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Chapter 1: What recent news about the Canucks is discussed?
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Chapter 2: What are the implications of Brendan Gallagher's potential move to Vancouver?
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Chapter 3: How does the Canucks' salary cap situation affect their decisions?
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Chapter 4: What is the significance of the NHL Scouting Combine for the Canucks?
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Everyone's interrupting everyone right now. Our next guest is the host of Canuck Central right here on Sportsnet 650. Satyar Shah joins us now on the Halford and Brough show. What up, Sat? How you doing? Hello. I'm doing good, man. How are you guys doing?
Good. Very well done. I'm sure you've seen the Brendan Gallagher news on social media.
Chapter 5: How has Todd Harvey's tenure as a scout been evaluated?
He says he'll be looking to move on or probably moving on from the Montreal Canadiens and said he'd be open to a move to Vancouver. Is this a slam dunk for the Canucks, especially if they can get Something out of the Habs, a sweetener to get off of Brendan Gallagher's cap hit?
Oh, I think absolutely. I mean, whatever it is you get, even a mid-round pick and whatnot, not to say that you could necessarily flip him for something, but just getting him for the leadership and getting something out of it. And the other part of it, too, is we know the Canucks are getting closer to the salary cap floor.
And if you're starting to move out guys like, say, Jake DeBrusque and another player that makes a little bit of money, you're going to get to a point where you're going
contract six and a half million on the cap hit it easily floats you to the floor if you do go underneath it plus it brings the leadership I think it's about as as good an addition as you can make outside of getting a higher draft pick like the Habs for instance have an extra fourth round pick this year and do you get something like that in return or even a later pick and whatnot but regardless I think just getting him for the leadership the character side of it and not paying anything for it I think is about as easy a move as you can make
Does it matter if he comes to Vancouver and is an occasional healthy scratch? Because, you know, he's going to be one year older next year and he wasn't a regular for Montreal and his production is way, way down. I think he scored like seven goals this year or something like that.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I think that's something that you would probably want to figure out with his agent. But given where he finds himself right now and the fact that he has another year left on his contract, I don't think there's a lot... of leverage here for Gallagher.
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Chapter 6: What challenges does the Canucks' scouting department face?
Like there's not going to be a team that's a contender that's going to be trading for him right now. Now, maybe he comes back and he plays well and he gets more opportunity. And next thing you know, when he hits free agency, some contender gives him one year deal and he has a little bit of juice left in the tank.
But I think that given how hard he plays and given how he's always ready to play, I would be surprised to I guess things can always happen, but he's only, you know, a year removed from scoring 21 goals as well. And this year the Habs obviously had a lot more young talent guys stepped up and, you know, they added more players to the fold. So he did get squeezed out.
I don't know how much of that was, he really lost the step or how much of it was the competition, probably a little bit of both, but I do think there is enough juice in the tank. And I think there's probably enough motivation that he would want to go out on a high. So yeah, I'd imagine that he would be a good teammate. We saw that with the Habs. I think that's how he's wired.
But I would be shocked if he comes here and ends up being held to scratch a lot, to be honest.
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Chapter 7: What lessons did the hosts learn from recent sports events?
It's the NHL Scouting Combine this week. A big week for scouts. It was just announced that Judd Brackett who we're still talking about in Vancouver, is going to join the Toronto Maple Leafs as an AGM moving on from Minnesota. Now, when Judd Brackett left Vancouver, Todd Harvey became the top amateur scout in Vancouver. How has the Todd Harvey tenure been in Vancouver?
So I think it's honestly the biggest, criticism for the scouting department the last few years is probably not having had enough draft picks. And it's, you know, more than anything else. And I'm not saying the Canucks have nailed every pick and then they've done a fantastic job.
I mean, if you look at the last few first round picks they've had, the jury's still out on Jonathan Lechermacki, of course. Tom Yolander is playing games, showing some promise. Braden Kutz, it seems like people have some level of hope that he can do something. And then before that, the last first round pick they had was in 2019. Right?
Chapter 8: What are the future expectations for the Canucks and their management?
So, and then, you know, you go back and you look at the Danila Klimovich pick, you want to look at that and say, okay, do you want to put that on Harvey? Do you want to put that on the scouting staff? How do you go about viewing that? Not a single player to come out of the 2021 draft. They only had the highest pick they had in 2020. And Hunter Gustavich ends up being a decent asset.
He's showing some promise with the Calgary Flames. They keep talking about Ty Mueller all the time, right? DPD is the first third-round pick who's been of any consequence since Alex Edler was a third-round pick many moons ago. shows a little bit of promise. I know they like sort of menu, for instance.
And, you know, we'll see what the picks they had last year, but the year prior, the highest pick they had in 2024 was a third round draft pick. Now, Riley Patterson was a fourth round pick that year that they,
whether it's Coutts or Villander or perhaps Laker Mackey taking a step of becoming, you know, four players or top four, top six caliber players, even the guys who've made it are more of the supporting cast types, which is still good when you're talking about getting draft picks out of the first round. So I do think it's a bit of a mixed bag at the same time.
I think it's somewhat hard to truly evaluate when you, you've had, you know, three drafts without a single first round pick and a couple of drafts without even a second round draft pick. So I think, If you're just looking at the mid- to late-round picks, they miss on all these players. Well, generally, you miss on most of those picks to begin with.
And I do think just because Harvey is back, I don't think it means that Harvey necessarily has the utmost confidence forever moving forward. I do think part of the way they're moving forward here with me asking around is they're giving certain guys a chance. They don't want to make too many changes right away, but they're not going to ā
next season or even through next season depending on how things kind of go and that they're still open to making more additions to the scouting staff so i think in evaluating to harvey if you look at it from how many players have actually made it you'll see a ton but when you look at it through lens of what have they had to work with it's a bit of a mixed bag but it's not as bad as
same time it's hard to sit here and say that the Canucks have had you know one of the top 10 scouting staffs or player development staffs based on players who've made it through over the past five years so you might have just answered this but what was with all those reports not too long ago that there was going to be a big shake-up to the scouting staff so I think it depends
Ryan Johnson coming in, let's say if it was Evan Gold, I do think that he would have made more changes. I think he had a plan, an idea of bringing together a few more people that he had. He had a vision of what he wanted to do, and that would have entailed a lot bigger change. And I do think that ownership, when they were going through the interview process and talking to candidates,
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