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Chapter 1: What recent trades are impacting the NHL landscape?
What's up? Welcome to a very special edition of Canucks Talk here on Sportsnet 650. I'm Jamie Dodd. My co-host is Thomas Drance. Drance, of course, covers the Canucks for The Athletic as well. We are broadcasting live from the Kintex studio. Step strong with orthotics and footwear from Kintex 650.
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We'll peel back the curtain a little bit because, as you know, our show, of course. And we like to be super honest. We are a transparent program. Very, very big on transparency, accountability, all of those things.
Chapter 2: How does the Canucks' management plan to reshape the roster?
I like to think of our listeners as stakeholders. Stakeholders, me too. And of course, you got to be honest with your stakeholders. Our corporate board. As you might have heard, there is a massive sporting event happening in Canada, in our city, that happens to coincide directly with when our show is on the air. This is, of course, Canada and Switzerland at the World Cup at BC Place.
Kicking off now. Kicking off as you are hearing this. We did not know that we would be able to deliver the best possible product. In fact, we knew we wouldn't while that game was on our TV because we are both extremely, extremely excited for it.
And we saw Josh and Lena just absolutely suffering through the first game on, or was it the second game? No, it was the first game. I think it was the second game. Okay. Because the first game was harder to suffer through. Yes. So I'm glad for them that it was the second game. Anyway, we didn't want a repeat of that.
I didn't want to be trying to break down the nuances of this newly forming NHL trade market and then be like, oh, no. So it's not a good.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Filip Hronek's potential trade?
We are taping this part portion of the show directly before when we would normally go on air. And so that's why you're not hearing score updates. That's why you're not hearing us react over the top. I do want to say also, like, I obviously knew this was going to be a big sporting event. The buzz in the city. Yes. Absolutely incredible. I also realized it's the second to last day of school. Right.
Every school in the province is going to be showing this on the gym.
Yeah, for sure.
And if it goes a certain way, this has a chance to be like a core sports memory for a whole generation of kids. Heck yeah. For that reason.
I love a core sports memory for a whole generation of kids.
Right? That's great. So this is a massive, massive game. What's yours? What's your core sports?
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Chapter 4: How does the recent NHL draft affect team strategies?
Probably 94.
Right.
Or actually, I guess Joe Carter.
I remember.
Joe Carter in 94. The two for me.
Yeah. I remember the 94, the 93. I was a little too young. You're slightly, just slightly older than me.
That's like, that's why like 92 is not included. Right. Just slightly too young. Yeah. For the first Blue Jays.
Slightly too young in 93. I remember my sister walking in and being like, the Blue Jays won the World Series. And I was like, what's that? What's the Blue Jays? And then, but 94, I remember like Quilchena.
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Chapter 5: What are the challenges of building a competitive defense?
family barbecue in late May. Yeah. You know, and like the game was on in the gym and that I remember really well in 94. And then I was lucky enough to go to a ton of the games, including my dad and my sister lying to me. They wrote me a birthday card on my birthday, May 20th. The Canucks stomped the Leafs like 5-1 and I got to go to that game for my birthday in the conference final. Amazing.
And afterwards, my father and my sister lied to me and gave me a birthday card from Pavel Burey. That's incredible. It was not really from him. No, but I was super excited at the time. I'll tell you that much.
So anyways, but here's the deal. We're not just recording this and then piecing out to the bar to crush some beers. No, no, no. We're going to be in studio because there's a lot going on. So if something happens related to the Canucks, or I guess in the NHL, if it meets a certain threshold, we will tap in and we will have live coverage of whatever that breaking news story might be.
So don't worry. We're live to tape right now.
Chapter 6: How do player contracts influence trade decisions?
But if something really big happens in the next couple of hours, we will be on air to cover it. All right. With all that out of the way, we've also got an hour-long conversation with Jason Bukla coming up later on in the show. But right now, let's go to the whiteboard.
All right, fellas. Let's focus up.
But it is your daily deep dive into what's up with the Canucks for today, June 24th. And the headline is, Trancer, the NHL trade market is in a frenzy. In a fever pitch, you might say. And we covered a lot of it yesterday on our show. But last night. But it kept going. Another massive deal broke that we did not have any chance to talk about.
And, of course, that is Buffalo sending Bowen Byram and, and shout out to all the people that mentioned this on Twitter, as my dream prophesied. Jordan Greenway got traded as well.
Did you have any dreams? The Oracle of Canucks talk. Did you have any dreams last night?
I did not have any dreams about like Jamie came into work today.
It's like, why are you an old woman in a black robe with one eye?
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Chapter 7: What is the significance of patience in team rebuilding?
It's very strange.
I really, I guess I was out and I didn't even, I knew the trade was breaking, but then before Jordan Greenway was included and then I checked Twitter and like lots of people tagging me being like, your dream came true. Correct. Jordan Greenway got traded. So Bowen Byram and Jordan Greenway to Chicago. Can you dream that I win like millions of dollars, Jamie?
Can I dream that Philip Roenick waves his no move clause? That would be great. Just dream that he's even asked. Yes, that would be nice. Lower your sights. Anyways, Bowen Byram and Jordan Greenway go to Chicago for the fourth overall pick in this year's draft on Friday. Also, the 45th overall pick and defenseman Louis Crevier, who's a totally legitimate NHL player. In addition to that.
So from a Chicago perspective. And I'm not breaking new ground here. It seems like a wild overpay. And I don't know, but I've really even seen someone try to make like the contrarian case yet. And this has nothing to do with Bowen Byram. Obviously local guy, Vancouver Giants product.
Chapter 8: How do recent trades reflect the market dynamics in the NHL?
We've seen what he can do in big situations and big games with the Colorado Avalanche. There were moments where he looked fantastic with the Buffalo Sabres. It's also, I think, fair to say that there's been a lot of inconsistency in his career. And when you consider Bowen Byram, Bowen Byram, yes. Yes.
Also, a long history of head injuries. Yes. That's the other part that sort of amps up the risk of his profile.
He's a volatile player, not in an emotional sense, but there's been huge peaks and valleys in his value.
Yes. I would say, though, fundamentally... that boy nice he's a really good player he's a really good player and he played at the level of a top pair defenseman that pair with Owen Power you know I was sort of thinking if they got a run together for another year and a half here that they'd be like a pretty natural fit as Canada's third pair
in best on best like i thought they were getting to that level of form with the sabers down the stretch and into the playoffs he was spectacular uh brings it in big games was like you know very much in the mix for the con smith with the avalanche at 21 super productive in the dub i mean i'm a huge fan of bowen byram and i still like i would say i'm top five percent
And I still think this is a reckless, desperate overpay by the Chicago Blackhawks. And the only reason I intervened there is I think underscoring the risks on Byram is to, in some ways, miss the forest for the trees. Not that you're wrong to do so, but that the point of this, the lesson from this is
even if we treat Byram as the difference-making type defenseman that Chicago should be paying for, is still... in excess of what I think a reasonable level of risk tolerance should be. Like, it's still indicative of a level of catastrophic organizational failure that in my mind has been evident to see from the Blackhawks in a lot of their moves across the last two, three years.
And until last night, I felt like their management team was entirely insulated from. Like, last night was like a break glass moment where I had people in my mentions being like, wow, you were so ahead of the pack on Kyle Davidson. I'm like, man, this has been coming.
It also, you're right, because there has, one of the kind of signatures of the Kyle Davidson era in Chicago has been that lack of urgency. And they've kind of nibbled around the edges, and they've tried to sign veteran UFAs and all those things, and nothing has really moved the needle. Now, all of a sudden, you see this, and it goes from not just urgency, but clearly right to desperation.
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