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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Hour two of Canuck Central. It's Satyar Shah and Bik Nizar coming to you live from the Kintec studio. Step strong with orthotics from Kintec in 2026. What a year. A lot happened already. Can you believe we're already halfway through the year? That's one thing I was thinking about.
I'm going to do a personal inventory of what's going on this year.
No, I mean, it's just one of those things I was thinking about.
We haven't even gotten to the World Cup yet.
No, and we're almost at the halfway point. We're almost at halftime for 2026.
Almost at halftime.
It's just nuts. It's nuts. Keep your thoughts coming in to our Dunbar Lumber Tax Inbox, 650-650. And this hour of the program is brought to you by BC Liquor. Enjoy left-field Sauvignon Blanc and sun-weld hard lemonade. Now $5 off only at BC Liquor. Visit your nearest BC Liquor today. 19 plus. Please enjoy responsibly. It's Sat and Bic. We're going to be joined by Landon Ferraro in just a moment.
Keep your thoughts coming into our text inbox. And let's go to the Able Auctions hotline and welcome in Landon Ferraro, former NHL and current Sportsnet analyst. What's happening, Landon? How you doing, man?
I'm doing really good. I'm over on Salt Spring Island today.
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Chapter 2: What are Landon Ferraro's thoughts on Manny Malhotra's coaching style?
Like something as simple as I would never have thought of it. I don't know what that says about me, but it was saying like, I don't want to start, or I don't want to get to the end and go last, but not least. And he started with thanking his family. That alone says a lot about someone. He knows who's in his corner.
He knows who has made the sacrifices to help him get to the point where he is, not only as a player before, but now as a head coach. To recognize that and really make a point of it, you can say what you want, but at the same time, if I'm a player seeing that, I don't know if it's just me older again looking back, but I see a guy that tears.
right from the start, you're like, if I can get in and I do what he wants, that's the type of respect that I'm going to get. Because anyone that you talk to, that's what you hear about Manny Malotra is, yeah, he wants things done his way. He's not a pushover, but at the same time, you can have a discussion.
You might not like how the discussion ends because he's going to tell you what he feels and what he thinks is best, but You know, it's the same thing of when you respect someone, you want to hear the criticism because it's not criticizing you to put you down. It's, you know, I know you have more. I know you can take your game to another level.
And when you're dealing with a bunch of young kids, you have to have that type of attitude.
Personal connections feels like it's going to be a big tenant of what this group tries to do. Just as a player, could you tell the phoniness sometimes if a coach wanted to get invested but it felt half-hearted at times? How does that impact your approach then when you can see maybe a coach trying to do too much or fake it?
You feel that within seconds of a guy coming in and holding a meeting, like the first one. There's the guys that come out and it's almost too much because they're trying to show they're in power. That's not how it works, really. Yeah, there's a couple coaches through the history that are those known real hard coaches and confrontational, all that. But for the vast majority...
like you don't need to raise your voice. You don't need to come in and light the room on fire, come in and be yourself and be confident in what you're saying. People, people resonate with that. You can follow someone, even if you don't know if he's right, but you feel that he is like, that's something that you can get behind.
And, and again, when it's a guy like Manny that is like, he's in the battle with his guys, watching him interact with his Abbotsford players and, like it's not a normal coach relationship in the sense of like this hard divide between them. Like he's close with his guys. He's still hard on them and all that, but he knows the history. He knows the relationships.
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Chapter 3: How does commitment to hockey impact young players?
And, you know, the thing he spoke about was body language and energy. But you have to lead by example. And he spoke about how challenging last year was and how you had to really ensure that you don't yourself fall victim to those ebbs and flows and kind of change your personality day to day.
Did you find the best coaches were the ones that day in and day out, regardless of wins or losses, had the exact same approach and mentality?
a thousand percent like that could manipulate the team in a positive way, right? Like you have, you think you get to know someone and how they're going to react to different things. And, and maybe you go on a couple of game winning streak, but it's not very pretty and the coach realizes it and he gets on top of it and same the other way.
