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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
8.02 on a Monday.
Chapter 2: What are the latest updates on the Vancouver Canucks?
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Chapter 3: What role might the Sedins take in the Canucks organization?
It's Kevin Woodley here now live on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. Morning, Kev. How are you?
I'm glad that my White Rock Hyundai is a hybrid. I'm getting 800 kilometers. Per tank, because I have a feeling I might be headed to Rogers Arena maybe more than once this week.
Oh, nicely done, Kev. Okay, we're going to start right there. Not with your Hyundai, but with the news of the morning.
I do like that you appreciate how I worked it in, though.
You're very good at it. It was good. Does it every week flawlessly. There's no stutters. There's no stammers.
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Chapter 4: How does Kevin Woodley view the potential changes in Canucks management?
It's so clean. It's so good. And it's so improvised. I love it. Okay. So this morning we got in here and we had audio from 32 thoughts, which we played in the first half hour of the program from Elliot Friedman, where Elliot reported that Monday today could be a big day for the Vancouver Canucks. Not that there will be an announcement, but there's an internal decision looming.
Regarding Daniel and Henrik Sedin and whether or not they'd be willing to take on a more prominent role in the front office, a greater role within the organization from their player development role they currently hold. What do you know? What are you hearing? What do you think about this development, Kev?
I know little. I think that the Sedins being involved more is never a bad thing. And yet I have questions. And again, maybe as Jim Rutherford
Chapter 5: What impact do the Sedins have on player development?
He's done at the end of his availability that include announcing his moving on when this all comes to pass and we see what it looks like. It's all going to make sense and it's going to be really easy to buy in. There is a little part of me knowing some of the moves that have been made and like, you know, like I think there may have.
this is starting to feel more like a complete regime change, no?
Yeah, it is, for sure.
You can say what, you know, Jim Rutherford moving on, whether that was completely his decision or a gracious exit presented to someone whose resume deserves such, this feels like a regime change, top to bottom. And, you know, that includes... Like, there may have been other moves made already in terms of, you know, people that are there being told they'll be moved on late last week.
And yet we don't have the answer. So I would hope and assume, despite what Elliot said, that there's more of a plan in place, given how far along they've moved down this, than waiting to hear back. Do you know what I mean? Like, that's the part that concerns me a little bit. Like... How nebulous is this role?
How firm and how well-structured is this complete change if you're this far along in it and you're waiting for answers on what type of role two people that would presumably have prominent roles to take in it are willing to take and take on? Now, the other part, too, is we've heard a ton from young players about the value of the Sedin twins on ice.
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Chapter 6: How has the goaltending situation evolved for the Canucks?
We've witnessed it at Rogers Arena post-practice. I can't tell you how many times I've gone back out into the bowels, into the arena area after the coach speaks on a morning skate to watch the visiting team.
which they typically come on at 11.30, the Canucks have the ice 10.30 to 11.30, then the visitors come on for their morning skate, and the Twins, or at least one of them, are still out there with Jason Krogh working with the young players because as these young players have taken on more prominent roles and gotten more opportunities, there's more guys willing to stay out late.
it's not just the healthy scratches out there late working with these guys. And when you see that coaching, when you see and you hear about the work they do down in Abbotsford and you hear how valuable it is to these young players, I do worry a little bit about losing that too, right? And so the other part too is these are two guys whose moral compass is so strong.
And so having them for an organization that, and I've said this before, the culture problem does not exist just in the locker room. it exists right to the top. And then it's trickled throughout the organization. And having two people of their sort of moral character in higher roles, that's got to be a good thing in terms of addressing that.
And yet they've always been lead by example guys as opposed to, All of this other stuff's happened with them still involved in the organization. They've never been ones to tell other people what to do or how they should behave. Does that make sense? They've been more lead by example guys.
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Chapter 7: What are the implications of recent player injuries in the NHL playoffs?
So I want to see more. I just gave you a five minute answer without knowing, but I want to see what this looks like before you can really judge it. But I think it is fair to have questions just about the way this whole process has sort of unfolded and hope. again, hope that there's more of a plan in place given all the moves made already, then let's see what they say.
As much as, again, much like Rutherford, they deserve... you know, as much time as they need to make this decision because of who they are and because of what they've done and because of how thoughtful they are, not just as professionals, but as people.
Yeah. Did you hear any wind of the Sedins possibly being involved? Anything behind the scenes that you heard that maybe couldn't report because you weren't sure? Because Halford and I earlier in the show, we were trying to figure out
If this has been going on for a while or if the Canucks got to a point where they were like, man, like there's a couple of GMs we like, but we aren't sure about the senior executive and we'd like to have a senior executive in there. Talk to guys like Shane Doan, but, you know, he wasn't the answer. Maybe we should talk to the Seneans. Or has this been the plan all along?
I don't know.
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Chapter 8: How do fans react to changes in the Canucks roster and management?
I don't know. Like, again, like, I just... The fact we haven't heard any rumblings until now out of the insiders is a little curious, but genuinely, I don't know, Jason. And I think this organization... Despite ending up in the news a lot, it's usually planned when we see some of the leaks.
There's usually a purpose to it, and you can usually do the math on who has a leak and where it came from, to be honest with you, at the national level, and try and sort of figure out what the intent was. I have not heard a sniff of this. And they have been better at that. Like I said, I think there's been moves already made around upper management that we haven't heard about.
And I can't report on them because I haven't been able to confirm them. But I think there's a lot changing here. But no, I have not heard any of that to this point. Elliot's report this morning on the 32 Thoughts podcast would be the first I'd heard of that. And again, you couldn't find better people, right? And I think the same way of Rian Johnson.
And it's not just because we in the media have gotten to know him. For sure, familiarity and the way you're treated by people like him affects how you think. And had nothing but great conversations with Rian Johnson formally and informally over the years when you run into him either at the rink or at Abbotsford. And so it biases your opinion a little bit.
But I mean talking to other people from outside the organization, other American Hockey League people about the way he's done things in Abbotsford. Adding those types of people to your organization, I had a similar conversation with someone who has the same things to say about Evan Gold through their interactions with him in the American Hockey League. So these are all good things.
But I think what I maybe hope for, and I've talked a little bit, but I think there are maybe more voices involved in this decision. It's not just one person saying, this is my guy, here we go. And I think that's a good thing. Organizationally, right up to the top, it doesn't mean there's a complete shift. It just means there's more voices at the table. That's the word. These are all good things.
but I kind of hoped and they went out and they talked to whatever 17, 18 is Rutherford said different people. Um, maybe I hoped a little bit as much as those are all great people. I, and maybe, maybe this has happened that they'd gone beyond that. Right. Like that there's the way things are done in other organizations.
Um, the way things are thought through the way things are treated from a hockey ops perspective, like, like it just, I don't think there would be a bad answer amongst these group because of what we know of them as people, but I hope they exhausted every option in terms of, you know, It's been a while since this organization went outside the box. I guess that's what I'm trying to say.
As much as these people would hearken back to a time where, hey, listen, and I've railed a fair bit on community involvement from players for the last couple of years. Like, you don't have any better examples amongst, you know, like, and could they, but they're not the type of guys who are going to tell players, this is how we did it. You need to do it this way, right?
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