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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Stanley Cup Final?
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What's up? Welcome to Canucks Talk on Sportsnet 650. Jamie Dodd and my co-host Thomas Drance here. Drance covers the Canucks for the athletic as well. We are broadcasting live from the Kintec studio. Step strong with orthotics and footwear from Kintec. 650-650 is the Dunbar Lumber text line. Send your thoughts in. Lots coming up on the show today.
Shayna Goldman from The Athletic will join me at 12.30 to chat about the Stanley Cup final. And, of course, Dmitry Filipovich will chat with us at 1.30. And as... has been the case all week.
Chapter 2: What insights does Drance have from the draft combine in Buffalo?
Drance is on the ground in Buffalo covering the combine. So we've got Drance here for the first segment. He's going to join us to chat with Dim as well, but there'll be a Drance-sized gap in the middle of the show for those middle two segments. So we'll start with Drance and we'll end with Drance. Yeah, apparently, I guess. I don't know.
I didn't think that was the number on my waistline, but there we go. Is that a compliment or an insult? Who can say? I have no idea.
How does that translate? Well, I guess an hour is 60, so I think it's an insult. How you doing, buddy?
I'm doing well. Buffalo's great.
Chapter 3: Who is Daren Hermiston and what role is he taking with the Canucks?
Beautiful day today. Looking forward. So today, all the agents and the general managers basically leave. Like all of the pre-combined dinner dates and such have mostly ended. And what's now to come is media availabilities for the top prospects, which is where I'm going to run to. Caleb Malhotra speaks at 3.30 sharp. That's Eastern time, of course, 12.30 local. He's mostly been locked down.
There wasn't a lot of... the sort of casual chats facilitated with Vancouver media, as you can totally understand, right? I mean, that's by no means, I want to be so clear, not a hint of criticism from me on that front, but that's just been the reality of this week. So this is my first chance to chat with him. So can't miss that.
And obviously curious to hear from a variety of other players that I didn't chat with. Tomorrow's the testing bright and early 4am Pacific time, 7am local.
Chapter 4: How does Hermiston's background influence his new position?
And that's when everyone will do all the, you know, some tests have already been done. There's some presses and O2 max, but the bulk of it happens tomorrow after which everyone's available.
So that's where I'm going to run around like crazy, trying to chat with absolutely everybody I've heard linked to the Canucks even a little bit and asking them like, what's the weirdest question the Canucks asked you? So that'll be, that'll be good fun for me too.
Who's on the, who's on your list, the run around and grab them list.
Well, Mathis Preston is very high on my list. And an interesting name I think the Canucks fans should be paying attention to based on some of the, you know, unconfirmed scuttlebutt I've been hearing at the Combine. So, yeah, but, you know, obviously the Rocks, some other folks too. So, yeah, I mean, I'll be running around. I'll try and interview like 30 people.
before I leave Buffalo in the afternoon. So it should be an interesting day tomorrow and obviously stay tuned to The Athletic for all of our coverage of this interesting week in Buffalo. I think this is a new favorite event for me, though, Jamie. I'm not going to lie. Like, this has been great.
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Chapter 5: What does the director of player personnel role entail?
Awesome. I'm happy for you. Yeah, absolute blast.
All right. So we'll hear more about Drance's experience at the Combine. As I said, Shana Goldman at 1230, Dimitri Filipovich at 130. But right now, let's go to the whiteboard.
All right, fellas, let's focus up.
It is your daily deep dive into what's up with the Canucks for today, June 5th, starting with the headlines. And I want to start with the Stanley Cup final, which is now tied 1-1 after Carolina's comeback overtime win last night. There's a lot to chat about. We don't have to do it at length here in this first segment, Drance, but I have to note How did that comeback start?
With an all-effort, greasy playoff goal after winning a puck battle below the goal line from 5'8", Logan Stankoven.
More impressive than that, though, what happened before he got the puck off of Anderson.
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Chapter 6: How are the Canucks planning to develop their players moving forward?
What?
He absolutely bodied Brent Howden. Yep. Like, if Howden is your, oh, look, you need that sort of size in the playoffs. And by the way, you kind of do. Like, he's doing the old Alex Tuck thing, right, for Vegas. Vrooming by the Carolina defenders. But on that sequence, on that sequence... It's a pick play from Stankoven. Howden tries to get in his way. Stankoven just absolutely rocks him.
He loses the board battle and fails to set the pick because he's completely staggered by the fact that Stankoven's center of gravity and level of dog is greater. I'm sorry. You need guts like Stankoven's got to win in the playoffs more than you need absolutely anything else. Period.
Chapter 7: What are the implications of the Canucks' recent hires for their future?
End of story.
Yeah. And I think it's the it's that play and then winning the battle against Rasmus Anderson. Right. And what Rasmus Anderson, your favorite thing listed heights, what, like six to something like that. Logan Stankoven's five eight. So you're giving up half a foot and you always think like that's the rationale for preferring one of those players in the draft as well.
You know, in a in a board battle late in the third period in the Stanley Cup, like, who do you want? And it's like, well, it turns out it's Logan Stankoven, actually. is who you want in that situation. And I think like that play in particular, we've talked a lot about, you know, is this a turning point for or could it be at least eye opening for some around the NHL?
What guys like Blake and Stankoven are doing? And it's it's more than just the raw production for me. It's plays like that that illustrate why you shouldn't be afraid if they have the right type of profile. It doesn't mean every smaller player is going to fit that or that size is never a concern.
Chapter 8: What are the hosts' concerns about the Canucks' organizational resources?
You have to make sure they have that element to their game. But if they do, then I think you should be absolutely thrilled about the opportunity to draft players that size.
Absolutely. No question about it. Yeah. Stankoven's a dog. Really cool to see him playing so well. Yeah, it's been a very good playoffs, I think, for the size agenda. Yes, absolutely. You know, I think you really have to have your head in the sand to think otherwise. And yet, you know, like, that's not going to be reflected, I would assume, on draft day.
No, I mean.
It just never will be. The draft is going to be the absolute last to change. Like, we've come a long way, right? A few years ago, Viggo Bjork would probably be, like, late first round. You know, five, ten years ago, he might be third round. Yep. Like like Braden Point was right. Braden Point was clearly a first round talent.
So, you know, I don't want to I don't want to like pretend that there's been no progress, but it's been slower than the realities of the NHL game have changed anyway.
All right, elsewhere in the headlines, and we'll talk more about the Stanley Cup, the final, tied 1-1, now shifting back to Vegas, of course, as the show goes on.
But I do want to mention something that came up really quickly towards the end of our show yesterday, which is that the Canucks are hiring, and this is first mentioned, the name was first mentioned by Rick Dollywell, then it was reported by Puckpedia. The Canucks are hiring agent Darren Hermiston, in a player development role of some sort.
Now, Dolly Wall said it's likely to be something like director of player development, so not an assistant general manager. And I think that makes sense when you think about Hermiston's age and his resume, right? He's very early in his career as a player agent. So this is maybe a stepping stone to future higher ranks in management for him. But the first...
Name we've heard, and it's not official yet, but the first kind of addition to the front office for the Canucks comes in the player development role and a former agent, again, per reporting by Puckpedia, in Kamloops native Darren Hermiston.
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