You know, again, it's, I think more than anything, especially with the rebuild, it's about, and they talked about it a ton today, but like setting those clear guidelines and, and really pushing towards that. But the other part that I really liked that Manny brought up was like having fun and, you know, like the NHL is a pretty good league.
And that doesn't mean that you don't work hard and you push each other and all that, but you have to be able to look around. And I wish I would have been better at this while I was playing, but looking around and like appreciating where you are and getting to go to work in a dressing room and then go put gear on and chase a piece of rubber around.
It's a business, it's serious, and you have to put everything you have into it. But at the same time, man, you're chasing a piece of rubber. Like go have some fun. Like that's where you let the passion take over. And you can feel that when Manny and RJ talk, but you let that passion take over. Let the young guys have imagination.
Yeah, you got to reel them in in different ways, but don't take away the skill. Don't take away that, that young love of the sport, right? Like I've seen a lot of young players come through the American league or up in the NHL that as soon as they get there, the team drafted them, they know what player they are. And then they try and change everything about that player.
And then he's done playing in a couple of years because he hates the game, right? Like you have to feed that passion. It's a bit of the cookie, you know, out in front of you, but with a bit of fire behind you, pushing you forward, that's what a good coach does.
Okay, so when you phrase it like that, like, how does that become, like, the gap that teams fail to bridge of trying to change a player so much? Obviously, there's some stuff that you want to accentuate, but that ability of, like, because we always talk about, like, okay, guys embrace new roles, and that's positive, but you see, like, the bad version of that as well.
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Chapter 4: What insights does Landon Ferraro share about coaching dynamics?
And, you know, that discipline and that patience is obviously going to be a big part of Manny's job here with these younger players. And he mentioned how the NHL is not a developmental league, but at the same time, you are helping develop players at the National Hockey League level. I think when that discussion comes up about is the NHL a developmental league or not, I think generally it's not.
But there is a level of development that can happen at the National Hockey League level. But if you're talking about the basic... There's a baseline, right? If you're so far below the baseline of the details and the habits you need to be a National Hockey League player, you're not going to learn those in the NHL. You got to learn those and then come to the National Hockey League.
But if you have those habits, then there is a level of progression that you can expect in the National Hockey League.
Yeah, I think when we talk about development... That's not necessarily like a technical thing. There's elements that you're going to learn as you go through it. But I think it's more about just like the professional standards because the technical stuff is meant to be your responsibility. Right. There are certain things like Manny's like if you're talking to a 40-goal sniper.
Is there going to be a relatability of how to do that? Or is it an expectation that's like, hey, I don't want to coach these things out of you because that's what you're good at. But how are there other things that you can apply to understand how to be the best version of yourself every single day? So I think we get kind of caught up sometimes talking about what is development.
Development is also... all the things that they've been mentioning here of the off-ice components of how you are approaching your career. We say that kind of flippantly at times. It's like, oh, he's had a good career. Okay, but this is your job. How are you taking it seriously to extract the most out of yourself? I think that's the duty of a coach.
As I've mentioned a lot of times, it's the primary touchpoint for players in the organization. Yeah, there's GMs and presidents and all these things, but the person they're interacting with the most, you know, the trainers, of course, but like coaches.
Yeah, I mean, to that point, who's the individual that's the most forward-facing person of the team? It's the head coach. They speak literally every day, sometimes twice a day. Before the game and after the game. So that's the touch point to what you're saying, that every individual outside is reacting to and listening to and seeing.
And being able to communicate off that I think is important in the Canadian market especially. But that's not the most important thing. It comes down to ultimately, do you get the players on board and can you develop these players? And that's going to be Manny's gig here, right? How much can you progress the careers of these individual players?
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Chapter 5: How does a coach's personality influence player development?
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That and more next on Canuck central. Back in on Canucks Central. It's Satyar Shah, Bik Nizar, coming to you live from the Kintec studio. Keep your thoughts coming into our Dunbar Lumber text inbox, 650-650. Trusted by contractors and DIY champions across Metro Vancouver, four generations. Find them at three convenient locations or visit Dunbar Lumber online today.
