Kevin Woodley Talks Canucks + What We Learned
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8.30, or 8.02, sorry. I got my time screwed up. 8.02 on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. It is a Monday. Happy Monday, everybody. Halford & Brough in the morning is brought to you by Sands & Associates. Are you getting collection calls? If you are, Sands & Associates can cut your debt by up to 80% and stop those calls. Visit them today at sands-trustee.com. We are now in hour three of the program. Hour three is brought to you by the Duik Auto Group. Find out why nobody beats a Duik deal and why nobody has since 1926. Visit Duik GM on Marine Drive. Visit them downtown. Visit them in Richmond. Visit them online at theduikautogroup.com.
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Let's go now to the Able Auctions hotline. Our next guest is a presentation of White Rock Hyundai. It's Kevin Woodley here on the Halford & Brough Show on Sportsnet 650. What up, Kev?
Not much guys. How, how do you celebrate a back-to-back wins over the weekend for the local home team? I understand there may have been a poll that came out and he just told me as we were coming on air. That's so flattering.
Yeah. Um, it's probably going to be one of the stories or if not the story that's going to carry the airwaves here on Sportsnet 650 radio. There was a, there was an agent poll in, uh, the athletic and, uh, The Canucks were voted the worst organization to deal with. I suppose it's not surprising to hear that, but what did you think about when you learned that?
Well, like I said, I found out about it coming basically out of the break and into the show, so I haven't had a chance to read it. And so the parameters that it was set up with, and I apologize for that, but I was forking on other things we've got. Playoffs start Friday and I have to have 1,600 goals tracked for NHL.com. So sleep has been an option for a few days here already. There's two parts to this, right? We've been talking about the dysfunction. organizationally you asked the question about culture and despite the answer being somewhat dismissive, what did we have last night? And Adam put a quote about culture, but you know, before the trade before, before and how it shifted with the young guys, um, there is a level of, of dysfunction and I'm sure that plays into it.
Now, the other part though, in terms of where the questions and, and, why the agents answer this way may simply be because a lot of their guys came in and were shipped out. Like the turnover, as much as they've been applauded for moving off mistakes quickly, um, when you sign long-term contracts and then are gone before the no trade kicks in. We've heard this talk before that it's not a great look and it makes it harder to get future guys to commit long-term when they do and they don't last long-term. So that may be part of this as well. And it's something that they've actually been applauded for from the fan base. You make the mistake, but at least you move off it. So it's important to recognize that that may be part of this formulation.
But no, the other part of it is we've been talking about And this isn't even just management. It's just organizationally. There's a level of dysfunction that nobody wants to play here. That simple as that. You talk to players that were here. This is the beauty about being in the visiting locker room, which I spend... I would argue more time. Well, I don't even need to argue. I spend more time in the visitor's locker room than anyone in the local media because nobody else goes there anymore. And it's part of my job at NHL.com. And that has afforded me the opportunity to talk to a lot of players who have departed. There was a time when players coming back for their first game back would have been met with a bunch of local media in the visiting locker room, but that's not the case anymore.
And so you hear these things. about how they run, right up to ownership.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:23
2
What recent Canucks news did Kevin Woodley share?
0:23–5:33
3
Why did the Canucks receive criticism from NHL agents?
5:33–12:14
4
What are the implications of the Canucks' organizational culture?
12:14–28:38
5
How is the current state of NHL goaltending affecting the Canucks?
28:38–45:50