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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Good morning, Vancouver. 6-0-1 on a Wednesday. Happy Wednesday, everybody. It is Halford. It is Bruff. It is Sportsnet 650. We are coming to you live from the Kintec Studios in beautiful Mount Pleasant in Vancouver. Jason, good morning.
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Chapter 2: What insights did Canucks GM Ryan Johnson share about Manny Malhotra's hiring?
And I think just it'd be, was Manny looking for, and it was a matter of time, and he and I have discussed it over the last few years of, I felt when I bring in somebody, especially at the American League level, it's on me a little bit to prepare them for their next opportunity, whether it's with us or with another team.
I take a lot of ownership in making sure that I put them in the next best place moving forward. I really felt, and I didn't have to sell Manny on this. Our discussions have led to this naturally, but I really feel this is an amazing opportunity for a coach that, that has the makeup and, and,
everything that I could want in a coach that's going to start the process into this rebuild and working with players and growing to where we want to go.
So I love that he called it a mission.
Yeah.
He was like, we're on a mission from God. That's right. Blues Brothers reference. That's another timely reference.
Bruv caught that one right away yesterday.
I think these guys are really motivated at the opportunity, and he used that word as well, to turn the Canucks around the right way. I think they hate what's happened to the team. I just hope they get all the support they need in terms of resources because I don't want that to be a hindrance. I don't want that to be an excuse for, These guys are passionate about the franchise.
And I really value that as a fan. After some of the guys we've seen parachute into this market without a real appreciation for it, and in some cases not even taking the time to try and appreciate the market, they just came in there. They told us what we wanted. It wasn't what we wanted, but they told us, this is what you're going to get. You'll like it. And we're like, eh, I don't know.
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Chapter 3: What were the highlights from Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final?
I'm new here. You know, it's like going into someone's house or going to a new job anywhere. You know, I want to respect the traditions and the cultures of this place, and I want to learn them. And that kind of goes hand in hand with appreciation. It always felt, always felt like Alvin and Rutherford, and Rutherford especially, just wanted things to be like the way they were in Pittsburgh.
Yeah.
You heard that a lot in the organization on the business side, too.
Right.
We didn't do it in Pittsburgh this way. And that's a fatal flaw. I was like, oh, yeah. Did you get involved in the community in Pittsburgh? Because we used to do that in Vancouver.
You know, that's a good point. Does Sidney Crosby play here by chance? Is that a thing?
Because I've thought about it for a while. It's like, why was I so sort of energized when they brought the guys aboard? And I'm like, well, you know, Rutherford's got a Hall of Fame career as a builder, and they've won Stanley Cups elsewhere. And I was also invigorated by the fact that they were, from the outside looking in, taking that, you know, 10,000-foot view. But, man, did it go wrong.
Okay. Can I just say also that I love the way that RJ, even though he's a very soft-spoken guy and a very thoughtful guy, is just carving the hell out of the last regime. He is, if you're listening. And if you're paying attention to everything that he's saying. Okay. Okay. So here's, we talked yesterday about, okay, what are the goals going to be?
How do you define success in this rebuild under Manny Malhotra? What does Manny Malhotra mean? What are his objectives going to be? Because, you know, it's not going to be the playoffs, right? Although previous administrations would have just said, well, we were trying to make the playoffs. And that would be another lack of appreciation for the market because you should be like, no, no.
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Chapter 4: How did the Canucks respond to their recent coaching changes?
It's a big plus.
It totally helps.
We're going to try something radical, and we're going to put a system in place for the players to actually play hockey. And then we're going to explain that to them? Yeah.
Clearly and concisely?
Nobody's tried this before. We're going to give it a whirl. Brough's hit on a very important part of this, in that in a very understated and methodical way, Johnson has subtly picked apart... almost everything that he saw wrong about, especially last year.
And that is at all levels and tranches of the organization, managerial coaching, and then the room and the attitude and the culture of the players.
Yeah, I wonder if Rutherford's kind of like, wasn't I recommending Rian Johnson? I was coming in, I was kind of carving everything I was doing. I take everything back. So one of the things that was looking like it could be a thing when Jim Rutherford was still here was Philip Hronick, the new captain. And Rutherford didn't shy away from saying a lot of nice things about Philip Hronick and
even saying like yeah i think he could be the captain that was kind of another thing that maybe a disconnect in the market i don't think i don't think there are many people that were fans of the canucks that were like clamoring for philip peronic to be the captain okay i like philip peronic he's a really good player and he works hard i think he's got a pretty good attitude um but like
Don't you want it to be something more like, yeah, that's our guy for sure. Like that's our guy. That's our captain. Yep. And it's kind of like, it's not Heronic. And maybe it's not Heronic's fault because he's representative of, you know, a regime that, I mean, even the acquisition of Philip Heronic, a lot of people were like, you know,
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Chapter 5: What are the expectations for Manny Malhotra's coaching style?
And what you're seeing here in Carolina is, is that player getting those opportunities. So he has a 71-point season this year, even though he stumbled out of the gates trying to get in, you know, figure things out with his new team. He's, you know, very likely a point-per-game player. He probably has been a point-per-game player given the opportunity for eight years or so.
And so for me, what's interesting here is I know Nick really well.
Chapter 6: How do the Canucks plan to define success in their rebuild?
I know his game really well. And I feel like I'm seeing the rest of the league And fans from across the league be like, oh, my God, this Nick Ehlers is better than I thought he was. Here's the problem. Nick Ehlers has always been that good. He's just never been given the opportunity to show it. It's why he left the Winnipeg.
And it's why Winnipeg Jets Twitter was on fire last night because everyone is pointing and saying, see, this is what we said was there all the time. and the team did not do the things it needed to do to elicit that, and that is a very, very valid criticism. It's a very true statement.
How hard is it going to be to improve the Jets this offseason? Do they have any young guys coming? Is there anyone in the system that can, because they haven't drafted much over the last few years.
Well, they have, but the drafting, they have sent out to more draft picks, I forget what the time span is, but like, let's say it's like the last eight years, they've sent away more picks than any other team there. It's hard to see it because we look at teams like Vegas and think like, Oh, these guys are going all in the future is now the jets did that.
It just doesn't feel like they've done it because you didn't see much of a payoff for it, but the cupboards are fairly bare. They don't have a lot going on there. And I always say this, you want to know what happened to the jets last year? Well,
it's obvious they let a lot of speed go and they got older, they brought older guys in, and all of a sudden the team that was designed to be in your face and cramming the puck down your throat, similar to what we see from Carolina, just couldn't do that anymore. They were suddenly slower. Losing Nick Ehlers is 40% of the problem. When people say to me, what happened to the Winnipeg Jets?
Well, losing Nikolai Ehlers, he hid the fact that they didn't have offensive depth for years because he could just play with anyone and elevate. So they didn't have a second line center for a lot of the time, but they picked up Vladislav Namesnikov to be a fourth liner. And he ended up being Nick Ehlers center last year. Right. So is it easy to fix? Not at all.
To me, they're four or five players away suddenly. And they let, you know, three, three of them go away. Kind of for nothing last year. And it's not easy to get people to come to Winnipeg, right? So you're talking about years and years of meticulously curated players, right? Like a Nino Niederreiter who's picked up for, I think, a second round or at some point he comes in.
And at the time, it doesn't seem like a big deal, but the Winnipeg Jets are really good at identifying exactly what they need and having that guy in there. They swung and missed. You know, they went cold and swung and missed on about five players last year. Didn't work out. It's not going to be easy to replace that.
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