Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Canucks?
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Chapter 2: What injury updates do we have for Canucks players?
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Alfred, what's going on? It's 8.05. You've been so good the last few weeks and months.
What's going on today? We were trying to talk about MLB to Vancouver. We had to wait on hold with Ben Nicholson-Smith. That hit went late.
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Chapter 3: How are the Vancouver Whitecaps performing this season?
The whole time I was thinking about how upset Rick D was going to be. I apologize, buddy. I'm fuming. I got texts coming in. I got texts coming in left, right, and center. I'm working on stories. Let's go. And you were already fuming prior to this because you're upset about the Vancouver Whitecaps.
I was, but can I do just a little bit of a change here? There's an injury on the Canucks that I need. Let's start there, buddy.
Let's start there.
Let's do the Canuck injury updates, then go to Whitecaps, and then go to the GM's search. But I want to tell you this. Filip Hronik got hurt last night in the Czech Republic, an exhibition game ahead of the World Hockey Championships.
Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Whitecaps potentially moving to Vegas?
I hunted down the Czech GM, Jiri Slager, this morning, and So Slager said that Heronic was seeing a doctor this morning. Says it's too early to say if the injury is serious or not. They'll know more later today. Thanks to you being five minutes late, I re-texted Yuri Slager, and I said, any update? And he came back with, Phillip should be okay. We're going to know more tomorrow.
So I don't know if you guys saw the video. Some guy, did you see, was just pounding him from behind the upper back. And boom.
Hmm.
Guys, the upper neck. Have you seen the video? It's brutal. There's no need for that stuff.
Chapter 5: What is the current status of the Canucks GM search?
Anyways, listen. The last thing the Canucks need is an off-season injury to their best defenseman, right? But I do have the update. Thanks to you being five minutes late. I'll read the text to you. Phillip should be okay. We'll know more tomorrow. But it's still in the early stages. Guys, the last thing...
The Canucks need is the best defenseman to get injured, so we'll still monitor it for the next 24 hours. Also word that Niels Hoaglander got hurt yesterday playing in an exhibition game for Sweden. I've been told this morning, early word, not serious. That's the early word on Hoaglander.
Because it's overseas and you're talking to people overseas, I can only give you the update that I'm getting now, right? So, you know, things change with injuries, as you guys well know.
Chapter 6: How do the hosts feel about Vancouver's sports market challenges?
But I hunted down Yuri Slager, whose dad played for the Canucks in 1982, Yuri Bubla, war number 22, and then Yuri played for the Canucks in 2003. So there's your other Canuck connection right there.
Very well done, Rick. Okay. Whitecaps, what's going on? What do you got for us?
First of all, what a week for soccer. Look, I'm not impressed with this commissioner, Don Garber. Guy shows up, and then he's tweeting at the premier, liar, liar, pants on fire. By the way, we use that phrase a lot in the 80s. I haven't heard it in decades since Garber dropped it the other day. Total BS. Someone took over his cell phone.
Apparently, you would expect better from a commissioner of a league. The Premier, the Mayor, Ravi Colon, the Minister of Jobs and Economic Growth, everybody's talking Whitecaps this week.
Chapter 7: What lessons did the hosts learn this week?
Look, Mike, nobody wants this team to leave. But it sure looks like this is what's going to happen. They're Vegas-bound. You know what? When the Grizzlies left, they were never good, low attendance, losing money. The Canadian dollar was the weakest it had ever been. McCaw was losing $25 to $30 million a year on the Canucks and the Grizzlies. We all saw that coming.
This is different in the sense the Whitecaps are one of the best teams in the MLS. Attendance is very good. Make no bones about it. Revenue is the number one problem. Now, Kerfoot's got two options. Someone told me the Vegas offer is over $500 million. He can do what the Steve Miller band said.
Chapter 8: What questions do listeners have for Ask Us Anything Friday?
take the money and run, or try and make it work in a city that's got no stadium. And Mike, you know a new stadium is going to take three, four, five, six years. It's not going to happen overnight. Kerfoot only paid $30 million, $40 million for the franchise.
The value is so high right now, it's hard to pass up the profit, especially if he structures the deal the right way and gets 80% of the money up front. These team values in the MLS are out of whack. How can the Whitecaps be worth $500 million? They've got no stadium. They're losing money every year. I don't get how these teams are worth $500 million. It makes no sense to me.
Well, they're worth $500 million if they're portable, if you can move them.
Yeah, yeah, but that's still ā if you paid $30 million for something, Jason, and all of a sudden in 10 years it's $500 million, that's too much. Like, that to me is, hey, they got no stadium. They're losing money. They got no revenue. You know, they got no corporate support.
Are you listening to me, though? Yeah, okay. It's like they're worth $500 million in another city. San Diego just paid $500 million for an expansion. So that's... It was like the Arizona Coyotes back in the day. They weren't necessarily worth a certain amount of money in Arizona without an arena, but they were worth a certain amount of money if the owner could move the team, which they did.
Tom Gilardi was on our show this year and he said the numbers don't add up. He looked into buying the Whitecaps. I'm sure other people, other owners in the city have looked at the Whitecaps as well. When Tom Gilardi says no, there's a reason why. Like that guy is a pretty sharp dude. He said no. And I'm sure other owners in the city have looked at the books.
There just isn't enough corporate support in Vancouver, bottom line. And you can blame the government here, too. So many companies have left British Columbia because they're getting taxed to death. The tax structure in Canada is not good for pro sports teams. They need more money from parking, concessions, advertising, from the stadium to play at. Now, let me get into Kerfoot. He's a local guy.
We all know that, right? He could have stood up this week and told the market how much this team means to him. how much the city means to his team. I know he's never done interviews, but it's time. I don't care how bad of a public speaker you are. You owe it to your season ticket holders and the fans. You are a local guy on the verge of leaving town.
He's going to be remembered in the same light as John McCaw, Bill Laurie, and Michael Heisley. And the group I feel the worst for is the Southsiders. There isn't a more passionate group of fans in this city. They poured their hearts into this team. I feel for those guys. And notice how all this news broke after the Whitecaps played their final home game till August, right?
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