Chapter 1: What updates are there on the Vancouver Canucks' GM search?
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How are you doing?
I'm doing great.
Chapter 2: How does Ryan Johnson's experience compare to other GM candidates?
It's a beautiful weather. It was super hot this weekend. The draft lottery is tomorrow. The Leafs hired John Shaka. But also, apparently, the Canucks might hire Pierre Dorian. So there's a lot going on. There's a lot going on. I got to start. I mean, it is the talk of the hockey world. What did you think about the Leafs press conference this morning? Like a...
eight to 14 year old me. So excited. Like I, I really like, I, I liked the Leafs growing up. You know, I had to pick a team other than my dad's team as well.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of the draft lottery for the Canucks?
Right. Like he was on a lot of losing teams. So I figured I'd pick another team that didn't win a ton, but, um, but Matt Sundin was my guy. Okay. Like he was my guy. So that cool. Great. But, um, I left to go play in Germany for four years. And to be honest, I think I had a leg up on knowing players because I was a bubble guy. I knew the entire American League. I knew the entire NHL.
I knew the players, and I knew the next wave coming. I left for four years, and the entire league changed. I felt like I knew the stars better.
Chapter 4: Can the Canucks consider trading down in the draft?
And, you know, kind of that, maybe the third liners, but like everything below that was brand new and I was lost. So you look at Sundin, he's been gone for, what is it, 17 years? Yep. Like he says he's following closely, you know, but to what extent? I follow my friends that are still playing closely. I couldn't tell you everything that's going on though, right? And then on Chayka's side,
I mean, it was such a loud existence in Arizona, but at the same time, and this isn't defending him, but it's more just a, I still can't believe it. He was 26. I couldn't imagine taking over. I throw my hat in the ring to run the Canucks. I want to be the new GM at 35. I'm not ready to do that. Not even close. Even if I have the knowledge in my head, I'm not ready to run a franchise.
Chapter 5: What are the potential coaching changes in Edmonton?
The fact that he only lost a couple draft picks... out of that situation is honestly kind of impressive.
No, it's not. He should have taken that spin.
Me at 26, I think I would have had every draft pick gone. I could have screwed up way worse, guys. It's honestly, take a step back. It's kind of unbelievable.
No. Come on.
I wish he had said that. I wish he had said that.
That would have been amazing. We're not allowing this to stand. I say the rules are very clear on what you can and can't do.
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Chapter 6: How do the Canucks restore hope in their fanbase?
And people talk about like, I wish, I wish every time I got in trouble in high school, I could have cited the year I started high school as the year that was concerning. You know what I mean? Like most of the stuff we're talking about, the New Jersey thing, the prospects thing happened when he was like three years into the job, four years into the job. Like he was 30. I've never ever heard.
anyone be talked about and like given the slack that we only give like 16 year olds to people in their 30s it's an incredible standard like i honestly feel like is downtown toronto like the purge where you can just like freely commit crimes and then be like yeah but i started my job six years ago so i'm basically 28 that makes me a baby like i mean
This is literally the conversation around this guy. I've never seen something so preposterous. You want to know why Canadian teams can't win a Stanley Cup? Stan Bowman, John Chayka, Pierre Dorian. Like, what are we doing? What are we doing? These teams are worth billions of dollars and the standard to which they are... permitting deeply unqualified or worse leaders to run these businesses.
26 year old running the Arizona Coyotes is insane enough, but to then cite clear examples of like ethical failing, malfeasance, rule breaking, as if he was the age that he started as an excuse is just absurd.
Chapter 7: What challenges does the current Canucks roster face?
Like, can no one be accountable in this entire industry? What are we talking about?
I would like to point out that I wasn't trying to give them a pass there, Trance. I was just saying, if you take a step back, it is quite amusing that I would have had that in way bigger shambles.
See, I feel like you or I, though. You wouldn't have. No, no, I would have done it. You wouldn't have. Because I think the thing with Chaika is that I don't think it was actually incompetence. It was like, I'm trying to break the rules. That's my sense of it. It sounded like young arrogance. Whereas I would have just done it because I'm an idiot. Like, there wouldn't have been ill intent.
I would have just screwed up.
Chapter 8: What are the key factors influencing the Canucks' future decisions?
No, like, it does just, like, looking back, it sounds like young arrogance, right? Like, you think that you know better. You think that you're not going to get caught. Like, whatever. You think you're above it. I still don't... Now, taking all that, pushing it back, like, I still don't understand how you come to this conclusion, putting those two in charge of the biggest franchise.
I think usually when you see kind of comebacks from executives, there's a process of, like, paying your dues, right? Where it's like, okay, I'm going to go be an AGM or a director of player development or somewhere. Like, I'm going to get that... And I'm going to kind of bide my time and put in the work and people say, oh, he's learned and he's been a good soldier.
And instead, it's like, no, you're the top guy for the Maple Leafs. That's the next we've heard of you after being suspended by the NHL years ago. And it's like you're just hot shotted right into the top job for one of the biggest franchises in the sport. And it's just kind of it's hard not to have a sense of whiplash from it.
I think it's going to be really interesting, too, to see how obviously this shakes out moving forward. But it is a little interesting to me that Matthews is from Arizona. He has a lot of ties there. He's very close with Shane Doan. There's a lot of ties there. He knows a lot of what happened before. How hard is it for someone in just normal life?
You know something of someone's past and then you meet them. It's hard to separate that.
I think there's a relationship there though, Landon.
You do think? Yeah.
I do between Jacob and Matthew. That's okay. That's what I've heard. I think there's a preexisting relationship there.
Okay.
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