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Speaker 3: Don Taylor. I say that the winner of the draft
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Speaker 3: Thanks for tuning in, folks. It's Donnie and Dolly the
Speaker 3: team on Check. Don Taylor, along with Rick Dollywall. Ryan
Speaker 3: Henderson is our producer. He's the man at the controls
Speaker 3: or director, the voice of God. Back from one day
Speaker 3: off two days, I can't keep up three Derek Wan? Yeah,
Speaker 3: how are you?
Speaker 4: Lovely? Couldn't be better?
Speaker 3: Yesterday we talked about the draft lottery and how disappointing
Speaker 3: it was for soul. Maybe expected, but disappointing nonetheless, and
Speaker 3: that then the Canucks dropped from first to third in
Speaker 3: the draft lottery, and the Leafs, to make it worse,
Speaker 3: ended up winning the lottery, moving from fifth to first.
Speaker 3: The Sharks Division, rival of the Canucks, moved from ninth
Speaker 3: to second. And we on Twitter, we posted that clip
Speaker 3: of you and I talking about that you were talking
Speaker 3: about there was a fix in them. It might have
Speaker 3: been me, you know, in line with the Rogers deal.
Speaker 3: And you have to see the comments that Rick and
Speaker 3: I receive. Oh, clearlyaf fans, I'm guessing most of them
Speaker 3: in Toronto really mean stuff. They were saying.
Speaker 4: About us dinosaurs, You and I get called dinosaurs else.
Speaker 3: More more me than you because I'm older than you.
Speaker 4: I'm not twenty five. I'm getting up there.
Speaker 3: But you know, you know other things that were a
Speaker 3: lot more vicious than that as well. But these leaf
Speaker 3: fans out there like they're going after us. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: a lot of what we said yesterday this just in
Speaker 3: We tend to be tongue in cheek on this show.
Speaker 3: But just I don't know if they have any sense
Speaker 3: of humor in that city too, among that fan base.
Speaker 3: I mean, Mike, God be happy. You know, you look
Speaker 3: like your team was going straight downhill the day before
Speaker 3: with that press conference led by Keith Belly, and then
Speaker 3: you know a few hours later, seemingly the next day,
Speaker 3: everything's wine and roses.
Speaker 4: You got your first over Yeah, got it. You got lucky.
Speaker 4: You know, they got super lucky, I mean super lucky
Speaker 4: to leave Scott and it acts no luck at all.
Speaker 3: If they're looking for an apology from us, it's just
Speaker 3: not it's just not going to happen. Get this, just
Speaker 3: in sports tends to be emotional, and sometimes media people
Speaker 3: get emotional as well. It's sports trying to put a
Speaker 3: puck in the net. Relaxedly, fans, you got your first
Speaker 3: overall pick, You'll be okay. We're going to talk about
Speaker 3: the white Caps situation as the show goes on. There's
Speaker 3: another chapter there and it involves our friend friend of
Speaker 3: the show of BC Jobs, minister Ravic Callan, and so
Speaker 3: I'm going to update from him and heard from the
Speaker 3: white Caps as well regarding their situation. And you know,
Speaker 3: if they could keep the team in Vancouver, let's hope.
Speaker 3: So back to the Canucks now, Yes, the GM search yet.
Speaker 3: Two days ago, Jim Rutherford said that they expect to
Speaker 3: name a GM next week next week and that the
Speaker 3: list is now down to five. And this is what
Speaker 3: we believe the list consists of. From everything mostly you
Speaker 3: have heard.
Speaker 4: Rick, Yeah, Ryan Johnson, who's been there from day one.
Speaker 4: He's the in house guy. Ryan. Very easily they could
Speaker 4: name him the GM. He's qualified. Evan Gold from the
Speaker 4: Boston Bruins. Donnie, I want to say this about Evan Gold.
Speaker 4: I really do a GM Boston, a candidate that really
Speaker 4: is impressed in stay one, good sharp hockey mind. When
Speaker 4: I ask agents about Gold, I get mostly positive positive
Speaker 4: stuff back. One agent told me the Gold is a
Speaker 4: tough negotiator. He's built some good teams for Boston on
Speaker 4: their farm club. He's just not a spare part in
Speaker 4: Boston like he's involved in their tough decisions. This is
Speaker 4: a guy to keep an eye on Vancouver. I think
Speaker 4: Evan Gold, Ryan Bonus from the Islanders Pierre Dorion, which
Speaker 4: the fans of Vancouver and Twitter I chased out of town.
Speaker 3: I think it was dramatic, and I'm sure people are
Speaker 3: aware of this, but if you're not aware of it,
Speaker 3: it was a couple of days ago it looked like
Speaker 3: he was the number one candidate and that got out
Speaker 3: there on social media and the various media outlets, and
Speaker 3: boy the connection Pierre Dorian got ripped into. And then
Speaker 3: later in the day it was what do you mean,
Speaker 3: Pierre Dorry never really a strong came.
Speaker 4: The Canucks a panicked. They got calls at Rogers Arena, Hey,
Speaker 4: we're gonna cancel season tickets where there's gonna be uh,
Speaker 4: you know, protests in typical typical conduct faction fashion. They
Speaker 4: they absolutely panicked, and then they got their word out
Speaker 4: on Twitter through their shills that were not interested in
Speaker 4: pure dory on it.
Speaker 3: And the fifth is also a Boston assistant general manager.
Speaker 4: A good guy. I'll tell you another guy Boston there.
Speaker 4: What is Boston got? Don winning culture? And they've been
Speaker 4: to Stanley Cup Finals quite a few.
Speaker 3: Times since people are aware of that here.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it's a winning culture in Boston. Not surprised.
Speaker 4: You go to a team and try to pick the
Speaker 4: brains of guys that you know. Boston's cam Neely. There's
Speaker 4: cam Neely yesterday saying that out and round one. But
Speaker 4: we need more skill and we need more speed. If
Speaker 4: the Boston Bruins need more skill and speed, what the
Speaker 4: hell does the Vancouver Canucks need they're thirty second everything
Speaker 4: everything everything. If cam Neely says we need skill and speed,
Speaker 4: what do the connection need a million things? They're so
Speaker 4: far behind the Boston Bruins is not even funny.
Speaker 3: So you look for clues here, one of them being
Speaker 3: who has BC or CONNU connections, And certainly Ryan Johnson
Speaker 3: is at the time literally and figuratively at the top
Speaker 3: of that list. And Ryan Bonus when you talk about
Speaker 3: BC connections and connections to the current management group. Ryan,
Speaker 3: of course, Rick Bonus's son who was a Connuck assistant
Speaker 3: coach for a significant amount of time now with the Islanders.
Speaker 3: So there's that. And then when you talk about connections
Speaker 3: to Jim Ruththerford and company worked with Jim Rutherford in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: and you can't say the same about the other three
Speaker 3: gold Dorian and Jamie Lang and Brunner. I want to
Speaker 3: show this as well, you had problems with this because
Speaker 3: I think I think, well, no, you do, and this
Speaker 3: was before the show, and you have a problem with
Speaker 3: people who are a little bit older. Ed Willis, Ed Willis,
Speaker 3: we're retired, respected as to.
Speaker 4: Go, good guy.
Speaker 3: Willis calumnist from the Vancouver Province, Province Dot.
Speaker 4: Com I know Ed, I know Ed's a good.
Speaker 3: Guy, and yet you disrespected the show.
Speaker 4: Stop.
Speaker 3: Ed still has contacts and he treated this out. Was
Speaker 3: it this morning, Ryan, yes, yesterday? Thanks Ryan. This is
Speaker 3: Ed's tweet. I'll read it because you don't want to
Speaker 3: have anything to do. Stop it, don But we've learned
Speaker 3: in this business, and this is somebody who's extremely well respected.
Speaker 3: Where there's smoke, there's fire. This is the tweet every
Speaker 3: now and then I feel the ish to do some reporting.
Speaker 3: Was told today, this is yesterday that Rutherford had a
Speaker 3: succession plan a place where Ryan Johnson would succeed Alvin.
Speaker 3: With Rutherford stepping down, that plan might have changed, but
Speaker 3: keep this in mind. With the Canucks, anything is possible.
Speaker 4: What have I been saying for weeks, Ryan Johnson was
Speaker 4: Jim Rutherford's guy. Ryan Johnson doesn't have to impress Jim Rutherford.
Speaker 4: He's got to impress the owner. The owner is the
Speaker 4: guy that could have said Elviing fired Johnson new GM.
Speaker 4: Let's announce it on the same day. He didn't do that.
Speaker 4: He didn't do that. That's Jim's got.
Speaker 3: We've been reporting Ryan Johns come out of the woodwork.
Speaker 3: He's been around for several seasons.
Speaker 1: Now the owners don't know about it.
Speaker 3: The owner owner doesn't.
Speaker 1: Know about him.
Speaker 4: I've been saying from day one. The owner is the
Speaker 4: guy that Ryan Johnson's got to impress. Not JR Jr.
Speaker 4: Likes him. We know Jim Rutherford. I'm talking j R.
Speaker 4: God Jr. I'm giving you the initials. And by the way,
Speaker 4: we know we know that j R. Jim likes uh
Speaker 4: Ryan Johnson. But the owner's got to sign off, and
Speaker 4: he hasn't signed off yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, something like this, a tweet like this, well
Speaker 3: maybe not this tweet, but it's if they don't hire
Speaker 3: Ryan Johnson, he goes somewhere else, gonna this will come
Speaker 3: back and and come go somewhere else. I e Nashville
Speaker 3: and have success something like this, I'll come back.
Speaker 4: By the way, Ed and I were at the Great Cup.
Speaker 3: In Ottawa, Okay, you do.
Speaker 4: By We were on a treadmill together, so I know
Speaker 4: at the same time. I'm not the same treadmill dawn
Speaker 4: he was. I was on a treadmill. He was on
Speaker 4: the treadmill to the left, and we had a good
Speaker 4: conversation on the treadmill.
Speaker 1: I'm glad we cleared that up.
Speaker 3: No forwartstanding. We should also mention that yesterday after Elliott Freeman,
Speaker 3: our friend on the thirty two Thoughts podc cast, brought
Speaker 3: these two names up, Martin Madden from the Ducks and
Speaker 3: Scott White, who works in the Dallas Stars organization. Martin
Speaker 3: Madden has worked with the Ducks. You look at them,
Speaker 3: but they look good for eighteen years as possibilities for
Speaker 3: the Caducks' front office. Where are we with that? We
Speaker 3: didn't put them on the list.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've interviewed a ton of guys fifteen to twenty,
Speaker 4: So what.
Speaker 3: About those two. I know they've interviewed them.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they've interviewed me, But don not hearing their name
Speaker 4: as much as I'm hearing Evan Golds here. You tell
Speaker 4: you about freaking much right now, you can take that.
Speaker 4: Evan Gold is a guy that a lot of people
Speaker 4: in the NHL are talking about right now. When it
Speaker 4: comes connected to Vancouver, I'll tell you that this is scary.
Speaker 3: This is scary, this is thanks for that. This is
Speaker 3: a bit scary for Connuct fans. And we didn't run
Speaker 3: this clip yesterday from Jim Rutherford's interview or media session
Speaker 3: from a couple of days ago. But I found this
Speaker 3: a little bit frightening in that I just wonder if
Speaker 3: the Connucks are going back to their old ways and
Speaker 3: thinking we rebuild, We'll just do that for you know,
Speaker 3: two seconds, and then we'll go back to our old
Speaker 3: ways and try to retool or try to win now.
Speaker 3: And when you can't win now that you know, Knnuck
Speaker 3: fans know what I'm talking about. But this is Jim Rutherford.
Speaker 3: You talk about them interviewing all sorts of people for
Speaker 3: this GM job, maybe the president's job as well, But
Speaker 3: this is Jim Rutherford on things he's heard about his organization,
Speaker 3: the Canucks organization, from people he's interviewed.
Speaker 5: I mean, everybody gives that's one of the questions, where
Speaker 5: where's the Canucks?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 6: What do you think?