And this hour of Canuck Central is brought to you by BC Liquor. Try Espelon Blanco Tequila, now $3 off. Fresh agave flavor, smooth finish. Visit your nearest BC Liquor today, 19 plus. Please enjoy responsibly. Some news developing around the Vancouver Canucks today. Of course, Manny Malhotra was introduced as the head coach of the Canucks to the media today.
We had a great chat with him on Canucks Central. If you missed it, you can check it out on the podcast on the Canucks Central feed. A great conversation. We spoke to Lana Ferraro as well. So a lot for you to catch up on on the Canucks Central podcast. And another piece of developing news in terms of a new addition for the Vancouver Canucks is
is Darren Hermiston, a player agent who looks to be joining the Canucks front office at some capacity. Is it an AGM? Is it a player development? I know I won't mention the focus is going to be on the player development side per his reporting. We'll see exactly what the title is, but he looks to be joining the organization.
And one of his most notable clients in terms of who Canuck fans will be familiar with are Steve Baines. So obviously somebody who knows how to work with younger players and developing hockey players. This is one of those... I can't sit here and tell you 100% about the pedigree of Hermiston and what he can do and whatnot.
But if you're not going out and targeting the bigger names and the more expensive front office additions, what you have to find is... the next group of guys, the guys that are coming up through the ranks and through the player development side. Sometimes you go through the agency side, you go through the scouting side, guys that had smaller roles, for instance, even.
But if you're not spending top dollar, the way you go out and find the really good execs is finding the ones that haven't got the opportunity yet. And hopefully, Darren is a strong addition and somebody that can give the Canucks an edge in that department.
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Chapter 6: What role does fun play in a young player's development?
It's like, your legacy is your high end, of course, and Eichmann's legacy is cemented. But... It feels like if you screw this up, it's going to take a long time for that element of the fans to reminisce about your legacy.
If you go eight years without making the playoffs as the guy at the helm, and then you extend this out over well over a decade, you're into like Buffalo territory of 14 years now. Because what happens if you have to make this move? What happens with Sider?
Is he going to say like... Boy, this sounds great. Because then you do get into the Buffalo thing where it's like a cascading, like, okay, I go request a trade, and then you got to go.
O'Reilly, Reinhardt. It's not just the one guy. It's like Lucas Raymond is there.
Yeah.
Now he's signed up, but it doesn't mean you can't ask for a trade, right?
So, sorry, the thing that I threw out on the People Show earlier is like if you traded Larkin, and let's say you did get a Quinn Hughes type package, obviously maybe a little less, but like that type of thing where you're trading for Futures, Can you use some of those?
I assume some of them are NHL-ready pieces, and then let's say you get an extra first or an extra second or whatever, and you go to Vancouver and you say, hey, we'll give you this for Elias Pedersen, and then can you sell, like, hey, we're betting on his bounce back, and we got a couple more pieces. Maybe it'll be a more well-rounded roster.
Nah.
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Chapter 7: How can teams effectively bridge the gap in player development?
No, by Quinn Hughes package, I just mean like, I guess maybe I should say like between a JT Miller and a Quinn Hughes package.
where it's like you're getting a prospect you're probably getting two prospects in a first the floor is the JT Miller trade I would say I think you're getting more than that I'm just saying the floor so I guess what like or the Horvat trade whatever you want to call it yeah I think what I would say is like a team's best prospect second best prospect I think two first round pick value yeah along those lines like two first round picks I think more
I could see it being a first, a prospect, and like a third and a second.
Yeah, so it comes down to the prospect that you're getting in. But like, is anybody giving them two first round picks and a top prospect?
I would say... Like the top prospect thing, I think we're just like out of that era now. Yeah, it doesn't help here.
But I probably mean like a team's second or third best prospect because you're right, a best prospect is rarely moved.
Yeah, because the Canucks essentially got like two first round and Rossi, because you can say Rossi at first round pick value. Nobody was willing to trade a first round pick for Rossi last year. The Wild will have traded him for first round pick, but nobody traded, nobody offered a first round pick for Marco Rossi.
But could you make the case that Booyum is worth more than a first?
Yeah, but it's a first, right?
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