Chapter 1: What happened in the previous day of sports?
You're listening to Halford and Brough. Moser shoots. Score! Score! J.J. Moser! J.J. Moser! The Lightning have tied the series! Neal backhand to floater.
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Chapter 2: What insights did Elliotte Friedman share about the Canucks GM search?
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Chapter 3: How are the NHL playoffs shaping up this season?
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Chapter 4: What key players are impacting the Stanley Cup playoffs?
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Last night, four games. Two of them decided in overtime, one of them probably after a lot of you were in bed, and the second one, second time in as many games, Tampa Bay and Montreal go to overtime. David is going to join us to talk about it all at 6.30. 7 o'clock, Frank Cervelli is going to join us, our NHL insider from Victory Plus.
We're hearing lots of names, as you mentioned, Jason, attached to the vacant GM job in Vancouver. Lots of names, lots of lists. A lot of lists. Not one, not two, but three. A mystery list. Maybe Frank can tell us about the third mystery list. We can also get updates on the GM searches in Toronto and Nashville, maybe as they pertain to Vancouver.
And maybe, just maybe, we can preview the three games. Not four tonight, but three games tonight. on tap tonight in the Stanley Cup playoffs. Only three? I know. Frank's going to join us at 7 o'clock. 8 o'clock, Randeep Janda is going to join the program. Canucks analyst for Sportsnet. We've yet to put a bow on this season with Randeep, who did join us diligently throughout the regular season.
We can talk to him, obviously, about the Canucks GM search, as it is underway. And on Hockey Night in Punjabi, in which, of course, he is a part of the panel, Kane Sens, they're covering that one, so we can talk to him.
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Chapter 5: What are the latest updates on the Canucks GM candidates?
about what's going on as the series now shifts to Ottawa. Randeep's going to join us at 8 o'clock. We've got a lot to get into on the program. Big show ahead, big guest list ahead. So without further ado, Laddie, let's tell everybody what happened. Hey, did you guys see the game last night? No. What happened? I missed all the action because I was... We know how busy your life can be.
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With all due respect to another exciting night of Stanley Cup playoff action, I think we have to start with the Vancouver Canucks general manager search here because it's heating up. Names are flying around and there are lists. Plural, Jason. Lists. Yeah, we'll get to the list stuff soon.
And Laddie, let us know when you've clipped the latest 32 thoughts because there's some more information coming from Elliot Freeman's podcast. Yesterday's, I guess, big report was that the Canucks had asked permission to speak with former Sabres GM Kevin Adams. And just imagine if someone had told us this in December and
We wouldn't probably be all that surprised if the Canucks were looking for a general manager, but maybe we'd be surprised by the name of Kevin Adams because he was the one that was finally fired by the Buffalo Sabres when he was let go. Everyone was like, man, what took so long?
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Chapter 6: How is the fan reaction to the Canucks GM search?
Because the Sabres are still a disaster. Now, of course, the Sabres... almost as soon as they fired kevin adams caught fire and are now in the playoffs for the first time in forever and we joked a lot in january and february whenever the run started we were like have you ever seen a new gm bump before like what the hell
Kevin Adams doing in Buffalo it's pretty funny that in hindsight people are like actually you put together a pretty decent roster right made some good trades you know this is this is his team on the ice but Halford wasn't a terrible culture one of the big things that was held against Adams in Buffalo was
It's kind of funny to look back on some of the culture-related quotes from a year ago when Kevin Adams went up there with Lindy Ruff after yet another season where the Buffalo Sabres failed to make the playoffs and said things like, culture is earned in terms of your daily habits and the things that you do.
And what I believe we need to probably reflect on and do a better job of ā and I shared this with the players over the last couple days ā is more of our players starting with looking in the mirror first. That starts to build a culture of accountability. So there were issues going on in Buffalo. And was it not Kevin Adams that had a major PR blunder with his infamous palm trees remark?
That was him. What did he say? He said, like, nobody wants to come to Buffalo. We don't have palm trees or something like that. It's a fairly decent paraphrasing. It wasn't as sharp, but yeah, that was the idea, was that it was Buffalo. It was tougher to attract players, and they don't have the palm trees that some of the other places have. Like Florida. That was a reference to Florida.
Yeah, and so Sabres fans immediately galvanized around that quote and started bringing inflatable palm trees to Sabres games, and Stadium security was like, I don't know what we're going to do with all these palm trees. Now, the one thing he did do well in Buffalo was follow orders from ownership. And I'm just going to read a paragraph from the athletics report on the Kevin Adams interview.
