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Chapter 1: What recent changes have been made to the Canucks' front office?
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We'll do a lot of draft talk, especially with the Combine happening right now in Buffalo. And obviously, the Canucks with the third overall pick, a lot of intrigue about what they're going to do. And there's been so much chatter locally, Josh, about how it's inevitable in many ways that it is going to be Caleb Malhotra,
That goes third overall to the Canucks, especially after his father, Manny Malhotra, was officially introduced as the head coach of the Canucks this week. And I guess we'll see what happens here over the next little while. But I'm just not sure what to believe when it comes to the draft. Like, I'm not disputing the fact the Canucks are very high on Caleb. It's just we've seen smoke screens.
We've seen suggestions of perhaps moving up and down of the draft. I take everything with a grain of salt this time of year.
Yeah, I will say this feels like a very dedicated smoke screen, if it is a smoke screen for the Vancouver Canucks, just because it feels like this has been the storm that's coming for almost months now. The Caleb storm? The Caleb storm. The Malhotra storm is coming to Vancouver. Category 5. And, you know, half of it already hit.
The initial earthquake hit is the aftershock of Caleb going to hit in Vancouver as well. It... I... I know that there are smoke screens that are going to happen. There's going to be unexpected stuff. Brian Johnson was on 100% Canucks today, and we can get into some of the quotes, but he was talking about how he expects the unexpected to happen.
Yes, and I'm looking forward to that, too, because I would love to see some unexpected movement. at the NHL Draft. So without much further ado, let's get to the open. Brought to you by FiberTech, your exclusive dealer of house or roll luxury plumbing fixtures. Visit their state-of-the-art showrooms and experience centers in Surrey, Vancouver, and Coquitlam, or check out FiberTechBC.ca.
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Chapter 2: How does the Canucks' new player personnel director impact team strategy?
I think that's good. I think adding more people to the front office is positive.
Which is something they didn't have last year, too, by the way.
Exactly.
They didn't have, like, Scott Young got the coaching job, and they didn't have a director or player personnel.
And I think what happened was you had Ryan Johnson and Cammie Granato take line share of that, and also Patrick Galvin, of course, being involved. And it seemed like at some point last year, and... Rutherford himself mentioned how Patrick Alvin had so much on his plate that he asked Rutherford to take over the Quinn Hughes file.
Please take the biggest thing off my plate.
So I do think that... Patrick Alvin was doing a number of different things in terms of his responsibilities.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of the Canucks' third overall draft pick?
And I'm not saying he didn't have time to handle the Quinn Hughes thing. We all kind of know what happened there.
I'm so busy. I can't do the Quinn Hughes trade.
Chapter 4: What is the significance of Caleb Malhotra's connection to the Canucks?
Prez, come on, Prez. Help me out. Help me out.
Help me out with this little thing. It's going to be fine. It's nothing major.
Yeah, I mean, I would look at that more as Jim Rutherford commandeering the Quinn Hughes file as opposed to it being given to him. But nonetheless, but the point being to your suggestion that there was nobody with the official player development title or player personnel director, player personnel title. It was something that was being handled by a number of individuals.
Now you have somebody handling that. I still want to see them add more to their front office. I expect that will happen at some point. I think my question is, I know you have one as well, Do they need somebody with more experience in their front office? Now, obviously, Emily Castlingate now has AGM experience. So does Kami Granato. And obviously, RJ had years of experience too.
The Sedins are first-time big-level executives. RJ is a first-time GM. Now, Darren Hermiston, we've heard a lot of good things in terms of his acumen, ability to work with players and develop them.
being a player agent who worked focused on a lot of guys that slipped through the cracks, later picks, and guys that went undrafted, like R. Steve Baines, one of his clients, now former clients, of course, who's a member of the Canucks organization. But he's also a first-time executive in the National Hockey League. Do they need somebody in the front office that has a bit more experience?
I think so.
I think it's the I look at both the management side and the coaching side is I do think you need someone for both of those spots to come in that has experienced that, you know, ideally for both of them has been a GM somewhere has been a head coach somewhere or at the very least, the way I've kind of talked about it on the people show is like a Rick bonus type where it's like this guy's just been around, you know, and obviously not he's seen things.
yeah he's seen things and so it's like you're bringing someone in that you at least know can handle the job knows the day to day and can be someone that Ryan Johnson leans on or from the coaching perspective Manny Malhotra leans on if we're talking about an assistant coach and I do think that's the piece that's
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Chapter 5: Do the Canucks need more experienced executives in their front office?
Well, not decide. You get to spin the wheel to find out who the Canucks are drafting third overall today. So let's spin the wheel. Do we have the sound?
That's okay. Oh, there we go. Oh, well, the music went away. You know what?
Don't even worry about it.
It's fine. The music's back. All right. The Canucks at third overall, courtesy of the third wheel, getting... Ivar Stember. Ivar. Ivar. Second day in a row. All right, we'll take Ivar.
He stood us up yesterday, but that's okay. We'll take him on the show. That's for sure. See, you know, we don't hold grudges. I do.
If they draft him, I'd actually be pumped. You'll give it up at that point.
But yeah, so Ivar Stenberg, that's what, I think the third or fourth time we've had Ivar Stenberg draft the third overall?
Yeah, he didn't say, Bic did not send me his counts, but that sounds right to me. All right, he has a spreadsheet. There's so many spreadsheets. And that's locked down. He's got multi-factor authentication.
Yeah, he's got multiple passwords, multi-factor authentication, all that stuff. Yeah, it's really hard to get into Bic's spreadsheets. All right, keep your thoughts coming in to our Dunbar Lumber text inbox, 650-650, and we'll get some more of your thoughts and comments. We'll talk more draft in the next segment with Tony Ferrari on Canuck Central.
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