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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Vancouver Canucks?
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Chapter 2: Who is Darren Hermiston and what role will he play for the Canucks?
Gentlemen, how's it going? Good. Let's get into this right away. Tell me a little bit more about Darren Hermanston, the latest reported hire of the Vancouver Canucks.
Well, first of all, Ryan Johnson, really busy these days. He's got a lot of openings to fill. He has interviewed some agents. One agent he talked with was about the assistant GM role. The agent has asked me not to release his name. I have to respect his wishes. He's a sharp guy who would have helped the Canucks, but He's got a business that he doesn't want to leave right now.
And he, you know, obviously he's making a lot of money and he doesn't want to take a massive pay cut. Another agent, Darren Hermiston. He worked for Wasserman.
Chapter 3: What insights were shared about Manny Malhotra's coaching style?
That's a huge firm that represents Connor McDavid and Austin Matthews. He's going to be something along the lines of director of player development and player performance. But he wasn't the agent. Like, people think agents just handle guys making $4 million, $5 million, $6 million. they have people that work with the kids.
So Hermiston worked with kids in Bantam, getting them ready for the Western Hockey League. He would then get junior players ready for the National Hockey League. So he knows player development. It's a good hire. He's living in Kamloops right now. But the big key for me is going to be the assistant GM job. Pat Quinn had Brian Burke. Burke had Dave Nones. Mike Gillis had Lawrence Gilman.
No GM is good without a good right-hand man.
Chapter 4: How is the Canucks' management structure evolving?
Johnson is still looking for that guy. Jim Benning's downfall at the end was his right-hand man was John Weisbrot. It's a very important job. Picking the wrong guy could be disastrous. So I'm really going to be interested to see which way Ryan Johnson goes when it comes to that assistant GM role.
What did you think of Manny's presser?
I loved it. This new regime is saying all the right things. I know they haven't made a trade. They haven't made a draft. They haven't made a July 1 signing yet. Johnson's saying this week that Malhotra is going to be judged on development and culture setting, not wins and losses next year. That's clarity. That's something the previous regime rarely offered up.
Manny's news conference hit all the right notes.
Chapter 5: What impact will potential trades have on the Canucks' roster?
There's a cool, calm field of these guys. They articulate their thoughts well. in a very clear way for the fans and the media. Malhotra mentioned body language a couple times yesterday. I even think three times. Body language on some of the Canucks in the past two years has been horrible. He's going to fix that. There were players in Abbotsford that he gave tough love to.
I don't think he's going to put up with bad body language. Someone told me that one of the coaches that Malhotra really looks up to is Rod Brindamore. There's not a better coach to look up to for a rookie coach than the Campbell River native. Players love Brindamore. I got to tell you this. Jalen Chatfield was weeks away from hitting July 1st. He was looking at a big payday last year.
Chapter 6: What are the implications of the upcoming NHL Combine for the Canucks?
He told his agent, nope, cut the deal in Carolina. I love playing for Rod. That's when you know you have a good dressing room when players don't want to leave. This new regime is going to fix that dressing room. That I am convinced of. I was texting with Travis Green last night. He is very happy for Manny Malhotra. Travis was the last coach to be promoted to head coach from the Canucks farm team.
A lot of people around the league in the coaching fraternity are really happy for Manny. Now, there's no expectations for him to win, so that's going to buy him time. With the fan base, it's more about the process and a rebuild. Just develop those kids that you draft. Now, the messaging of this regime, 100 times better than Rutherford and Levine. There's a plan. There's alignment from top down.
Chapter 7: How are the Canucks preparing for the World Cup and its players?
The president, the GM, and the coach are all on the same page. That's not been the case the last two years. I had a few agents reach out to me from Buffalo this week at the Combine and tell me that Vancouver is much better to deal with. That's what happens when everybody's on the same page.
So Manny was talking a lot about bringing in the right type of people, whether they're coaches or players, and they're going to be people that bring a positive attitude every day consistently that have a ton of energy that are good for the room because he knows that this is going to take a long time and there's probably going to be a lot of losing along the way.
Is that something, coming to a team that needs someone like that, with no real shot of winning a Stanley Cup, not in the next few years at least, is that something that would interest Brendan Gallagher?
Absolutely. Absolutely. Now, the agent for Gallagher, Jerry Johansson, has got permission from Montreal Jason to help facilitate a trade. So Vancouver is obviously an option for Gallagher. He said so in his year-end interview. He played for the Giants. His family is here. His dad runs the Delta Academy, one of the best academies, probably is the best academy in British Columbia.
He can help the Canucks culture, no questions asked.
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Chapter 8: What are the fan reactions and expectations for the Canucks this season?
Here's the problem. The cap hits 6-5, but his actual cash owed is only $4 million, which actually makes it more of a valuable asset for the Habs. There is a chance, and a pretty good one, that the Canucks are actually going to have to give up a late-round pick to get him. This isn't a scenario where it's a player without value and they need to come off the books.
You need him to come off the books. He does have value for the Canucks. So it will not be a scenario where they're going to get paid to take his contract. Now I do believe that Gallagher will talk to Jerry soon, very, very soon. They're going to have a sit down and go over their options. Clearly Vancouver is an option for Gallagher for the Canucks. If it makes sense, hockey wise,
if it makes sense contract-wise, if it makes sense ice time-wise, the fit, then go get them.
Could it be like a seventh round pick in 2028 or something like that?
Yeah, you know what? I was just told last night that, look, you're not, I would find it hard to believe that the Canadians would have to attach something to this. Like, I don't know. I was told last night that They could also buy him out. They could also pick up half the salary to make it more easy for other teams.
When a player goes out of his way to mention a city like the way Gallagher did this week, that was astonishing. That caught a lot of people in the hockey world off guard. They're like, holy smokes, he just named a city, Vancouver. He just said, hey, I wouldn't mind going to Vancouver. He's still under contract to Montreal, which was kind of, whoa, it took a lot of people back. But
you have to understand as much as he is loved in Montreal, it is time for him to leave. And there is a family here. There is a, he lives in Tawasin, I believe in the off seasons, you know, the dad's here with the Delta Academy makes a lot of sense. Canucks have had the worst dressing room in the last two years in the NHL. And who could help fix that? A guy whose practice habits are great.
A guy who's a great pro on and off the ice. A guy who nobody thought would ever make the NHL and now is looking at his 15th year. A guy who has to work his ass off every single day of his life because he's small to make it in the NHL. That's the type of guy you want in a Canucks dressing room.
Do they want Teddy Bluger back?
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