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Chapter 1: What are the Canucks' recent coaching changes?
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Chapter 2: What does the hiring of Manny Malhotra mean for the Canucks?
Wait. Nearly did it, buddy. Wait. Good buddy, Ryan Johnson, who made the announcement last night. Manny is in as the 23rd head coach in franchise history.
Yeah. And after relatively little consternation, all things considered in this particular hockey market, uh, The Vancouver Canucks did get their man yesterday. You think about... How long it's been since we all knew that the Canucks were targeting in on Malhotra. Certainly over a week, maybe almost two weeks.
It's funny, last week we set Wednesday as the panic deadline for what's going on with Malhotra. But there was no real panic.
Pat yourself on the back. You showed great restraint there.
But you know what I think a lot of it was? We didn't have anything else to panic about because no other names leaked. It's true. We just kept hearing, yeah, they're talking. They're talking to Manny Malhotra. You might have heard a few like, yeah, they've reached out to some backup guys, but
This is a move that's been largely expected since Ryan Johnson was named general manager along with co-presidents Daniel and Henrik Sedin. And the quote from Ryan Johnson in the press release, Manny and I have been in the battle together before, so I know firsthand what a good teacher, leader, and quality person he is.
Johnson loves those quotes where it's like, we've bled together, we've been in the battle together.
Yeah, it's very descriptive.
yeah it's like uh yeah we went uh we saw some stuff together feels like a guy that watched band of brothers a few times Yeah, he went on connection, consistency and putting in place the proper foundation will be key for our group moving forward. We both believe that pressure is a privilege and learning to become a good pro takes patience, dedication and a be better than yesterday mindset.
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Chapter 3: How did the Canucks' offseason shape their current roster?
Was he allowed to talk to any other teams? Was he always focused on the Vancouver Canucks job? Why did he take the job when there was probably going to be interest elsewhere for his services? And this is his first NHL head coaching job. It's an important one. How is he going to define success during this rebuild? Because it's not going to be on, you know, making the playoffs.
Certainly next year and probably not the next few. Who will fill out his staff?
That's a huge one.
That's a huge one. Because normally when you fill out a staff of a team that's looking to win, you're like, okay, we got a forward guy, a defense guy, we got a guy that can run the power play, the PK. Is that the same formula or do you do something a little differently in a rebuilding year?
Well, based on last year, your assistant coach does a lot of media obligations too. So that's something to consider. Yeah.
I mean... Okay, we're not going to get into that.
Oh, we can talk about his badge. Every time I badge him between the benches, it's like Kevin Dean. Who am I talking to today? Kevin Dean, okay.
Does the head coach, all the other head coaches have just done their media obligations. I love the spin, too. He's like, he's trying to empower his other assistants. No, he's not. He's trying to not do media obligations. While also empowering his other assistants. What are Manny's thoughts on potentially coaching his son? Probably going to get that question.
And, of course, the obligatory question about Elias Pettersson. Yeah. Everyone gets one of those.
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Chapter 4: What are the expectations for Manny Malhotra as head coach?
No, they cut it off. They cut it off.
The Golden Knights did.
Yeah, they did.
Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. The Golden Knights in particular, a guy I know, John Rosasco, who used to be the PR guy for the Rangers and used to be doing PR for the Leafs, was bought in by the Golden Knights after they got punished by the league for the Tortorella press conference. Okay. He's a pro. He's really good at what he does. I like the guy.
But I mean, when I say he's really good at what he does, what he does is cut off a press conference before you can really get in depth on any issues with Carter Hart. So less than six minutes playing a little do-si-do with where he's going to talk.
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Chapter 5: What challenges will Manny face during the rebuild?
And at the end of the day, like, listen, I'm not saying I'm not trying to tell anybody how to do their job. But to me, it's just like this was the chance for him to speak about it. to talk about it, to deflect questions about it. And then we're done. And now it's become a thing.
And now you, you run the risk of the next time we get a chance to talk to Carter Hart, people asking the questions they weren't able to ask on media day.
Yeah. Okay. So we've gone through Marner. We've gone through Carter Hart. Was there anyone else that was compelling at media day?
I'll tell you that Mark Jankowski, a rage filled controversy fountain. No, man, it was, It's an interesting media day for a couple of reasons. First of all, we have to mention that the late Claude Lemieux does sort of loom over the series in a couple of ways. He was Freddie Anderson's agent. He was Rasmus Anderson's agent.
Freddie put out a statement that I think the Hurricanes are hoping would be the end of the discussion about Claude, but obviously had this to answer a bunch of questions yesterday about it. I think he's handling it as well as anyone could when you lose somebody who was as close to him to the point where he felt like he was a family member. But I'll say this.
Gary Bettman and Bill Daley are talking at 4.30 today, and I would be shocked if the letter that the Lemieux family put out about donating his brain to science and about specifically calling out CTE doesn't get mentioned. And that is the third rail for talking to Gary Bettman. He is a CTE denier as far as the linkage between what happens in this league and degenerative brain disorders.
And I think this is now a very important entryway back into that conversation, and I do expect that he'll have to answer a question about it today.
That's clearly just Bettman the lawyer, though. Like, I mean, right? I mean, not that it makes it okay, but does he feel that if he even admits it a little bit, the NHL opens itself up to massive litigation?
I mean, potentially, but other leagues have said you know, acknowledge the linkage, including in like congressional hearings. So listen, you might be completely right on that score.
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