Speaker 5: How long is a rebuild thing?
Speaker 3: Take all those things.
Speaker 5: And different answers on you know. I mean, some people
Speaker 5: felt that where we are in the rebuild, that we are,
Speaker 5: you know, through a rougher patch of it, and start
Speaker 5: to take the upswing on it. I think all them
Speaker 5: acknowledge that there are some good young players here, but
Speaker 5: in a rebuild, there's still lots of work.
Speaker 4: Tons of work. Just go look at the Ducks. Go
Speaker 4: look at the ducks. Eight years, eight years of drafting
Speaker 4: in the top ten doors.
Speaker 3: That's not the takeaway from that.
Speaker 4: Take away from that is that's why I'm bringing up
Speaker 4: the Ducks.
Speaker 3: No, But the takeaway is that they're interviewing people and
Speaker 3: some of them are saying that you're through the tough part.
Speaker 3: It just started.
Speaker 4: It started at Christmas time the rebuild. You started the
Speaker 4: year win for Quinn, you went to thirty second. How
Speaker 4: the hell are you out of the tough rough patch?
Speaker 4: Like the rough patches? Three four more years of finishing
Speaker 4: near the bottom of the standing's dog.
Speaker 3: And that's fine. And I just I heard that clip
Speaker 3: and Ryan and I have had the same reactions. There's
Speaker 3: a one more toughness to come when it comes to
Speaker 3: what you have to go through through a rebuild. They're drafting, well,
Speaker 3: let's let's let's start there. But it's it's gonna be difficult.
Speaker 3: But what you're selling now and you saw this with
Speaker 3: the Minnesota trade and the fine players they got back
Speaker 3: and return, there's hope. That's what That's what you want.
Speaker 3: What you're selling at every stage of a rebuild until
Speaker 3: you get where the Montreal's and the Buffaloes and the
Speaker 3: Anaheims are right now, long run, but you just hope
Speaker 3: somebody's not just trying to get the job by saying, hey,
Speaker 3: I think you guys are doing a great job. What
Speaker 3: are you talking about?
Speaker 4: What the rebuild's done? You know, that would have been
Speaker 4: Dorian telling the owner I can fix in two years
Speaker 4: and the owner saying, okay, let's hire.
Speaker 3: Them, and which is what a lot of people felt
Speaker 3: was the truth, and that's why they really clapped back
Speaker 3: on that possibility of the Canucks hiring Dorian Patrick Alvin.
Speaker 3: You remember a couple of days ago during that Jim
Speaker 3: Rutherford press conference that he talked about or he gave
Speaker 3: people an update. We didn't really give an update because
Speaker 3: he didn't really had come to any decision. Same with
Speaker 3: Patrick Alvin, but there was on April seventeenth, when Patrick
Speaker 3: Elvin got fired, Jim Rutherford said that there was a
Speaker 3: possibility he would stay with the organization on some capacity.
Speaker 3: Where are we with that?
Speaker 4: Well, A lot of people do not think the odds
Speaker 4: are good that Patrick Alvin will accept a job with
Speaker 4: the Canucks. It would be totally awkward down with a
Speaker 4: new hockey boss coming in Jim Rutherford's not there anymore.
Speaker 4: Elvin should go after the Nashville GM job. It's still
Speaker 4: opened on would he get permission from the Canucks to
Speaker 4: talk with the predator? Something to ponder. But the more
Speaker 4: people you talked about talked to about Elvin not hearing
Speaker 4: the odds are good that he'll accept a job in Vancouver.
Speaker 4: Why would he like?
Speaker 3: Don?
Speaker 4: Why would he like would you want to go back
Speaker 4: to a place.
Speaker 3: That just wants? Had no other choice?
Speaker 4: But he's getting paid regardless, John, he can go sit
Speaker 4: at home and he can take the year off. That's
Speaker 4: another thing I heard.
Speaker 1: He could be a good option.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and coluct checks. That's what Jim's going to do.
Speaker 4: He's going to go to North Carolina. He's got one year.
Speaker 3: Left, but he's going to be an advisor.
Speaker 4: Don sitting in North Carolina advising the Canucks.
Speaker 3: What a job?
Speaker 4: What a job? And collecting checks. Alvin could do the same.
Speaker 4: But not hearing the odds if you talk to people,
Speaker 4: are good that he'll accept the Vancouver jop. But we'll
Speaker 4: wait and see.
Speaker 3: Dax Aquillini, nephew of Francesco Aquillini, is he in on
Speaker 3: the interviews?
Speaker 4: Yes, he is and I see a lot of people
Speaker 4: bringing up Dax Aquillini. He's involved in the process, but
Speaker 4: he's not taking over the Canucks yet. He's a young guy,
Speaker 4: he's a sharp dude. He runs the Vancouver Warriors. He
Speaker 4: already to cook a hot dog. Well, the hot dog
Speaker 4: guy's not involved with Dax. Dax is a good, young,
Speaker 4: smart guy. He hired the right guy with the Warriors,
Speaker 4: your buddy Kurt Malowski, great hire, that was Dax. So
Speaker 4: he's involved and everything. Spends a lot of time on
Speaker 4: the Canucks, a lot on the business related. But for
Speaker 4: people to say the Dax is going to take over
Speaker 4: the Canucks today or tomorrow, it's not accurate.
Speaker 3: It's with the science point down the road.
Speaker 4: He's a young guys, sharp dude. He's done some really
Speaker 4: good work with the Warriors. But for those people out
Speaker 4: there hinting that Dax Akaline's going to take over the
Speaker 4: Canucks today or tomorrow, that that that's not ho How.
Speaker 3: Many people have they got interviewing the GM.
Speaker 4: You've got Rutherford, your buddy, the hot dog guy, Michael Aquilini,
Speaker 4: Aquilini's brother. I'm presuming in Dax, and so that's four
Speaker 4: or five guys right there and where are we.
Speaker 3: When it comes to because this has kind of got
Speaker 3: swept under the rug. Is one person going to be
Speaker 3: the president? And GM that that's hard to figure out?
Speaker 3: So you hire a GM and then are you hiring
Speaker 3: a president somewhere down the road who didn't hire the GM,
Speaker 3: which looks like it's the old situation with Rutherford and
Speaker 3: and Bruce.
Speaker 4: Paltrow, Like if your Francesco, would you hire another president
Speaker 4: knowing you got to pay Jim Rutherford to be president
Speaker 4: sitting and North.
Speaker 3: Paid lots of money.
Speaker 4: Don you run a business not to pay people not
Speaker 4: to work for you.
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Speaker 3: on Cannucks. John, Thanks for doing this, sir. How are you?
Speaker 8: I'm great, boys, how are you? I cannot believe the
Speaker 8: people in Toronto didn't appreciate your humor.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so you're you're a b s here. Do
Speaker 3: you understand why? Uh, Vancouver fans are so crushed that
Speaker 3: the Canucks drop from one to three, but even more
Speaker 3: so because the Leafs won the lottery.
Speaker 8: Your tweet the other night made me laugh out loud.
Speaker 8: It really did, because I can appreciate both sides of
Speaker 8: that story.
Speaker 3: You know, you know, we.
Speaker 8: Always used to laugh when we lived in BC. You
Speaker 8: know what Donald Trump said, build that wall, Well, we
Speaker 8: had the Rocky Mountains.
Speaker 4: It solved a lot of problems.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, hey, you know what, Before we go any further, John,
Speaker 3: I hate to hate you with this. It's it's out
Speaker 3: of the blue, but you've been in broadcasting for a long,
Speaker 3: long time. Okay. Ted Turner passed away yesterday at the
Speaker 3: age of eighty seven. Been fighting Louis body dementia, which
Speaker 3: is a beast. But CNN, TNT, the Atlanta Braves, the
Speaker 3: America's Cup. Just your thoughts on the passing of Ted Turner,
Speaker 3: no matter what you think of him, a legend when
Speaker 3: it comes to broadcasting.
Speaker 8: And particularly sports broadcasting for us, Donnie, I mean WTBS,
Speaker 8: you know, the original superstation that had the Braves games.
Speaker 1: And you know, when.
Speaker 8: Cable TV was a little rudimentary, even where I grew up,
Speaker 8: you could watch WTBS and watch the Braves and Oliver
Speaker 8: VC when Ted Turner owned the Braves.
Speaker 2: And really.
Speaker 3: What he did with.
Speaker 8: CNN, I think, more than anything else, really changed the
Speaker 8: landscape of cable television and then changed the vision of
Speaker 8: what we think we can do in broadcasting. I mean,
Speaker 8: CNN isn't just an American entity, It's it's a worldwide entity.
Speaker 8: How many times did we watch CNN, whether it be
Speaker 8: a Gulf war or events going on in Europe or
Speaker 8: in Asia. And he was a visionary, There was no
Speaker 8: question that he was a visionary of great magnitude in
Speaker 8: so many ways and didn't wasn't afraid to make mistakes,
Speaker 8: you know, wasn't afraid to try new things, tried. I mean,
Speaker 8: I don't know if you recalled it. He tried to
Speaker 8: buy CBS. And here he was this small, this small
Speaker 8: cable guy out of Atlanta tried to buy CBS at
Speaker 8: the time, which was the Tiffany Network. It was just
Speaker 8: it was magnificent and and we we will always we
Speaker 8: will always feel you know, the the the the genius
Speaker 8: of really two guys, Ted Turner and and and a
Speaker 8: guy named Charles Dolan. And Charles Dolan in the end
Speaker 8: was the cable vision guy out of New York that
Speaker 8: invented HBO and Ted Turner that invented you know, you're right,
Speaker 8: t N T, TBS, but in particular, UH CNN.
Speaker 3: Dropping all over the place here at John and I apologize,
Speaker 3: but great memories of of Ted Turner the Draft Lottery. Uh.
Speaker 3: I watched that show with my two sons and we
Speaker 3: were glued to the television. Now we're in Vancouver. Maybe
Speaker 3: that that colors my opinion, but I think it's good television, good.
Speaker 8: Entertain I think they've made it great television, I really do.
Speaker 8: And I think there's multiple reasons for that, you know,
Speaker 8: And I'm not going to take any credit or whatever,
Speaker 8: but I think the credit really should go to two people,
Speaker 8: Steve Dryden and Mark Milliere, who came to me as
Speaker 8: a VP of broadcasting and I think two thousand and
Speaker 8: six or seven and said we'd like to televise the
Speaker 8: draft lottery, and I thought they were nuts. Now when
Speaker 8: we did it for the first you know, I was
Speaker 8: there for the first five years, but after that it
Speaker 8: was still very secretive. And Steve Mayer at the League
Speaker 8: office deserves a ton of credit for saying we should
Speaker 8: make the ping pong ball, we should be transparent, we
Speaker 8: should show the whole thing. And then the league has
Speaker 8: done a magnificent job of explaining how the balls work.
Speaker 8: And I mean how many when you looked up on
Speaker 8: the board and said, gosh, if the Canucks get eight
Speaker 8: and eleven, we've got a chance to be number one,
Speaker 8: and please not number twelve. We don't want the leaves
Speaker 8: to win with number twelve, and twelve came up. So
Speaker 8: not only did you see the process, but you understood
Speaker 8: the process. They did a really good job of doing that.
Speaker 8: And that little video that they had with Matthew Schaeffer
Speaker 8: and Matt Martin's kids.
Speaker 4: That was brilliant.
Speaker 8: So you know, and and that and that is, in
Speaker 8: my opinion, the genius of Steve Mayer and what he
Speaker 8: has done with the National Hockey League, and a ton
Speaker 8: a ton of credit should go Steve's way for the
Speaker 8: growth of the NHL as an entertainment factor in the
Speaker 8: last four or five years.
Speaker 4: Well, they got to do stuff to get more eyeballs
Speaker 4: in the US. John for that television contract.
Speaker 8: Okay, by the way, that we need more eyeballs in
Speaker 8: Canada too. Yep, yeah, we need more eyeballs. I've told
Speaker 8: this story many times. You know, we would sit and
Speaker 8: look at the ratings on a Monday morning and you know,
Speaker 8: at the time there was thirty seven million Canadians in
Speaker 8: the country and and we would be thrilled with two million.
