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Chapter 1: What updates did Rick Dhaliwal provide about the Canucks?
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Chapter 2: What insights did the hosts share about the Canucks GM search?
I have been told... brackets by you that you want to start with the Vancouver white caps. So take it away, Eric.
Yeah, absolutely. And then we'll get into the Canucks GM search. You know what? Look, I really wish someone steps up and keeps this franchise in Vancouver. Yeah.
Chapter 3: How do the Canucks' financial struggles impact their future?
The original white caps, we all know started in 74 and you guys know a little Ricky remembers the 79 soccer bowl when it's got a great tradition of soccer in the city. Now, we are told that a new local group has stepped forward. They've showed interest. I do not believe that group has talked to caps owner Greg Kerfoot yet. Kerfoot's owned the team, what is it now, 20 years?
He has invested hundreds and millions of dollars to save and sustain the caps. Now, Donnie got some good information, Donnie Taylor, this week. Kerfoot's losing a huge sum of money per year. We're not talking about a small number. We're talking about a pretty big number. Those people that say that Kerfoot's lost $300 million as owner of the Caps, that number's too low, way too low.
The number's way higher than that. Kerfoot, to his credit, is still trying to build a stadium somewhere on that PNE site. He's looked at multiple sites in Vancouver over the years, and we all know the city shot down his proposal in downtown many, many, many years ago. Now, he could sell it to the Las Vegas group for $500 million. He could cash out. There's no question. We all know he could.
That would be a last resort if he can't get the help that's required locally to get a new stadium. And by the way, he's not a billionaire. This pro sports now, guys, it's not a millionaire's game. It's a billionaire's game. And he's not a billionaire who can afford all these massive losses per year. The corporate environment of Vancouver and British Columbia is dead.
So many companies have got up and left BC because this government isn't good for business.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Canucks' draft strategy?
It's not good for pro sports teams. Instead of helping, they make things worse. The companies that are left are pouring their money into the Canucks first, even though the Canucks are 32nd dead last. Canucks can be 32nd and dead last for another three years. They're still going to get the corporate support. Miami. FC had $100 million more in revenue than Vancouver this year. Think about that.
Well, last year. Think about another team in your league having $100 million more in revenue. Until that money comes out of your pocket, you'll never understand Kerfoot's pain. We can expect in order to stick around. We can't expect in order to stick around and lose huge amounts of money forever. No owner does. It's not reality. He's got rising costs, horrible corporate support.
It's not a good combination.
Rick, what happened to the guy that I was listening to on Donnie and Dolly who was yelling about the owner's got to come out and have a press conference, and he was all over the owner?
I'm still there on that. He's got to step up, but they are saying that the ownership's not going to step up.
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Chapter 5: What lessons did the hosts learn from previous Canucks seasons?
That's not them. Kerfoot's never done an interview in his life. He's not going to start now. So I've been told just to stop that nonsense. Nash ain't going to talk. Kerfoot's not going to talk. We just have to accept that fact. Yes, I would like him to come out, step up to a podium and say, this is what we need to stay in Vancouver. This team means a lot.
Look, I'm telling you, Donnie got some good information this week. And my mind has been swayed a little bit. This government doesn't help. First, they tax everyone to death in the province. And now they don't help sports teams. They don't. You know, all governments in Canada really don't help. Go look at Kansas City and what the state did for the Chiefs.
You think that would happen in Vancouver or in a Canadian city? No.
Do you think it should?
Chapter 6: What are the major challenges facing the Canucks organization?
No. Well, yeah. Okay. Have you seen the gas prices, the food prices, the rent prices? Probably not. I think a government's first job is to take care of the population, make sure there's jobs. make sure there's a, you know, low cost of living. I get that. But what happened in Kansas city with the chiefs and other major cities in the U S that's not going to happen in Vancouver.
It's not because this government doesn't help anyone. Nevermind pro sports teams.
I need to tell you something, Rick, the more information that gets out about this potential sale, especially if they do relocate to Las Vegas. I think one of the unintended consequences is going to be that the MLS financials and where these clubs are at all of them financially are is going to come to the forefront.
And I'm not sure that's a great thing for Garber because you brought up how the revenue disparity between Miami and Vancouver, that's way too big of a gap to have two teams playing in the same league. And a matter of fact, two teams that met in the final last year, like that's, what's hilarious about it.
And I do wonder these franchise valuations that are going around as opposed to how much money these teams are actually bringing in or more specifically how much money other teams are losing, not named Miami and LA really truly is.
Look, you and I lose $100 in our wallet, we're going to cry, right? This guy's losing millions and millions and millions. It's not a small number.
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Chapter 7: How do the Canucks compare to other teams in the league?
It's just not. Do you think he's going to be okay? Hey, are you okay? If you own the Whitecaps today, Brock, would you be okay losing what he's losing or would you get out of town?
Uh, I'm not sure, but I think it'd be okay. Cause I own the white caps. I'd be like, this is awesome. I have a lot of money.
Well, and Hey, and he could, he's not going bankrupt over this. No. Okay. But he could cash out. He could take the biggest money and run. Yeah. He could. Yeah. He could. Whatever. But everybody in the city wants him to stay. Nobody wants the White. This city's already lost the Grizzlies, the golf tournament, the PGA left, the Molson Indy left. It's about time teams stop leaving the city.
Maybe it's not a major city anymore. Maybe it's not.
Or it just has different things that it believes in. I think you make a good point to illustrate how we treat professional sports differently in Canada than certain parts of the United States. California is more what we do, and California has lost some teams. But it's just, you know, some people don't want the government to subsidize pro sports. Yeah, I get that too.
And the price you pay sometimes is you lose your teams.
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Chapter 8: What questions did listeners ask during the 'Ask Us Anything' segment?
Absolutely. But look, this soccer's got a really good, you know, history. The Whitecaps and the BC Lions go back decades and decades and decades. We don't want to lose them. You know, we don't want to lose them. And it's not like I told you guys last week. It's not good for us. You work at an all-sports station. You think losing a team helps you guys, bruv? You know, does it help you?
No, it doesn't help you.
I love how you always do this, by the way. You always, like, put it on me like I want the Whitecaps to move.
I'm telling you why it's not good if they lose. If they move, it's not good. I'm giving you examples of why it's not good. It's not good for us either. It's not good for us.
I mean, that's why we're covering the story. I don't like it. Big time. And frankly, if you go back, if you want to check the receipts, you can ask Halford when I was writing for the curtain blog. I thought BC Place was a bad idea to pour all that money into that. And it is proven to be a problem.
Now, I'm glad we have a big stadium in our city that can host things like the World Cup and the Grey Cup and concerts and all that sort of stuff. But I said right from the beginning, this is a bad idea for the CFL and MLS. Now, nobody listened to me at the time, and that's fine. Nobody listens to me anyway. But I mean, this thing you could have seen coming from a mile away.
And I think part of it also is on the Whitecaps who haven't adjusted to the business of the league, meaning they needed to get out there much earlier and be like, hey, should we deal with this revenue problem that we've got going? Why has it all come to a head right now? Why wasn't it dealt with?
Why couldn't they see where the league was going for years and years and to the point where they're like, we're losing $50 million a year. Like, really? Okay. Well, that's a problem then.
No, the owner's got to take responsibility for being in a business where you are losing that much money. And how did it get to that? But again, that corporate support in this city, a lot of businesses got up and left. Air Canada, all these big companies got up and went to Toronto, right? They got up and went to Toronto decades ago.
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