Ryan Whitney
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1,918 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 11 May
Ryan Whitney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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okay analytics are great and all and every team in the nhl uses analytics but it is a department that the gm who delegates a lot of stuff uses as a tool to check some boxes and and end up making a decision it's not the end all be all it's 10 to 15 percent of the pie graph type of thing right along with what's his character like uh you know what else can he provide the group uh
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What's his character like?
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How does he gel with teammates?
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Can he maybe play multiple positions?
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There's so much more that goes into decision making than just pulling up a pie graph based on what your technology tracked when this guy was on the ice and how efficient he is.
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They end up hiring him and
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His first year there was Shane Doan's eventual last year as an Arizona Coyote.
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Mind you, the year prior to that, Doan had scored, I think, over 30 goals with the team.
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And then the year where John Chayka first year as GM, I think Doan might have had under 10 goals in the 10-goal range, maybe 30, 35 points.
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But at that point, he was obviously on the back nine, but...
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You still have a great leader who's going to teach these young players you're bringing in how to act off the ice.
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And he was still undecided after that season whether he was going to play the next year.
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From speaking to him, it was like, no, I probably wasn't going to play.
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And even if I wasn't going to play and they didn't want me playing, that wasn't the big deal.
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So at that point, I believe the GM was now 27 years old.
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He texts or calls Shane Doan, hey, meet me at this breakfast place in Scottsdale.
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Sits down with Shane Doan, 21 years of service, Mr. Coyote, one of the most beloved people in the Valley.
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Him, Larry Fitzgerald, Kirk Warner, a very few people in the mix there.
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And he says, hey, not only are you not going to play for us, we have no need for you in the organization anymore.
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Keep in mind, the year prior, he had signed a deal where Shane Doan took deals his whole time in Arizona because the league owned him.
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