Speaker 8: And my boss would come in and say, what are
Speaker 8: the other thirty five million doing?
Speaker 4: The John, They're on their cell phones. They're on their
Speaker 4: cell phones. That's where the other eyeballs are all day long.
Speaker 8: Well, we gotta we gotta get Donnie and Dolly on
Speaker 8: you know, we get the you know, get you on
Speaker 8: TikTok and get you on the shops and all that
Speaker 8: stuff you got.
Speaker 4: Hey, stop react talks.
Speaker 8: That's the reality of the world we live in. I'm
Speaker 8: not allowed to be I'm not allowed to be on TikTok.
Speaker 4: We got enough. We got enough headaches with Twitter and
Speaker 4: our text line. People ripping us twenty four to seven.
Speaker 4: Screw TikTok.
Speaker 8: Anyways, hold on, just Rick, Just for the record, my
Speaker 8: pal Grapes used to tell me when I complained about things.
Speaker 8: He would say, John, it's lonely at the top. Well, Rick,
Speaker 8: it's lonely at the top.
Speaker 4: You know, you know, you got your You're right at
Speaker 4: the top.
Speaker 8: You're you're you're the number one guy. You know, it's
Speaker 8: lonely up there.
Speaker 4: You know what's lonely is the Canucks vacant GM job.
Speaker 4: How about that for they're down to the nitty gritty.
Speaker 3: You're so proud of yourself.
Speaker 4: That's a good segue. That's that's thirty seven years in
Speaker 4: the biz, John, Right there, they're down to the nitty gritty, John,
Speaker 4: what do you see happening with the GM job.
Speaker 8: I think they're trying to find a way, and it's
Speaker 8: a little bit to the point you guys were talking
Speaker 8: about before. I think they're trying to find a way
Speaker 8: to see if there's anybody better than Ryan Johnson.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 8: And and you know it would not I don't have
Speaker 8: any inside knowledge, but it would not surprise me that
Speaker 8: we hear that that, you know, Ryan Johnson's still the
Speaker 8: best candidate. I think that's the due diligence. To take
Speaker 8: a page out of my pal Pelly's press conferences. I
Speaker 8: think that's the due diligence that the Canucks have done
Speaker 8: is saying, okay, listen, you know Ryan Johnson was signed
Speaker 8: to this contract to protect us for the future. You
Speaker 8: know there was a thought and you were pushing it
Speaker 8: a lot, Rick that you know that when Jim decides
Speaker 8: to move on, Ryan Johnson is going to be the
Speaker 8: next general manager.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 8: So so now that's fine, but now let's make sure
Speaker 8: we are making the right decision, because I do think
Speaker 8: what has happened because the team was so bad that
Speaker 8: it's accelerated that plan. And is Ryan Johnson ready now
Speaker 8: or would Ryan Johnson be ready two years from now?
Speaker 4: Is really the.
Speaker 8: Story and that I think that's the due diligence. Truthfully,
Speaker 8: that you know that Michael Doyle and Francesco and and
Speaker 8: Jim are doing okay.
Speaker 4: Jim Rutherford says, that's it. I'm out of town advisor,
Speaker 4: going to North Carolina up, gonna collect his final checks
Speaker 4: in North Carolina.
Speaker 8: He's got to get that practice facility done first though.
Speaker 4: Okay, but he can do it from North Carolina. There's
Speaker 4: something called emails and texts and the zoom.
Speaker 3: Apparently maybe the practice facility will be in North Carolina.
Speaker 4: Your thoughts on Jim saying, hey, I'm going to be
Speaker 4: an advisor, I'm out of.
Speaker 8: Here, Well, I don't think we should be surprised.
Speaker 3: I think he told us.
Speaker 1: He really did tell us.
Speaker 8: That at the end of season press conference.
Speaker 9: And so.
Speaker 8: What they're going through now is trying to find a
Speaker 8: way to use his expertise, use his institutional knowledge to
Speaker 8: put a guy in place, and then for Jim to
Speaker 8: be a safety net for the next year, not only
Speaker 8: for the new manager, but also for the company. And
Speaker 8: so the gym is there as a safety valve in
Speaker 8: so many ways. You know, I heard you guys, just
Speaker 8: as an aside, I heard you talking about Patrick Alvin.
Speaker 8: You know, we see this all the time where guys
Speaker 8: have year another year on their contract and so if
Speaker 8: you're going to spend you know, seven figures on a guy,
Speaker 8: you might as well try to use them. You might
Speaker 8: as well try. You might as well try to say, hey, listen,
Speaker 8: would you mind scouting for us? Would you mind doing
Speaker 8: something for us? And that'll be up to Patrick to decide.
Speaker 8: You know, Yarmo Keck a lion and after he got
Speaker 8: dismissed in Columbus worked for the Blue Jackets.
Speaker 3: For a year.
Speaker 8: That's true, you know, So it's it's not it's not
Speaker 8: unheard of that those types of things occur. And if
Speaker 8: I'm if I'm the owner and I'm I'm shelling out money,
Speaker 8: I'd rather shell out money for somebody who actually can
Speaker 8: still help us in certain situations as opposed to just
Speaker 8: you know, writing checks to Sweden.
Speaker 3: Somebody that you know, just before we lets you go
Speaker 3: John on the ice. Anaheim Ducks, people forget. They're not
Speaker 3: only disposed of the owners, they disposed of them in
Speaker 3: six games last night, three to one. They seem like,
Speaker 3: I'm not going to sit here pretend they watched every
Speaker 3: Anaheim game. But just a strong four line team, good
Speaker 3: on d, decent goaltending. We know Joel Quinville is a
Speaker 3: great coach, How oppressed are you with that team?
Speaker 8: I've been impressed all season long. But you said something,
Speaker 8: Donnie that they weren't during the season, and that was
Speaker 8: good on d They were a firewagon team, and you know,
Speaker 8: if you got into a if you got into a
Speaker 8: pond hockey game with them, they were gonna beat you.
Speaker 8: But they could give up as many goals as they
Speaker 8: could score at a point. What's really changed in the
Speaker 8: playoffs is they're playing much better defensively. And I do
Speaker 8: give Joel credit, Jay Woodcroft credit, yeah, and the whole
Speaker 8: coaching staff for doing what they have to do defensively,
Speaker 8: because that was their achilles heel all season long. They
Speaker 8: were gonna beat you if it was seven to five.
Speaker 8: They were not going to beat you two to one.
Speaker 8: So that's the big difference. And that's where I think,
Speaker 8: and I think we saw this in the final game
Speaker 8: against the Oilers too. That's where Joel Quinville's experience comes
Speaker 8: in of how to coach in those scenarios. And you know,
Speaker 8: winning at all cost not worrying if the game's entertaining,
Speaker 8: but winning at all costs is really the key thing.
Speaker 8: And and and the Ducks have bought in look look
Speaker 8: at how much check your notes. How much did Mason
Speaker 8: mctavis play in this series? How much is be Seneca played? Yeah,
Speaker 8: and so it's like Beckett Seneca for all his greatness,
Speaker 8: and he's going to be a Calder Trophy finalist. You know,
Speaker 8: played eleven or twelve minutes last night.
Speaker 6: Still scored.
Speaker 8: But they are going to do it in a team
Speaker 8: situation all through these playoffs. And that's you know, that's
Speaker 8: exactly what Joel Quinnville would deliver for a for a
Speaker 8: team like that.
Speaker 3: All right, John, if you're out and about in Toronto today,
Speaker 3: but just can you go up to people and apologize
Speaker 3: to the.
Speaker 8: Oh, I have I am wearing my I am wearing
Speaker 8: my D and D hat yea, I am going out
Speaker 8: there and I'm gonna say, you Eastern bastards.
Speaker 1: Come, Okay, that's better.
Speaker 3: That's better.
Speaker 1: Next week.
Speaker 3: Thanks, John, appreciate it. Okay. Ducks and Vegas tied it
Speaker 3: one very impressive road victory for the Ducks yesterday, But
Speaker 3: that might be the worst uniform matchup in National Honorkey
Speaker 3: League history. Hete gold and so much orange, my god,
Speaker 3: but it was. It was pretty entertaining, if for no
Speaker 3: other reason, then was the greatest game of the world. No,
Speaker 3: but just how impressive the Ducks were. They were really solid.
Speaker 3: They were definitely the best team on the ice after
Speaker 3: losing Game one. Okay, a break, and then we'll introduce
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Speaker 4: the waddling Dog. Pop pole question and it is, assuming
Speaker 4: that McKenna and Stamberg go one and two in the
Speaker 4: NHL draft, who should the Canucks take a number three? Well,
Speaker 4: Caleb Boholtro that's Manny's kid leading the way of fifty
Speaker 4: five percent, Chase read a defenseman out of the Ohl
Speaker 4: Sue Saint Marie next at twenty seven percent. Then comes
Speaker 4: Keaton Verhoff played with Victoria last year. And then Carson
Speaker 4: Carrel's big, huge defenseman. We had him on the show
Speaker 4: last week. Just a great kid from Manitoba who played
Speaker 4: in Prince George last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's busy dealing with calfs on the
Speaker 3: farm right now.
Speaker 1: Well, he's a.
Speaker 4: Farmer, and I'm telling you the kids that grow up
Speaker 4: on a farm, and.
Speaker 3: Of course they get it. They ghetto the number one
Speaker 3: reason why you draft somebody. Are they or are they not?
Speaker 3: A good interview and both Carson Carl's and Keaton veroffer
Speaker 3: excellent We haven't had Chase reading the show.
Speaker 4: Not a shocker Canadian kids, great interviews, Uh, Caleb, long
Speaker 4: time ago. There we have on as well. Chase reed,
Speaker 4: we haven't had on, but we're going to effort.
Speaker 3: And you think it's a good idea that they draft
Speaker 3: another really talented American defenseman because he'll stay here.
Speaker 4: For a long stop.
Speaker 3: It don.
Speaker 4: Get some Canadian kids on this Canucks roster. It's disgusting.
Speaker 4: They got two players from Canada on it. It's just ridiculous.
Speaker 3: So if iver Stenburg falls the three, don't take them
Speaker 3: just based on his nationally.
Speaker 4: I never said that. I never said that. I've never
Speaker 4: said that.
Speaker 3: Brett Peterson, you wanted to talk about getting back to
Speaker 3: the Canucks GM search, We're going to talk about the
Speaker 3: white Caps, I believe in the open segment around eleven ten,
Speaker 3: eleven to fifteen or so.
Speaker 4: Yeah, there were reports that the Canucks were seriously considering
Speaker 4: Brett Peterson of the Panthers checked in last night. He
Speaker 4: has not had a second interview yet. Brett Peterson of
Speaker 4: the Florida Panthers, who have been to the Stanley Cup
Speaker 4: Finals the previous three years. So Brett Peterson, as if
Speaker 4: yesterday had not a second interview with the Canucks, but
Speaker 4: there were reports that he was a serious contender for
Speaker 4: the Vancouver job.
Speaker 3: Nils Hoglander has withdrawn participation in the World Championships for Sweden.
Speaker 3: And we know we had an injury troubled season again
Speaker 3: for the CANUCKSUS is the same sort of thing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, he got injured in one of the what
Speaker 4: do they call it, the preliminary games don as so
Speaker 4: did Philiperonic. But Lager told me times the Heronics Okay,
Speaker 4: it's not as serious. The MRI came back clear, So
Speaker 4: I think Coronic's gonna be fine. The energy, what do
Speaker 4: you want me to do, guy, what do you want
Speaker 4: me to dance on the tables? Heronic's gonna be fine.
Speaker 3: Also, the Americans have released their preliminary roster for the
Speaker 3: World Hockey Championships, and there's a notable omission or somebody's
Speaker 3: missing here that we thought would be on here. You
Speaker 3: blow that up a bit, Ryan, I mean, I can't
Speaker 3: have a magnifying glass.
