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Chapter 1: What insights does Jannik Hansen share about successful organizations?
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Now joining us on the Able Auctions hotline, he is brought to you by the Metro Ford. He is former Canuck Yannick Hanson. Yannick, thanks for doing this.
Chapter 2: How important is scouting in a rebuild according to Hansen?
How are you? Yeah, my pleasure. I'm good. How are you? We're doing well. So game three of the Stanley Cup final was a wild one. Carolina goes down for nothing, storms back really quickly to narrow it to one, eventually ties it and then loses on a bad bounce in double overtime coming out of that game. And I'm curious to kind of get your perspective on both teams.
But let's start with the Carolina one, because on the one hand, you can look at it and say, man, that was incredible. What a comeback we had. But we fall short and we lose the game. Are you able to take positives out of a game like that and a performance like that if you're Carolina, or is it still just so disappointing to eventually lose it?
You say a loss is a loss. It doesn't really matter how it comes. You lose big, you lose little.
Chapter 3: What is the Canucks' strategy for free agency this offseason?
It's 2-1. On the other side, it gives you a little bit of confidence. So let's say you go down in game four or in game six or wherever it ends up, you can pull on this to the fact that, hey, we've come back before against these guys. So, yeah, they might be good. They might be ahead of us, but you can come back. But at the end of the day, a loss is a loss.
The flip side is for Vegas, right? You give away a four-goal lead in the third period. You survive. How does a veteran team, a winning team like Vegas, react after a win and a performance like that?
No difference. They're happy. They're up 2-1. You flush it, you move on to game four. Anything that's happened, you can't use for anything.
Chapter 4: How did the Stanley Cup Final game three unfold?
You need to win the next game. And then you need another one. So however it comes... I remember back with San Jose when we played in the first round against Edmonton and we win a game, I want to say 7-1 or something like that. And yeah, it felt great and everything. And then we come back and we lose a close one, the next one. And now all of a sudden Edmonton has home ice advantage instead.
So it's one of those where... You want to win the game you're in, but as soon as you move past that game, you go over it, you analyze it and move on. Nothing you can use from it except the win and loss column.
Yannick, are there any trends, team building things, lessons that you're taking from what and how these two Stanley Cup finalists are built that you've been thinking about?
It's two completely opposites, to be honest. Obviously, Vegas has all the names, all the star power there, where Carolina is built through depth and, what do you say, done by committees. So it's like there's no right or wrong.
it's the same thing when when people come to me and it's like what is the right path for for these young players that are 16 17 18 19 year old to get to the nhl and then i can go back to my time and it's like i had four buddies that all ended up in nhl and we took four completely different routes even though we're all from denmark and there is your right your own way and carolina plays to their strength vegas to theirs it's just one of those where it's like
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Chapter 5: What are the standout performances in the Stanley Cup Final?
So, yeah, obviously you need good players, a sound system and stuff like that, but there's a lot of different ways that can get you what you want. But at the end of the day, you need skill and abilities, but that skill and abilities need to be on the same page and they need to be committed.
One thing I've been thinking about a little bit, because I think you're right, they're very differently built teams. And one thing that stands out to me, Yannick, is the Canes have a lot of players that they've... drafted themselves and then aggressively signed before they break out. Your Jackson Blakes, your Nikitians, Aho, Svatch, obviously.
And so they've got a lot of players that they've drafted and slowly cooked in-house and developed. And then on the other hand, you've got this... Vegas team that I feel like can't trade their prospects quickly enough. They like draft a good prospect like a Nick Suzuki and it's immediately traded for Max Pacioretty or Branstrom immediately. Let's trade him for Mark Stone.
They just like liquidate anything that they have that has value immediately gets liquidated as they sort of go about looking for superstar like established NHL high-end guys. And I'm just curious to get your thoughts on that, especially as we get started with a new Canucks rebuild?
Yeah, obviously Vegas start was unlike anything you've ever seen in terms of the amount of asset they got right off the bat.
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Chapter 6: What contract decisions are being debated regarding Teddy Blueger?
