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Canucks Central

Mailbag Friday: Team Culture Players, Wild Getting Swept and World Cup

08 May 2026

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Chapter 1: Who are the Canucks' culture players?

22.103 - 42.675 Satyar Shah

hour or two of Canuck Central. And this hour of the show is 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. It's Satyar Shah and Biknazar on Canuck Central and Sportsnet 650, broadcasting live from the Kintec studio.

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42.695 - 61.803 Satyar Shah

Step strong with orthotics from Footwear and Footwear from Kintec. And keep your thoughts coming into our Dunbar Lumbertex inbox, 650-650. It's sat and baked. We have Arash and Lina as our producers. It's Mailbag Friday, so let's get going with our favorite segment. So what do people have for us today?

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62.264 - 63.185 Unknown

Lots of good questions.

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63.345 - 63.626 Satyar Shah

All right.

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Chapter 2: Which Sportsnet personality would make the best Canucks GM?

63.646 - 63.986 Satyar Shah

I like this.

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64.186 - 71.738 Unknown

I'm going to start off strong here. Justin and YsFan, which Sportsnet 650 personality would make the best Canucks GM?

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76.765 - 80.271 Bik Nizar

I'll say Sat. I don't know. I'll say Bic. There you go.

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82.995 - 83.275 Unknown

Fine.

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84.477 - 85.578 Lina Setaghian

Lena's like, it should be me. Sneakily.

85.598 - 86.62 Unknown

Sneakily.

87.713 - 95.825 Lina Setaghian

Look, because we're talking about, oh, you need someone with advanced education and all this sort of stuff. Jamie Dodd.

96.606 - 98.89 Unknown

I think he's... He's got a law background.

98.97 - 99.431 Satyar Shah

Yeah.

Chapter 3: Will the Canucks hire an enforcer to protect younger players?

99.451 - 105.62 Satyar Shah

A lot of flannel. Evan Goldhude. I don't know why that's... Yeah. Yeah. People texting in drance as well.

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106.742 - 117.288 Unknown

Lena, you'd be a good GM, but you'd be spiteful sometimes. I would be too cutthroat, I think. I think you'd be too ruthless. To the point where people would remember you fleecing them for like their first round draft.

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118.95 - 125.379 Satyar Shah

I mean, to be honest, I don't think anybody at our station would actually make a good general manager. What? Yeah, I also don't think that.

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125.459 - 126.66 Unknown

I don't think any of us are qualified.

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126.76 - 129.103 Satyar Shah

No, I don't think so either. Deeply underqualified.

Chapter 4: How do the Canucks plan to build team toughness?

129.123 - 130.645 Satyar Shah

Yes, deeply underqualified.

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130.665 - 132.027 Unknown

Tom Mayonek is my choice.

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132.147 - 133.329 Satyar Shah

Okay, fair enough.

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133.569 - 135.031 Unknown

Tom's in the back there. He's my GM.

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135.231 - 152.095 Satyar Shah

I mean, Tom is actually, I mean, you know, he has worked in a front office before. I mean, I know Drance did as well because he worked with a... on the PR side with the Florida Panthers and whatnot. But in terms of like, none of us have actually worked in an organization on the player evaluation side. None of us are qualified for it. Not a single one of us.

152.275 - 159.726 Lina Setaghian

Okay. Can you imagine dealing with the first call from an agent? Be like, hey, my player's not getting enough ice time. That'd be like carrot.

Chapter 5: Who will carry the Canucks' team culture during tough times?

160.447 - 165.478 Lina Setaghian

Yeah. the leaks that would come out and be like, this guy's got no respect.

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165.518 - 175.548 Satyar Shah

No. And that's not to say that we don't have intelligent people here. We have people that have great ideas. But people here, I don't think anybody is truly qualified.

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175.588 - 176.529 Unknown

We're all just trolls.

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176.93 - 193.066 Satyar Shah

Yeah. I mean, like, no. Let's slow down a little bit here. I think, and I do agree that we can criticize front office people. But I do think sometimes that we just assume that these people don't know what they're doing in certain situations. But there's so many people variables involved when you're working in these jobs.

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193.086 - 197.23 Satyar Shah

And there's so many pressures that none of us are aware of from ownership, from this and that.

Chapter 6: What are the implications of trading key players like Bo Horvat?

197.41 - 212.907 Satyar Shah

There's so many things that kind of go into decision making anyways, that we're not operating on this, you know, even plane that we sit and talk about and pontificate on as broadcasters. And we can make it sound easy and fun. That's what we do, right? We have our opinions and whatnot, but none of us are truly qualified for it.

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215.29 - 215.77 Lina Setaghian

Shots fired.

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216.911 - 218.413 Satyar Shah

I mean, I'm putting myself in there too.

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220.874 - 221.776 Unknown

All right, let's move on.

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222.116 - 226.124 Lina Setaghian

Rager. Vic can barely manage his fantasy team. It's facts only. There you go.

228.048 - 231.756 Unknown

You guys do all have a background at football manager, though.

232.477 - 234.241 Satyar Shah

Right. Not me. Vic does.

Chapter 7: How will the 2026 World Cup be deemed a success?

234.962 - 236.786 Satyar Shah

I'm not big into the football. It's just too much work.

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236.806 - 248.597 Unknown

Hugh, Batch, Randy. Yeah, there's a cluster of us. Yeah. If you read off how many hours you guys have put into your football manager or hockey manager video games, that's... It would be bad. It'd be shocking.

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248.657 - 255.673 Lina Setaghian

No, let's not do that. Not so much anymore, though. But yeah. I'm playing real life football manager now. Yeah. Yeah. True.

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255.805 - 257.33 Satyar Shah

He's an actual manager.

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Chapter 8: What would be better for the Canucks: Flyers or Wild getting swept?

257.551 - 262.146 Lina Setaghian

I like how he's saying real life. Oh, I've done coaching. I'm a real life football manager.

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262.166 - 266.681 Satyar Shah

Yeah, and if you're a real life football manager, your biggest role is slicing oranges. Slicing oranges, yeah.

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266.721 - 268.346 Lina Setaghian

Orange slice manager 27, man.

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269.592 - 280.902 Lina Setaghian

I've clearly bought a mechanism for that now, guys. Come on, be real. Amazon, next day delivery. Do the kids still consume orange slices? I was kind of disappointed. I was like, I thought orange slices were a thing. I don't think that's just done anymore.

281.142 - 285.306 Satyar Shah

No? Everyone just drinks water and electrolytes now. It's like, put in electrolytes.

285.707 - 287.068 Lina Setaghian

Plus, they're just too old at this stage.

287.168 - 292.052 Satyar Shah

Yeah, probably. I think that's more like U6 level.

292.072 - 298.418 Unknown

That's fair. This one's from Tristan. If the Canucks hire both Gold and RJ, who's a better fit to have the final say?

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