Speaker 4: Even with my glasses, I couldn't see that.
Speaker 3: Okay, cannock wise, we see Max Sassin's name there, Max
Speaker 3: Sissan's name the pick by that, But who isn't there.
Speaker 4: Brockbsters thought he was going, he was going, he was,
Speaker 4: He's got married exatulations. Brockbessser's agent retweeted my tweet that
Speaker 4: said that Brock was going, So we'll try and figure
Speaker 4: it out why Brock ended up not going. Sometimes these
Speaker 4: guys have insurance issues. Oh yes, you got to insure
Speaker 4: the contract. What did Brock just do twelve months ago
Speaker 4: signed a massive contract, signed a massive contract. So sometimes
Speaker 4: we will get to it. But Brockbesss we definitely had
Speaker 4: okayed and now he's not on there. We're going to
Speaker 4: try and figure out what happened between then and here.
Speaker 4: But his agent had retweeted my tweet that said Brock
Speaker 4: was going, so it was good information. But we're going
Speaker 4: to try and find out why Brock's not going.
Speaker 3: Now. Again, this is a preliminary roster. Former conduct Sam
Speaker 3: Laffert is on there, Matthew Kachuck is on here as well,
Speaker 3: justin Falk on defense. So this is the roster that
Speaker 3: there's there working wrong roster right now, and I guess
Speaker 3: it's subject to change. So maybe Brockbesster does end up going.
Speaker 3: He wanted to go to he.
Speaker 4: Did, he did, he did did. It was all set
Speaker 4: to go. He was gonna go. Yeah. You make a
Speaker 4: good point. Uh, there's still teams that are gonna fall out,
Speaker 4: don or the NHL playoffs. You can still pluck guys
Speaker 4: off of that.
Speaker 3: There's that too, Okay. Sticking with the National Hockey League,
Speaker 3: Norris Trophy finalists have been announced. No surprise here, Quinn
Speaker 3: Hughes didn't make the cut. Zach Rowensky, Cale mccarr, Rasmus
Speaker 3: d Leen. I think Elliott's in this group, but we've
Speaker 3: seen several people who do have votes say that Dalen's
Speaker 3: their pick. He was good, good last night. Yeah, boy,
Speaker 3: I thought he blocked that shot. He got hurt last night.
Speaker 3: I thought for sure that you know, it was one
Speaker 3: of those things where you turn your leg upper. He
Speaker 3: was up people the inside of the knee I think,
Speaker 3: also known as the upper thigh.
Speaker 4: Don you don't know it's knee.
Speaker 3: They didn't look well, looked like it.
Speaker 4: Looked like upper thigh, upper a little higher in that.
Speaker 1: I thought it.
Speaker 4: Well, he could have been worse, right, it could have
Speaker 4: Sammy Shallow. When you think about how much thought of
Speaker 4: Sammy Shallow, how much why Sammy Sellow check the Jewels. Uh.
Speaker 4: Remember the puck he got hit? Remember he lost a
Speaker 4: yeah for a first testicle. And so that's what I
Speaker 4: first saw you like three years old. It's a it's
Speaker 4: a legit injury. He lost a testable.
Speaker 3: Remember he pulled his buttocks muscle at one point as well.
Speaker 4: Who Sammy?
Speaker 3: No you? Yes, Sammy. There was a long list, strange.
Speaker 4: I never heard of butts? Can you pull a buttocks muscle?
Speaker 3: We'll we'll look into that and get back to you.
Speaker 3: Glutias Maximus thought he did.
Speaker 4: No, I've never heard of butt muscle. You never heard this, Derek,
Speaker 4: Google it right, google it butt muscle? No, no, no,
Speaker 4: just Sammy Sallow but.
Speaker 3: Texts okay, okay, all right, we've got business. Yeah right.
Speaker 3: Instead of laughing over there and making fun of us,
Speaker 3: out Sammy Sallow, I'm gluteus Maximus. Okay, all right.
Speaker 4: Here, right here, Sammy Sallow uh tore his gluteous media's
Speaker 4: matt muscle a buttocks muscle. He took a powerful slapshot
Speaker 4: during the Connect playoff. Yeah, you're right right here. A
Speaker 4: gluteous medius muscle, a buttoks muscle. He pulled it.
Speaker 3: And that's why you watch this show. You want updates
Speaker 3: on bomb injuries. You know where the place to come.
Speaker 4: Gluty, it's one of your biggest muscles in your body.
Speaker 1: I think you just pulled one right now.
Speaker 4: I do a lot of research on this. I know that,
Speaker 4: not on the butt muscle, but on just the human
Speaker 4: body in general.
Speaker 3: You do a lot of rea.
Speaker 4: I do a lot of research on longevity, all that
Speaker 4: good stuff. You gotta eat right, you gotta drink right.
Speaker 4: You got it. If you don't, you're gonna pull a much.
Speaker 3: So you made fun of me, and I remembered that.
Speaker 3: But also did he You know, I know that you
Speaker 3: say it. I remember for him. I think with the
Speaker 3: testicle as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, he lost a testicle. I know that for sure.
Speaker 4: Well I no, but we know he did. He got
Speaker 4: hit there.
Speaker 3: Oh, can't look it up. Maybe I want to make sure.
Speaker 4: Hold on a sex Sammy Sello losing.
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Speaker 4: He ruptured. He didn't lose it. He ruptured a teestical. Okay,
Speaker 4: well he didn't lose it. He ruptured it.
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Speaker 3: a finalist for the Norris Trophy. May twelfth. It's funny,
Speaker 3: you know you bring up Sammy Salo is one of
Speaker 3: the great defenseman. Yes, he was a great defenseman for
Speaker 3: the Caduks. Everybody talks about his shot.
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Speaker 3: Ryan Johnson, not this one. Unsigned. If Ryan Johnson, as
Speaker 3: an assistant GM for several years, is even remotely responsible
Speaker 3: for the Canucks addressing a weak and easy team to
Speaker 3: play against for fourteen to the last fifteen years, then
Speaker 3: show him the door. Well, I you know, look, Ryan
Speaker 3: Johnson has not been the general manager at the NHL level.
Speaker 3: He comes across very well. Won a championship with the
Speaker 3: Abbots for Canucks for what that's worth. And he's developed,
Speaker 3: he's helped develop players and Abbits for that's what that's
Speaker 3: what a GM of a farm team is supposed to do.
Speaker 3: Having said that, he was also a Canucks assistant GM
Speaker 3: Vancouver connects assisted gym at the same time. But interesting
Speaker 3: what John Shannon had to say. He fills this process
Speaker 3: has more to do with finding if somebody is more
Speaker 3: impressive than Ryan Johnson than just finding somebody period.
Speaker 4: Yep. I agree with that too. If you're gonna bypass
Speaker 4: Ryan for another assistant GM, he's gone. But they gotta
Speaker 4: find They got to find out if there is anybody
Speaker 4: out there better than him. I don't think there is
Speaker 4: on that list, but that they're making the call, not us,
Speaker 4: big Ry.
Speaker 1: You clearly didn't watch Ryan Johnson play hockey if you
Speaker 1: think he would be part.
Speaker 3: Of Ryan Johnson is the first forward. I remember that
Speaker 3: he went out of his way to block shots, whatever
Speaker 3: it took. He watched games at Rodgers Arena and he
Speaker 3: would be hurting because he's blocking so many shots, whatever
Speaker 3: it took to stay in the national hockey He can
Speaker 3: relate to so many of the of the players at
Speaker 3: the NHL level, and I mean very few people in
Speaker 3: management can relate to the superstars to the stars. But
Speaker 3: Ryan Johnson is a guy who can relate to most
Speaker 3: everybody else.
Speaker 1: Yep okay out of Dallas today, Jim Nill had his
Speaker 1: season ending press conference right uh, and the players already
Speaker 1: spoke the other day they did their locker cleanout. One
Speaker 1: of the players was Miko Ranton, and he didn't want
Speaker 1: to discuss his injury. He just said, nope, not talking
Speaker 1: about anything. I'm good. But Jim Nill revealed his injury
Speaker 1: along with a lot of others today. So Miko Ranton
Speaker 1: and played with a torn MCL. He tore his NCL
Speaker 1: at the Olympics. I believe he was activated off injury
Speaker 1: reserve in late March coming back. It's clearly not healthy.
Speaker 1: Rufe Behan's torn hamstring. You got broken fingers in here,
Speaker 1: foot laceration, foot laceration, cut, another broken foot for Thomas Harley,
Speaker 1: Miko Heist, Heisin Tono bleak. What's with the little bleak injuries?
Speaker 1: That seems to be like a new league in the
Speaker 1: last ten years.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've heard a lot of it lately.
Speaker 1: Remember Hughes had the oblique injury here, that's right, Quinnen
Speaker 1: high ankle sprain in the concussion in a face elasceration
Speaker 1: as well, no muscle, no.
Speaker 4: No, no, no, no other parts of the body.
Speaker 1: This is why he also didn't mention Tyler sagain, who
Speaker 1: is about pretty much all year with an injury as well.
Speaker 4: Okay, so this is why hockey players are the toughest
Speaker 4: athletes in the world. You would never see an NBA
Speaker 4: team get out of the playoffs and see a laundry
Speaker 4: list like this. Hockey, the Stanley Cup is the toughest
Speaker 4: trophy to win. This tells you right there. Nakita zador
Speaker 4: Off announced last week that he played the first round
Speaker 4: after Game four. I think yeah in Game four, Yeah,
Speaker 4: with a torn MCL. Off the bone, he said, off
Speaker 4: the bone. There is not a basketball player alive that
Speaker 4: would play with a torn MCL like the way Nikida
Speaker 4: is a door off did. Hockey players are the toughest athletes.
Speaker 4: There is nobody that comes close to them. And the
Speaker 4: Boston Bruins injury list was just as long as the
Speaker 4: Dallas Stars. Can you imagine playing with a torn m
Speaker 4: c L.
Speaker 3: No, the NBA playoffs have been okay, they've been pretty good.
Speaker 4: But these guys take dead.
Speaker 3: You know what, you know what makes it for a
Speaker 3: lot of people, You know what makes it Okay, well,
Speaker 3: the because the Knicks are and sure you know they
Speaker 3: pulled off an upset and they're no, they didn't Philadelphia
Speaker 3: beat Boston, but having you know New York's team there
Speaker 3: makes it.
Speaker 1: Of course, there's been a lot of look at last night.
Speaker 4: The Spurs is a good basketball town too, that's a
Speaker 4: good matchup.
Speaker 3: You know, well, Philadelphia le's look at sports wise, Doctor
Speaker 3: City pretty good the last few years with the Flyers.
Speaker 3: Notice Sixers not doing well in the playoffs. You talk
Speaker 3: about toughness Steve Kerr once they're shortened the NBA schedule.
Speaker 1: But in part because she says, it's the injuries. It's
Speaker 1: caused causing problems to the product.
Speaker 3: Right, But speaking to what Rick says, so you want to,
Speaker 3: you know, forty eight minute games and you know, got
Speaker 3: NHL guys playing and football guys playing with all sorts
Speaker 3: of injuries, and you're worried about that. It just I
Speaker 3: don't know if.
Speaker 4: You're aware of that basketball is nowhere near the physicality hockey.
Speaker 4: And these guys take off what do they call luxury
Speaker 4: days or whatever, the regular load load they tux three days,
Speaker 4: not a bad, bad name, luxury days. But listen, mar
Speaker 4: they take off all these days off in the regular seas.
Speaker 1: The NBA has got a massive problem, massive problem with
Speaker 1: inconsistency with their players just due to injury and due
Speaker 1: to rest. So if curR has got that idea, I
Speaker 1: think the NBA should be listening to any and every idea.
Speaker 3: Scotty Bowman used to do load load management before load
Speaker 3: management was load management, but he would do red Wings
Speaker 3: when they were older, right.
Speaker 1: But wasn't that at the end of the years because
Speaker 1: they had clinched everything.