Then you're in a U.S. market, you're in Vegas, you can't fiddle around there. You need entertainment probably, the mindset behind this.
um and then again then these players become available and you mentioned a couple and i'd say patch ready is probably the lower end of that but like a jack eichel that's a legitimate number one center anybody would be jumping over over top of to get him yeah i get it when they grabbed him there was that neck surgery that needed to be done or whatever um and he may may not play obviously
They have talked to Dr. Surgeon and feel like he's going to come back from this. And then we got a number one center. And there's not a lot of things you won't trade for a number one center. Same thing with Mark Stone. He's been labeled as one of the best defensive smartest players in the league for...
a decade if not more these guys don't come available that often and then yeah you give up you give up the the king's ransom so to speak to get them in on your roster because you're already good at that point um but now you're like now you're coming over the top So Carolina, obviously the completely different side of this where it's all homegrown.
Yeah, they had a little bit of help with signing Ajo from Montreal with that offer sheet. But it's one of those things that teams have been doing this going back now where they take gambles and they take chances on their young guys. They sign them before they really come through to more money than they probably deserve at that point. And then you hope.
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Chapter 7: How does the Canucks' veteran core impact their future?
And again, Carolina is an example of success, but you can also find 10 contracts that didn't pan out that way. So it's one of those things where teams will do that and the team that are successful, that's where these things plays out or where they happen to go in the right way for the team. and players outperform their contracts. And when it does, it's like, oh, why did we sign this guy?
Why did we do this? Well, the other three teams did it as well, and two of the players panned out and one didn't. That's the gamble with the way the young guys are coming in now, ready to play, ton of ice time, put up points early. Now you take a gamble that they'll continue or they'll even get better than that, or they will progress, and then you're going to have to find a way to cut your losses.
Yeah, it's interesting. I hadn't really thought about the off-ice side of this, but you're right. Both teams on the ice, they play to their identity so well, and we know what that identity looks like. But off the ice as well, I mean, we know Vegas is going to be in on every star. We know how Carolina operates.
They might be the two teams in the NHL that we could define their off-ice style the easiest and the best. And even though it's different, I wonder if that just speaks to whether it's on ice or how your management team is doing business.
Chapter 8: What changes are necessary for the Canucks this offseason?
Almost more important than exactly what the style or the approach is, is you knowing what your approach is and really buying into it and sticking to it.
Yeah, that and then the core of the group that are there. Again, you got to play into the strength of the team. If you have a team that you feel like that's teetering and then you can add in Jack Eichel and now all of a sudden we might be the team to beat or your team where it's like it might be a little bit harder to convince the free agents to come to Carolina.
It's not, yeah, it's nice in the Carolina. Don't get me wrong. And I have heard good things about it, but, but like, that's not the number one location in the U S if we agent starts picking, um, winning is big and there are good teams. So they were able to convince the Nick Ehlers to go there and, Whether or not it had Freddie Andersen played in that as well. But it proved he wanted to win.
He picked the place he felt had the big chance. And now he's in the finals. But again, Carolina, drawing players there if they aren't good, that's hard. Vegas, tax situation, life, excitement, whatever you're looking for, it's a little bit easier to convince a player to come there.
And then at the same time, you can probably convince them to take a little bit less because you're saving on that other side of it. So yeah, there's always something that plays in when free agents decide. Not just quality of life, families, their own situation. So how much money am I going to pocket at the end of the year? It all plays in.
On that subject of having a strong on-ice identity, we heard from new Canucks head coach Manny Malhotra last week, and he was asked about the style he wants his team to play, and he said it was going to be very up-tempo, high-intensity style. Now, that doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be selling out for offense, right?
You can play up-tempo, but still with a really solid defensive focus, but... Looking at the personnel on the team, do you think that kind of high pace speed, you know, prioritizing speed system is going to be a fit? And how difficult do you think it's going to be for Manny to install in year one?
Yeah, you need the players just to play that style. But that's where it's like, it's not a blank slate, but he's going to need a bunch of new players here. So you can pick those type of players. Again, if you want to push the pace, you need skating wingers. You need the wingers to get in on the forecheck. You need them to stress opposing teams. So you need wingers that can fly.
You need wingers that can get in, finish checks. So they need a little bit of size as well. That's where you would start to look. It's a little easier for wingers to play that freer style. And it's like, you know what? You guys go. We want to forecheck two guys. We want to push the tempo. We don't want guys sitting up. We want the puck moving at all times. We want to stress opponent teams more.
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