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Chapter 1: What are the latest updates on the Vancouver Canucks?
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Chapter 2: Who is Brendan Batchelor and what insights does he provide?
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Manny Malhotra is now the head coach of the Vancouver Canucks, the 23rd head coach in franchise history. Let's just get your introductory opening thoughts on the hire that everyone expected but finally came to fruition last night, Batch.
Yeah, I think it was just a matter of time.
Chapter 3: What are the implications of Manny Malhotra's hiring as head coach?
And, you know, I'm a fan of the decision. I like Manny. I think for a young team that is going to grow and go through some ups and downs over the next few years, He's the perfect person to come and lead some of these young players through that experience because, you know, just look at the last two years for him in Abbotsford.
He had the high of winning the Calder Cup and, you know, navigating that team through the playoffs and a pretty young team by AHL standards as well.
to that championship and then was dealt a completely different challenge this past season with, you know, limited roster and injuries at the big club that caused him to lose players that he might've expected to have to rely on for a lot of the season.
And, you know, you know, from all reports, obviously I wasn't in Abbotsford on a daily basis, but it sounds like, you know, he navigated a challenging year, uh, pretty well, just like he navigated a successful year pretty well. So, um, you know, I think he's probably a guy that understands the modern player pretty well, and it makes a lot of sense for him to be the head coach of the team.
So it'll be exciting to hear from him at some point here and in the next few days. And, uh, the other thing, uh, I like to see too, and, you know, some people will say, oh, they're just getting the band back together and bringing all these former players that played together in, but, uh, I think organizational alignment is really important.
And at times over the past decade through, you know, multiple different regimes, we've seen how lack of organizational alignment can really hurt you. So the fact that all of these guys are really comfortable with each other are going to be on the same page with their vision and are going to move forward together, I think is promising for this organization.
How much does organizational identity have to do with this as well?
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Chapter 4: How does Manny plan to develop young talent in the Canucks organization?
Yeah, I certainly think it does and it should for a couple of reasons. One, we talk so much about culture. Well, all of the guys involved now were
part of this organization when the culture was, you know, as good as it can get, you could argue with, you know, the teams in, in, you know, what, 13, 14, 15 years ago and, and, you know, the, the success they had, but also, you know, a strong organizational culture that recognizes talent from within and promotes it, right? Like this is Ryan Johnson doing a good job winning a championship in
at the AHL level, getting a chance to be the GM at the NHL level, same goes for Manny Malhotra as the head coach and, you know, who, who else would you want to set your, your culture and, and your organizational standards other than Daniel and Henrik Sedin. So, um, yeah, like no notes. I, you know, as I said, some people might be critical that it's,
too many familiar guys and, you know, the 2011 team being worked into the organization. But honestly, the 2011 team was one of the best teams we've seen post-lockout in the National Hockey League. So if you're bringing guys in that understand how to have a lot of success, you know, I don't see that much of an issue with it, to be perfectly honest.
If we remove the answer winning hockey games, because I don't think that he's going to be expected to. I don't think that that's the objective anyway. What's Manny Malhotra's biggest challenge going to be on the job in year one?
Yeah, I think it's it's the growth and development of the young talent.
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Chapter 5: What challenges will Manny Malhotra face in his first season?
And I mean, ultimately, we'll see the correct answer to that question may be navigating, you know, coaching his son or, you know, navigating organizationally having to. figure that side of things out. Now, I know Caleb's committed to go to college, so that may not be a short-term worry if indeed they do draft him, if he doesn't make the jump to the NHL right away.
But let's put that talking point to the side for now because that's just speculation. Yeah, I think it's growth of young players and keeping morale high because it's likely to be another long year in terms of results from the Canucks, as you point out. Nobody's expecting him to come in here and win 50 games with this team. But how do you go through the process of a difficult year with
While keeping everyone on the same page and keeping everybody's spirits high and continuing to have a positive feeling around the group that you can carry forward from training camp and, you know, making sure that you manage the young guys in the lineup in a way that allows them to grow and develop and not get discouraged or not have setbacks in training.
in their progress individually, even as they play on a team that might not make a whole lot of progress in terms of on ice results.
So, you know, I think that's a challenge, but I also think Manny is probably, you know, pretty well suited to that challenge, as I said, based on what he went through this past year in Abbotsford and, you know, the drastic change in quality of roster that he had to deal with. So, you know, he'll be prepared, but yeah, that to me is a challenge is,
When you're one of the bottom feeders in the NHL or you've lost three or four games in a row, how do you keep the spirits high? How do you make sure that off-ice storylines don't become all-encompassing within your dressing room?
Because we saw at times over the past few years with the previous regime and the previous team, I guess you could say, because a lot of those guys have been moved out, that When the results didn't go their way, it turned into a circus a little bit.
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Chapter 6: How important is organizational alignment for the Canucks?
And so you need to avoid that to insulate your young players.
