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Chapter 1: What is the current status of the Canucks' GM search?
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Let's go. I'm fired up. One of the biggest weeks in franchise history.
Yeah. Did you survey anybody before you joined the show today?
Yeah, I was a little concerned to do the show today.
Oh, really? What happened?
I was chatting to 20 industry colleagues and 19 of them. Oh, were they prominent industry colleagues?
Yeah.
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Chapter 2: Who are the notable candidates being considered for the Canucks' GM position?
Like, that's the thing. It just comes down to would ownership be willing to go down that path again? Because we've heard mixed things about Gillis in terms of maybe he's willing to come back to Vancouver depending on the situation. But would ownership be prepared to give him the autonomy and also give the trust over based on how things unfolded last time?
Well, that part I can't answer, but I would ask the question if I could to the owner directly, which is where have you had your best run and most success since you've been at the helm of this franchise? Who was operating the team at that moment in time?
Right.
Chapter 3: How does Pierre Dorian fit into the Canucks' GM search?
I think the answer is pretty clear. And I would think that feelings, emotions, look, when you're the boss and you sign your name on the checks, you get to think and feel whatever you want. But I view pro sports franchises as something a lot bigger than just business and dollars and cents.
They are community assets and you are just the steward of that asset for a period of time until you pass it along to the next person or the next family. And when you have that responsibility, you need to swallow your pride and sometimes
take a back seat, and in this case, I would argue that it should be strongly encouraged and considered to get out of the way and let someone do the job that's capable. Since the Aquilines have been involved and been in charge, unquestionably their best run of success was with Mike Gillis at the helm. Whether or not these two sides can kiss and make up, Remains to be seen.
I just think as you go through this, you either go with the guy that you have and teach him how to do it in Ryan Johnson, or you make a bold play and you really bridge the gap that's out there and do something wild like this.
Yeah, I mean, I don't disagree necessarily. And I think a lot of people feel the same way. And I think the way Dorian is viewed in contrast to everything you mentioned about Gillis, and whether this is fair or not, I wanted to get your point, I mean, your take on it. Is it fair that people view Dorian as just a puppet for ownership? At least that's what he was in Ottawa.
Because I know that's the perception some have of Pierre Dorian.
No, I think that would be a mischaracterization. I really do. Um, Pierre Dorian stood on his own two feet. Um, he made a lot of decisions and a lot of really important decisions. But I, I think the biggest thing that stands out to me is, is just how that whole sequence went down with Matthew Shane and how the Sens went from team going for it.
This is the final piece to a very short period of time. Leaders announcing that they're embarking on a long rebuild, uh, Again, with whiplash-like speed. I don't know how you live that down. It speaks to me. I don't care how mercurial your owner is or how involved.
It speaks to me to a lack of depth and vision and planning because that's what really stands out when you have such a knee-jerk reaction like that.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Frank Cervalli provide about the Canucks' approach?
But like the external part, like as far as like, you know, teams have to conduct business now with the Toronto Maple Leafs. And I'm just curious, like, how does that impact like the reputation of the Leafs or like how other teams are dealing with them now here moving forward? Or is it just, hey, try to take advantage?
Well, that's the part that I posed this morning with the reporting that I did that I the NHL looked into a concern that was voiced by a team over the last few days of alleged tampering. And some of the replies that I got from people were, so wait, the league found this claim to be unsubstantiated, yet you're reporting on it anyway, or are you just trying to sewer John Chayka and the Leafs?
And no, first off, anytime the league is looking into something like that, I think it's newsworthy. Like the league, Gary Bettman and Bill Daley aren't in the business of wasting their time. So if there wasn't something credible to it, they wouldn't have bothered looking into it at all. And B, I think it speaks to the current that John Chayka is going to have to swim against in order to be –
an effective dealmaker with his counterparts in the NHL. This underlines the suspicion that the people that he has to work with view him with as he resurfaces and enters the league again. It's not easy to burn bridges like that and then come back in and say, oh, yeah, by the way, I'm going to call you next week and let's make a trade. That's just not how it works.
Well, and I think, I know the inference some people are making on this hire, especially if you view it in the lens of, is Sheikha even a key decision maker? What are the strings that Keith Pelley is going to be pulling behind the scenes here? Is he essentially going to be playing president slash GM to some extent?
It seems like he wants to be very hands-on, and a cynic would say he hired a management team which allows him to do so.
Yeah, I mean, look... I agree wholeheartedly with the thought process, and we'll have to see how that works. But, I mean, there are other people that were involved in this process that got the ick and didn't have a good feeling about it.
There are others that were offered significant advising roles, and once they found out that it was John Chayka and Matt Sundin decided that it wasn't a fit for them, There are a lot of people that have reacted very negatively to this, and I don't know how you could come away from that press conference today feeling like anything other than
Keith Pelley is still going to be very, very much involved in what happens next with the Toronto Maple Leafs.
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