. Should it be couldn't
Speaker 3: care less?
Speaker 1: Yes, my uncle texted me. My uncle texted me that
Speaker 1: it should have put couldn't.
Speaker 3: It should have been couldn't have, couldn't have, couldn't. But
Speaker 3: I know, I'm just like I don't actually know, like
Speaker 3: I've heard both.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I always go with could and it should be couldn't,
Speaker 5: couldn't by proper English writing, couldn't care less. So I
Speaker 5: apologize to all the grammar majors out there. My uncle's
Speaker 5: not one of them, but anybody else I apologize. Yeah,
Speaker 5: Uncle Glenn okay, votos, great.
Speaker 3: Guy, uncle Glenn. Where are we going here? We're going
Speaker 3: to I see water? I see water?
Speaker 1: You see what?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 3: I see water? Water? Is it over the bottom one?
Speaker 3: The bottom one, the one at the bottom. I got it? Mark,
Speaker 3: great guy right here.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So I was in penticed and given my first professional presentation,
Speaker 3: but wanted to get a picture with the Dolly ADNNI
Speaker 3: and Dolly hat in front of the lake for you guys.
Speaker 3: So there it is. What a great show the other picture,
Speaker 3: and he wants us to see what he talked with
Speaker 3: his co presenter about.
Speaker 6: If we can see this accessibility, it's not just about.
Speaker 3: Accessibility, is not just about ramps planning for neurological.
Speaker 6: Neuro divergent accessibility.
Speaker 3: Okay, you're closer, but anyways, I can't see it because
Speaker 3: the screens for f there is Mark and Nanaimo presenting.
Speaker 1: Good for Tipton stuff, good stuffy.
Speaker 3: Where else are we going? Now?
Speaker 1: Lost Margaritas? Have you been to Lost Margaritas?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 1: Very good?
Speaker 3: We got two we oh, Chris and Lyndy hockey friends
Speaker 3: and Avid Donnie and Dolly fans and lost Margaritas. Look
Speaker 3: at this? What a great photo? Yeah?
Speaker 14: Absolutely you've had Margarita's though I know who hasn't. I mean,
Speaker 14: but they're just sugar and sugar and sugar, so yeah,
Speaker 14: not anymore.
Speaker 3: But I'm top telling the truth, am I not?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is pretty much that's what it is, an
Speaker 1: alcoholic slushy.
Speaker 3: But anyways, Chris and Lindy absolutely thank you very much,
Speaker 3: thank you for the photo, and thank you for watching
Speaker 3: the show.
Speaker 5: Uh and a reminder quickly, Donny and Dolly merch available
Speaker 5: online hats, tuks and our brand new quarter zips. We
Speaker 5: got the navy one, we got the gray one.
Speaker 1: There they are there. I wore my navy one on
Speaker 1: the show last week.
Speaker 5: And the boony hats they're just like a bigger version
Speaker 5: of our bucket hat essentially is what it is.
Speaker 1: And that's on the far left there. So all of
Speaker 1: that available on the Donnie and Dolly online store. Rick,
Speaker 1: we got to get out of here.
Speaker 5: We do have more photos we we'll get to as
Speaker 5: the show goes along, including one from Greece.
Speaker 1: Very impressive.
Speaker 5: Tonight, you got Game three, Nick Spurs, New York is
Speaker 5: gonna be bananas. Yeah, oh yeah, And again we work
Speaker 5: our way toward Canada's opening match at the FIFA World
Speaker 5: Cup noon on Friday.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be joined.
Speaker 5: Tomorrow by a friend of the show, Troy Stetchers. Well,
Speaker 5: and Donnie will be back. Thanks for tuning in, everyone,
Speaker 5: Ryan Henderson, Rick Dollyball. It's Donnie Dolly the team I Check.
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