Speaker 3: I just I hate the whole idea of load management
Speaker 3: because even if a guy just plays a minute, or
Speaker 3: you know, there's people who are going to games so
Speaker 3: maybe the only time that year and they don't get
Speaker 3: to see the stars. I hate that. I hate it. Yeah,
Speaker 3: gotta you gotta think of your customers.
Speaker 1: Especially when if it's potentially a game that's like one
Speaker 1: one trip, like the Lakers going to Detroit for instance,
Speaker 1: one time. Yes, you know, and Lebron can't do it
Speaker 1: or whatever. Lebron a kind of excuse at this point
Speaker 1: because he's.
Speaker 4: So much respect for hockey players. When you see that
Speaker 4: and you see the Boston Bruins injured list after the playoffs,
Speaker 4: these guys are tough, they want to win. They played injured.
Speaker 4: Christanna if I if I told you guys horror stories
Speaker 4: about how that guy played injured and he was misdiagnosed
Speaker 4: year after years. Sammy Sallow played with what we talked about.
Speaker 4: But the hockey players are a different breed.
Speaker 3: I think it's such a part of the culture to everybody.
Speaker 4: They're tough, they're tough guys.
Speaker 1: And uh, you guys are going to rip me for
Speaker 1: being like a millennial and all the time. Tannam, I
Speaker 1: think he is arguably the toughest Canuck that's ever played here.
Speaker 4: Christannev, do you remember when the injuries that dude played through,
Speaker 4: played with seemingly injured.
Speaker 1: That's a misdiagnosed different kind of to you're right like,
Speaker 1: because I mean, I understand Geno Ojake is probably the
Speaker 1: toughest guy that's ever played for.
Speaker 4: The mentally tough and you nailed it. You're right on
Speaker 4: board there. Chris Tannev was one of the He was
Speaker 4: a warrior.
Speaker 3: The basketball's changed to by the way I grew up
Speaker 3: hearing the story, I don't remember Willis Reid and that
Speaker 3: that was a broken leg and led the knicks to
Speaker 3: the legendary titles, an NBA title It's changed.
Speaker 4: And Tanne when he got hurt in Calgary and the
Speaker 4: playoffs remember this and they announced three or four five
Speaker 4: things wrong with you and he played through it. Yeah,
Speaker 4: he could barely stand in watching up to him now, yeah,
Speaker 4: oh for sure, Bingle not surprising.
Speaker 1: Okay, up next, this guy plays hurt. If he was
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Speaker 3: as we bring in from TSN Farhand Lolgy, how are you, sir?
Speaker 6: Good Rick? There's a two hot dog limit for.
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Speaker 6: We know more crown that comes there's no crown that
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Speaker 4: We know, mo just going tonight. We know it's been confirmed.
Speaker 3: Just looking good these days.
Speaker 1: Okay, what happens?
Speaker 6: So it happens when you got to get your knee replace? Yes, yeah,
Speaker 6: all all the physio fixes everything else.
Speaker 3: What can you tell us about this event? You're at
Speaker 3: Wednesday at Queen's Park Arena as there's a movement out
Speaker 3: there to get a statue erected of far Hand lalls you.
Speaker 3: What can you tell us about that?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 10: Definitely not me. Rick is higher up on the New
Speaker 10: st statue list than I am but already Punch McLean, right,
Speaker 10: I mean, legendary figure from the seventies with the Newestminster
Speaker 10: Bruins in New Westminster, you know, told some great stories
Speaker 10: about how the whole thing.
Speaker 6: Came to be.
Speaker 10: You know that the team was in Estevan in Saskatchewan,
Speaker 10: which is which is Punch's birthplace, and so you know
Speaker 10: it had to be difficult for him to take the
Speaker 10: team out of Estevan and move them to New Westminster.
Speaker 10: And at the time, the Western Hockey League didn't want
Speaker 10: you know a lot of stuff going on this far west,
Speaker 10: and just the legendary stories of what those teams were like,
Speaker 10: and you know, Billy Rant came up and talked and
Speaker 10: Marko Lofthouse who played for those championship teams in the seventies,
Speaker 10: and it was it was a really cool, you know,
Speaker 10: nostalgic event, especially to have it at Queen's Park Arena, right,
Speaker 10: which is really withstood the test of time.
Speaker 6: I mean, it is the definition of an old barn.
Speaker 10: But it's still so cool when you walk in there
Speaker 10: and you see the place packed like it was for
Speaker 10: the Man Cup last year. So you know, already's a
Speaker 10: guy that we've all gotten.
Speaker 6: A chance to know for for the last couple of decades.
Speaker 6: You know, I'll.
Speaker 10: Remember when when he went missing, right and I was
Speaker 10: at a Canuck game, and you know, I turned around
Speaker 10: and said to somebody, where's Punch? And I heard the story,
Speaker 10: but I couldn't find him. You know, So just a
Speaker 10: life well lived. He continues to live and in ninety three,
Speaker 10: he's not getting any younger. We want to get this
Speaker 10: thing going and getting it up and done so that
Speaker 10: he can enjoy it.
Speaker 6: And I just hosted it.
Speaker 10: I'm not part of the you know, the the Legacy Foundation,
Speaker 10: and you know, my wife was involved with QS four
Speaker 10: in terms of getting some stuff there and helping out
Speaker 10: with the event and everything. But you know, there's a
Speaker 10: foundation and place you're doing really really great work.
Speaker 6: So thanks to them for I guess to be a
Speaker 6: part of the event.
Speaker 3: I love the way you slipped in Key West for it.
Speaker 6: Experience added to it, You've added to it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well yeah, now you just t up for that.
Speaker 1: Hey, farhand your reaction.
Speaker 3: I know it's been a couple of days, but to
Speaker 3: your reaction to the Canucks dropping from one to three
Speaker 3: at the NHL Draft lottery and the Leaf's winning the lottery.
Speaker 10: Yeah, the Leaf's part is more annoying because, look, in fairness,
Speaker 10: I think a lot of people expected the Canucks to
Speaker 10: finish third because that's what the oddums suggested. I mean,
Speaker 10: it was almost a fifty six percent chance that that's
Speaker 10: where they were going to go.
Speaker 6: And it's still a really high pick. It's not Gavin McKenna,
Speaker 6: but they you.
Speaker 10: Know, like I don't know that mckenno or Stenberg are
Speaker 10: generational players, right like the not Macklin Celebrini, at least
Speaker 10: we don't believe them to be at this point. So
Speaker 10: they can still get a player that is kind of
Speaker 10: right within that range. So that parts it's unfortunately, you
Speaker 10: would have liked to have had them draft first and
Speaker 10: just to have all the you know, the tanking and
Speaker 10: all of it.
Speaker 6: People understand that, yeah, okay, this is why we did it.
Speaker 6: But the Leaf part is really really annoying.
Speaker 10: And this team has missed the playoffs in ten years
Speaker 10: twice and both times they've won the lottery. Yes, right,
Speaker 10: Like that's insane And I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I
Speaker 10: don't think it was rigged, but it was still wrong, right,
Speaker 10: I mean, you know, think of how many years in
Speaker 10: a row the Oilers won it, and how bad they
Speaker 10: were systematically to the point where the league changed the
Speaker 10: rules so you know things, it wasn't as easy to
Speaker 10: get number one, so the Canucks couldn't benefit by the
Speaker 10: Oiler incompetence, and now the Leaves, you know, with the
Speaker 10: fifth best odds wind up winning it. If I'm a
Speaker 10: Canuck fan, yeah, I'd be doubly annoyed that the Leafs won.
Speaker 10: I'd be more pissed off that the Leafs wanted than
Speaker 10: that Vancouver.
Speaker 4: Dis If I'm a Canucks fan, I want to know
Speaker 4: who's the new GM. And it looks like we're down
Speaker 4: to the nitty gritty here, finalists five, maybe next week.
Speaker 4: They're taking their time. I do like that. What's the
Speaker 4: latest you're hearing on the Canuck GM search?
Speaker 10: Yeah, you know, like similar to what you are and
Speaker 10: the names that are there, you know, names like Kevin
Speaker 10: Gold and you know, and see where Pier Dorian fits
Speaker 10: And how crazy was that that in the morning, all
Speaker 10: the news suggest that this is happening.
Speaker 6: That he's going to be the guy, and conduct.
Speaker 10: Nation absolutely revolts to the point whereby you know the
Speaker 10: end of the day, Gary Mason's walking it back and
Speaker 10: saying within somewhere between mill and close to none or
Speaker 10: something like that in terms of his candidacy, right, Like,
Speaker 10: you're a conduct fan, you're empowered. Hey, we made this happen,
Speaker 10: and then then you lose the draft lottery, right, So,
Speaker 10: but yeah, I'm with you, Rick, like I'm glad that
Speaker 10: they're still doing their due diligence. I'm glad that Ryan
Speaker 10: Johnson is still a legitimate part of this process because
Speaker 10: to me, if you're you know, for both of these things,
Speaker 10: for gms and for presidents, there aren't a lot of
Speaker 10: experienced people, and Pierre Dorian has experienced, but it's bad experience, right,
Speaker 10: he wasn't good at the job, you know, and most
Speaker 10: of the guys whose names you've heard of are kind
Speaker 10: of in that category if they have that kind of experience.
Speaker 6: And when you look at president of.
Speaker 10: Hockey Operations, there aren't many of those either, Right, So
Speaker 10: if you're going to hire a first time guy, I
Speaker 10: got no problem with it being Ryan Johnson, And it
Speaker 10: would seem at this point like it's going to be
Speaker 10: a guy that hasn't carried the title before.
Speaker 6: So so we'll see where they land.
Speaker 10: But I do appreciate as well that they're taking a
Speaker 10: deliberate approach to this, because we've seen in the past
Speaker 10: they've had the next guy named before they fired the
Speaker 10: last guy right, and that's not good process.
Speaker 4: Oh, they got to get it right. Okay, Listen that
Speaker 4: BC Lions training camp up in Kamloops. This is the
Speaker 4: year they get over the hump. I'm telling you, I'm
Speaker 4: calling the Lions.
Speaker 1: Don't don't laugh.
Speaker 4: Don't laugh. They've been in the Western Final three the
Speaker 4: last four years. This is the year they get over
Speaker 4: the hump. And I think they win it all. I
Speaker 4: I really do. And are you gonna ask him? Not
Speaker 4: because he's not a lie. He loves winnip He loves
Speaker 4: Winnipeck because all his sources are in Winnipeg. But anyways,
Speaker 4: I'm telling you right now, Lions all the way.
Speaker 6: Entirely possible.
Speaker 10: You know, when I look around, especially in the West,
Speaker 10: you know, I I do see just a wide open
Speaker 10: division and teams kind of coming together. Right Saskatchewan has
Speaker 10: lost more than they've gained. I still think they're gonna
Speaker 10: be a good team with Trevor Harris, but again, they
Speaker 10: you know, they've lost a few more pieces.
Speaker 6: They haven't necessarily added much.
Speaker 10: Winnipeg's made some additions and they've certainly got the ability
Speaker 10: to bounce back a little bit with you know, the
Speaker 10: offensive coordinator and Kolaro's being really in sync.
Speaker 6: But you know, they've lost key pieces as well.
Speaker 10: BC has probably netted out a bit, you know, they've netted.
Speaker 6: Out neutral they you know, they've.
Speaker 10: Lost two important pieces, includes Jurel Broxton at left tackle.
Speaker 10: But you know, overall it's been it's been fairly you know,
Speaker 10: steady for them. Right, So Nathan Rourke another year under
Speaker 10: Buck Pierce's offense, Buck Pierce's second year as the head.
Speaker 6: Coach, you know, and defensively as well.
Speaker 10: Right, there's some question marks I have in the secondary
Speaker 10: if they can get those answered, which based on the
Speaker 10: resumes of the players that are trying to compete for
Speaker 10: those jobs, even if they don't have great CFL experience.
Speaker 6: At this point, I think by the midway point of
Speaker 6: the season, I think they're going to be pretty good.