And I think this part was probably done by Matthew Fairburn of the athletic. I'm just going to read it here. Sabres owners, Terry and Kim Pagula said, made a surprising decision to fire general manager Jason Botterill in June of 2020, a few months after the pandemic put a stop to the NHL season. They replaced him with Adams.
During his first day on the job, Adams was tasked with firing more than 20 people in the organization, including scouts, longtime executives, and AHL coaches. Yep.
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Chapter 7: What strategies are teams employing in the playoffs?
So he's willing to do when ownership is asked of him.
Mm-hmm.
He is, I guess, an unsurprising candidate only because, well, one, it's been said that the Canucks were going to do an exhaustive process in terms of creating a list of potential candidates, interviewing a lot of different people, and from all different genres of experience. People that have a ton of experience, people that don't. People that have served as a GM before, people that haven't.
So that part... I guess it's not that surprising. What is surprising is that anyone would be interested in Kevin Adams after the way things ended in Buffalo purely from an optic standpoint. I know that he put together the foundation of the roster that is currently now tied 1-1 in its opening round playoff series with Buffalo.
But if you go and you dig a little deeper and look underneath the hood of what happened in Buffalo, a lot of people said... that there was a clear, clear shift in organizational seriousness and discipline after Adams left and when Kekalainen took over. The record bears that out. I mean, you can't ignore these numbers.
On the day Kevin Adams was dismissed in Buffalo, the Sabres were 14-14-4 and tied for last place in the Eastern Conference. Since Adams got fired... The Sabres have gone 36-9-5. They won the Atlantic Division, and they made the playoffs for the first time in 14 years. We're talking a dramatic turnaround. There was a quote from Alec Tuck about, I'd say, a month into the Kekeleinan season.
rain in Buffalo where he said, our group has responded. There's a maturity and development in this group. Now we're a hard team to play against. We're now miserable to play against. And a lot of people were pointing to the fact that Kekalani came in and was sort of a no nonsense. We're not screwing around anymore. It's time to take this seriously. And they never got that vibe under Adams.
So,
Is it the right kind of hire? Well, we're not at that stage yet. Yeah. It's okay to interview them. Yeah. I would say that interviewing a lot of people is always the way to go. You can pick people's brains. You can get intel. You can also find out what outside people think about your organization, right? Are people going to come in and they are going to blow smoke up here? You know what?
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Chapter 8: What can we expect from upcoming NHL playoff games?
A lot of people have wondered if he might one day get a general manager job. And then there's Mark Bergevin. Yeah, he works for the Sabres right now. He was brought in by Jarmo. I can't remember what the role is, but he's with the Sabres right now. And
Ben Kuzma wrote a piece for the province speculating on whether or not Marc Bergevin could be a fit for the Vancouver Canucks based on his experience in Montreal in a pretty tough Canadian market. Now, Elliott Freeman went on Edmonton Radio yesterday, Oilers Now, and made some comments about the Canucks having two or three different lists of candidates for general managers.
And I think a lot of people were like, why don't they just have one list? Probably makes it easier. And Freed said, there's Rutherford's lists, there's an ownership list, and there might be another one. Ooh, a third list. And I think a lot of us were kind of like, Did Finn put together a list? Ooh, a mystery list. I like that they have a secret list. That's cool. Yeah, I knew you'd like that.
Ooh, mystery list. Yeah, I knew that would be the first time you chimed in, and I'm glad you did. It's in a big box with a bunch of question marks on it. The one thing I was wondering is if they reached out to someone outside the organization and had them...
put together a list for actually that's the second thing i thought the first thing i thought was michael buble's list but the second thing i thought was that it was definitely a consultant's list okay so frege um and the one thing that or the another thing that frege said uh yesterday on edmonton radio was i think it would if it was jim rutherford's choice it would be ryan johnson
currently with the organization, an associate assistant GM or associate GM. I can't remember what his title is, but he is the general manager of the Abbotsford Canucks. And we all know about Ryan Johnson. So here is Fridge with an update on the Canucks situation. And this is from the 32 Thoughts podcast published this morning.
So Rick Dallowall reported Ryan Bonas. Matthew Fairburn reported that they want to speak to Kevin Adams. I believe that they are interviewing formerly Ryan Johnson this week, and there's more. And so, again, I had some people ask me about Oilers now, and I said there was two, maybe three lists. I think Rutherford has a list. I think ownership has a list.
I don't know if it's as simple as saying that Rutherford is interviewing some newer people and ownership is interviewing some more experienced people. But I do think that that's kind of the way it looks. Because I've heard that there are some fresh names here, ones that may not have been connected to any other search, working on those. And I think there's some experienced names there too.
And that's kind of how I heard it was being split. I did mention that it's possible there's a third list. I'll see if I can figure out if that's true. But I did hear it on Tuesday.
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