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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Back in on Canuck Central. Sunny Friday in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia. This hour of Canuck Central brought to you by your lower mainland Boston pizza. The playoffs are here and BP is ready. So skip the couch, catch every hit, every goal, every save, every playoff beard. This is how you watch playoff hockey. As we come to you live from the Kintec studio.
And as always, get your thoughts into our Dunbar Lumber text inbox, 650-650. We're going to be joined by Yannick Hansen coming up in a few moments. And as always, get your thoughts into our text inbox. We have Mailbag Friday coming up in the next segment. So any questions and comments, get those in and we'll have some fun with Mailbag Friday coming up at five o'clock. Playoffs are ongoing.
Habs are playing the Tampa Bay Lightning. The Habs with a chance. The Punched her a ticket to the second round with a 3-2 lead on home ice tonight for game six at the Bell Center. So we'll see how things go here. But a great series between these two teams. So far scoreless in the first period. We were chatting about the Edmonton Oilers and their struggles.
And we'll talk to Yannick about what happens if you miss your window. So let's go to the Able Auctions hotline and welcome in Yannick Hansen, who always is a presentation of the Metro Ford, the Bankston family's Metro Ford in beautiful Port Coquitlam. It's Canada's largest volume medium truck dealership. Metro Ford with a lower mainland buys their Fords. What's happening, Yannick?
How you doing, man? I'm good. How are you? And we were chatting a bit about the window with the Sedins and you guys were part of the team back in 2011, 2012. And when you got to 2013 after that, it kind of became clear that things had to get revamped. Do you know as a team when your windows closed in terms of being a cup contender?
I don't think so. You obviously believe right till the end and past the end as well. You can see the writing in the terms of for a couple of years for us, teams had to beat us. And I'd say even the second year where LA beat us, that series is still them having to come in and beat us, not the other way around. They obviously did that.
But you can see it when you're like, okay, this team, they're probably better than us when we start lining up the lineups against each other and you start weighing pros and cons and those things. But then again, you're in how close are we? What needs to go right for us?
Is it just a guy we need to contain or is this a whole team where we need to surprise not just everybody else but ourselves as well? That's when you're kind of past that point. And then you start looking also like, are you in an easier division? Like, can we get through a round or two? And then in the third round, we might see a tougher team.
But like at that point, hopefully they're tired, maybe an injury, all of those little things. So I would say your window, as long as you're playing well, It seems a lot more open once you're sitting in a dressing room because of the belief you have in yourself and your team.
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Chapter 2: What insights does Jannik Hansen provide about the Oilers' championship window?
They've never had a legitimate goalie who can steal them a game just like they can win a game. And it gets done to them so often in the sense that once in a while they'll run into a goalie that they will get a game for them. Sure, their teams in front of them will win games as well, but they don't get that. Then we started talking in Edmonton here, like, where are the secondary scoring?
And then for a couple of years, they had quite a bit of secondary scoring, and that's what helped them kind of catapult past the hurdle of the playoffs and into the finals, but never the last little bit where again they ran into a Florida team that had a goalie that could do it. Of course the Florida teams were good in front of Bobrovsky as well, but they ran into teams like that.
You know how we talked about the Canucks and Quinn Hughes that they couldn't get to the final year of his contract. You had to make a decision one way or another. McDavid's a bit different because we're talking about one of the greatest players. Some would say the greatest player in terms of pure talent of all time.
Is that a player that you would hold on to until the very end to see if you could make it work? Or would you, after next year, make a move if you're not getting the commitment?
Yeah, that's a tough one. Again, at that point, he's 32, he's 33. I think if Edmonton sees the writing here and they have a team that can win, you probably hold on to him and then you bite the bullet. I mean, if... Let's say Vancouver is in that scenario where Edmonton thinks they're a contender and this is Quinn's last year and you think you can win here in Vancouver the first time in 50 years.