Speaker 10: Right, So I think the Lions are have as good
Speaker 10: a shot as anybody to win it, right, I mean,
Speaker 10: Edmondson will be a little better, Calgary a little better,
Speaker 10: But I think BC's going to be right there, and
Speaker 10: I'm looking forward to seeing Nathan Ork back in action
Speaker 10: when the season opens, and.
Speaker 3: Very quickly for him. We're going to talk about the
Speaker 3: white Caps in our next sec what's your take on
Speaker 3: the latest piece of news BC government saying that a
Speaker 3: party has approached them with interest in buying the white Caps,
Speaker 3: are perhaps keeping them in Vancouver.
Speaker 6: Well, I look, I hope what happens. I think the
Speaker 6: fans have done their part.
Speaker 10: I think the organization on field and you know, on
Speaker 10: the football or on the soccer operations side, right with
Speaker 10: actual schuster, they've certainly done their job. And now you know,
Speaker 10: but it's not an easy purchase, right because this team
Speaker 10: doesn't make money, Like sixteen of twenty nine MLS teams,
Speaker 10: they don't make money.
Speaker 6: So MLS can turn around.
Speaker 10: I want to blame the province in BC place, but
Speaker 10: they got problems in a lot of different places, so
Speaker 10: it becomes a difficult purchase. And if you're going to
Speaker 10: buy it, you know it's going to be a passion project, right,
Speaker 10: and let's see if they can do it.
Speaker 6: But look, I hope they're right. I hope that it's
Speaker 6: a serious that it's a serious bid, a serious group,
Speaker 6: because it.
Speaker 10: Would be a it would be a massive loss for
Speaker 10: the market, a tremendous asset that we just don't want
Speaker 10: to see leave. It's not just MLS, it's it's fifty
Speaker 10: years of experience, right, fifty years of history in this city.
Speaker 6: So I hope they find a way to keep it.
Speaker 10: But just you know, when you hear the Don Garber's
Speaker 10: and the narrative that's trying to be spun, I think
Speaker 10: it's wrong.
Speaker 6: This is not a Vancouver problem.
Speaker 10: This is an MLS problem, and you can't just continue
Speaker 10: to band aid things by, you know, finding your only revenue.
Speaker 6: And you know, when you ask the question, it's.
Speaker 10: Not as simple as Greg Kerfoot and Jeff Mallett wanting
Speaker 10: to sell this to whichever this big group is.
Speaker 7: Right.
Speaker 10: The way the process works in MLS is it's still
Speaker 10: the league's decision. So the league gets to broker the deal,
Speaker 10: and then the current owners will make a certain portion
Speaker 10: of it, and then the rest of it it's going
Speaker 10: to go back to the league. Right, It's going to
Speaker 10: be a bu especially if you want to move it,
Speaker 10: there'll be a relocation fee attached because this is where
Speaker 10: the real league revenue is.
Speaker 6: They don't make money elsewhere. They make money on expense.
Speaker 10: And potentially in this case, relocation. So that's the problem
Speaker 10: with MLS and that's also.
Speaker 6: Going to navigate the sale if it happens.
Speaker 3: I just want to see all parties involved quit sniping
Speaker 3: at each other publicly and maybe that'll help get things done.
Speaker 3: Just a matter of time before as a foreign anology
Speaker 3: statue outside of Queens Park Arena, hopefully besides Mercer Stadium. Well, okay,
Speaker 3: we'll take that too, get it done.
Speaker 1: Thanks for a hand, see boys, you bet?
Speaker 3: Okay, a break and we'll deal with the poll question,
Speaker 3: the latest in the waterling dog poll question and the
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Speaker 4: Assuming McKenna and Stamberg go one and two in the
Speaker 4: NHL draft, who should the Canucks take a number three?
Speaker 4: Look at this, no surprise, Manny's kid Caleb Maholt leading
Speaker 4: fifty four percent. Then comes the defenseman from Sussaint Marie,
Speaker 4: Chase Reed, followed by a couple of good BC boys,
Speaker 4: Canadian kids, Shooting veer Off and Carson Carrol's I'll tell
Speaker 4: you boy, these two, all three of these guys have
Speaker 4: been on our show. All three very impressive.
Speaker 3: Chase Reid has it?
Speaker 4: I said, three to the four guests, Okay, three to
Speaker 4: the four have been. Wait, we'll get Chase Reid on.
Speaker 4: I know his agent.
Speaker 3: We'll hold you to that, all right. Switching gears here
Speaker 3: the white Caps situation. Yeah, this team has been and
Speaker 3: has done so well on the pitch. Getting to the
Speaker 3: MLS Cup Final. What they're doing right now in MLS
Speaker 3: very impressive, near the top of the overall standings. An
Speaker 3: update yesterday from friend of the show, BC Jobs Minister
Speaker 3: Ravi Callen. Yeah, he says, we're gonna run this clip
Speaker 3: here and he says a local group has come forward
Speaker 3: with the interest in buying the white Caps and hopefully
Speaker 3: keeping the team in Vancouver.
Speaker 11: Well, we just had a group that's reached out to us,
Speaker 11: that has been organizing apparently for a few weeks to
Speaker 11: put a bit in for the white Caps. I don't
Speaker 11: have the details. I'll leave it to the big group
Speaker 11: to share those details. But you know it's we know
Speaker 11: there's interests. We're hearing it from fans, we're hearing it
Speaker 11: from business leaders within the community, and I think it's
Speaker 11: a positive development.
Speaker 4: Love it if true.
Speaker 3: So as for the white Caps, they and as you know,
Speaker 3: I have a source, the white Caps have not been
Speaker 3: approached the government reportedly, according to Ravi, has been approached.
Speaker 3: But last time I checked, the white Caps have not
Speaker 3: been approached by a local group. And obviously, when you
Speaker 3: talk about the sale of this team, they've gone public
Speaker 3: for the last year now they're for sale. They're open,
Speaker 3: open to meeting big time. Okay, of course they are,
Speaker 3: and you know when that happens obviously, and perhaps the
Speaker 3: government has done this, I'm not sure. Due diligence has
Speaker 3: to be done. You know, what are the finances involved,
Speaker 3: who are the people involved? Do they definitely want to
Speaker 3: keep the team in Vancouver. There's a lot of work
Speaker 3: still to be done. We didn't see it there, but Ravi,
Speaker 3: I guess you would say dodged a question and didn't
Speaker 3: answer the question when it came to that local group,
Speaker 3: that local ownership group, potential local ownership group keeping the
Speaker 3: team at BC Place. Now, the other thing I wanted
Speaker 3: to say is that it's been reported widely to the
Speaker 3: white Caps since their inception back in twenty eleven. Remember
Speaker 3: Empire Field and then moved into the newly renovated BC Place.
Speaker 3: Three hundred million dollars in losses playing in Major League Soccer.
Speaker 3: That's a big I've been told people have told me
Speaker 3: that that's low. Wow, it's much more than three hundred
Speaker 3: million dollars. And they've done everything to keep this team.
Speaker 3: But look, the government wanted the white Caps to get
Speaker 3: to Greg Kerford and company. Remember he owned them. Before
Speaker 3: they became an MLS franchise, wanted to have a Major
Speaker 3: League Soccer team at BC Place, in part to justify
Speaker 3: the high cost it was half a billion dollars there
Speaker 3: abouts of renovating BC plays, so you have the lines
Speaker 3: there as a as a principal tenant along with an
Speaker 3: MLS team. That was a big, big deal, a big
Speaker 3: deal for everybody, with the taxpayers of British Columbia. So
Speaker 3: in they went and the thought was that somewhere down
Speaker 3: the line they would get a stadium working with the government,
Speaker 3: working with all levels that all obstacles that come into play.
Speaker 3: And they've tried this on multiple occasions and it hasn't
Speaker 3: worked for the Vancouver white Caps, so there's there. They're
Speaker 3: still trying. Here's the thing, Greg Kirkfoot is still trying.
Speaker 3: Ownership of the white Caps is still trying, despite being
Speaker 3: turned down on several occasions at several locations, still trying
Speaker 3: to get a new stadium done. Whether it's whether it's
Speaker 3: on the Peenie Grounds, Hastings Race Course, the old Empires
Speaker 3: Aum site, whatever the case. They're unbelievably really they're still
Speaker 3: still trying despite all all the losses. So that's that's
Speaker 3: that's where we're at right now. There is this mysterious
Speaker 3: ownership group that has come forward to the BC government,
Speaker 3: not the white Caps at this point from what I know,
Speaker 3: and maybe they're they're the saviors, we don't know. They
Speaker 3: have to get involved, they have to talk to the
Speaker 3: white Caps. But in the meantime, they're they're trying their
Speaker 3: white Caps are trying to keep this team alive, trying
Speaker 3: to get by building a new stadium that's going to
Speaker 3: take a while. Obviously, there is that, you know, there's
Speaker 3: a there's a period here where things have to be
Speaker 3: better deal wise, at at at BC place. So and
Speaker 3: let me just say this for everybody who wants to
Speaker 3: talk about Greg Kurfut and you know, no they're trying
Speaker 3: to cash in this white Caps ownership group. I'm on
Speaker 3: their side because for a lot of reasons. You know,
Speaker 3: first of all, I care about Look, I know we
Speaker 3: talk so much hockey here, but you and I both
Speaker 3: care about local sports. We care about we certainly care
Speaker 3: about the white Caps everything. And I don't want to
Speaker 3: see the great city of Vancouver lose the white Caps twice,
Speaker 3: once the NASL team and now this. You don't want
Speaker 3: to see this. Greg Kurfet is bucked up in a big,
Speaker 3: big way, and he's not looking for anybody to feel
Speaker 3: sorry for him, all right. The ownership group is not
Speaker 3: looking for anybody to feel sorry for them, but they
Speaker 3: continue to try. And I know this that on top
Speaker 3: of keeping the white Caps alive, he has gone out
Speaker 3: of his way to subsidize Canadian soccer now at the
Speaker 3: national team level, both the men's team and the women's team.
Speaker 3: You want this to work out now, and maybe he
Speaker 3: continues to be the principal owner, or maybe they sell it,
Speaker 3: but he's put in his time with soccer and hopefully
Speaker 3: it continues. But he's put in his time with soccer
Speaker 3: in this city, in this province, and this in this tride.
Speaker 4: He's trying. He's still trying.
Speaker 3: You want it, You want it to work out.
Speaker 4: If you're telling me that his total losses are not
Speaker 4: three hundred million, but they're way higher, that's a scary number.
Speaker 4: Who out there wants to lose three four five hundred
Speaker 4: million dollars? Don no one. If you and I lose
Speaker 4: one hundred bucks in our wallet, we freak out. This
Speaker 4: guy's lost over three hundred million. You're saying maybe four,
Speaker 4: maybe five hundred million. I don't know what the I'm
Speaker 4: just saying. I'm just saying he's hanging around. If he
Speaker 4: does cash out and take a five hundred million dollar
Speaker 4: offer from Vegas, I'm starting to think. You know what,
Speaker 4: it's okay if you lost three, four, five hundred million dollars,
Speaker 4: that's your money, hard earned. You're losing. Who the hell
Speaker 4: sticks around for that?
Speaker 3: So what you draw the conclusion that it wouldn't be
Speaker 3: the case if a stadium deal was done before this?
Speaker 3: All right? Part of the problem is that the MLS
Speaker 3: has grown in a big, big way without getting it
Speaker 3: did too many details FC Miami with with Messi, their
Speaker 3: revenues are way more, way more despite a larger payroll,
Speaker 3: way more. And it's it's advantageous to run a professional
Speaker 3: franchise in the United States. You know, the government, you
Speaker 3: know rolls out the red red carpet for you. Various
Speaker 3: levels of government rolls out the red carpet for you.
Speaker 3: But their revenues it's hard to keep up with that.
Speaker 3: And it's not just Miami, it's Atlanta and other franchise
Speaker 3: and mL the league has grown, maybe some some might
Speaker 3: say too fast. With with what happened to the nas L.
