Chapter 1: What is the main focus of the Canucks GM search?
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All right, now, fellas, let's focus up.
It is your daily deep dive into what's up with the Canucks for today, April 29th. And we'll start with the headlines. And as has been the case for a while now, really since the Canucks have had an open GM position, the headlines and the broadsheet kind of merge into one. And the headline is that... The Canucks GM search process continues to come into focus.
And you had some reporting on this today. Rick Dollywall did. Elliott Friedman on 32 Thoughts as well. Starting to hear some more names and starting to hear that the process is moving into its next phase. The shortlist is, if not complete, at least maybe close to complete today. candidates that have interviewed are hearing that they're out of the running.
Maybe candidates that are still in the running are hearing they're going to have first person interviews. And it feels like you'd hope so. Yeah, that would be job one. But who knows? So it sounds like, as I said, like we're getting a clearer picture here now of where exactly things stand for the Canucks and their search for a new GM.
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Chapter 2: Who are the notable candidates being considered for the GM position?
We'll see once we have a better sense of what the short list entails and who's on it. But as a collection of names, you know, you throw in Peterson with, say, Doan, with, say, Ryan Johnson, with, say, Evan Gold. I still think that's a stronger list than the four that I was noting out of Toronto. So, yeah, I mean, look. Looks like the process is beginning to unfold.
It's certainly unfolded quickly. It's certainly unfolded pretty quietly. So there's a lot to like, I think, from what we know of the process, and we'll see how the plane lands here.
The other thing I wanted to note as part of the broad sheet in the rumor roundup today, and this is completely different from the GM search. Our colleague Ian McIntyre had a piece at Sportsnet.ca today, and it's focused on Elias Pettersson. But what stands out to me is not necessarily an Elias Pettersson take specifically, right?
Because as IMAC kind of alludes to and starts his piece with, like, we've been having these conversations about Elias Pettersson, and how's he going to train this summer? Like, this is not a new conversation. But in it... writing about Elias Pettersson. IMAC writes this. Overall, he still tested disappointingly at training camp.
And then he says, enough of the veteran Canucks were near the bottom of the fitness standings that staff did not post conditioning results for all players to see. And that really stood out to me as a deeply, deeply concerning detail that not just Elias Patterson.
Again, this is not a PD centric point that I'm trying to make, but that poor fitness results were so common from the Canucks veteran players that the Canucks coaching staff was like, we don't want to post this publicly to embarrass these guys.
And I think about all of the times we kind of went around the discourse transfer over the course of the season of, well, you know, you can't trade all these guys. You can't trade all these guys. You know, you can't. What do you want to ice a team of 21 year olds? You got to keep these veterans around. Do you? Do you have to keep the veterans around that are at the very bottom?
They're all at the bottom, or at least a lot of them are at the bottom of the team's fitness performance testing at the beginning of the year, because I don't think you do. And that that really, really stood out to me.
Or how about the positivity approach in messaging about this team that Adam Foote took earlier in the year, right? Which would be part and parcel with the nugget that McIntyre's reporting. Like, well, let's not post that. Yeah. You know, like you're in partnership with your star players. You're in partnership with your star players. And are they earning that partnership?
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Chapter 3: What insights do recent reports provide about the GM shortlist?
Okay.
It's a ridge of a mountain.
Okay, sure.
You know, I'm sorry. I'll find out. Like, I can obviously look it up on a hike website. Just give me a sec.
That's fine. To be honest, I'm not going to have enough context to, like, understand whatever the measurement you give is anyways. So I don't really care that much. But good for you. Get out there and climb those hills.
900 feet of elevation.
All right. That's not a mountain. I'll give you a big hill for sure.
It's a big hill. Well, I didn't say mountain. I said big hill. And then you said it like a mountain. And I said, no, maybe like a ridge. But, like, it's a big hill. 900 feet.
All right. That's the rumor roundup, the broadsheet for today. I want to do this. So we'll go to the war room here. Let's go to the war room officially.
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Chapter 4: How does the interview process for the Canucks GM role work?
That's not one or two, the one or two hole you sit and write everything else. I think you should trade down. Like there's enough holes in Malhotra's profile. Like people, you know, people are like, well, if you trade down, you can't get them. It's like, great. If you trade down to six and Malhotra goes, that means someone with a better profile who should have gone earlier. Like,
there's like four defensemen because increasingly too the more i look at it the more i stare at this the more convinced i am that if the if the industry is very confident that chase reed and verhoff are like degrees better than dax and rudolph like i don't think there's evidence for it i don't think there's evidence for it and i've seen rudolph play you know like at the end of the day six foot two right-handed plus skater plus shooter sick puck skills like
Are we sure? Are we sure? Historic WHL scorer with that profile. We're sure. You're absolutely sure about Reid and Verhoff. You sure? Because I'm not. I think... So once you factor Rudolph into it too, it's like... There's like six or seven guys, and I think it's pretty flat.
I'd add Bjork into there, but that might just be for me, where I'm totally comfortable with any of those guys if I can get an additional significant asset. Definitely in the late first round, When I go through this and I look at the profiles that I admire, I get to like 55, almost 60 names before the bets get a bit thin in this class. I see a lot of depth in this class.
So I think if you can make as many picks among the top 75, let's say, because the 60 names that I like aren't going to be the first 60 off the board.
Right.
I think that's absolutely worth doing. Like if you can find a way to make six or seven picks, like that's exactly what the doctor ordered because all the Canucks need are like, it doesn't matter how many singles you hit here. You need like two home runs and really you need three and a half massive home runs over the next five years and everything else is noise.
Yeah. All right. That is the show for today. That's the whiteboard. Thanks for listening. Drance, I believe has the next couple of days off, but I will be here holding down the fort, doing my very best to keep you updated on everything happening with the Vancouver Canucks. And I'll be back tomorrow here on Sportsnet 650.
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