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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Chapter 2: What recent Canucks news did Kevin Woodley share?
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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.
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Chapter 3: Why did the Canucks receive criticism from NHL agents?
How do you sell players on an organization where you can't get a grasp of what they're actually trying to do? Is that comment still fair after the Canucks announced that they are rebuilding?
Probably to a lesser degree. There's a part of me that wants to say, get back to me at the end of this week. or early next week after we've had sort of the end of season State of the Union. We've already heard, courtesy of Gary Mason, that ownership won't be addressing the fan base. And hey, that's their prerogative.
And it hasn't been something that they've done traditionally in the past anyways. But I think a lot of what you hear in that comment is kind of echoed by the fan base. We're talking about a season in which even after blowing it up, we had all kinds of crazy words and word salads communicated about what was next, right? The hybrid form and all that stuff.
Like the reluctance to use the word, even though they are now, creates an element of doubt about your commitment to it. Fair or not, that doubt exists. And clearly, and again, not knowing when that quote was delivered, but clearly that's echoed amongst players and based on this poll and that comment, right up to those representing them.
Okay, Kev, what's the hottest story in NHL goaltending right now?
Honestly, that's a good question. Well, there's two. Two, I would say Ilya Sorokin, who at the midway point of this season is had more goals saved above expected than Connor Hellebuck had all of last season when they handed him both the Vezina and the heart and was the runaway winner.
And even a couple of weeks ago was flirting with the Igor Shcherkin heart trophy finalist season in terms of the greatest goaltending season since clear side analytics started tracking it in 2017 or 2018, 2017, 18. So 10, 10 seasons, basically as, as,
come back to earth significantly in the past couple of weeks to the tune of like eight or nine goals below expected as his team struggles and looks like we'll not get into the playoffs. And we've had a coaching change. Now, some of that is that team never defended very well under Patrick law and lean far too heavily on them. And I've always had the argument that, you know,
a bad environment defensively has a cumulative effect on its goaltenders. And maybe it just all caught up to him. But at the end of the day, I think on not your program, but on another program, I said, if Sorokin doesn't get the Vesna, the GM shouldn't be allowed to vote anymore. And he has, he has gone off. He has driven it off the cliff to the point where I'm like, I don't know.
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Chapter 4: What are the implications of the Canucks' organizational culture?
you know, was, was problematic, um, overall in the season, like their, his expected say percentage is just slightly above league average. But I think within that, you know, we know from, from watching talk at coach teams, you're going to give up chances. But it's, and it's not even just the types of chances, like it's a lot less East West.
How many times did we hear him talk about goalies only having to play one half of the net? And we saw that the goalies here discovered quickly, uh, it's a lot tougher to have to play both sides and have all those theme passes go through. Um, so even with, you know, sort of overall numbers that don't jump off the pages lead best, there's a predictability to that environment goalies.
You're going to give up high danger chances. And part of your job is to stop them at a better than league average rate.
But when you know which ones you're going to give up, when you can lock in on option a and maybe think a little bit about option two versus thinking about three, four and five and worrying about all of them, which is a little bit what Sorokin has had to do this year, your job becomes so much easier.
There's no such thing as a truly predictable environment for goalies anymore, but the one in Philadelphia has more predictability to it. And I think we're seeing that in blood, our season out again, like he's, He's a top 20 goalie based on his performance relative to that environment. He's outperforming it by a pretty significant level. Would I have him in the Vezina discussion? No.
Do I think there are limitations and let's see if they get exposed in the playoffs? Yes. But full marks to Dan Vladar. When you look at some of the names that are around him, you know, based on his season to date, you know, his numbers relative to environment are You know, it's up there with, you know, Igor Shcherkin is the next name on the list.
Jakob Dobish, who's getting, like, all kinds of love for the turnaround in Montreal. By the way, boy, how good have the goalies been there since they changed the goalie coach? I talked about Andre Vasilevsky. Dan Vladar has a higher adjusted save percentage than Andre Vasilevsky at this point of the season.
Like, relative to environment, he's played better, which again takes me back to the original one. How are we... I see all the raw numbers, I see the wins, but it's like, how are you handing a Vezina to a guy who is outside the top 20 in his performance relative to environment? It's a tough one this year.
Okay, I'm going to go to the Dunbar-Lumber text line for my next question, and it's an unsigned text, and it reads, Can you please ask Woodley to dive into shootout psychology? It was great seeing Lankanen dominate and hearing the technique of battling with a shooter. Would love to hear Woodley talk about it. Yeah, the one thing the Canucks do well is the shootout. They're 6-2 in the shootout.
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Chapter 5: How is the current state of NHL goaltending affecting the Canucks?
They're scary good. And especially at home.
Well, get out and see them because they've only got two home games left until they leave BC Place for a long time for the World Cup. So Friday at home to Sporting KC. They are a sporting group. It's a 7.30 kickoff, is it not? Yes, it is. And then Saturday, a 7.30 kickoff as well.
April 25th, Vancouver and Colorado. And then 96 days between home matches. Yeah.
Now, the bright side is that we have the World Cup to watch.
You know what? It's not great for the Whitecaps, but it's great for us. Give me a moo, Cal. Congrats, Whitecaps.
Okay, I teased this audio, and this is Elliot Friedman talking about the Vancouver Canucks and the off-season that awaits them on the latest edition of the 32 Thoughts podcast.
When there's conversations about changes... That also may include the scouting staff. There's a couple teams, and I think New Jersey is another, where there's a lot of people who don't have contracts for next year. And I think the Canucks and their scouting staff, I think almost everybody there is unsigned. And New Jersey, there's a lot of people there who are unsigned. And it's hard.
Like, I don't want to I don't want to discount anyone's feelings in that in any way. It's really hard to have this much uncertainty. You know, Kyle, you and I work in a business that's a lot like that. You know, a lot of times in our business, contract negotiations can go right down to the wire.
I've been in situations and seen situations where it's been used as a strategy to try to make one side or the other uncomfortable. I've learned it wasn't always an easy thing for me to deal with, but I've learned in my career that in this business, you have to be prepared for that. You have to be prepared that. people will use deadlines or wait to try to make you uncomfortable.
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