Speaker 3: In mind, it's grown, salaries have gone up. Your stadium
Speaker 3: deal has to be rock solid, and that's not the
Speaker 3: case here. So but again they're hanging in there. They're
Speaker 3: hoping to get things done with the new stadium somewhere
Speaker 3: down the line. And this is positive news that a
Speaker 3: local ownership group is.
Speaker 1: I don't know who they are, and if you do,
Speaker 1: I don't know who they are.
Speaker 3: That's positive.
Speaker 4: It could be Joe Blow. I don't know who's behind
Speaker 4: this group, but I do know this. The revenues that
Speaker 4: they suck, the white Caps revenues. It's money and money
Speaker 4: out and well.
Speaker 3: They don't get They get very little from concessions that
Speaker 3: I know. BC Place has let them, you know, have
Speaker 3: the facility rent free, but there's obviously losses and career
Speaker 3: before that. Other team's deals are much much better.
Speaker 4: Donny, Donny, A lot of corporations left Vancouver decades ago
Speaker 4: and they went to Toronto. Why do you think them? Why
Speaker 4: do you think Toronto can afford the raptors. They've got
Speaker 4: the blue Jay population, they've got the Nahl population. But
Speaker 4: corporate money too, Corporate money, all the money in this
Speaker 4: countries in Toronto. Whether you want to believe it or not,
Speaker 4: there's a reason why they got Major League Baseball. Look
Speaker 4: at their payroll over two hundred million. Why can they
Speaker 4: afford it? Don because a.
Speaker 3: Corporate support is not here there in Toronto.
Speaker 4: And that's part of the p and they would love
Speaker 4: to have the NFL that Toronto would they could support
Speaker 4: an NFL team six million in the.
Speaker 3: Tron supported an NFL team Buffalo a.
Speaker 4: Six million in the Toronto area. And then all your.
Speaker 1: Core CUSA tron just stop.
Speaker 4: I'm telling you why Vancouver is struggling. There's no companies
Speaker 4: left here because the government here taxes you to death,
Speaker 4: and everybody's leaving for the province of BC. This government
Speaker 4: all they they taxed all the population, then they tax
Speaker 4: the businesses, then they tax millionaires to death. They're all leaving.
Speaker 4: They're all leaving British Columbia. You could thank this government
Speaker 4: for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well you're not the only one who feels that way. Okay, again,
Speaker 3: let's stay positive here. There's this group that's interested in
Speaker 3: purchasing the Vancouver white Caps and let's let's hope it
Speaker 3: all works out. And keeping keep in mind when you
Speaker 3: talk about incurring losses. Uh. This year is not great
Speaker 3: for the white Caps, in large part because they've been
Speaker 3: booted out a BC places losses for World Cup and
Speaker 3: they don't play their next home game until August first.
Speaker 3: That's so that's a long way away. Okay, be good, Ryan,
Speaker 3: Okay business.
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Speaker 1: it card of the big captain of the Carolina Hurricanes
Speaker 1: in their lovely jerseys, Jordan Stall.
Speaker 3: You're not a fan. No Carolina, much like other teams
Speaker 3: in the NHL, has never nailed a great.
Speaker 1: Uniform, Like what the hell is the logo?
Speaker 3: The best uniforms The Whaler retro.
Speaker 4: Tick a stick.
Speaker 3: That's the hurricane warning flag. That's their whole. Even the
Speaker 3: colors are well, that's the color of the hurricane warning flight.
Speaker 4: I know it's not good colors.
Speaker 3: By the way, I should say. The white Caps played
Speaker 3: San Jose Saturday. Next home game one two in the
Speaker 3: Western Conference. Yes, one two, Yes, San Jose's one yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: yeah yeah. White Caps haven't been losing. They draw. They
Speaker 3: drew last weekend with the LA Galaxy, but one. San
Speaker 3: Jose is playing very well as well. Again. Next home
Speaker 3: game not until August, the first against I believe LAFC. Okay,
Speaker 3: all the best of the white Caps. We'll take a break.
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Speaker 3: Big Al will be there signing autographs. Late April in Beijing.
Speaker 3: You seen this?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, you don't know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: You It wasn't even close. As a bright red Chinese
Speaker 3: humanoid named Lightning lived up to its name in a
Speaker 3: half marathon pitting humans against robots smoking the competition. The
Speaker 3: five to five bipedal robot developed by Chinese smartphone maker
Speaker 3: Honor Blaze through the thirteen ooops. Blaze through the thirteen
Speaker 3: mile race in thirty minutes fifty minutes twenty six seconds,
Speaker 3: beating all twelve thousand human competitors and surpassing by seven
Speaker 3: minutes the human world record.
Speaker 4: What are we seeing here? Ryan?
Speaker 3: Is this the guy who on that robot who won?
Speaker 4: Did he have some beers?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Or but just wait because he did fall and they.
Speaker 3: Picked him up and helped him cross the line.
Speaker 1: Party gain is that? I don't think this is the
Speaker 1: winner they bring out that they bring out a stretcher.
Speaker 3: Yeah, what are we doing?
Speaker 1: It's a machine?
Speaker 3: You know what at this point?
Speaker 1: Because they do get it back on track. He does
Speaker 1: when they should.
Speaker 3: You know, what would make it fair is to have
Speaker 3: robots helping him, right?
Speaker 1: Or see you do this?
Speaker 4: Why don't we just have out there?
Speaker 3: You go? The human world record for a half marathon
Speaker 3: set last month in Lisbon by Uganda's Jacob. So the
Speaker 3: robot beat that record by Jacob by seven minutes?
Speaker 4: Why did he run into the bear?
Speaker 3: Okay, here you go? Lightning slowed down slightly when it
Speaker 3: crashed into a railing near the end of the race.
Speaker 3: You just saw that with the machine. It's got the
Speaker 3: same running style as Ryan, with the machine held back
Speaker 3: up recovering to make a dramatic finish. There you go,
Speaker 3: and you know what, robots swept the podium one two three,
Speaker 3: But he's not supposed to go in the barricade. Why
Speaker 3: do I enjoy watching that? I don't know. Nearly forty
Speaker 3: of the robots were autonomous. You know what that means.
Speaker 4: Autonomous?
Speaker 3: Well, it means that nobody was at the controls right
Speaker 3: running the full distance on their own as they navigated
Speaker 3: turns and an even terrain. Other competitors were operated by
Speaker 3: remote control, with finishing times adjusted to reflect the different categories.
Speaker 3: Congratulations to Lightning, especially recovering from this fall, because where
Speaker 3: are we.
Speaker 1: Going to stop with robotics like this man? Because nobody
Speaker 1: robots any movie where this happens, and to take over
Speaker 1: the planet Earth and we're like thrown out of.
Speaker 3: It, back to lost in space, like like.
Speaker 1: What are we doing? Why are we trying to perfect robots?
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 3: Is production part of it? No part of it? Yeah,
Speaker 3: that's that's definitely part of the part of it. It's cool.
Speaker 3: Look at this they these guys are going to take over.
Speaker 4: Yeah, like honestly, that's what running at you.
Speaker 1: That thing freaky, that is freaky.
Speaker 3: I still want to see And I've talked about this
Speaker 3: on the show before the robot Umpire, the argument with
Speaker 3: the robot Umpire.
Speaker 4: Hey you yeah, you better pray they don't find robots
Speaker 4: to replace us.
Speaker 1: Well, and you know, maybe an improvement.
Speaker 3: This is the part of the show where you rip
Speaker 3: off your mask and you're actually a robot.
Speaker 4: Robots. Yeah, it's scary stuff. It's billionaires with money to burn. Uh,
Speaker 4: you know all this stuff. It's it's all these billionaire guys. Well, yeah, buddy,
Speaker 4: they're doing what you were just talking about.
Speaker 3: This is an experiment. It's gonna they're gonna replace us
Speaker 3: with robots and away we go.
Speaker 4: Goodbye, audios, get rid of these robot things. Remember the Jetsons,
Speaker 4: good good, good show. Remember the Jetsons, of course, Yeah,
Speaker 4: they were the best robots. R two D two Johnny
Speaker 4: Robots through History, Johnny five, What was that movie, Johnny five? Well,
Speaker 4: what a robo cop RoboCop iron Man? Iron Man?
Speaker 3: Iron Man was at a robot well in a way.
Speaker 7: I know.
Speaker 1: Tony starts in iron Man.
Speaker 3: Roboco number one, Robot out there.
Speaker 1: Birthdays Let's go all right.
Speaker 3: Hey, next pole ex wading dog pole question, Let's go
Speaker 3: for robot.
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Speaker 4: forty five minutes out of Edmonton. Just pass the International airport.
Speaker 4: Here we go. This undrafted player played one hundred and
Speaker 4: seventy two games for the Canucks. Undrafted, undrafted nineteen eighty one,
Speaker 4: played all his hockey in Sweden and MOTO helped his
Speaker 4: country to several metal finishes at the Winter Olympics in
Speaker 4: the Worlds in the nineteen eighty so always on the
Speaker 4: Swedish top teams. Played for Sweden at the nineteen eighty
Speaker 4: Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Skilled play making forward, strong
Speaker 4: on both the power play and the PK. One of
Speaker 4: my favorites growing up.
Speaker 1: I should have played for the Knucks, No, yeah, but
Speaker 1: the Canucks.
Speaker 4: One hundred and seventy two games for the Canucks. He
Speaker 4: joined his former MOTO teammates Thomas Gardeen and Lars lingren.
Speaker 3: Love's point Lars Mullen.
Speaker 4: Lars Mullen, it was he twenty six, Yes, twenty six.
Speaker 4: I still favorite player. Shut, What are you talking about?
Speaker 4: A number twenty six? Lars Mullane. I still remember the
Speaker 4: great Jim Robson calling Lars Mullen goals. It's in my head.
Speaker 3: I was a robot.
Speaker 1: He stopped.
Speaker 4: Lars Mullen was one of my favorite Canucks. I loved him.
Speaker 4: Great guy. Okay, this guy is another former Canuck too.
Speaker 4: It's Canuck Day on birthdays. That's Cannock, the Winnipeg Jets
Speaker 4: third round pick in nineteen ninety five Edmonton guyen ninety five.
Speaker 4: Played in Portland, pretty good in Portland with the Winterhawks.
Speaker 4: Played for Canada at the ninety seven World Juniors. Would
Speaker 4: never play a game at Winnipeg when they moved to Arizona.
Speaker 4: That's where he played, made his NHL debut, started bouncing around.
Speaker 4: Then Islanders traded him for Raffie Torres two thousand and seven.
Speaker 4: Signs a one year deal with the Canucks for five
Speaker 4: hundred Grad only played fifteen fifty five games in Vancouver
Speaker 4: duty injuries. After a year in the Swiss League, he
Speaker 4: retired into coaching. Initials Brad is mister is Vister Boom.
Speaker 4: I remember Brad is Vista. I remember interviewing him. Great guy,
Speaker 4: great guy, good guy. Okay, this guy was a high
Speaker 4: pick on the twenty sixteen NHL draft. Born in Sweden,
Speaker 4: but represented Finland. Born in Sweden, represented Finland. Oh, hold on,
Speaker 4: Lars Eller? Ah, stop it? How do you get Lars Zeller?
Speaker 1: Is that who it is?
Speaker 3: It's not large Dad, It's an inside joke. That was Denmark,
Speaker 3: by the way.
Speaker 1: Oh was it?
Speaker 4: So he's got dual citizenship. In twenty sixteen, he won
Speaker 4: the President's Trophy, which is awarded the person who was
Speaker 4: the most impressive ice hockey player in Finland. In the NHL.
Speaker 4: He opted to wear sweater number ninety eight, first player
Speaker 4: to do it since nineteen eighty five, when Brian Lawton,
Speaker 4: the former first overall.
Speaker 3: Pick of Minnesota almost Gretzky ninety eight.
Speaker 4: Yeah, ninety eight. He started his career on the line
Speaker 4: with Leon Drysdle and Patrick Maroon. Could never get traction
Speaker 4: in Avonton Hully Harvey. Yes, yes, you got it. Jesse
Speaker 4: Pouley Arvey. Who he's not in the NHL anymore? Is he?