I think you hold on to Quinn too instead of trading him for potential down the road just because you want to win. And if you win and you feel like you can win, I'll take 10 years of heartache after that.
for the chance to win when you have players that are that special that have proven that they can get it done at that time of the year as well but again it all comes down to what Edmonton looks like not him everybody else around him looks like at that point
You've spoken a lot over the years how you want to see him win a cup, sort of move the conversation. And I do feel like the conversation a little bit is about how the Oilers have failed him more than anything, but he doesn't have the ring. And that's always going to be a conversation. You kind of alluded to it, like goaltending has been the issue.
Is there a lot of work to be done or is it just, hey, fix the goaltending to you?
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Chapter 3: How does Hansen compare the current Oilers' situation to his experience with the Canucks?
Again, obviously scouts have been around the game for a long, long time in these things, but there are benefits to having played. The flip side of that is probably you don't have a whole lot of executive experience in terms of running a business, which again, the team probably is or is. So there's also some downfalls on that side.
That's where I was like, it's not about hiring one person or get one person in the spot and that'll fix everything. You need a group of people to get this thing done. And then, yeah, somebody has to have the final say. And if it's somebody who happens to have played in the league that everybody knows...
And it makes an easier introduction and then first step into the into the dressing room and the organization, I'm sure.
Is there a personality trait like for someone that's going to the GM role or into the president role of hockey operations? Is there a personality trait that you say like outside of scouting acumen and all that? Like what's the thing that you look at and say, OK, that guy's got this and everything can be built off of that?
Oh, that's a tough one. What you're looking at, again, is you need somebody who can identify the right people. Somebody who can find somebody to help them. If you think you're the smartest in the room, the best at everything, you're going to falter right away. You need to find people, surround yourself with people that you can delegate to.
So it's somebody who has to be able to hand things off, knowing what to hand off and what not to hand off in that sense. So you're... You're delegating more so than you're dictating. But then, yeah, again, you need to be able to cut through as well. And that's where some of these players that are coming in, like how good are you at that? Like how confrontational can you be?
Can you be the prick when you need to? That's one of the things that sometimes like maybe they weren't cut for it.
Yannick, terrific stuff as always, man. Thanks for your time. Enjoy the sunshine this weekend and stay hydrated. It's going to be really warm this weekend. Yeah, sounds good. Take care. You got it. That's Yannick Hansen. Great as always with his insight. And, you know, it's going to be interesting to see how things come together here for the Canucks front office overall.
But I do think in terms of setting the culture, and this is where the GM has a lot of responsibilities. And yes, the GM is also... part of setting the culture in many ways. But that's why it's good to have an executive above that is focused on managing upwards to ownership, which I think is very important in today's NHL, not just in Vancouver in general.
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Chapter 4: What are the challenges faced by the Oilers in the playoffs this season?
And not that you're not holding people accountable. It's not like you're sitting there saying, oh, shucks, everything is good. But you want to create a good, positive work environment, but also be... having high standards and understanding what positive culture is moving forward.
And if you have somebody who's above the general manager focused on those initiatives, I think it makes it easier for people to be focused on what they have to do and also having somebody on top who sets the organizational culture.
Leadership, right?
Yeah.
And leadership isn't just like the grit your teeth, iron will, like yell at people kind of thing. It's honestly to what Yannick was talking about. Not knowing the answer is okay if you're a leader. Yeah. Like, to what he was just saying, it's like, I'm not the smartest person in the room.
I need to surround myself with people that might be specialists in whatever we're asking them to do, but feed me the information so we can collectively make the right decisions. You may not have the answers, but are you able to find the answers?
The job title does not make you a leader. No, it's about finding those answers. And the thing is, not everybody has solutions to everything. And, you know, you need to have people who are understanding of that and do have also the confidence to delegate responsibility and also let other people shine. It's like, yeah, you're going to delegate and you may not get the credit for this.
And sometimes you get all the credit because that's what happens with people in power. But do you have the confidence and the ability to check your ego to some extent? Right. Yeah. And I think those things do matter in a big, big way. All right. Keep your thoughts coming into our Dunbar Lumber text inbox. Mailbag Friday is on the other side.
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