With regards to Manny's coaching staff, how do you think it will be filled out? What would you like to see in terms of hires for assistant coaches and fellow guys behind the bench?
Yeah, I'm not sure. It'll be interesting to see if any of the guys from Abbotsford make the jump to the NHL level with him. I think it's probably pretty important that he have at least one veteran experienced assistant coach just to help him navigate his first foray into the NHL head coaching realm. But at the same time, this is a guy that's been on benches for a long time.
It's a guy that's been on NHL benches for quite a while now. has experience in that regard. So, you know, much like I talked about with, you know, the presidents and the GM and the head coach and having alignment of vision, you know, ultimately they need to bring in the best guys to support him.
And he's probably the best judge of what he needs in terms of supporting cast and characters around him. But yeah, I would like to see a veteran assistant that can kind of help him navigate the the first year or the first few years of his head coaching tenure in the NHL.
What do you think is going to be the main difference between being a head coach in the AHL and a head coach in the NHL for Manny Malhotra?
Personalities and management of personalities, right?
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Chapter 7: What are the expectations for the BC Lions in the upcoming season?
Like I think when you're in the AHL, and again, I'm not a coach, so I'm just assuming this, like the emotions you have to deal with guys that in the AHL would be very different. Like, you know, a guy gets sent down that thought he was going to make the team and is frustrated and, and maybe demoralized a little bit.
And you've kind of got to build him up and, and get him back on task and back on focus when you're at the NHL level and dealing with guys that, you know, make much bigger salaries and have much bigger bodies of work. Um, you know, the, the buy-in I would imagine is different and how to get that buy-in I would imagine is different.
Um, now again, I'm not a coach, so like, I'm not going to sit here and try to give Manny Malhotra advice about how to deal with big personalities. All I'll say is that we just see the game shifting more towards player power and, you know, players having more of an impact than they ever have in organizational decision making.
Now, you know, the Canucks don't have that player right now in the sense that, you know, Many of us believe that Adam Foote was brought in because they were trying to keep Quinn Hughes, and a lot of the decisions going into last season seemed to be geared towards keeping Quinn Hughes. Well, Quinn Hughes isn't here anymore, so that dynamic isn't at play.
But, you know, I do think about Elias Pettersson and about, you know, trying to get the most out of him and, you know... Ryan Johnson talked about trying to wipe the slate clean from what's happened in the past and just get him back to being a more productive member of the team.
So that's going to be an interesting task for Manny Malhotra that, you know, I think is probably unique to anything he faced in the AHL.
What do you think Manny's approach to Elias Pettersson would be?
Yeah, it's hard to say.
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Chapter 8: How is the CFL evolving with new media partnerships?
And I wouldn't want to speculate because I would imagine that assuming Elias Pettersson is back with the organization next year and that they don't move him at some point in the off season, that a lot of care and thought and discussion will go into how to get the best out of him. And that won't be just a Manny decision.
That'll be, you know, probably the twins and Ryan Johnson and Manny and his coaching staff all, you know, coming up with a strategy or trying to get on the same page to make sure they can get the best out out of Elias Pettersson. But in some senses, I think we've seen a couple of different approaches over the past few years that haven't necessarily yielded the results that you would hope, right?
I think we saw more of the carrots from Adam foot. And we saw more of the stick from Rick talk it. And, um, neither of those things got Elias Patterson back to being the player that he has been in the past. Yeah, exactly. I don't know. Uh, maybe a little bit of carrot and a little bit of stick, um, maybe a carrot wielded like a stick. Yeah, beat him with a carrot. Maybe that'll work.
I honestly don't know how Manny would approach it. I think, you know, hopefully that's a question that gets asked. of him when he meets the media. But I think accountability has to be at the top of the list for every player in the NHL. And I think, you know, when I believe it was Daniel and Henrik talked about this, where they said, you know, it's no different than any other player.
We expect him to come into camp ready. We expect him to be willing to be held accountable for his preparation and for the way he plays and the way he approaches the game. You know, I can't imagine Manny Malhotra would have any sort of different philosophy on that.
We're speaking to Brendan Batchelor, play-by-play voice of the Vancouver Canucks here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Hey, Batch, did your time calling games for the Vancouver Giants ever overlap with Brendan Gallagher's time as the Vancouver Giants? Did you guys miss out on each other?
I covered Brendan Gallagher as a BCIT intern. When I was, I did like a three month embedded internship with the Vancouver giants through the 2010 playoffs. And they went to the conference finals that year and he was a very big part of that team. So I, when I was actually working as the play by play voice for the giants, we didn't cross paths. He was already in the NHL by then, but I,
I did have some experience covering him at the junior hockey level.
Well, then are you excited at the potential of calling Brandon Gallagher game? Should he, of course the news yesterday was that he's no longer going to be a member of the Montreal Canadians and he would be open to moving to Vancouver. So the potential of Brendan Gallagher being a Vancouver Canuck and maybe calling some of his games.
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