Speaker 4: I don't think so. I think he was in Florida.
Speaker 4: The last kick of the can All right, last one.
Speaker 3: This player that was the Pierre Luke Dubois draft.
Speaker 1: Was it, Yeah?
Speaker 4: It was yeah, Yeah, that's it. This player was a
Speaker 4: six round pick of the Buffalo Sabers in nineteen seventy two.
Speaker 4: All hockey here fourteen years in the NHL. Initially entered
Speaker 4: the University of Denver as a baseball player on a
Speaker 4: baseball scholarship.
Speaker 3: What year you were talking here?
Speaker 4: In nineteen seventy two, Vancouver native by the way, went
Speaker 4: to University of Denver on baseball scholarship, ended up playing hockey.
Speaker 4: Helped the Savers reach the seventy five stand the Cup Finals,
Speaker 4: best years in Boston, leading them to the He played
Speaker 4: in the nineteen ninety seventy seven the NFL All Star Game,
Speaker 4: led the Bruins in nineteen ninety seventy seven Listen to
Speaker 4: me seventy seven, led the Bruins and goals for three
Speaker 4: straight years. In nineteen eighty had an eighty three point season.
Speaker 4: Vancouver native ended up with the Canucks in eighty four.
Speaker 4: Played two years in Vancouver after the Canucksy was signed
Speaker 4: with the Devils. His father was the GM Peter McNabb,
Speaker 4: Peter McNabb, Peterman. I remember when the Canucks got Peter
Speaker 4: McNabb in nineteen eighty four.
Speaker 3: Max McNabb was his dad.
Speaker 4: Max was his dad, inducted into the US hockey. He's
Speaker 4: a Vancouver native, the late Peter McNabb. Yeah, Peter, But
Speaker 4: you know, I think he bounced wrong. It didn't stay
Speaker 4: in Vancouver too long if I remember correctly. But Peter
Speaker 4: McNabb was a great hockey player, a great guy, and
Speaker 4: then an.
Speaker 3: Analyst as antolyst Duck as an analyst with Colorado Ducks two.
Speaker 4: He was with the Ducks for many years.
Speaker 3: All right, thanks for that. We're good? Is it just
Speaker 3: me coming up? Bill Danoff eighty years old today. Singer
Speaker 3: and songwriter You're gonna like this? Do you like Anchorman?
Speaker 3: In the movie? Oh? Singer and songwriter for the Washington
Speaker 3: DC group That's Gonna Play Us At April seventy six
Speaker 3: and their self titled debut album, Starland Vocal Band, number
Speaker 3: one in Canada and the US with Afternoon Delight on
Speaker 3: Check when It's right, It's right on a BC Thursday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna find my baby, Gonna hold it day.
Speaker 3: Donna grab some then line.
Speaker 4: My motto has always been when it's.
Speaker 3: Right bayside, ocean front resort inbox hopping popping for is
Speaker 3: it just me rot Ryan? What's going on? Nothing? Okay?
Speaker 3: Go ahead, I.
Speaker 4: Want to go to join Nanaimo. First, how about a
Speaker 4: shout out to the Nanaimo Clippers. They swept the heavy
Speaker 4: favorite Prince George to win the Coastal Conference Championship. They're
Speaker 4: gonna play for the Rogers Cup BC Hockeyey Championship. A
Speaker 4: great uh, Nanaimo Clippers. Great, great history there that Bill
Speaker 4: Beswick had so many good teams over the years. There,
Speaker 4: good franchise, good on Nanaimo Clippers.
Speaker 3: And Western Hockey League. Draft was yesterday? Was it not?
Speaker 4: Yes? Did you want to mention something with that Vancover Giants?
Speaker 4: A couple of no. By the way, vancourvag Giants took
Speaker 4: trade Eli Vickers from Surrey Delta Academy third overall. Seven
Speaker 4: kids from the Lower Mainland. Donny went in the first
Speaker 4: round of the dub Draft. Here it is right here,
Speaker 4: Eli Vickers, a big defenseman Delta third overall pick for
Speaker 4: the Giants and fourth overall they took Braden Jugnaf. That's
Speaker 4: a Centerman out of Kolowna. So this is they had
Speaker 4: the second pick and they moved down and moved it
Speaker 4: with ever No, no, the Wenacchi they did the deal,
Speaker 4: got a bunch of whack up draft picks from Monacchi to.
Speaker 3: Move down Bobby from Poco. Is it just me to
Speaker 3: show the Canucks just hire AI robots as GM and president.
Speaker 3: They could do any worse about twenty of those right now.
Speaker 3: I haven't seen I robot by the way, with Will Smith,
Speaker 3: I have submissions.
Speaker 4: And twenty minutes I backed off. No there are I
Speaker 4: couldn't get into it. If you can't get into a movie.
Speaker 4: I got a twenty minute limit. I give everything. We
Speaker 4: were twenty minutes and then I time it and if
Speaker 4: I'm not.
Speaker 3: F I was like that with everything everywhere, all at once,
Speaker 3: which won the Oscar. I thought it was horrible. A
Speaker 3: lot of people saying they were thankful that robot didn't
Speaker 3: rupture a testicle.
Speaker 4: Les, which you said, Sammy Seller did. Imagine training your
Speaker 4: whole life for a half marathon just to get smoked
Speaker 4: by our roomba with knees, Teddy and north Fan. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they got to stop that robot crap. Why why is
Speaker 4: he doing the place I got?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I stop it, Dodd technological advancement. We're getting
Speaker 3: a lot of this. This is unsigned?
Speaker 4: Is it just me?
Speaker 3: But what are the chances of them? Are Doman being
Speaker 3: part of that bid for the white Caps? I just
Speaker 3: don't see it.
Speaker 1: Look, look, if you're buying.
Speaker 3: The Lions or the white Caps CFL team or an
Speaker 3: MLS team, it's a labor of love. There's very a
Speaker 3: very good chance you're going to lose money, all right,
Speaker 3: it's it's for the community. And I know with the
Speaker 3: white Caps a lot of it is that that ownership
Speaker 3: group feels that your participation in sports is very very
Speaker 3: important and that teams like the white Caps and the
Speaker 3: Lions influence kids to play sports, which is great for
Speaker 3: for everybody. I can't see him, ar No, you know,
Speaker 3: doing a labor of love times too.
Speaker 4: And if the white Caps owner is telling you he's
Speaker 4: lost three four, five hundred million dollars, who the heck
Speaker 4: wants to go walk into that? Who wants to walk
Speaker 4: into that? Don unless you see a better picture, there
Speaker 4: would have to be a different stadium. Absolutely, just me,
Speaker 4: But is this not a good time to sell high
Speaker 4: on heronic package? Him up late first round pick two
Speaker 4: seconds for San Jose second overall ed from White Rock.
Speaker 4: Heronic is most likely gonna I I think the captain
Speaker 4: of the Vancouver Canucks is gonna come down to Heronic
Speaker 4: and Brock.
Speaker 3: Then they don't need a captain.
Speaker 4: Just stop, don I'm telling you he's on a.
Speaker 3: Short so you don't trade him if you got to,
Speaker 3: if you get a great deal, place who's your first
Speaker 3: pair of defense?
Speaker 4: If you trade Heronic, you just traded what's his name,
Speaker 4: Tyler Myers. The right side's weaker, and now you want
Speaker 4: to get rid of your top right shot.
Speaker 3: D Well, you make it sound like the president is
Speaker 3: really really important, the most important. The future is the
Speaker 3: most important thing. You get, you get presented a great
Speaker 3: deal for Philip Peronic. Goodbye. Sorry, Jim in Victoria is
Speaker 3: just me. But wasn't it awesome to see Quinn Hughes
Speaker 3: getting thump numerous time the other night? Go Avs Nathan
Speaker 3: McKinnon was hitting everybody legally in that game. One of
Speaker 3: the players he hit was Quinn Hughes and he blastered
Speaker 3: Matt Boldi as well. It was pretty impressive. But Quinn
Speaker 3: Hughes is getting booed in Denver, left and right, and
Speaker 3: that wasn't the McKinnon hit wasn't the only hit he
Speaker 3: took on that game, and we saw that. Remember remember
Speaker 3: when the Kuducks played Nashville and Keifer Shrewood was going
Speaker 3: after Quinn. He was back in twenty four.
Speaker 4: What does Quinny you expect he's in the second round
Speaker 4: of the playoff. Well, he knows that he's got a
Speaker 4: big target on his back. He's one of the best
Speaker 4: defensemen in the world. The kid Schaefer with the Islanders
Speaker 4: done was the most hit defenseman in the NHL this year.
Speaker 4: He's eighteen years old. Why do you think he was
Speaker 4: the most hit teams targeting the best players.
Speaker 3: I get that, But for Jim and Victoria it's a
Speaker 3: little extra special because there is definitely an anti Quinn
Speaker 3: Hughes group that has grown larger and larger since he
Speaker 3: was traded. Right, That's true. Even before that, We'll wrap
Speaker 3: up to the show and the pole question. Next, Donnie Delly,
Speaker 3: the team on check, three foot hot dogs, postgame fireworks,
Speaker 3: Freddy Noonters and the future Toronto Blue Jays.
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Speaker 4: Doug and I mean dog poll Rick, Ryan Gonner up
Speaker 4: the waterling dog up pop pole question and assuming mckennon'
Speaker 4: stenberg go one and two in the draft, who should
Speaker 4: have Connects number three? Look at this fifty three percent
Speaker 4: say Manny's kid Caleb, followed by Chase Reied, the big
Speaker 4: defenseman out of the Ohl. And then you got Keaton
Speaker 4: Veroff who playing Victoria last year, Carson Carrels who plays
Speaker 4: in Prince George this year.
Speaker 3: I believe Craig Button has Carson Carl's at number two
Speaker 3: for his latest Craig's where great photos.
Speaker 4: We're gonna mention.
Speaker 3: Yes before we get to photos. A special hello to
Speaker 3: longtime viewers, special viewers Maureene and Bob. They're going through
Speaker 3: some tough times right now, so a special hello to them.
Speaker 4: Marine and Barbara are two of our favorites. Have a
Speaker 4: good day. Okay, where we're going? Right? Are we going overseas?
Speaker 4: Where we're going?
Speaker 1: We're going to cruise.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: It's in water. It's in water. You never said overseas
Speaker 4: it's in water. Okay, get her up. This is Rob
Speaker 4: and Kim taking the mini cruise to Seattle and Victoria.
Speaker 4: Look at that discovery. What's it called the Discovery of
Speaker 4: the Princess or.
Speaker 1: It's just discover, no discovery? That this something hiding.
Speaker 4: Tom's video. But listen, discovery Princess looks like is what
Speaker 4: the boats called. I haven't taken the cruise to Seattle
Speaker 4: in Victoria, have you.
Speaker 3: I've never taken a cruise, have you.
Speaker 4: I took one last summer. Oh yeah, that's right to
Speaker 4: Los Angeles. I thought it was wonderful.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a good way to ease into a
Speaker 3: cruise experience. Somebody at Victoria.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, oh yeah, I thought it was fabulous.
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe you could go San Diego to Vancouver like
Speaker 1: some people do something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Ryan, when we're going to people work right overseas?
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Turkey.
Speaker 4: Oh go look at that where my Donnie and Dolly
Speaker 4: shirt at the Seraphane winery in Turkey. Sorry about that,
Speaker 4: cusa just Turkey, he said, Turkey. We had just toured
Speaker 4: the ancient Ruins of Ephesus, a fan of the show
Speaker 4: to press conduct fan Larry port Moody, Larry, look at
Speaker 4: look at that, Larry and Turkey looking great. Thanks a lot, Buddy, We.
Speaker 1: Got one hold over photo. We'll get to tomorrow.
Speaker 4: We'll get to the uncle. Your uncle, Glenn, Glenn, great guy.
Speaker 3: Thanks for watching. Folks on behalf of Ryan, Derek, other
Speaker 3: people in the studio, Rick, everyone here at Oh Boy check.
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