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Chapter 1: What are the Sedins' potential roles in the Canucks organization?
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Chapter 2: How are the Sedins aligned with Ryan Johnson in the GM search?
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Today's the day we should have dressed the same because we would be twinning in that spot.
Oh, right. No, no twinning today. No twinning. No, I mean, you have, I have green pants on. We're all like greenish. And you have a green shirt on. But that's about as close as we got today.
If there's ever a day to be coordinated.
Yes.
Not today. We don't have classic centrally.
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Chapter 3: What challenges does Elias Pettersson face with the current leadership?
I was as close as I could get to Sedina.
No, we don't have centrally. That doesn't sound as good. Not quite as magical either. And the Sedins, yes. It looks like the Sedins are joining the organization in a different capacity. They're already in the organization. Yeah.
maybe a more of an official role what that looks like exactly we will find out it doesn't look like they're going to be the chief decision makers so don't expect the city and so all of a sudden be named president and vice president of hockey operations and they're going to be lording over whoever the new general manager is going to be in the practice facility coordinators yeah which one would be which
President and vice president.
I mean, Henrik has always stood out as being the one who's a little bit more... I mean, he was the captain. He was the captain. So the easy money... Does he defer now at the executive level? You know what? I was the player.
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Chapter 4: What impact could a leadership change have on the Canucks' future?
As a player, you get to take over now. Yeah. You know? So... What that looks like, we're going to find out. The bigger question remains, who's going to do this? It will make sense soon. Yeah, it will. It will. I mean, you know what? So we talked about this, was it on Friday's show? Yeah.
You know, in light of what Jim Rutherford said, when all this comes together, it's going to make sense to people. And we wondered on the show, does...
When you start thinking about the possibilities, wouldn't the Sedins growing into a bigger role be part of that presentation of like, oh, here are these ultimate character guys and pillars of the organization in so many different ways and that they're going to be part of ushering in the new era.
Chapter 5: Who are the leading candidates for the Canucks GM position?
We wondered about this on Friday and it's coming to pass now on a Monday. Yeah. A little surprising. Yeah, I mean, I'm surprised still, despite the fact we talked about it.
Especially just because in hindsight, you start going through this past month here, like the president, or I shouldn't even say president, but the Rutherford successor. That conversation felt so muted.
Yes.
And when you think about, okay, now how has the process gone through? Was the intent always for this? And then the next GM, who's going to be the chief hockey decision maker, was going to have to figure out, okay, part of this is Daniel and Henrik will kind of be... right-hand man for me.
Yeah, and I think that, obviously, part of the equation when they first joined the organization in 2021 in a special advisor role to then-Connectional manager Jim Benning was that They wanted to learn about everything, but at some point, perhaps take on bigger roles within the organization. They weren't sure at that point.
I think what they truly wanted to do, was it going to be on the management side?
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Chapter 6: What factors influence the decision-making process for the new GM?
Was it going to be on the coaching side? And they took the last five years to learn throughout different parts of the organization. And we'll see ultimately what those roles look like when that gets announced. Probably sometime this week, early this week, might still be the smart money. But let's bring in our next guest on the Able Auctions hotline.
It is Frank Cervalli, NHL insider and host of Frankly Hockey on Victory+. What's happening, Frank?
Not too much.
How about you guys? Yeah, you know, we're just another day spinning our wheels trying to figure out who's going to be the GM. And a new wrinkle in all this, Frank. It looks like the Sedins are joining in a bigger front office role.
Yeah, I'd say to this point in time, it's mostly been a fool there and trying to piece all this together, which is, um, based on the different whims of the participants in these conversations from Jim Rutherford to Michael Doyle, to Dak Aquilini to Francesco. I think there's been a number of different factions, viewpoints, and opinions.
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Chapter 7: How do the Sedins' past experiences affect their new roles?
And now you can add in the Sedins, who, to my understanding, have been fervent backers of Ryan Johnson. Not to say that they wouldn't work with anyone else, but I think they've been trying to champion his case for becoming the next general manager. And I'm curious to see what kind of impact their thumbs on the scale have in any of this.
That's interesting because there's been so much momentum on the outside looking in in terms of Evan Gold. And I do think he's clearly the finalist alongside Ryan Johnson and somebody that or an ownership thinks very highly of. But the idea that he was locked and loaded for the position seemed maybe a bit premature.
And based on what you're saying right now as well, it's still very much a question in terms of who the GM is going to be at this stage.
Correct. Uh, I, I believe that to be accurate. Um, and that, like I said, um, if the sardines are taking on a larger role, which is not a guarantee, uh, but if they are much like the Matt Sundin ire in Toronto, that. They, again, they've been very supportive of Ryan Johnson. I know Jim Rutherford has been as well.
He's sort of viewed as, quote, their guy, that he understands the chessboard, understands how things work, has his own ideas and thought processes and experience. and that they see him as the best candidate and fit.
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Chapter 8: What should the Maple Leafs prioritize in their upcoming draft?
Again, not to say that Evan Gold is not a quality candidate or is not a finalist or any of those things. I just think at this point in time, based on the intel that I have, is that they're still working their way through this.
Part of this process and learning the little tidbits as we go through it all over the past month, and one of the emerging thoughts was someone who's got ties to BC, not just the Canucks, but to BC to kind of understand what this is all about.
And with Daniel and Henrik assuming some bigger roles, it would be harder pressed to find two bigger candidates who fill that nature of, hey, connections to BC, obviously connections to the team. How much of that has, when you reflect back on the last month, has maybe played a role in this of how much those guys were tied into where this process was going?
You know, I think it's a hard question to answer because on the one hand, I see a ton of merit and value in understanding the marketplace, the daily rhythm of it, and the, frankly, the pressure cooker that it can sometimes be.
I mean, I know a lot of people say, oh, look at Toronto and look at how that market works and it, you know, chews people up and spits them out and it's hard to win there and all those things. Like, Honestly, I think at times the Vancouver market can be the most challenging based on how it works. And that's not a critique or criticism of anyone. It's more just an opinion.
And so I do think that there's merit in that. I think that there is a buffer period or at least an adjustment period that would be afforded to the Sedins based on their history as iconic players and Hall of Famers. So that all matters and stands out.
I think, on the other hand, though, like, maybe it shouldn't, that, you know, if you look back to the Sedins' transition to what they do, and this isn't a criticism at all, again, but they were kind of supposed to be the Elias Pettersson whisperers, were they not? And that really kind of hasn't worked.
And I don't know if they've sort of thrown their hands up in the air and said, I don't know what we can do here. I don't know if part of that's on Pedersen. I don't like they've kind of had one toe in. One toe out. So it's really hard to evaluate where they stand in terms of their readiness to impact this organization moving forward.
And I think if they're willing to dive in and do the work on a full time day to day basis, they are more than capable with their experience and their hockey knowledge and know how. But as we've seen in the past, like it's not just you don't just go from being a Hall of Fame player to becoming a Hall of Fame or top quality, you know, front office executive. It doesn't work like that.
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