Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Walking shoes, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Running's doing a lot of heavy lifting in that sense.
Well, it would be. Those shoes would be doing a lot of heavy lifting if I was running in them.
Do you have any strolling shoes? Is there a section for that? Some sort of wall, the strolling wall?
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Chapter 2: When might the Canucks hire their next head coach?
And I mean, in the case of Abbotsford last season, I don't think Manny forgot how to coach. It's just a totally different lineup.
It's also not a capped league. For Travis Green's Utica Comets, because Vancouver spends way more on their American League affiliate today than they did when it was in Utica, now that it's a local product. also they didn't own it, right? Like it was an affiliate. It wasn't a franchise that they own as an organization. So it was just a totally different beast.
There was a ton of PTOs and ATOs sort of up and down the roster every, every year. And like, they'd go into games or playoff series on a very regular basis during that sort of Travis green. And honestly, during the, um, Trent call era in Utica where like the Toronto Marley's first line would have more salary than in three guys than the entire Utica Comets roster, right?
Like it was like straight up 1990s NHL stuff. So yeah, I mean, you do have to adjust for a variety of contextual things. The American League is totally different in terms of evaluation than the NHL. But what I would say is I do think, and there's exceptions to this rule, Dan Muse being the most recent, but like I do think hiring...
Stud American League bench boss, I think that's the route to go generally. Even if the Canucks weren't likely to hire Manny Malhotra, and I think they are, I think his profile is the one you'd want to hire. And I also think that's why teams like Toronto, teams like the LA Kings are eager to talk to him. That's why he's going to have leverage here.
That's why I think maybe dotting the I's and crossing the T's might take longer than... you know, being announced this afternoon. Maybe it's announced this afternoon. I'm not saying it won't be. I'm just saying there is probably a negotiation here because Malhotra's got the profile that everyone around the league wants. So it's incumbent on the Canucks to get this done and get their guy.
He's clearly the right one.
Yeah, I mean, there's a lot to discuss with Manny. You know, if I were him, I'd drive a pretty hard bargain. Cause you know, I'd want a good salary and I'd also want term because this is going to be, this is going to be tough. What kind of contract could we be looking for with, with Manny Malhotra?
So rookie scale, you're usually looking at one, one and a half million. You usually, especially with a Canadian team, that's not the Maple Leafs or the Habs, you're often looking at discussing whether or not it's USD or CAD. That's obviously part of it. That's sometimes part of the negotiation when it comes to staff. Obviously you don't have that option with players.
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Chapter 3: What factors influence the hiring of a new head coach for the Canucks?
And, uh, there's an expectation in the market that you're the next guy. You'd bring a lot of confidence to the market. If you were the next guy, it would be complicated to explain if you weren't right. Like, I mean, I think I'd be asking two, two and a half. Right. That's what I think I'd be doing.
So I don't have any information specifically beyond feeling my way through it by sort of trying to put myself in these gentlemen's shoes. But I'd be certainly asking for a, you know, I'd be asking for the sort of salary commensurate with me being a top head coaching candidate around the league. And I think his track record justifies that sort of valuation.
We're speaking to Thomas Drance from The Athletic Vancouver here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Okay, so there's two kind of narratives and storylines I wanted to dive into here. One was the action at the hire of Manny, in particular the work that he's done, all the stuff you guys have talked about.
But there's the other larger scale conversation about... Here's how, Drance, you framed it in the article. The chronic instability the club has endured behind the bench over the past half decade. You do a nice job of breaking it down to how...
you know, the Travis Green regime and era ended, how Bruce Boudreaux was brought in, and then kind of how infamously Bruce Boudreaux left, how Rick Taka was brought in, and then quite infamously how Rick Taka was like, that's it, I'm out of here. It's never easy, is it? But here's the thing.
My question is, is this and I know part of the thing that you were writing was like the Sedins and Johnson are going to try and put a stop to this instability with Manny and hopefully there'll be some stability there. But it's also a league that you pointed out where Marty St. Louis is the fourth longest tenured coach or whatever. Like there is a lot of instability behind the bench.
Is Vancouver sort of part of a larger scale problem or are they an outlier where it's like it's especially screwed up in Vancouver?
I don't think Vancouver's an outlier in frequency, right? No. If Malhotra's the next coach, that'll be five coaches for the Canucks since 2021. And that sounds really bad, but then you think about the shift from DeBoer to Cassidy to Torts. And how oddly that's played out in the fact that torts is like a free agent and, you know, we'll see what happens there.
I think they'd want him back despite losing that second round pick over a fit of peak. But, but, you know, I mean, it's Vegas, who knows, right? Like Vegas might just ruthlessly be like, and we've got another guy, right? Like, so, but when Vegas does it, it's like, man, they're all in it to win. Sure. You know, like it feels very different than, we made Travis green work a lame duck season.
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